Musical Hell TV: Secret of Anastasia
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- As a little third anniversary special, I'm going back to my shortly-lived "Musical Hell TV" videos to bring you "The Secret of Anastasia"! It's the story of the long-lost Russian princess who goes to reclaim her identity and rip off that other Anastasia cartoon. Will she find out who she is? Will she choose her roguish accomplice Vladimir, or the obviously-the-villain-in-disguise Prince Paul? Will she learn the secret behind her magic talking instruments that happen to look and sound exactly like her dead family? Stay tuned!
Find the other MHTV videos on Vimeo: vimeo.com/user...
Visit Musical Hell at:
http:musicalhell.blogspot.com
Support me on Patreon!
www.patreon.com...
Follow me!
@MusicalHell
musicalhell.tumblr.com
divasmusicalhell
For more reviews, commentary, and general awesomeness of every kind, visit:
rvtentertainment.com
rtgomer.com
When the Grandmother accuses Anastasia of cashing in on a tragedy, she's ironically right on a meta-level.
Sabrina McClain nah, she is downright being cynical...
@@SEELE-ONE well in this fictional incident, yes, the grandmother is a hurt old woman hardening herself against disappointment.
What the original commentator is referring to is the real life incident where Anna Anderson (the woman who impersonated Anastasia) was effectively cashing in on a tragedy.
I couldn't help but notice how cartoonishly harsh they made the grandmother and for no other reason than as just a lazy way to make us feel sorry for Anastasia. I know this is brought up way too much in these Anastasia films and people are mostly sick of it, but in the Don Bluth version.. the grandmother is clearly heartbroken and a bit dismissive of Anastasia when they first meet (though not without good reason), but the grandmother is still civil with her, doesn't dish out insults to her, and listens to what Anastasia has to say even though she's convinced that she's not the real Anastasia, she has a small slither of hope that she is her.
Also in the Bluth one, Anastasia doesn't insult the grandmother back and break down crying when she's dismissed, she empathizes with the grandmother's heartbreak because she lost her family also and as such gently reaches out in as though to say "I don't know if I'm the real Anastasia or not. I do know that I just want a family and it's clear to me you want yours back to you. I wish I could bring them back, but I can't. The only thing I can do is ask that you give me a chance to find help me figure out who I am. To give me a chance to be your family."
SEELE ONE that or this shitty ripoff
All these Anastasia movies take on a deeply depressing tone when you find out they found the bones on Anastasia and realize she didn't survive the death of the royal family
Even if she survied, life as she knew it with Russia woulda changed so drastically her status wouldn't matter. Surviving that massecure would have just prolonged her execution.
The voice acting is probably the best part of this movie, Anastasia's singing voice is too good for this cheap cash in.
True
Ahem brother
And there's a Broadway actor in it. Her name is Kelli Rabke. Earl Hammond (Jaga/Mumm-Ra) is in it, too.
Wait, she was on broadway? Did not know that.
"THOMAS WAS VERY CROSS WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS AND VOWED THE GULAG WOULD NOT BREAK HIM". BEST LINE OF ANYTHING I'VE EVER WITNESSED IN A REVIEW.
“It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything.”
Prince Paul was the type of man Mother Gothel warned Rapunzel about
MEN WITH POINTY TEETH
@@JinlongTheGoldenDragon AND STOP, NO MORE YOU'LL JUST UPSET ME!
@@amandalynn4979 mother is right here, mother will protect you
Anastasia is *not a Romanov*
She is a girl, so she is *Romanova*
You see, almost every Russian surname changes a bit if it belongs to a woman or a girl
Wait, is this movie trying to tell me that no one could find Anastasia for about 10+ years even though she was still in the palace she grew up in, the very palace that was stormed by the soldiers, singing very loudly out of the open windows?
Also, how did she get food and other things necessary for survival? Were there other spirits belonging to the people killed in the revolution trapped in other inanimate objects as well who prepared her meals, a la Be Our Guest?
At least the Don Bluth version has a shred of respect for the dead. And good music.
sweetophelia tell me about it! this is just as braindead as animated Titanic-films!
Maybe she sent the instruments to get her food
If the instruments eat food then do they shit?
@@arisans2987 "...Is that a tuba carrying a bag of groceries?"
"Yeah, he comes to town every Wednesday."
I love how people can't see that instruments are alive. So it just makes everyone think "that this freaking girl is crazy as hell".
+LegendsP Also this movie has the same damn twist as frozen. I mean fuck that shit.
Well, they can notice when the instruments aren't going in "disguise"
I have the suspicion that my neighbors trumpet could secretly be Micheal jackson but I need more evidence
43:07 "Oh Anna-stasia, if only there was someone out there who loved you."
Elsie Not Giving You My Last Name In the words of Captain America: "I understood that reference". :P
Brian Humerez true that
😂😂😂😂😂
Appropriate, since they're both redheads.
Elsie good one 10/10
You know, it's funny how Diva calls her "a cross between Ariel and Cinderella", considering one of Cinderella's evil stepsisters was named Anastasia. LOL.
Gage Peruti that stepsister was also a redhead
@ 12:49- She kinda morphs into Annabelle from "The Conjuring" if she scalped Ariel and is wearing her hair as a wig.
I have a theory that anastasia did survive, she was just adopted by the evil stepmother
Lol 😂
She looks like Bloom if Winx Club was done with this animation. The voice actress sounds like she’s giving it her all which I applaud.
I hate the design of all of the characters, especially Nicholas II and Alexandra because they’re so far from how the actual historical figures. And I hate how they treat Tatiana. Like I get they’re going for beautiful and tragically sad, but it’s so far from the actual Tatiana’s character. Anastasia also wasn’t some ingenue, she was funny and loud, not some sweet girl waiting for a boy.
Anastasia was probably the Tsars least favourite because she was boisterous a bit of a tomboy. When he saw that was just the umbilical cord he stormed out in a huff.
Granted this could be because she was a lot younger than the other three but Alexi who was close in age. Not only was he the only boy but also sick. So this could be her way of getting attention.
@@nifralo2752 this is actually way off; Nicholas and Alexandra were very family oriented, and the Anastasia’s birth was less “storming off in a huff” and more “general disappointment because of numerous miscarriages and the possibility of not having being able to bear children anymore while having no heir”.
While Anastasia was known to be a brat and pretty mean, it’s important to remember that she was barely seventeen when she was killed and most anecdotes about her were from before she was ten. And fun fact, she also had issues with bad health, as did her sisters. It is very likely that they were carriers of hemophilia, and could have suffered less severe joint pains and bleeding issues as their brother with significantly less attention paid to it.
@@C.V317 i thought only boys got it?
The fact that they mentioned Moscow, despite the capital at that time being St. Petersburg aka Petrograd shows that they didn't really care about historical accuracy or authenticity. Especially in regards of the design of the buildings and characters which are not even close to the real ones. I mean does this look like the Winter Palace to you? Even the crossing at 2:29 is incorrect
@@nifralo2752 it is very rare for girls to get it. But even carriers can have lesser symptoms of it, such as heavy bleeding or swollen joints. It used to be called “mild hemophilia”.
"To live is to suffer"... well I guess DEAD WOMAN TRAPPED INSIDE THE FREAKING VIOLING knew the thing or two about the SUFFERING. What a terrible-terrible fate.
As bad as this movie may be, I feel bad for whoever voiced Anastasia. She has a lovely voice but was subjected to such a bad movie
Very true
Considering the only other thing on her resume is Kenny The Shark, I’m tempted to agree with you.
Hey, as inaccurate as it was it the Bluth version took inspiration from some pretty wild rumors and made them into a pretty enjoyable film, and still treats the fact her family died pretty seriously and did not turn them into dumb comic relief instruments.
The fulmmakers wanted to confuse grandmother's.
It came out the same year as the Enchanted Christmas and The Don Bluth film.
My biggest question is... how exactly did Anastasia keep herself fed and clothed while she was in hiding for all those years?
Btw: be glad Tatiana wasn't turned into a pipe organ or else she'd be *snickers* BOLTED TO THE WALL
(Cookie for those who get the reference)
Then again I do know a couple of gothic-themed modern artists who play the Cello
It was Maestro Forte in Beauty and the Beast the Enchanted Christmas (that lame Christmas special). So where's my cookie?
I'M BOLTED TO THE WALL ! Ah, I love Forte. I want a 10 hour version of that.
Tim Curry's lips!
@@suburban8425 CORRECT! Cookie for you :)
Just enough budget to animate *TIM CURRY'S LIPS!!!!!!!!*
How much older is Vladimir supposed to be than Anastasia? She was a little girl when the revolution happened, and he was presumably already a general then, right? I mean, the czar-tuba recognized him. But that was years ago...
I only just realized that....Hmmmm, maybe she likes older men
King Boo Also he says he'll cover all his expenses but how can he do that? He says after the revolution he had nothing and he was a general loyal to the royal family who were OVERTHROWN?? WHO IS HE CURRENTLY WORKING FOR? HOW IS HE ALLOWED TO WALK AROUND IN THE OPEN, COME TO THAT??
It's almost like this movie doesn't make a lot of sense
I mean at least if they went by the actual age at the time she would have been about 17 when the revolution happened so the age difference wouldn’t have been that big, but it does look like she was indeed a child in this movie just like in the Don Bluth version. Also it shows the incompetence of the USSR in this movie is Anastasia spent many years living in the Imperial Palace and no one captured her.
My thoughts exactly
"Lord Voldemort in drag!"
**nearly inhales soup** Oh my god the mental image!! XD
Plus I'm reminded of how Ralph Fiennes wore garter belts while playing said role.
On the one hand, no, he's not a very good villain. On the other hand, I don't think it's very fair to compare all animated villains to Frollo. He's got the bar set pretty high
Layla Hellsing Rothbart is a much fairer comparison.
....I feel very insulted, and I'm not even Russian.
I didn't realize how much this was ripping off Don Bluth's Anastasia until the soldier came in with his scheme cheat the Dowager.
Actually, that's the plot of ALL the Anastasia movies. Don Bluth's film was based on the 1956 film made by fox, which in turns was based on a play by Marcelle Maurette.
@@kieranmahon4382 - It also happened a lot in real life, since 2 of the Romanov bodies weren't found until 2007. The last body identified was actually Maria not Anastasia.
@@goawayleavemealone2880 Well yeah, that's where the writers of these stories all got their ideas. Or namely, the one particularly famous scammer of Anna Anderson, who-surprise surprise-turned out to be a scammer.
Moscow? I thought the Romanovs lived in St. Petersburg.
Or Petrograd as they called
That's true.
Olga and Maria are thankful that they were not part of this movie. At least the Don Bluth version is an enjoyable movie in spite of all the historical inaccuracies, but then again the Don Bluth version also never tried to say the rest of the Imperial family turned into musical instruments like this version is.
I love that bit near the end where not!Paul turns around to reveal his Secret Police uniform, but it just kinda pops into being instead of him having to actually put it on. To quote someone else who reviewed this, "Yeah, that clothing change made sense."
Wow, up until yesterday I lived in the blissfull illusion that both animated Titanic-movies are the most historically insensitive animation films ever made. Nope, this "honour" truely goes to this shit.
Great commentry. I think I would be still stuck in the first minute going on and on about how the other two sisters Maria and Olga were kicked out (on hindsight maybe the best that could happen to them), that St. Petersburg and not Moscow was the capital of Russia during the reign of the Czar, how no one looks even remotely like their historic references,.... I think at some point I would have just had my brain explode. Because I even sideeyed the original Anastasia-Animation film by Don Bluth suspiciously. But hell, he even tried for some historic accuracy and has some very nice scenery, and making undead Rasputin the villain was a clever choice.
YES. When I first tried watching this, I couldn't even get through the first five minutes.
Also they changed Tatiana's name to Titiana.
You know who I just realized this version of Anastasia looks sort of like? Princess Clara from Drawn Together.
Kahran042 oml XD
FUUUUUUUCCKKK
Kahran042 So Anastasia left Vladimir to fuck a black girl.
And what does that tell you about this Anastasia? Given that Clara was already a twisted, mocking perversion of every other Disney princess...
It may just be the animation style, but at least to me, Anastasia looks like she doesn't have a nose in most of the shots and it's giving me serious uncanny valley.
It's Voldemort in drag!
The Mother- "Sing For Him, Darling"
Anastasia- *Flower, Gleam and Glow*
*Let Your Power Shine....*
That's what immediately came to my head
SING, MY ANGEL OF MUSIC!
27:43 Vladimir's just... sliding out of existence
I do love this movie (blame childhood nostalgia and watching it constantly), and I know it has it's problems, ut I'm always kind of struck by how beautiful Anastasia's singing voice is
“You’re dead and in a cello. It’s not like you need sustenance” 😭💀 I can’t
There’s that other Anastasia movie by Golden Films where Rasputin takes over Russia with no resolution at the end. Charles Martinet (Mario characters) was behind it. I’m glad he just went back to voice video game characters.
Like, say, every color-coordinated shirt-and-hat overalls-wearing facial-hair-having character within Mario? Including baby versions of them?
OH GOD AS A ROMANOV LOVER, THIS MOVIE KILLS ME!
On another note, your comments are hilarious!
You picture kills me more/
Is that a bad thing?? I really happen to like Yumoto c:
Yes. I hate that series, but it's a nice picture though.
...oh...well I love the show...but everyone has their own opinions c:
Yup
At 0:46 "yeah, if you weren't Jewish." As someone who is Jewish-American (with some Russian-Jewish ancestry), I burst out laughing.
harrietamidala1691 Seconded. The Tsars were the ones who drove my ancestors out
turkishvan2 Are you Jewish too?
harrietamidala1691
Yup
turkishvan2 Figures. There's actually a bit of a joke in my family about whether our bloodlines came from Russia or Poland depending on the year (when Poland was part of the Russian Empire). I always keep forgetting which side of the family came from Russia or Poland, maternal or paternal. Only thing I can be certain about (and strongly attached to) is my English heritage through my paternal line, but my grandparents themselves were ethnic brits, second or third generation at best guess.
harrietamidala1691
Haha, same here, except it's my father's side where we have the confusion.
I hate how they try and make the grandmother out to be a horrible woman for not giving Anastasia a chance to prove she is her grandmother but kinda ignores the fact that chances are the old woman probably saw a bunch of young women claiming to be the princess and she is just done with the whole thing.
5:22 'I would have thought the pipe organ would have been the most emo of all instruments'
Hmmmm any reference to that pointless cheap Disney direct-to-video/DVD midquel 'Beauty and the Beast' Christmas special with that 'brooding evil' pipe organ voiced by Tim Curry? Lol
Kristie Kat Also to the Phantom of the Opera, Davy Jones, and other moody broody organist types....
Musical Hell lol I like the Phantom but yeah I can see where you are going with that stereotype.
But since they are talking inanimate objects a la Disney's BATB might as well throw in a talking inanimate object example lol
Musical Hell Mystery Science Theater 3,000, but with musicals!
Musical Hell You mentioned the Librarian as soon as you saw the orangutan.
SOMEONE'S been reading DISC-world...
Catherine Lipscomb Naturally. *pours one out for Terry Pratchett*
The secret of Anastasia.. TALKING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS!!! (Phelous quote)
I guess I was giving this movie too much credit with “Prince Paul”. I assumed he took on the persona for incognito info on royals and just killed *every* Anastasia imposter in chance he would get the real one! But I guess that’s where having a brain gets ya.
Yo that would be a super dope idea.
That Prince Hans reference was flawless
😂😂😂😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣
At the beginning, why is that window open? It's clearly freezing winter, and it's not like they have heaters. The window bugged me so much!
Her name was Alexandra, she was very beautiful, but she really needed to use the little tzarinas room🤣🤣
"He kept going on about 'Nuclear Wessels'!"
Well played Diva dear, well played
Wait a minute
Dead people get brought back to life in instruments
Does that mean that John lennon is secretly a kazoo
Nah, he'd probably be a guitar
The instruments have absolutely no rights or reason for being there, yet they are the only redeemable characters who get shit done.
"Whee, fun is fun!" That cracked me up. :D
Into the Woods reference too :) Made my day :D
And I though only Daphne from Scooby-Doo could pull off orange hair with purple clothing. And considering the revolution here took place when Anastasia was a little girl, yeah, he is 5 years old.
That princess-making part reminds me of Princess and the Pauper
The proper etiquette song at around 21:00 reminds me of the song from Barbie's Princess and the Pauper about the same topic.... not sure if you can sing about being proper in a particularly unique way I just think there is a better way of doing it... I think it even has a similar tune, but I might be wrong
I loved that movie growing up!
You're completely right
I am a girl like you intensifies
How can it be a ripoff when its predates it like a decade? Barbie movie is the ripoff.
Honestly, the soundtrack to the movie is quite good. Even the credits theme could easily be mistaken for a Pokemon game like Platinum, Black and White, or the Mystery Dungeon spin off series.
Diva: "Didn't Tom & Jerry do this routine?"
Me: Yes, yes they did, this movie has no shame.
1:09 obviously Anastasia wasn’t the youngest in real life, but why make her the youngest? Did they really have nothing else to say about their character version of Anastasia that the only thing they could think of was “she’s the youngest”
you know, the disney tropes of princesses, talking animals and talking instrument has really outlived any usefulness it once had
"Remember who you are, Simb--I mean Anna-stasia."
I'm sorry, but comments like this make me want a crossover between you and the Nostalgia Critic, Diva!
AGREED!!!!!!!
She did apply for Channel Awesome, but it fell through. The #ChangetheChannel began and Christie felt she dodged a bullet.
@@llewelynshingler2173 Fair point. After all, there's only room for ONE member of darkness! And spoilers, it won't be Doug's co-stars.
Press 1 for an abandoned building with a bunch of squabbling instruments
Press 2 for EPIC LUGGAGE SHOT!
Press 3 for Nastya and Vlad walking into a hotel
Press 4 for the tuba's attempt at Moral Support
Press 5 for ignored
Press 6 for Ugly Old Lady
Press 7 for the harp calling Nastya out for bad chatacterization
Press 8 for What!? Why!? Where!?
Press 9 for her comparing this to Beauty and the Beast
Press 0 for restart
Why dosn't this have a Milion views? It was hilarious! I laughed so much. Great Video.
11:49 That is undoubtably one of the most terrifying faces I've ever seen in animation.
That face is what I see at night when I have sleep paralysis
12:49 is worse
Now that's Titanic: the Legend Goes On's faces for ya!
I doubt either that, or the one listed below, is intentional. I think they meant to make her look sad and curiously reassuring, respectively.
She is how to manga girl!
A get-together with Musical Hell, Phelous and Nostalgia Critic would be awesome.
Phelous doesn't like the Nostalgia Critic.
I don’t have any particular attachment to the Bluth version, but, if nothing else, gotta appreciate that it’s better than this. I think it just rubs extra salt in the wound to have a character call out exploiting a personal tragedy for monetary gain in a story made to exploit a personal tragedy for monetary gain. It’s like one person on the writing team felt that tingle of conscience and tried to insert what little self-awareness they had the power to.
4:12 Hey Rooster Teeth called they want their RWBY background silhouettes back
Did that 'kid' character order wine?!😱
Grainne or Grace Quinn Young kids used to drink all the time..it was more sanitary than water. Also, water was added in to purify it and dilute the alcohol.
It's really interesting that this movie portrays the Soviets so obsessed with finding and killing Anastasia that they hatch elaborate plans that involve murdering and impersonating foreign royalty when in real life 1) heaps of Romanovs, including the Czar's brother (who, at the time was third in line to the throne) survived 2) at the time of the Russian Revolution women were barred from taking the Russian throne anyway, so she couldn't have become Czarina even if she had survived.
"Hanged in your Homeland is a Magic Treehouse title isn't it" lol I enjoy how funny you are
Wait... This is where that Prince Charmless song came from? I didn't know that song came from a crappy film.
Anastasia's voice was great and the music was pretty good. The voice acting is quite good as well but this could have been better. My kids liked it.
Well, she went from having a freakishly large head to freakishly large eyes! I think it's a lateral move!
Lol, The Noob Saibots. Never know what jokes I'm gonna hear in this series. Also, the bad guy looks like Dracula.
Castlevania: Secret of Anastasia
Then comes Golden Films's take on Beauty and the Beast, wherein Diva makes fun of Beast by saying that Donkey Kong looks good with hair down.
Oh my God... I watched this at my grandmother's when I was a kid... I wasn't really fond of it, but grammy didn't have much to watch. But geez... so nostalgic
I remember this being one of my favorite movies when i was litte... I cant say the feeling has stuck upon a recent rewatch
For the first time in over *2* years, I'm about to watch this Musical Hell TV episode. 🤓
EDITS- 10:42 P.M.: *finishes episode 59 minutes later*
"The Secret of Anastasia" was *bad* but it was better than some of the other movies that you would riff over!
10:45 P.M.: That's sadder than Anastasia's family going away forever. 😅
I think I remember buying the VHS for this in a grocery store, and it came with an Anastasia doll
5:57 I was eating ice cream and almost choked on the cone when she said that.
Act like _dignified_ abominations of nature!
Wait...if Iconovich was a general in the czar's army, and the czar was killed and/or turned into a tuba when Anastasia was a small child too young to remember she is the lost Romanov princess, then surely Iconovich is at least 30 years older than her, right?
This movie is honestly a guilty pleasure of mine.
"Papa don't leave! The soviets are going to exucute me you fool!"
When I watch these, I like to imagine Diva is in the same room as the characters and is just shouting this commentary overtop of everything that's going on and everyone wants to say something to her but they don't because they know she's right.
that guys "become a princess song" wants what The Princess and the Pauper has
To Be a Princess will always be superior
I’m freaking out knowing Mark Zaslove was the writer behind this. He also wrote for Disney’s Talespin, Ducktales 1987, Adventures of The Gummi Bears, The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh, and Mighty Max O_O.
You know that shit is about to unfold when you hear "Dies Irae"
30:36 Hey, it's Alastor from Hazbin Hotel! =D
44:23 Holy fuck, he really IS the Radio Demon! =O
Scarlet Pimpernel reference?! You just endear yourself to me on a daily basis.
Good Lord, being both "Don Bluth's Anastasia and Disney's Beauty and the Beast at home" at the same time was *NOT* something I expected to see... 😬
The Thomas part cracked me up XD
Me too! XD
Thomas in Russia one day in 1927 the fat ass director came up to Thomas one day "Thomas I've been ordered by the society's to work in mother Russia until 1938 better not cause delay" he said "will do!" A few days later Thomas arrived and the controller said to him "take passenger train cyka" "okay?" So Thomas took the train it was a snowy run it reminded him how he got stuck in the show all those years ago then some weird or lady and some talking instruments came on the train "the fuck is this!?" So Thomas warned the conductor of the train and they were kicked out with a weird red guy
This Anastasia's design reminds me of Princess Clara in Drawn Together.
I saw this with my brothers a couple of months ago and we were cracking up laughing at how bad it is
Didn't realize one of the imperial daughters was also the Queen of the Fairies. You know, "Titania"? Appearing for the last 400 years in "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
I have no idea if Diva reads comments on old videos, but I’d love a MHTV for Golden Film’s Anastasia, Idk why but I love that movie more than Don Bluth’s one, even knowing it’s terrible
53:11 Was half-expecting her to start singing the healing song from Tangled...
To quote Ivan Dobsky from the British Adult Animated Show, Monkey Dust, “This film is full of inaccuracies.”
I actually kind of like that "In the Sun" song. Then again, I don't always have the best taste.
The fake Rumor in Saint Petersburg during the opening credits has me dying
I enjoyed the small Marx Brothers reference with the hard boiled eggs.
I know right? Just rewatched A night at the opera, so I was cracking up.
Ok give this movie credit where it’s due: I do believe it’s the only ONLY animated film where the main love interest has a mustache. Not a goatee, a legit mustache. Can someone prove me wrong?
God, I watched your review years ago and I'm so glad it came up in my recommended again. Your commentary is hilarious!
Love how you can see "Prince Paul's" fingernails on the outside of his gloves in some shots.
And Anastasia's grandma have this weird hair. Is she also an evil Cinderella's stepmother?
I love how she went from being a brunette to a redhead.
Silly shallow girl? boi you've been harping about the money every other line
Okay... Anastasia has personified her deceased family as sentient musical instruments....?... I can’t even...