Actually the magic elemental angle could be used to tell a good story about Atlantas and explain how and why it sank……the villain losing control (specifically of the water crystal,) and stuff like that…..I mean they FAILED MISERABLY HERE but yeah COULD be good……ALSO WHY WAS THAT SHAMAN GUY IRISH?!?!
The true reason why Atlantis sank into the sea is a complete mystery. Meanwhile, in the distant past. Old: This whole city is all wet! do you know what that means?
Okay I have always wanted to ask an actual Atlantean if Jesus Christ was your Emperor and fought with the white wizards against the black wizards as Elizabeth Clare Prophet claims? I figured you would know. ?;- )
Fun fact, I saw Cam Clarke at Dragoncon a few weeks ago (they had a TMNT reunion panel with all 4 turtles and April's VA Renae Jacobs from the '87 cartoon) and let me tell you that man gives off such Jeff Goldblum energy that I wouldn't be surprised to find out they're related. Seems like a genuinely great guy though.
I met Cam Clarke at Atlanta Comic Con in 2019, and he signed my copy of AKIRA and the Fire Emblem Fates artbook. He was a pretty cool guy! I also got autographs from Steven Horvitz (Billy from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Zim from Invader Zim, and Raz from Psychonauts) and Ali Hillis (Liara T'Soni from Mass Effect, Karin from Naruto Shippuden, and Palutena from Kid Icarus: Uprising).
I saw them all earlier this year, too! But at a different Comic Con. And knowing that I’ve met Cam Clarke somehow makes these even videos even funnier to me.
@@DemonicNightmare I think that Rob Paulsen made the biggest impression on me (probably because I’m a huge Raphael fan and was dressed up as him) but I had a good experience with Cam Clarke, too. Very kind. Very chill. He said a line or two with his Rocksteady voice after I got his autograph. I would be happy to meet him again.
“What’s Blarzan’s story?” “Trust me on this: You Don’t Want To Know. Audrey, don’t tell him. You shouldn’t’ve told me but you did, and now I’m telling you, you don’t wanna know!”
thank god this isn't the atlantis the Ulysses crew came across, because then everyone would be dissappointed and/or Milo would have no problem with Rourke genociding them
This movie feels like something one would make after somebody described Aladdin, W.I.T.C.H., InuYasha and the legend of Atlantis in quick succession to them over a very poor telephone connection while very inebriated.
Also, the villain's called Belial? As in the Hebrew word for "worthless"? Well, he definitely lived up to his name. He plays with water so much he's completely useless now.
That would be pretty on-brand for them; hoping that some inattentive adult would mistake it for a more well-known, better property (in this case, one of the dozens of Barbie animated properties) in order to cash in.
I'll give them this - Belial's design was pretty neat. He wasn't OBVIOUSLY EVIL like in a ton of animated movies, and they didn't make him super handsome either. He just looked like some guy. Although tbh he's better looking than the love interest.
They're back into production since 2021. It's just that the AI-slop that Peace Makers calls 'Documentaries' have just been languishing in VoD libraries while Diane Eskenazi sold the 'Enchanted Tales' to whatever video store wanted to stream them.
Guess both Dingo and Golden Films saw the writing on the wall and decided near the end of their run to make a movie the sinking of Atlantis. Though, both films were released a few years apart from each other with Dingo releasing their Atlantis film in 2001 (around the same time as the Disney movie) and then Golden Films followed in 2004 (a year before Dingo released their official final film which was The Little Witch Arisha in 2005)
Sterling (the guys responsible for The Christmas Light and The Christmas Brigade) did distribute Atlantis - The Underwater City, an Italian anime wannabe that just so happened to also be a mockbuster of Atlantis: The Lost Empire though.
The weird thing is that Golden Films isn't doing cartoons anymore. Their newest movies seem to be politically charged documentaries called 'One World' from a company named Peace Builders, that feel like left-wing cash grabs based on AI-generated slop (complete with text-to-speech TikTok narrator).
@@Code7Unltd well, same for me. Even better, I’m still occasionally watching South Asian mockbusters of anything which competes with The Jungle Book and so on.
Just looked it up and, man, do I wanna see Phelan check it out. I both can and cannot even begin to think about what an animated version of Ben-Hur would be like from GoodTimes, especially with someone along the lines of Charlton Heston himself to reprise an Oscar-winning role he did 40-45 years ago.
There 2 Golden properties I'm aware that I watched when I was a kid. An ABC vhs of horses and a sing-a-long vhs with Mulan/a bug's life, Anastasia, and Pocahontas rip offs
It's probably because I'm still raw from the death of one of my best friends, but that TMNT Game Over screen made me laugh way harder than it had any right to. Thank you for that. I needed it.
@@newguy371 Charles Martinet voices Gryphos Belials animal sidekick Belial is voiced by Darren Norris because thats the same voice he used when he voiced Knockout in Transformers Prime years later
@@Passions5555 Cam Clarke voices the Atlantian Bird in this Darren Norris voices Belial because the voice he uses for the character is the same one he used for Knockout in Transformers Prime years later
Oh good, it's not just me then! His voice here sounds a lot like the one he used for Cosmo in the Oh Yeah shorts, before he started doing him in a falsetto.
Despite obviously trying to cash in on the 2001 Atlantis this movie bares no resemblance to the Disney version since it wasn’t based on a pre-existing story.
@@cameronstone4495 With it being an animated musical about Atlantis it reminds me of the direct-to-video “Kong: King of Atlantis” movie from 2005 (which was based on “Kong: The Animated Series” from five years earlier).
Funny enough the author of “Nadia: The secret of Blue water” accused Disney of ripping off his story with Atlantis. So it’s like the Kimba controversy, but unlike Kimba and Lion King where there was no real accusations on the Japanese side, there was some real push back on the Japanese side. Never saw Nadia myself so I wouldn’t know how much of this has any bases or is just bloated exaggeration of common tropes like the whole Kimba thing really was.
@@brandonlyon730 As someone who has spoken to multiple people who worked on the movie and is acquainted with the screenwriter I can assure you they did not take anything from Nadia in terms of story. Their main inspirations were 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Indiana Jones. If anything Nadia is the ripoff since it was heavily based on early concepts for Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky. Many of the characters and story motivations are very similar, it just takes place in the sea instead of the sky. Any similarities to Disney’s Atlantis are purely esthetic such as the submarine, a princess with a blue necklace and the ruined city of Atlantis. That is it.
I mean TBF, I feel like that version was always gonna be one of the most interesting, if only because of morbid curiosity I mean if you tell someone there's a version of Atlantis in a sequel to an animated titanic movie and it's inhabited by living toys, rats that want to leave it and take over the world, weird Loch Ness Monster Dinosaur things and also that Screwdrivers are outlawed there, I think most people are gonna wanna know more
Pretty clever of Golden Films to name their antagonist after the Devil. Also, I think the Cam Clark bird is named Minoa, after the ancient civilization.
I think I can confirm another voice here, as that voice for the king is Daran Norris, the voice of Timmy's Dad and Cosmo in The Fairly Oddparents and Knockout in Transformers Prime. Seriously, go to 12:14 and tell me that doesn't sound like Timmy's dad.
Yeah, maybe it was best that Golden Films mostly stuck to ripping off Disney films. They don't seem to be that good at that whole "original idea" thing.
@@TheEmeraldWeirdo Yeah, but that film wasn't based on a public domain book or fairy tale like some of the other rip-offs. Unless this is based on the works of Plato, but something tells me it isn't.
This is one Atlantis where I don't mind Rourke and Helga ransacking, stealing their stuff, killing a few people, and leaving them to die. Also, their king looks like Highfather from the New Gods ( Aka, the DCAU version ) for some reason.
Phelous can review Golden Films’ Tarzan of the Apes later on. It’s a pretty weak movie, just not as infamously poor quality as the Golden Films Hunchback of Notre Dame. However, the chimps standing in for the mangani (who are actually prototypical humans) are one of the more promising aspects of that film, which meant that they’re also included in a Dynamite Lord of the Jungle comic book series!
Luckily there are more GoodTimes and Golden Films titles to look at. Same with Bevanfield and Burbank. Britannica, he only has Sleeping Beauty and then he'll have done them all. As for Dingo, there's gotta be millions of those.
What is it with animated atlantis stories centering around crystals anyway? They show up here, Disney's Atlantis, Nadia Secret of Blue Water... Like, it's so weird seeing all of them feature crystals so predominantly
But what about the secret of the cerulean sand anime by TMS? Isn’t it a decent anime with an excellent French dub which instead focuses on magical sand?
It's a popular trend outside of animation too, people who are familiar with the myths Atlantis think of it as highly advanced but rather than them using actual technology they invent crystal magic.
I'm not 100% on this, but I 'm pretty sure Ilan is voiced by Debi Derryberry. You'd think she wouldn't have to take roles like this after being Jimmy Neutron 3 years earlier!
8:16 Nooooo! Not into the pit! IT BURRRRNNNNSS!!! At least these late-game Golden Films movies were consistent with letting characters die. It'd be nice if they were more consistent with *when* characters were dead though. *Delph.*
Gonna give the movie props "If you steal people's souls their body is just gonna rot" is pretty forward thinking for something this basic. Although....that would make more sense if by soul they meant brain, or maybe mind? Idk it's a weird realistic touch for someth9ng based on actual magic that doesn't really need it.
I wonder how the process of creating these movies worked; How much time did it take GoldenFilms to put together their films? And how did they manage to always make their movies so overly saturated?._.;;; My friends and I realized they always manage to pick out the worst color palettes possible for their characters and some backgrounds even. And they manage to over-complicate character designs with seemingly small details which are unnecessary in the long run. I think in that regard, lots of GoldenFilms movies serve as a good study on how not to combine colors and what to pay attention to when drawing (I'm not trying to put down the artists and animators who put the effort into the film, I'm sure they did their best, and who knows what their work process and their deadlines looked like! I'm just baffled at some of the choices that have been made for the actual final product).
going off of knowledge of other similar rip-off studios because it probably applies to GoldenFilms, they probably heard about or looked for recently released/announced movies and slapped together a story based off the idea they got from the disney equivalent like general core concepts and threw together a mess as fast and cheaply as possible.
I think I've most commonly heard that "Sonic CD Jump" sound effect in various Scooby-Doo cartoons, don't know exactly what that says about me or Scooby-Doo...
Atlantis the Lost Empire is a criminally underrated film. Even after 23 years, it still holds up. Fantastic characters, instrumental score, lore. 💎 Golden films Atlantis...🗑
I cannot believe it's taken almost 10 years but the Golden Films catalog is nearly cleared by Phelous... does this mean we will have a return to 00s horror?
Not nearly cleared by a long shot, and no, no one actually watches when I cover a horror movie, they skip that review and show up on another video saying they want more of them.
@@phelous, Really? That makes me kind of sad. Personally, I really enjoy your horror movie reviews. I know you did one for Adam Wingard's movie "BLAIR WITCH" (2016), but I haven't watched it yet. I actually like that movie and "BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2 (2000), the first theatrical film sequel to the "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" (1999). Neither film is the sequel that "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" truly deserves (in my opinion), but I still like them for what they are. At least "BOOK OF SHADOWS", which I feel is rather underappreciated despite its many flaws, tried to do something quite different from what most people would have expected from a sequel to "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT". I hope that the fourth "BLAIR WITCH" film, which is currently being planned, could turn out to be something quite good. The Blair Witch legend despite being fictional is fascinating and quite spooky. There's a lot of rich material to work with from the film series' franchise. You couldn't market a third sequel as being based on a true story in today's world. It worked for the 1999 original because the Internet was just becoming really popular, and people were less discerning when it came to content that they came across online. The marketing campaign for "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" was brilliant though. Joe Berlinger, an award-wining documentary filmmaker and the director of "BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2", liked the original film and the psychological unraveling of its characters a lot, but he thought it was dishonest of the filmmakers of the original movie to agree with ARTISAN ENTERTAINMENT on presenting "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" as "authentic documentary film footage that was rediscovered". I think the fourth film -- whether a remake, prequel, sequel or spinoff -- would have to imbue it with a strong sense of realism with its portrayal of implied supernatural horror without marketing the movie as a "true story"
Glad to see Best Hercules 'No' making an appearance. Also love the horror edits, at least I think think they are edits, kinda hard tell with these animations
I found this movie on Tubi a few months back and actually thought "this looks like something Phelous would review." Seems I accidentally predicted the future lol
Oh damn, I think this is one of the few golden films I seen as a kid. Also I think someone in the comments already mentioned this, but I'm like 95% sure Belial (and maybe the king too) is voiced by Daran Norris, because the voice sounds almost exactly like Knockout from Transformers Prime
I grew up watching this as a kid and none of my friend knew what i was talking about ... believe my grandma found a dvd if this at a dollar store back in the early 2000s the song stuck with me for YEARS!!! thank you for bringing back q childhood memory for me
I swear I thought this was a cash in on Atlantis the lost empire, but when golden films does original films they take us on a special journey through incompetence and stupidity
I'll admit I chuckled when I saw the villain turn into a monster at the end. He kind of looks like a wannabe rock star that became a half-demon. It's also rather fitting that one of Golden Films' last outings happens to be about the sinking of Atlantis.
Also, let’s wait for the Goodtimes Jungle Boy and Golden Films Tarzan of the Apes to get reviewed later on! The former one is actually a decent Canadian adaptation of Yoshimasa Ikeda’s BaRuuba no Bōken books. The latter one is unfortunately more disneyfied than the Disney Tarzan instalments but was based more on the actual first Tarzan book.
"Belial, that's an AK-47! It can fire several steel pellets per second into human flesh at lethal speeds!" "Oh, and here I thought it was just a neat walking stick. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
There was a UK BBC series some years ago called 'Atlantis'. It was meant to be to Greek Mythology what Merlin was to Sword & Sorcery. It mostly followed the adventures of Jason, Hercules and Pythagoras in the city of Atlantis. It got cancelled after 2 seasons even though it teased the Argo/golden Fleece adventure, so we never get to see the city sink. What was even stranger was that Jason is supposed to be from our time flung back to the past but he never acts like a time traveller dropping modern ideas and slang.
Shame it got cancelled early on as I did enjoy it but I do wonder how they would have handled Medea given that Jason's behaviour towards her is... not so good by today's standards. (And surely even then, he would still have come across as incredibly ungrateful.)
@1Thunderfire nice to see someone remembers the series. I knew it was getting cancelled and I was pissed off they killed the main villian..only for her to get resurrected 10 minutes later.
Oh man, so many jokes or references I could make here (at least the ones you haven't done already, lol) ^^ I'll go with this: Them Atlanteans would've been safe if only they hid them crystals... In THE FUTURE! Hilarious episode, Phelous ^^
I don't know what makes me sadder. That Phelous' Goldenfilms videos are coming to an end, or that there's an adaptation of Peter Rabbit that might be even worse than the 2018 one.
I feel like I’ve been slapped. I realized from the 2023 series clips you were showing at the beginning that a childhood Peter Rabbit video which I can barely remember, but which also has a song that’s been living rent-free in my head for years, was actually made by Golden Films. And Peter Rabbit was voiced by Cam Clarke. Apparently I’ve been going down the Golden Films hole since I was 4.
Seemed 3 years too late to be cashing in on Atlantis: The Lost Empire... though maybe it was trying to be close to Milo's Return. Putting aside the Captain Planet jokes... mastering four elements, I guess Belial wants to be the Avatar. Oh, I recognize the reference to Y'Lyntian stuff in TMNT 2003, makes me want to see Phelan do more videos on the show. Speaking of Turtles, Belial's final form does remind me of Carter's uber-dumb mutation in the final two seasons of TMNT 1987.
Ah yes, 2004. The best year to cash in on Disney's Atlantis! Or maybe Golden Films was cashing in on the crappy Disney "sequel" that was just three episodes of a canned TV show stitched together...?
2:36 adding onto this a little bit, you can also clearly tell that Daran Norris (voice of Cosmo and Mr. Turner in Fairly Oddparents) plays King Daddylantis and if I remember correctly, Debi Derryberry (voice of Jimmy Neutron) played Gabriella in Miracle in Toyland, and seems to play Elan (I probably spelled that wrong) here
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When Momlantis paused on her awkward "yes," I was hoping for Hercules' awkward "no."
Phelous never disappoints.
I'm so happy that we now have a new running gag thanks to Best Hercules.
So THAT'S why Atlantis sank: They put too much stock on crystal therapy.
Actually the magic elemental angle could be used to tell a good story about Atlantas and explain how and why it sank……the villain losing control (specifically of the water crystal,) and stuff like that…..I mean they FAILED MISERABLY HERE but yeah COULD be good……ALSO WHY WAS THAT SHAMAN GUY IRISH?!?!
The true reason why Atlantis sank into the sea is a complete mystery.
Meanwhile, in the distant past.
Old: This whole city is all wet! do you know what that means?
'It's completely useless now..heeeeeeeeeeee eee'
"I know how to make it even wetter!" said a little green-haired fairy in military gear.
"Anyway to cut a long story short, White Fang mauled the Old Man..."
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives (Credits Roll)
Much to Old Man's chagrin, Atlantis didn't become completely useless when it sank to the bottom of the sea. It was pretty much always useless.
Of course no one care if it was lost.
Atlantis truly is the Mr."Golly-Gosh" of kingdoms, a "L-lo-looooseeeerrr"
that ending really scream "we're out of money" no wonder the Atlantis wasn't the only thing that sank in this story...
As an ancient Atlantean I can confirm that this animated film is .100% accurate
Okay I have always wanted to ask an actual Atlantean if Jesus Christ was your Emperor and fought with the white wizards against the black wizards as Elizabeth Clare Prophet claims? I figured you would know. ?;- )
@@michaelthomas5433 sure
Sounds familiar
So is your king Aquaman or Namor?
@@Thepopcornator both
gay married
yeah I always thought the Yugioh version of the history was mostly mythos mostly influenced by by the ancient Romans….
It looks like Belial just stumbled across a pre-existing secret evil lair. Villain of the year 😂
And cuts his hair with a bowl.
That's why momlantis didn't care about the evil lair. It was hers all along.
Fun fact, I saw Cam Clarke at Dragoncon a few weeks ago (they had a TMNT reunion panel with all 4 turtles and April's VA Renae Jacobs from the '87 cartoon) and let me tell you that man gives off such Jeff Goldblum energy that I wouldn't be surprised to find out they're related. Seems like a genuinely great guy though.
I met Cam Clarke at Atlanta Comic Con in 2019, and he signed my copy of AKIRA and the Fire Emblem Fates artbook. He was a pretty cool guy!
I also got autographs from Steven Horvitz (Billy from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Zim from Invader Zim, and Raz from Psychonauts) and Ali Hillis (Liara T'Soni from Mass Effect, Karin from Naruto Shippuden, and Palutena from Kid Icarus: Uprising).
I saw them all earlier this year, too! But at a different Comic Con. And knowing that I’ve met Cam Clarke somehow makes these even videos even funnier to me.
From everything I've heard about him, he sounds like a genuinely good dude!
@@DemonicNightmare I think that Rob Paulsen made the biggest impression on me (probably because I’m a huge Raphael fan and was dressed up as him) but I had a good experience with Cam Clarke, too. Very kind. Very chill. He said a line or two with his Rocksteady voice after I got his autograph. I would be happy to meet him again.
That's cool
“What’s Blarzan’s story?”
“Trust me on this: You Don’t Want To Know. Audrey, don’t tell him. You shouldn’t’ve told me but you did, and now I’m telling you, you don’t wanna know!”
Man, I love Phil Morris.
thank god this isn't the atlantis the Ulysses crew came across, because then everyone would be dissappointed and/or Milo would have no problem with Rourke genociding them
With her understanding of the animals, rocks, and the blades of grass, she finally knows what The Rock is cooking.
Okay that actually made me laugh out loud
But can she smell it?
She also now knows why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch
This movie feels like something one would make after somebody described Aladdin, W.I.T.C.H., InuYasha and the legend of Atlantis in quick succession to them over a very poor telephone connection while very inebriated.
Don’t forget Captain Planet!
It also gives off some faint Pocahontas vibes from that lame romance subplot.
@@cartooncritique6625 and Princesslantis' outfit
I believe you mean Atlantis: The Lost Empire on that last one.
Also, the villain's called Belial? As in the Hebrew word for "worthless"? Well, he definitely lived up to his name. He plays with water so much he's completely useless now.
The name of a demon too, though has nothing to do with greek mythology.
And he is voiced by none other than Tim Curry.
The Enchanted Tales Minis logo looks like a Barbie logo
That would be pretty on-brand for them; hoping that some inattentive adult would mistake it for a more well-known, better property (in this case, one of the dozens of Barbie animated properties) in order to cash in.
@@AnInsideJoke That’s true
Seeing that "FURRIES" logo using that same style made me jump a bit.
I'll give them this - Belial's design was pretty neat. He wasn't OBVIOUSLY EVIL like in a ton of animated movies, and they didn't make him super handsome either. He just looked like some guy. Although tbh he's better looking than the love interest.
He has a penisy hairdo.
The love interest had all the elements to be good-looking, but the cheap animation made him look so awkward and wrong.
Okay, I laughed FAR TOO HARD at Momlantis and Hercules having their “yes” and “no” back and forth! Thank you, Phelous!
Finding out Golden Films was back in 2023 and even lazier is scarier than finding the real Atlantis.
To be fair, Golden Films has always been lazy, it’s now much more obvious than before. (Blurgh!!)
@@sarasaland4709 Chris Pratt: Even Lazier!
They're back into production since 2021. It's just that the AI-slop that Peace Makers calls 'Documentaries' have just been languishing in VoD libraries while Diane Eskenazi sold the 'Enchanted Tales' to whatever video store wanted to stream them.
This movie is what everyone thought Disney's 'Atlantis: The Lost Empire' was going to be.
Yup despite the story dont have any resemblance to it, beside some of the almost similar characters
I thought this was what "Milo's Return" was going to be. LOL
Funny thing that Dingo Pictures' Atlantis movie was one of their very last animated films as well (and their last with an English dub).
Guess both Dingo and Golden Films saw the writing on the wall and decided near the end of their run to make a movie the sinking of Atlantis. Though, both films were released a few years apart from each other with Dingo releasing their Atlantis film in 2001 (around the same time as the Disney movie) and then Golden Films followed in 2004 (a year before Dingo released their official final film which was The Little Witch Arisha in 2005)
the turn of the millenium was a turning point for animation, and I guess neither of them could keep up.
@@ryanperez1813 Actually, Legend of Atlantis WAS released in 2001. Just, for some reason, it wasn't distributed in the USA until 2004.
@@ZC-Infinity What's even funnier that the sinking of atlantis kind of why disney as a company is in a sour spot today.
I'm unreasonably upset with this wasn't named "The SECRET of Atlantis"...
That's the UAV guys
@@tiinaniinikoski2964 Yeaaah but chances are THEY didn't make it either...
Sterling (the guys responsible for The Christmas Light and The Christmas Brigade) did distribute Atlantis - The Underwater City, an Italian anime wannabe that just so happened to also be a mockbuster of Atlantis: The Lost Empire though.
@@Astolfo2001 ...well shoot you're not wrong huh
And Ruin the perfect Trilogy of Anastasia, Mulan, and Pocahontas? Still waiting for that Secret of Pocahontas review btw, Phelous.
"Haven't you wondered why you're always up all night with the deep thoughts of grass in your head?" Like "Is corn a grass?"
Somehow, Golden Films returned. Be very afraid.
I hope they don't have the budget for cgi. Nothing looks worse animated than bargain bin cgi.
Tubi already have these monstrosities with WOWOW and Dream Machine Animation
@@tschubbsifriends2523 I argue them returning is less possible than Palpatine.
The weird thing is that Golden Films isn't doing cartoons anymore. Their newest movies seem to be politically charged documentaries called 'One World' from a company named Peace Builders, that feel like left-wing cash grabs based on AI-generated slop (complete with text-to-speech TikTok narrator).
@@Code7Unltd well, same for me.
Even better, I’m still occasionally watching South Asian mockbusters of anything which competes with The Jungle Book and so on.
There's also that Ben-Hur Goodtimes movie with Charlton Heston reprising his role as Ben-Hur, in case you're interested in tackling that!
I grew up on the good times bible movies with Charlton Heston. Found the Samson one on TH-cam and... yeahhh it's not great
Just looked it up and, man, do I wanna see Phelan check it out.
I both can and cannot even begin to think about what an animated version of Ben-Hur would be like from GoodTimes, especially with someone along the lines of Charlton Heston himself to reprise an Oscar-winning role he did 40-45 years ago.
Does Ben-Hur get to survive this time because of guns?
There 2 Golden properties I'm aware that I watched when I was a kid. An ABC vhs of horses and a sing-a-long vhs with Mulan/a bug's life, Anastasia, and Pocahontas rip offs
@@user-lb9xw4xf2q Hope they aren't machine guns. But, if anything, Ben-Hur probably would get to survive because he threw knives at people's eyes.
It's probably because I'm still raw from the death of one of my best friends, but that TMNT Game Over screen made me laugh way harder than it had any right to. Thank you for that. I needed it.
Sorry that happened, glad that gave you a good laugh.
@@phelousI recently lost my father, and I am able to take amusement that I remember seeing part of this movie in my childhood.
I was laughing, but I didn't know it was a tmnt gameover😅
@@Mysticgamer Yup! TMNT arcade game from the '90s.
I'm pretty sure that's Daran Norris voicing Belial - since Cosmo sank Atlantis a few times its pretty much typecasting.
@@newguy371 Charles Martinet voices Gryphos Belials animal sidekick Belial is voiced by Darren Norris because thats the same voice he used when he voiced Knockout in Transformers Prime years later
@@AliTetik-y7t Okay, thanks!
I thought it was Cam Clarke
@@Passions5555 Cam Clarke voices the Atlantian Bird in this Darren Norris voices Belial because the voice he uses for the character is the same one he used for Knockout in Transformers Prime years later
Oh good, it's not just me then! His voice here sounds a lot like the one he used for Cosmo in the Oh Yeah shorts, before he started doing him in a falsetto.
Despite obviously trying to cash in on the 2001 Atlantis this movie bares no resemblance to the Disney version since it wasn’t based on a pre-existing story.
Guess they weren't confidant enough to adapt the works of Plato, though I'd have loved to see them try.
@@cameronstone4495 With it being an animated musical about Atlantis it reminds me of the direct-to-video “Kong: King of Atlantis” movie from 2005 (which was based on “Kong: The Animated Series” from five years earlier).
Funny enough the author of “Nadia: The secret of Blue water” accused Disney of ripping off his story with Atlantis. So it’s like the Kimba controversy, but unlike Kimba and Lion King where there was no real accusations on the Japanese side, there was some real push back on the Japanese side. Never saw Nadia myself so I wouldn’t know how much of this has any bases or is just bloated exaggeration of common tropes like the whole Kimba thing really was.
@@brandonlyon730 As someone who has spoken to multiple people who worked on the movie and is acquainted with the screenwriter I can assure you they did not take anything from Nadia in terms of story. Their main inspirations were 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Indiana Jones.
If anything Nadia is the ripoff since it was heavily based on early concepts for Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky. Many of the characters and story motivations are very similar, it just takes place in the sea instead of the sky. Any similarities to Disney’s Atlantis are purely esthetic such as the submarine, a princess with a blue necklace and the ruined city of Atlantis. That is it.
@@micshork I figured as much, just like Kimba all over again. Thanks for the information.
Boy, when Tentacolino has a more interesting depiction of the lost city of Atlantis, that's saying something.
I mean, it had She-Hulk as a sexy cowgirl nurse so it wasn't *THAT* bad.
I mean TBF, I feel like that version was always gonna be one of the most interesting, if only because of morbid curiosity
I mean if you tell someone there's a version of Atlantis in a sequel to an animated titanic movie and it's inhabited by living toys, rats that want to leave it and take over the world, weird Loch Ness Monster Dinosaur things and also that Screwdrivers are outlawed there, I think most people are gonna wanna know more
It's next level plot contrivance when the villain already posseses one of the legendary items he was looking for but was too stupid to realize it.
Pretty clever of Golden Films to name their antagonist after the Devil. Also, I think the Cam Clark bird is named Minoa, after the ancient civilization.
Yeah, I figured the later too. If that's the case, whoever is behind this movie's script is slightly more clever than I thought
those are honestly the only two things I can give credit for here
I think I can confirm another voice here, as that voice for the king is Daran Norris, the voice of Timmy's Dad and Cosmo in The Fairly Oddparents and Knockout in Transformers Prime. Seriously, go to 12:14 and tell me that doesn't sound like Timmy's dad.
Glad to know I’m not the only one who recognized that voice!
I realized that a few minutes in. I feel bad for these people. 😭
I knew I wasn't going crazy when I heard that familiar Timmy's Dad and Cosmo voice lol yet IMDB doesn't credit him
I feel like Belial is voiced by the same
@@LeafHasADHD I was thinking that too. Wouldn't surprise me if that was true.
I can tell Bellial and the king are voiced by Daran Norris, which makes sense since he was also the voice of bootleg superman from Babes in Toyland
Honestly I just hear knockout from transformers prime which makes this even funnier.
There can be only one explanation why he got suckered into these
*DINKLEBERG*
Miracle in Toyland, which of course was a misleading title.
He also voiced one of the annoying ghosts in Golden Film's Beauty and the Beast.
and also because the king is also an idiotic father
Yeah, maybe it was best that Golden Films mostly stuck to ripping off Disney films. They don't seem to be that good at that whole "original idea" thing.
...You realize Disney made an Atlantis film in 2001, right?
Are you sure it was an original idea though, as Disney actually did an animated film that featured the lost city of Atlantis!
@@RaphBlade7And it had Michael J Fox.
I mean ... it's an animated movie about Altantis and crystals ... Disney did that too.
@@TheEmeraldWeirdo Yeah, but that film wasn't based on a public domain book or fairy tale like some of the other rip-offs. Unless this is based on the works of Plato, but something tells me it isn't.
This is one Atlantis where I don't mind Rourke and Helga ransacking, stealing their stuff, killing a few people, and leaving them to die.
Also, their king looks like Highfather from the New Gods ( Aka, the DCAU version ) for some reason.
I doubt Milo would mind either honestly
now that you mention that... Belial also kind of looks like Desaad...
Fire underwater? Must be the same Atlantis from Spongebob :p
but they're king is Mr. Turner, not David Bowie
Cannot wait until he learns about Golden Films's Noah's Arc and Jungle King. You want a doozy
Phelous can review Golden Films’ Tarzan of the Apes later on. It’s a pretty weak movie, just not as infamously poor quality as the Golden Films Hunchback of Notre Dame. However, the chimps standing in for the mangani (who are actually prototypical humans) are one of the more promising aspects of that film, which meant that they’re also included in a Dynamite Lord of the Jungle comic book series!
Luckily there are more GoodTimes and Golden Films titles to look at. Same with Bevanfield and Burbank. Britannica, he only has Sleeping Beauty and then he'll have done them all. As for Dingo, there's gotta be millions of those.
We have the riffs by Musical Hell, to enjoy in the meantime.
I wanna see him reviewing Camelot because apparently a lot of people LIKE that movie?
@@ExplorerDS6789 me too, I’m waiting for the Goodtimes jungle boy to be reviewed by good old Phelous.
“On second thought let’s not go to Atlantis. It’s a silly place” 🤣🤣🤣
This review made my day!! ❤
You know it's a good day when a Golden Films review by Phelan comes out
0:40 "Somehow, Golden Films return"
I just noticed that the princess's character model is as the same as Jesse's "cousin" from Miracle In Toyland, but with different hair.
I'm certain she has the same voice, too!
I thought it was the fabled Dingo's Atlantis!
But boy, I love it when you post these cartoons~
So Golden Films made it's return in 2023? It looks like the Phelous touch has resurrected dead animation studio.
well, the new version looks more like a horribly re animated corpse, but I guess it living.
Poor Belial, he would've succeeded if he only knew he had to get the fifth element to unleash the crystals true power
Well guys looks like Pheleous is getting gray hair, so his transformation into the old man begins.
I'm convinced that Golden Films is back become of this channel particularly lmao
What is it with animated atlantis stories centering around crystals anyway? They show up here, Disney's Atlantis, Nadia Secret of Blue Water...
Like, it's so weird seeing all of them feature crystals so predominantly
But what about the secret of the cerulean sand anime by TMS? Isn’t it a decent anime with an excellent French dub which instead focuses on magical sand?
It's a popular trend outside of animation too, people who are familiar with the myths Atlantis think of it as highly advanced but rather than them using actual technology they invent crystal magic.
Golden Films: Tired Mr. Phelous? Aw, that's a damn shame. 'Cause i'm just getting warmed up!
I'm not 100% on this, but I 'm pretty sure Ilan is voiced by Debi Derryberry. You'd think she wouldn't have to take roles like this after being Jimmy Neutron 3 years earlier!
She was also in Miracle in Toyland and Little Angels
I thought I recognized Daran Norris as Belial as well. So many Nickelodeon actors in this thing, weird
That’s who I think he is.
I confused her for Tara Strong.
8:16 Nooooo! Not into the pit! IT BURRRRNNNNSS!!!
At least these late-game Golden Films movies were consistent with letting characters die.
It'd be nice if they were more consistent with *when* characters were dead though. *Delph.*
Dude, I never thought I’d say this, but BALTARD would actually be an improvement compared to “Belial & the Masters of the Universe” !
Phelous never fail to make a great video
Gonna give the movie props "If you steal people's souls their body is just gonna rot" is pretty forward thinking for something this basic. Although....that would make more sense if by soul they meant brain, or maybe mind? Idk it's a weird realistic touch for someth9ng based on actual magic that doesn't really need it.
Was expecting a toss over to Captain Planet or Avatar.
Swerved into Mystic Quest instead!
The best Final Fantasy game, of course.
I wonder how the process of creating these movies worked; How much time did it take GoldenFilms to put together their films? And how did they manage to always make their movies so overly saturated?._.;;; My friends and I realized they always manage to pick out the worst color palettes possible for their characters and some backgrounds even. And they manage to over-complicate character designs with seemingly small details which are unnecessary in the long run.
I think in that regard, lots of GoldenFilms movies serve as a good study on how not to combine colors and what to pay attention to when drawing (I'm not trying to put down the artists and animators who put the effort into the film, I'm sure they did their best, and who knows what their work process and their deadlines looked like! I'm just baffled at some of the choices that have been made for the actual final product).
going off of knowledge of other similar rip-off studios because it probably applies to GoldenFilms, they probably heard about or looked for recently released/announced movies and slapped together a story based off the idea they got from the disney equivalent like general core concepts and threw together a mess as fast and cheaply as possible.
The kingdom of Atlantis and the Turtleoids' palace of Shellri-La deserve each other
I think I've most commonly heard that "Sonic CD Jump" sound effect in various Scooby-Doo cartoons, don't know exactly what that says about me or Scooby-Doo...
Atlantis the Lost Empire is a criminally underrated film. Even after 23 years, it still holds up. Fantastic characters, instrumental score, lore. 💎
Golden films Atlantis...🗑
Oh, man, FF Mystic Quest shoutout! Best video, 10/10 confirmed
I cannot believe it's taken almost 10 years but the Golden Films catalog is nearly cleared by Phelous... does this mean we will have a return to 00s horror?
Not nearly cleared by a long shot, and no, no one actually watches when I cover a horror movie, they skip that review and show up on another video saying they want more of them.
@@phelous,
Really? That makes me kind of sad. Personally, I really enjoy your horror movie reviews. I know you did one for Adam Wingard's movie "BLAIR WITCH" (2016), but I haven't watched it yet. I actually like that movie and "BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2 (2000), the first theatrical film sequel to the "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" (1999). Neither film is the sequel that "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" truly deserves (in my opinion), but I still like them for what they are. At least "BOOK OF SHADOWS", which I feel is rather underappreciated despite its many flaws, tried to do something quite different from what most people would have expected from a sequel to "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT". I hope that the fourth "BLAIR WITCH" film, which is currently being planned, could turn out to be something quite good.
The Blair Witch legend despite being fictional is fascinating and quite spooky. There's a lot of rich material to work with from the film series' franchise. You couldn't market a third sequel as being based on a true story in today's world. It worked for the 1999 original because the Internet was just becoming really popular, and people were less discerning when it came to content that they came across online. The marketing campaign for "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" was brilliant though. Joe Berlinger, an award-wining documentary filmmaker and the director of "BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2", liked the original film and the psychological unraveling of its characters a lot, but he thought it was dishonest of the filmmakers of the original movie to agree with ARTISAN ENTERTAINMENT on presenting "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" as "authentic documentary film footage that was rediscovered".
I think the fourth film -- whether a remake, prequel, sequel or spinoff -- would have to imbue it with a strong sense of realism with its portrayal of implied supernatural horror without marketing the movie as a "true story"
I was hoping we got to see surprised Beauty, but Waboo is also good.
Imagine 'old man in Atlantis'.
Glad to see Best Hercules 'No' making an appearance. Also love the horror edits, at least I think think they are edits, kinda hard tell with these animations
I found this movie on Tubi a few months back and actually thought "this looks like something Phelous would review."
Seems I accidentally predicted the future lol
I think the writers were high on their own crystal power
Aka Cocaine. 🤣
@EpicJasonX9000 Crystal Meth would be more fitting.
Oh damn, I think this is one of the few golden films I seen as a kid. Also I think someone in the comments already mentioned this, but I'm like 95% sure Belial (and maybe the king too) is voiced by Daran Norris, because the voice sounds almost exactly like Knockout from Transformers Prime
OOOO this is will be a classical treat :D
23:07 This guy isn't Terra! He's not even good enough to be Gau! Now we'll never defeat Kefka!
Uwaoo~!!
Actually this Terra’s intelligence level is on par with Kingdom Hearts birth by sleep Terra.
@@bearerofbadnews1375 I don't thin Phelan and Allison have played that one yet, they only seem to be referencing up to KH2.
@bearerofbadnews1375 Actually, this Terra is what everyone *THINKS* KH Terra is like.
@@bearerofbadnews1375I could believe he'd get conned into a body swap by Xehanort
13:33
"Oh, shit, I'm sorry." vibe going on, there.
I grew up watching this as a kid and none of my friend knew what i was talking about ... believe my grandma found a dvd if this at a dollar store back in the early 2000s the song stuck with me for YEARS!!! thank you for bringing back q childhood memory for me
Is that Daran Norris as Belial? I mean, Cosmo did sink Atlantis! 😂
I swear I thought this was a cash in on Atlantis the lost empire, but when golden films does original films they take us on a special journey through incompetence and stupidity
I think Debi Derryberry might be the voice of the princess
Woah. Darran Norris is an Atlantean sorcerer?
I recognize him because thats the same voice he uses as Mercurymon on Digimon Frontier
Was also Venom in Spider-Man 2000.
I'll admit I chuckled when I saw the villain turn into a monster at the end. He kind of looks like a wannabe rock star that became a half-demon.
It's also rather fitting that one of Golden Films' last outings happens to be about the sinking of Atlantis.
And now I await your reviews of Burbank, UAV, and Golden Films Hercules!!
Also, let’s wait for the Goodtimes Jungle Boy and Golden Films Tarzan of the Apes to get reviewed later on! The former one is actually a decent Canadian adaptation of Yoshimasa Ikeda’s BaRuuba no Bōken books. The latter one is unfortunately more disneyfied than the Disney Tarzan instalments but was based more on the actual first Tarzan book.
Leonardo would hate this movie. It preaches embracing the old ways instead of finding A NEW WAY!
well, Belial did embrace the new way, and it turned him into a giant wierner boy who destroyed himself.
Thanks!
"Belial, that's an AK-47! It can fire several steel pellets per second into human flesh at lethal speeds!"
"Oh, and here I thought it was just a neat walking stick. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
There was a UK BBC series some years ago called 'Atlantis'. It was meant to be to Greek Mythology what Merlin was to Sword & Sorcery. It mostly followed the adventures of Jason, Hercules and Pythagoras in the city of Atlantis. It got cancelled after 2 seasons even though it teased the Argo/golden Fleece adventure, so we never get to see the city sink. What was even stranger was that Jason is supposed to be from our time flung back to the past but he never acts like a time traveller dropping modern ideas and slang.
Shame it got cancelled early on as I did enjoy it but I do wonder how they would have handled Medea given that Jason's behaviour towards her is... not so good by today's standards. (And surely even then, he would still have come across as incredibly ungrateful.)
@1Thunderfire nice to see someone remembers the series. I knew it was getting cancelled and I was pissed off they killed the main villian..only for her to get resurrected 10 minutes later.
I think the bird was "Minoa", as in the culture that pre-dated the Greeks.
this needs a tvtropes page
So is Golden Films’ Jungle Book and its own later Tarzan of the Apes!
I can't believe the Goodtimes are coming to an end.
Oh man, so many jokes or references I could make here (at least the ones you haven't done already, lol) ^^
I'll go with this:
Them Atlanteans would've been safe if only they hid them crystals... In THE FUTURE!
Hilarious episode, Phelous ^^
That's cool and all but your mario display is lighting up behind you when you talk and now i know you are a wizard and thats awesome
The power of the crystals opens the character creator and turns you into a Sith Pureblood... with a mohawk.
Truly, this is the ultimate power.
I don't know what makes me sadder. That Phelous' Goldenfilms videos are coming to an end, or that there's an adaptation of Peter Rabbit that might be even worse than the 2018 one.
There’s a cheap as hell onscreen adaptation of Peter Rabbit worse than the 2018 one! And Phelous’ Golden Films reviews are not ending yet.
Theres more story beats from Aladdin than i was expecting.
man these Atlantians really needed to find A NEW WAY!
you know for a fact you're responsible for golden films 2023
It's nice to see that you are still uploading.
And with all your crystals combine, I am
CAPTAIN PLANET!!! 😂
I feel like I’ve been slapped. I realized from the 2023 series clips you were showing at the beginning that a childhood Peter Rabbit video which I can barely remember, but which also has a song that’s been living rent-free in my head for years, was actually made by Golden Films. And Peter Rabbit was voiced by Cam Clarke. Apparently I’ve been going down the Golden Films hole since I was 4.
The voice of the villain is knockout from transformers prime!!!!! SO ITS PERFECT
Seemed 3 years too late to be cashing in on Atlantis: The Lost Empire... though maybe it was trying to be close to Milo's Return.
Putting aside the Captain Planet jokes... mastering four elements, I guess Belial wants to be the Avatar.
Oh, I recognize the reference to Y'Lyntian stuff in TMNT 2003, makes me want to see Phelan do more videos on the show.
Speaking of Turtles, Belial's final form does remind me of Carter's uber-dumb mutation in the final two seasons of TMNT 1987.
Belial has that No Country for Old Men hair cut 🤣
Honestly, I have been asking, "Where's Groppler Zorn?" I needed my fix!
automated zoomed in clips with incorrect subtitles is such a Golden FIlms move that it feels like an overly long bit.
Ah yes, 2004. The best year to cash in on Disney's Atlantis!
Or maybe Golden Films was cashing in on the crappy Disney "sequel" that was just three episodes of a canned TV show stitched together...?
Which is weird because those movies bombed so where is the incentive?
One of your funniest videos to date Phelous!
Thanks a lot!
You have no idea how much of an emotional flashbang it was to hear you make a Mystic Quest joke
Well, now I know there is such a thing as an Opinicus. Thanks Phelan! :) Your knowledge of mythology is staggering!
2:36 adding onto this a little bit, you can also clearly tell that Daran Norris (voice of Cosmo and Mr. Turner in Fairly Oddparents) plays King Daddylantis
and if I remember correctly, Debi Derryberry (voice of Jimmy Neutron) played Gabriella in Miracle in Toyland, and seems to play Elan (I probably spelled that wrong) here
27:05
"Gotta be strong.. Gotta... be... strong!"