Well, he did say in the Beauty and the Beast video that he believed in true love, when at that point he'd been divorced twice. He tends to be an unreliable narrator.
"The Prince?! Uuuhh, what a man!" The way her tone and voice change in this scene made me laugh so hard. She's by far the best Rapunzel Phelous has reviewed.
Hilariously cartoony. It's like if a Disney princess suddenly took in the personality of Roger Rabbit or a Looney Tunes character for a short moment. XD
At least to me, the message of all these stories seem to be: “Don’t lock your daughter away from the men of the world or else she’ll fall for the first dude who breaks into her room.”
weirdly, going off of the grimms version of it, yes? Rapunzel is impregnated by the prince in that and doesnt know it and ends up asking the witch why her clothes no longer fit
"The person locking the girl up isn't always a woman. Sometimes they might not even be a bad person." *Cuts to a story about a king who locked his daughter inside a tower just to keep her from marrying a poor man.* Yeeeeeeaaahhh... He is a really good person.
Don't forget the time that King Solomon threatened to cut a baby in half and divvy out the bisected infant corpse. The deeds of such a good person should never be forgotten!
I don't think King Solomon was actually going to cut the baby in half, even in context I think it was just a empty threat to convince the real mother to give the baby up (So that he could identify the real mother).
I was being facetious about part of it, yeah, but there's still the fact that the ruse was born out of the assumption that the 2nd woman wouldn't also care about the baby. What if she had also volunteered to give the baby up rather than see them killed? It's still the life of a child at stake, after all. Not to mention there were a ton of other ways to solve it (such as asking 3rd parties who knew one of the two women, for instance) before moving right to threatened baby murder.
Pregnant women *do* actually develop cravings like that. My mom was suddenly addicted to asparagus while she was pregnant with me. She grew up hating it.
Am I the only one who wishes that they brought back a series like this? It’s a really neat concept, and a great way to tell stories that are unfamiliar to some or atleast forgotten over the years. Also I adore that each story in the series have their own art style, I think that’s a nice touch.
ikr? I have a book called "The Illustrated Book of Fairytales" and it has small collection of fairytales around the world. There are fairytales like "The Unknown Sister" which is Surinamean variant of The Wild Swans and "The Nettle Prince" which is Ukranian or Hungarian variant of Puss in Boots.
Damn, not gonna lie, the animation in the Rapuznel segment looks amazing. It's so jarring to see actual good animation after all the Dingo, Jetlag, Golden Films, Goodtimes, Bevanfields, etc.
Yeah it's definitely got a sort of Looney Tunes/ Tex Avery/ Ren and Stimpy thing going on. I can tell I've been watching Phelous too long because I legitimately can't tell if the animation is actually good or if I'm just relieved that it isn't animated in MS Paint
"So ever since Fenchelchen learned magic, she had an easy way to escape the tower if she really wanted to." To be fair, they never said she wanted to escape before that guy came along.
Also, birds exercise their wings hard before they are able to fly. Maybe Fenchelchen wasn't quite strong enough before the prince arrived, or maybe she had just had her first flight.
I actually enjoyed the art styles for these three stories. The animation may have been a little awkward, but at least the people making them knew how to draw.
"I don't know if I believe in magic, but I do believe in growing up." ...Pat, are you being held against your will and forced to say these idiotic sentiments? Just blink twice if you need me to call the police.
Now I know why it took so long for Disney to make their version of Rapunzel. They had to go through all the crappy ones first to figure out what not to do for theirs.
I remember when Tangled came out and a local supermarket started selling Tangled Up. I had to stop a woman,who was excited to have a DVD release of 'Tangled' from buying it for her child. I worry about how many people actually bought it thinking it was the disney version
The end of Fenchelchen is like that Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" where the townspeople live in harmony because they are scared to death of being transfigured by the magic of a little boy who trapped their town in a pocket universe.
The Rapunzel segment seems like some heart was put into the design and animation. Nothing mind blowing but a nice change of pace for one of these things Lol
Yeah, _that one_ was _the best_ out of these. It wasn’t perfect like you said, but it was enjoyable in a moderately decent, Saturday morning cartoon way.
I actually really like the Rapunzel segment in this. The stylized character designs & the goofy tone make me think of the Fractured Fairy Tale cartoons if they had a better animation budget, especially the part about the Prince wandering around with his hat stuck on his head. Also, I really love the design for the Prince. Reminds me of an older, all-human version of Mermando from GRAVITY FALLS.
Holy crap, what's up with the parents in the first Rapunzel story?? In that one, the mother didn't even want the vegetables because of pregnancy cravings-- the baby was already born and they were gonna have a feast to celebrate. Why on earth would they give up the baby in exchange for the vegetables then?? And the witch was too "old and decrepit" to fly, but apparently climbing hair like a rope isn't strenuous at all in comparison
I think because she didn't climb up, it looked like Rapunzel pulled her up on a hook. Still, yeah, that just makes the parents seem like horrible people.
The part where Rapunzel says, "The Prince?! Oh, What A Man!" it sounds like something out of Looney Tunes or Tex Avery, so it's not surprising some of the animators went to work on 90's WB cartoons like Animaniacs!
I gotta handle how the first one was actualy pretty funny with the Looney Tunes-esque animation, and Rapunzel blurting "the prince? Oh what a man!" had me chuckling.
A lot of women really be giving away their kids for vegetables. Whenever Rapunzel adaptations remove the pregnancy plot and instead make Rapunzel an idiot who just tells the Witch about the The Prince is always hilarious to me. It's like they're going "OH! Can't mention pregnancy because kids are stupid and won't understand! Let's just make Rapunzel an idiot instead!"
Yeah, vegetables are really low on the child-bartering scale, why didn't these idiots hold out for gold? Everyone knows that children in medieval fairy tales are the equivalent of Apple stock shares or pre-crash BitCoin on the market!
fenchelchin or whatever her name is...is probably the best "girl locked in a tower" i've seen. i don't blame her for turning people into cookies. her mother sold her for fennel and her step-witch-mom locked her in a tower for years.
Can't believe that the eagles would go out of their way to warn King Solomon about his daughter marrying some scrub, but STILL won't just give the Fellowship a ride to Mt. Doom.
Gwendolyn Stata I know this is a joke but... The eagles weren’t allowed to fly the fellowship to Mount Orodruin- they work for Manwë, King of the Valar, and the Valar were forbidden by Eru (Ëa’s creator god) to interfere with Arda’s fate. Whenever the eagles were involved, it was Manwë subtly breaking the rules to help out. Moreover it's literally stated and implied multiple times by Gandalf and others that discretion of the Ring's location is of utmost importance. Putting its holder on an eagle is basically lighting a beacon saying "Yo Sauron, here it is! Come get it!" Aside from that fact, there are PLENTY of reasons why it was safer to walk to Mordor rather than fly in with the eagles. People bringing up the "buh da eagles" argument to try and look smart, either didn't read the book or didn't pay attention to the crux of the entire story.
i think the most bizarre thing about this is seeing dialogue scenes that are actually animated i mean, they're not animated *well*, but seeing something where the the dialogue isn't just the head bobbing up and down a couple times with a pose change halfway thru if you're lucky, that's truly amazing in this day and age
What is it with Rapunzel’s parents being big jerks and stealing instead of BUYING it at Market, or at least making a deal with the witch? At least in some versions of Rapunzel, the plant was a special kind that I doubt could be found in any old market but that doesn’t excuse the fact that the parents don’t TRY and TALK to the witch. But then again the witch must’ve done Rapunzel a favor of raising her away from thieves.
@SK Wills How about if they were secretly cannabis farmers for the black market? I guess that would at least explain the mother having such a one track mind, that she consumed all of it in her own garden and still wasn’t satisfied, to the point of stealing from other people’s gardens to get more.
@Mark Cobuzzi You may be right. maybe she was stoned and if it would not have been for the witch and her vegetables she would have traded the kid for some hamburgers with fries or bars of chocolate
People were poor and it is STRONGLY believed that if a Mother gets a food craving and doesn't get what she wants that the baby will be hurt (such as a miscarriage). Quite literally the options were "Steal the food or let the child die". Now today we know better, but it was a different world back then.
I did notice a lot of children in that one shot when the mom gave away Repunzel. Maybe she really did just think they had too many so giving one away for access to veggies was an even trade. I gotta say that first Repunzel story is probably the best animated of all these you've looked at. Unique and varied character designs, a nice cartoony aesthetic, surprisingly fluid, and quick and bouncy animation. I'd say it's quite good in that aspect. 27:16 PHELOUS! Good lord man, do NOT say that near a Macaw. That phrase is so forbidden, saying it aloud is grounds to have your family killed for 4 generations!
I remember when IHE went on that website to check it out for his video on Disney knockoffs. I had no idea it's been shut down since then. Shame I'll never get to witness the glory of how terrible it is.
Really makes you appreciate the effort Disney puts into updating, simplifying, and improving their own versions. So many of these other studios hew too closely to the old tales which might be fine reading a book but really don't work as a movie.
And for why her hair had to be so long. (I mean, in the other stories, the witch must have had a way to get up and down the tower before Rapunzel's hair grew long enough to climb up, so why didn't the witch just keep using that method?)
Witch: I'll give you access to all my vegetables if you hand over your only child. Me: Oh man, this must be a harrowing dilemma for the mom. Mom: *hands over baby immediately* Me: *staring Pikachu face*
@@genyfear Maybe, but it's weird to see Patreon comments on a TH-cam video. I think the comments were bugged out IMO, there are other 2 day old comments aswell. It's odd.
How was the witch too weak to fly, but strong enough to hang on to loose hair until she's dragged to the top? I feel like one is easier than the other??
The "Familiar tales around the world" tape cover looks like something issued to schools. I guess this was one of those "Teacher's hungover, let's put a video on to keep the little shits quiet" kind of teaching aid. Gotta say though, the animation in a lot of these does make me nostalgic. I've no idea if I ever watched any of these as a kid, but I guess it's a combination of the animation style and the VHS quality visuals.
I'm sure this is gonna come across as an ACKCHYUALLY, but I may as well throw it out there: Maltese history time! that "iron cross" Fenchelchen was wearing is probably supposed to be the Cross of Saint John, it's a very similar design (here it is as a unicode character ✠) and is strongly associated with Malta. Saint John's cross is the insignia of the Knights Hospitalier, a knightly order dating to the days of the crusades which ruled Malta from 1530 to 1798, and is still in operation in Malta to this day. As a result the cross has become something of a symbol of Malta as a whole, to the point where it's often also known as the Maltese Cross. Design wise the iron and Maltese crosses are almost identical, with the primary difference being the Maltese design is supposed to have its posts split at the ends, giving the appearance of 8 points, while the iron cross stays solid, giving it 4 very broad points, additionally the Maltese cross is seen in a variety of colors, primarily white and red (interestingly enough the symbol of the Umbrella Corporation in both Resident Evil and real life is two Maltese crosses, one white and one red, overlaid on top of each other at 45 degree offset angles), while an iron cross is always black (with the exception of a couple not-legally-iron-crosses made by the German army starting in 2008 which are gold). Both the Maltese and iron crosses are part of a category of cross symbols known as the crosses pattée, which were used by various knightly orders and royal families of the middle ages, including the Knights Templar. NOTE: I'm not actually Maltese and don't know much of anything else about Maltese history, I just know odd details about specific permutations of crosses.
Not going to lie... It LOOKS like they put in quite a bit of effort into the animation, I mean, It's no DISNEY, but for a cash-grab In the 80's/90's, it looks quite smooth. :) (At least for the first one anyway)
The characters in the 'Rapunzel' segment look & act like characters from "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog." Heck, Rapunzel herself has the same face like the character named Lucinda.
Phelous mentions that Rapunzel's parents die alone and unloved, which makes me wonder if he's ever read Cerebus since that's basically a paraphrase of the Judge's prognostication of Cerebus's future.
amohotepv There’s also Petrosinella = Parsley. Disney used inspiration from the fairytale of Petrosinella for their adaptation of Rapunzel (abducted daughter, magic hair, and the maiden organising her own escape from the tower).
I know you always joke about telling us the minutia of different versions, but I actually really appreciate that. But I'm one of those people who likes answering surveys.
I actually liked Fenchelchen the most; there's real potential about someone caught between love and independence and their genuine love for their parent, and how eventually there's a divide when the parents can't handle "losing" their child. You could tell a story about a family that genuinely love each other but must make the decision for themselves.
The Fenchelchen story reminds me: When I was a kid we had a picture book version of Rapunzel (I think it was one of the Little Golden Books series) which mentioned the witch teaching her magic, but it was only mentioned in one page/illustration and never really affected the plot. As a kid I always thought the potential there was wasted.
The first Rapunzel kinda look like John K’s Sody Pop. LOL Also, the second one is straight up a horror tales you use to scare your child at bedtime: “Behave and go to sleep or Rapunzel will turn you into a cookie!”
That combination of Ren & Stimpy and Rocky & Bullwinkle animation of Rapunzel is absolutely horrifying and awesome at the same time;) "Toons!" "And Rapunzel grew into a very beautiful young lady!" "Did she REALLY, though?" "Geez, get a ROOM with her then, Narrator!" The prince getting hit in the face with her hair was absolutely priceless:))
I had this on vhs or something, but i only remember Rapunzel and Fenchelchen being on it with no other segments. The memory of the whole thing was incredibly foggy but the image of the witch bitting the prince cookie was etched into my mind and i could never place what version of the story was from. This video helped me finally find it.
Am I alone in thinking Fenchelchen would make for an awesome adaptation? A young girl raised by a witch, over-throwing her and then going on a quest with her new magic (and fennel) powers to find her real parents? I'm sold!
I love the narrator's change in tone when she describes King Solomon discovering that his daughter married the poor guy anyway AND had a kid with him XD The animation on the first one isn't that bad either, imo. Very Tex Avery-ish.
The video (especially the Fenchelchen segment) has made me go off on a mental tangent where the story is that a witch takes the baby in exchange for vegetables or whatever, but the witch is actually a good person who wants to take care of a child and knows that whoever would sell their baby would be a shit parent anyway.
I weirdly like the animation this one. In comparison to the majority of the cheap knockoff stuff you review. It's not perfect. But it's significantly more... alive looking. Lol.
Honestly, the animation isn't that bad! It's smooth, the mouth movements synch well with the audio and lip reading them isn't hard, definitely one of the more well done mockbusters Then again that's probably cause it wasn't intended to be a quick cash grab at first so the animation team had more reason to put effort into the film
"I kinda wonder though about her turning inanimate objects into living creatures, you shouldn't just be creating life all willy nilly Fenchelchen!" *Giorno Giovanna:* |:(
I think the witch in the second story didn’t want Fenchelchen to leave the tower because she was promised to be given to her and she wanted her to stay forever. And I think at twelve she would hold a grudge toward the women who kidnapped her from her real mother.
Pat Morita: I don't know if I believe in magic
Also Pat Morita: *disappears using magic*
He Tinker Bell'd himself out of existence.
Nah, that's not anything supernatural like magic, that's just Pat Morita's natural awesomeness.
(Chaos D1): Feel the magic.
Well, he did say in the Beauty and the Beast video that he believed in true love, when at that point he'd been divorced twice. He tends to be an unreliable narrator.
Maybe he used *SCIENCE*
"The Prince?! Uuuhh, what a man!"
The way her tone and voice change in this scene made me laugh so hard. She's by far the best Rapunzel Phelous has reviewed.
GuruSUPERmaster That sounds like a woman who’s gotten plenty of vitamin D 🤣
Hilariously cartoony.
It's like if a Disney princess suddenly took in the personality of Roger Rabbit or a Looney Tunes character for a short moment. XD
Definitely a ton better than whatever Bevanfield came up with
It's very Tex Avery or Chuck Jones-ish! Real classic cartoon humor XD
That joke is like straight out of Animaniacs lol. Which is fitting since the animators went on to work on that one apparently
Fun fact: the animators of the Rapunzel segment went on to work for 90s WB cartoons under Startoons, most notably Animaniacs.
I can tell haha, I love it
Doesn't surprise me, seeing as the witch in the first one reminds me of Witch Hazel
Toon4Thought It shows! Not bad
They animated several episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures as well.
I can’t believe that I can believe it.
At least to me, the message of all these stories seem to be: “Don’t lock your daughter away from the men of the world or else she’ll fall for the first dude who breaks into her room.”
weirdly, going off of the grimms version of it, yes? Rapunzel is impregnated by the prince in that and doesnt know it and ends up asking the witch why her clothes no longer fit
Well…..yeah pretty much…..
"The person locking the girl up isn't always a woman. Sometimes they might not even be a bad person." *Cuts to a story about a king who locked his daughter inside a tower just to keep her from marrying a poor man.* Yeeeeeeaaahhh... He is a really good person.
And to think... Solomon is supposed to be the wisest person who ever lived.
And it seemingly implies that women can’t be good people...? Wat?
Don't forget the time that King Solomon threatened to cut a baby in half and divvy out the bisected infant corpse. The deeds of such a good person should never be forgotten!
I don't think King Solomon was actually going to cut the baby in half, even in context I think it was just a empty threat to convince the real mother to give the baby up (So that he could identify the real mother).
I was being facetious about part of it, yeah, but there's still the fact that the ruse was born out of the assumption that the 2nd woman wouldn't also care about the baby. What if she had also volunteered to give the baby up rather than see them killed? It's still the life of a child at stake, after all. Not to mention there were a ton of other ways to solve it (such as asking 3rd parties who knew one of the two women, for instance) before moving right to threatened baby murder.
Pregnant women *do* actually develop cravings like that. My mom was suddenly addicted to asparagus while she was pregnant with me. She grew up hating it.
Did it have to be stolen asparagus, or would it still satisfy the craving if it was properly paid for?
@@jj48 My mom's not a psycho. Of course she paid for it.
Solomon talking to an eagle...
I just have a mental image of King David just shaking his head and saying "Oy, that boy a'int right."
"Dangit, Absalom!"
"See, this is why I made Adonijah the heir"
Oy, gevalt.
The animation in the first one really has that "Saturday morning breakfast cereal commercial" look to it.
"Can't get enough of those vege-ta-bles"
(Golden Crisp tune)
My favorite by far...though I like magic hijinks, maybe a mix
It''s kinda one of those "so stupid it's good" things.
This was apparently done (The First segment) By a Company in Illinois, USA Called Calabash Animation
Wow, that Rapunzel cartoon has actually a pretty fun and well animated style, and in my opinion a nice sense of humor about itself. I like it
IKR?! The witch actually reminds me of Witch Hazel from Looney Tunes! :)
The other two, on the other hand, look like CDi games
And what a MAaaaaan.
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Looks something straight out of Chuck Jones What’s Oprea Doc.
Am I the only one who wishes that they brought back a series like this? It’s a really neat concept, and a great way to tell stories that are unfamiliar to some or atleast forgotten over the years.
Also I adore that each story in the series have their own art style, I think that’s a nice touch.
ikr? I have a book called "The Illustrated Book of Fairytales" and it has small collection of fairytales around the world. There are fairytales like "The Unknown Sister" which is Surinamean variant of The Wild Swans and "The Nettle Prince" which is Ukranian or Hungarian variant of Puss in Boots.
Yeah if they didn’t have the weird deceptive covers in rereleases, it could work
I agree. It reminds me of Long Ago and Far Away on PBS
Damn, not gonna lie, the animation in the Rapuznel segment looks amazing. It's so jarring to see actual good animation after all the Dingo, Jetlag, Golden Films, Goodtimes, Bevanfields, etc.
Yeah it's definitely got a sort of Looney Tunes/ Tex Avery/ Ren and Stimpy thing going on. I can tell I've been watching Phelous too long because I legitimately can't tell if the animation is actually good or if I'm just relieved that it isn't animated in MS Paint
Really? I didn’t notice that.
Designed by Jeff Siergey! Animator Spike Brandt and ink-and-paint artist Tony Cervone would also spend the remainder of their careers at WB Animation.
Dang, it actually was a relief to see something that well-done.
i think they took a random raunchy comedy Rapunzel cartoon and cut/redubbed it to be for kids, thats the vibe it gives off to me.
"So ever since Fenchelchen learned magic, she had an easy way to escape the tower if she really wanted to."
To be fair, they never said she wanted to escape before that guy came along.
Also, birds exercise their wings hard before they are able to fly. Maybe Fenchelchen wasn't quite strong enough before the prince arrived, or maybe she had just had her first flight.
The eagle transformation goes well with her iron cross I guess.
@@yudithcaron8053but she's not a real bird, so normal rules don't necessarily apply.
I actually enjoyed the art styles for these three stories. The animation may have been a little awkward, but at least the people making them knew how to draw.
The first one had pretty fluid motion.
At least It's interesting for kids
'In Germany, they talk of a girl who was stolen by magic...'
CURSE YOU, MAGIC JOHNSON!
But the girl got revenge by giving Magic Johnson HIV.
"I don't know if I believe in magic, but I do believe in growing up."
...Pat, are you being held against your will and forced to say these idiotic sentiments? Just blink twice if you need me to call the police.
Now I know why it took so long for Disney to make their version of Rapunzel. They had to go through all the crappy ones first to figure out what not to do for theirs.
I remember when Tangled came out and a local supermarket started selling Tangled Up. I had to stop a woman,who was excited to have a DVD release of 'Tangled' from buying it for her child.
I worry about how many people actually bought it thinking it was the disney version
The end of Fenchelchen is like that Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" where the townspeople live in harmony because they are scared to death of being transfigured by the magic of a little boy who trapped their town in a pocket universe.
Except here it is just domestic abuse from a controlling wife.
"Anyway, to make a long story short, Santa killed her"
damn, what a throwback
The Rapunzel segment seems like some heart was put into the design and animation. Nothing mind blowing but a nice change of pace for one of these things Lol
the motion was more fluid than the following animations
The way the witch moved reminded me of the animations in some of the old looney tunes cartoons
H F pretty sure Startoons handled the animation, they did animation for Tiny Tunes and Animaniacs eventually.
I miss those more diverse styles of animation.
Yeah, _that one_ was _the best_ out of these. It wasn’t perfect like you said, but it was enjoyable in a moderately decent, Saturday morning cartoon way.
Rapunzel obviously used the window to go to the restroom, didn't you noticed how big those plants were!
I actually really like the Rapunzel segment in this. The stylized character designs & the goofy tone make me think of the Fractured Fairy Tale cartoons if they had a better animation budget, especially the part about the Prince wandering around with his hat stuck on his head.
Also, I really love the design for the Prince. Reminds me of an older, all-human version of Mermando from GRAVITY FALLS.
Holy crap, what's up with the parents in the first Rapunzel story?? In that one, the mother didn't even want the vegetables because of pregnancy cravings-- the baby was already born and they were gonna have a feast to celebrate. Why on earth would they give up the baby in exchange for the vegetables then??
And the witch was too "old and decrepit" to fly, but apparently climbing hair like a rope isn't strenuous at all in comparison
I think because she didn't climb up, it looked like Rapunzel pulled her up on a hook.
Still, yeah, that just makes the parents seem like horrible people.
The part where Rapunzel says, "The Prince?! Oh, What A Man!" it sounds like something out of Looney Tunes or Tex Avery, so it's not surprising some of the animators went to work on 90's WB cartoons like Animaniacs!
Ace Rimmer, what a guy.
I gotta handle how the first one was actualy pretty funny with the Looney Tunes-esque animation, and Rapunzel blurting "the prince? Oh what a man!" had me chuckling.
A lot of women really be giving away their kids for vegetables.
Whenever Rapunzel adaptations remove the pregnancy plot and instead make Rapunzel an idiot who just tells the Witch about the The Prince is always hilarious to me. It's like they're going "OH! Can't mention pregnancy because kids are stupid and won't understand! Let's just make Rapunzel an idiot instead!"
lol
Nah, a lot of birds for some reason.
Yeah, vegetables are really low on the child-bartering scale, why didn't these idiots hold out for gold? Everyone knows that children in medieval fairy tales are the equivalent of Apple stock shares or pre-crash BitCoin on the market!
Well Rapunzel does mean cabbage so it's weird to change the story. Okay, Disney did that but that is just a really good movie :3
Well the Disney version did a better job setting up the hows and whys, why still doing its own take on the story
You should review more of Britannica's Tales Around the World. Triple the Phelous, triple the fun.
Yeah and these are so funny
Mama? MAMA LUIGI?! Hahahahahaha!
Yeah, I await for the video on Hansel & Gretel myself. (And he was never heard from again.....)
He still hasn’t done Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty.
fenchelchin or whatever her name is...is probably the best "girl locked in a tower" i've seen. i don't blame her for turning people into cookies. her mother sold her for fennel and her step-witch-mom locked her in a tower for years.
Can't believe that the eagles would go out of their way to warn King Solomon about his daughter marrying some scrub, but STILL won't just give the Fellowship a ride to Mt. Doom.
Gwendolyn Stata I know this is a joke but...
The eagles weren’t allowed to fly the fellowship to Mount Orodruin- they work for Manwë, King of the Valar, and the Valar were forbidden by Eru (Ëa’s creator god) to interfere with Arda’s fate. Whenever the eagles were involved, it was Manwë subtly breaking the rules to help out.
Moreover it's literally stated and implied multiple times by Gandalf and others that discretion of the Ring's location is of utmost importance. Putting its holder on an eagle is basically lighting a beacon saying "Yo Sauron, here it is! Come get it!"
Aside from that fact, there are PLENTY of reasons why it was safer to walk to Mordor rather than fly in with the eagles.
People bringing up the "buh da eagles" argument to try and look smart, either didn't read the book or didn't pay attention to the crux of the entire story.
@@cthonisprincess4011 you aren't doing yourself any favours in the looking smart area as well.
i think the most bizarre thing about this is seeing dialogue scenes that are actually animated
i mean, they're not animated *well*, but seeing something where the the dialogue isn't just the head bobbing up and down a couple times with a pose change halfway thru if you're lucky, that's truly amazing in this day and age
I loved the reference to the CDI Zelda! So damn accurate...
Phelous needs to review those games just on the cutscenes alone
@@koichidignitythief7429 He might as well do Zelda's Adventure and Hotel Mario in that case, while we're at it.
What is it with Rapunzel’s parents being big jerks and stealing instead of BUYING it at Market, or at least making a deal with the witch?
At least in some versions of Rapunzel, the plant was a special kind that I doubt could be found in any old market but that doesn’t excuse the fact that the parents don’t TRY and TALK to the witch.
But then again the witch must’ve done Rapunzel a favor of raising her away from thieves.
Farming was a front. They were really proffessional theives and this was just their first impulse.
I like this headcanon
@SK Wills
How about if they were secretly cannabis farmers for the black market? I guess that would at least explain the mother having such a one track mind, that she consumed all of it in her own garden and still wasn’t satisfied, to the point of stealing from other people’s gardens to get more.
@Mark Cobuzzi You may be right. maybe she was stoned and if it would not have been for the witch and her vegetables she would have traded the kid for some hamburgers with fries or bars of chocolate
People were poor and it is STRONGLY believed that if a Mother gets a food craving and doesn't get what she wants that the baby will be hurt (such as a miscarriage). Quite literally the options were "Steal the food or let the child die". Now today we know better, but it was a different world back then.
The freaking CDi Ganon part nearly killed me!
I did notice a lot of children in that one shot when the mom gave away Repunzel. Maybe she really did just think they had too many so giving one away for access to veggies was an even trade.
I gotta say that first Repunzel story is probably the best animated of all these you've looked at. Unique and varied character designs, a nice cartoony aesthetic, surprisingly fluid, and quick and bouncy animation. I'd say it's quite good in that aspect.
27:16 PHELOUS! Good lord man, do NOT say that near a Macaw. That phrase is so forbidden, saying it aloud is grounds to have your family killed for 4 generations!
Red King Rauri oh yeah 😅
This is off topic but can I hug your fursona? :0
It’s nice to have Pat Morita back in another Britannica video. How does he get “tangled” into these things?
A career in decline. 😟😞
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It’s a looong hairy story.
@@dubuyajay9964 the check cleared, that's why.
@@GAMEPRODELTA Same difference.
Am I going to be disowned if I said that the Rapenzel cartoon actually has GOOD animation? ... For like Saturday Morning cartoon values? = /
It's got solid cartoony designs.
It’s good but it reminds me of a cereal commercial lol
It has a Ren and Stimpy vibe.
It's better than the Fennchelchin animation. Like at 16:54 Fennchelchins creepy kill face!!! 😵
It's not terrible, but it's nothing to write home about
9:19 Yeah, I'd say by cartoon standards she's looks pretty. Overall I like this style and the jumpy movements of the witch.
Same I actually really dig the animation
Also she looks adorable with her pixie cut
Eh, 5/10.
I’m actually tempted to buy this
At least the animation is fluid in Rapunzel
Fenchelchen is more like bevanfield Rapunzel on CDI
And King Solomon definitively looks really weird
And out of the three of them, Fenchelchen ends up being the prettier of them all too. Though I do like the variety of animation styles in this one.
@Keiji Johnson
You’re kidding, right?
The King Solomon one looks like history book drawings more than a cartoon.
Disney's Tangled and Pixar's Up have combined to form the ultimate fusion! Bright Spark's Tangled Up!
Yeah, but they got the angle of the fingers wrong.
It's actually impressive to say that some of the titles Phelous has previously reviewed actually make this whole thing look decent.
I remember when IHE went on that website to check it out for his video on Disney knockoffs. I had no idea it's been shut down since then. Shame I'll never get to witness the glory of how terrible it is.
I think the Wayback Machine can help with that.
IHE reviewed them?
@@wannabehistorian371 Yeah. Lots.
@@wannabehistorian371 Disney Ripoffs
"Do you believe in magic?"
Only if it's in a young girl's heart.
Nice
And how the music can free her whenever it starts.
FBI OPEN UP!!!
FBI.OPEN.UP.
I believe in the magic of a young unicorn's heart.
21:27 "thank goodness our story has a happy ending" For yoooouuu...
I find the lack of Wabuu references in the video quite disturbing.
At least the animation in the first film is pretty dynamic and okay
Reminds me of Chuck Jones style animation.
Really makes you appreciate the effort Disney puts into updating, simplifying, and improving their own versions. So many of these other studios hew too closely to the old tales which might be fine reading a book but really don't work as a movie.
Disney's Tangled is the only movie that gives a good resson for Mother Gothel not wanting to lose Rapunzel
And for why her hair had to be so long. (I mean, in the other stories, the witch must have had a way to get up and down the tower before Rapunzel's hair grew long enough to climb up, so why didn't the witch just keep using that method?)
Witch: I'll give you access to all my vegetables if you hand over your only child.
Me: Oh man, this must be a harrowing dilemma for the mom.
Mom: *hands over baby immediately*
Me: *staring Pikachu face*
Thanks, Phelous.
I really needed this right now.
Your comment is 2 days old, but this video is only a few minutes old. Hm...
Deform 2018 patreon member, I’d guess..
@@genyfear Maybe, but it's weird to see Patreon comments on a TH-cam video. I think the comments were bugged out IMO, there are other 2 day old comments aswell. It's odd.
LittleNorwegians Same here, for the past three days I've had pain on the left side of my neck. It's starting to feel a bit better.
@@Deform-2024 Patreons get a link to the private video several days before it gets set to public
How was the witch too weak to fly, but strong enough to hang on to loose hair until she's dragged to the top? I feel like one is easier than the other??
She obviously got wet and is completely useless for flying.
The "Familiar tales around the world" tape cover looks like something issued to schools. I guess this was one of those "Teacher's hungover, let's put a video on to keep the little shits quiet" kind of teaching aid.
Gotta say though, the animation in a lot of these does make me nostalgic. I've no idea if I ever watched any of these as a kid, but I guess it's a combination of the animation style and the VHS quality visuals.
*T E A C H E R ‘ S H U N G O V E R*
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A phelous Disney ripoff video on my birthday is a treasure.
Happy birthday
Happy B-Day Sarah!
Happy Birthday Sarah!
@@kyleshiflet7932 thank you so much!
@@eddihurta7173 thank you
Honestly, I would probably watch all of the Brittanica shorts if I was a kid.
Same here. This looks like the kind of series I would have hunted down obsessively whether I enjoyed them or not.
A lot of them are on youtube if you want to have a new childhood.
Damn can’t believe Disney ripped the off like that :/
I think Fractured Fairy Tales had the prince wandering with his hat over his eyes as a gag for his being blinded.
Pat Morita: Do you believe vegetables?
No, I'm diabetic.
geardog24 Wait...
Clearly, you've never heard of Celery.
I'm sure this is gonna come across as an ACKCHYUALLY, but I may as well throw it out there: Maltese history time! that "iron cross" Fenchelchen was wearing is probably supposed to be the Cross of Saint John, it's a very similar design (here it is as a unicode character ✠) and is strongly associated with Malta. Saint John's cross is the insignia of the Knights Hospitalier, a knightly order dating to the days of the crusades which ruled Malta from 1530 to 1798, and is still in operation in Malta to this day. As a result the cross has become something of a symbol of Malta as a whole, to the point where it's often also known as the Maltese Cross. Design wise the iron and Maltese crosses are almost identical, with the primary difference being the Maltese design is supposed to have its posts split at the ends, giving the appearance of 8 points, while the iron cross stays solid, giving it 4 very broad points, additionally the Maltese cross is seen in a variety of colors, primarily white and red (interestingly enough the symbol of the Umbrella Corporation in both Resident Evil and real life is two Maltese crosses, one white and one red, overlaid on top of each other at 45 degree offset angles), while an iron cross is always black (with the exception of a couple not-legally-iron-crosses made by the German army starting in 2008 which are gold). Both the Maltese and iron crosses are part of a category of cross symbols known as the crosses pattée, which were used by various knightly orders and royal families of the middle ages, including the Knights Templar.
NOTE: I'm not actually Maltese and don't know much of anything else about Maltese history, I just know odd details about specific permutations of crosses.
“Fenchelchen was lonely” to be fair she was probably more depressed that she had to kill all that life she created
Omg I remember these tApes growing up. Man they aged like wine... left open in the sun... for over 20 years
Not going to lie... It LOOKS like they put in quite a bit of effort into the animation, I mean, It's no DISNEY, but for a cash-grab In the 80's/90's, it looks quite smooth. :)
(At least for the first one anyway)
Love how Rapunzel's mother was like "good deal! I was waiting to get rid of this baby!"
Can't help but notice more birds in this Britannica production. The last story in particular.
The characters in the 'Rapunzel' segment look & act like characters from "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog."
Heck, Rapunzel herself has the same face like the character named Lucinda.
Phelous mentions that Rapunzel's parents die alone and unloved, which makes me wonder if he's ever read Cerebus since that's basically a paraphrase of the Judge's prognostication of Cerebus's future.
Oh I get it, the Witch couldn't have children of her own. :(
@Frizzurd Now I know the true meaning of "Halloween"!
so we have
Rapunzel = Rampion
Fenchelchen = Fennel
and
Kakarot = Carrot
amohotepv There’s also Petrosinella = Parsley.
Disney used inspiration from the fairytale of Petrosinella for their adaptation of Rapunzel (abducted daughter, magic hair, and the maiden organising her own escape from the tower).
"Too bad it's Sunday; the witch would have been here tomorrow"
"Rapunzel was an AVERAGE fighter but she was a BRILLIANT HAIRDRESSER"
@@cthonisprincess4011 interesting 🤔
Pat Morita, Phelous, and a crappy animated film of a fairy tale Those are the ingredients for a perfect Friday afternoon.
Cant forget the most important ingredient....stolen vegetables.
Hang on, it’s Saturday morning, isn’t it?
Yes! Phelous! 😁 you're a ray of sunshine in this dull, drizzly Canadian day 😉
Ditto here
I actually liked watching these Britannica tales when they showed them in Elementary school.
I know you always joke about telling us the minutia of different versions, but I actually really appreciate that. But I'm one of those people who likes answering surveys.
I actually liked Fenchelchen the most; there's real potential about someone caught between love and independence and their genuine love for their parent, and how eventually there's a divide when the parents can't handle "losing" their child. You could tell a story about a family that genuinely love each other but must make the decision for themselves.
Nice I see that the 230$ budget imbd says you have goes towards some sweet Backgrounds.
@J P There was some budget cuts.
@@weathermangohanssj4 Damn economy, eh?
King Solomon screaming like an eagle and the eagle telling him, "You're all weirdos" was probably the best part. 😂
Every dog owner, who barks to the own dog, knows the worried look of the dog, as would he think, there is something wrong with your mental status.
The Fenchelchen story reminds me: When I was a kid we had a picture book version of Rapunzel (I think it was one of the Little Golden Books series) which mentioned the witch teaching her magic, but it was only mentioned in one page/illustration and never really affected the plot. As a kid I always thought the potential there was wasted.
The first Rapunzel kinda look like John K’s Sody Pop. LOL
Also, the second one is straight up a horror tales you use to scare your child at bedtime: “Behave and go to sleep or Rapunzel will turn you into a cookie!”
These Britannica reviews are so interesting and fun. I'd love to see more in the future. I wonder how many of these there are.
I'm really enjoying these Britannica compilations, it's cool to see stories that we wouldn't normally. And of course Phelous makes it all 100% better.
That combination of Ren & Stimpy and Rocky & Bullwinkle animation of Rapunzel is absolutely horrifying and awesome at the same time;) "Toons!"
"And Rapunzel grew into a very beautiful young lady!" "Did she REALLY, though?"
"Geez, get a ROOM with her then, Narrator!"
The prince getting hit in the face with her hair was absolutely priceless:))
6:11 "Do you believe in magic?"
.. 🎶IN A YOUNG GIRL'S HEART~ 🎶
At least I appreciate the difference between the VHS and DVD. That way I know which version to get for the best quality.
The beginning of the video made me laugh more than it should have. I’m going to have to start it over in order to hear what he said 😂
You took the thought out of head the farmer looks like a old Dilbert
“You may have all the fruits of my garden” she says, as she points to all the vegetables. They’re not even fruits by culinary standards either.
21:12 I can't believe you missed the chance to use Ganon's infamous "No! Not into the pit! It buuuuuuurns!"
I had this on vhs or something, but i only remember Rapunzel and Fenchelchen being on it with no other segments. The memory of the whole thing was incredibly foggy but the image of the witch bitting the prince cookie was etched into my mind and i could never place what version of the story was from. This video helped me finally find it.
Phelous: Sometimes good people lock their daughters in towers.
Tangled the series writers: Exactly!
You forgot about Fiona’s parents 😂
Am I alone in thinking Fenchelchen would make for an awesome adaptation? A young girl raised by a witch, over-throwing her and then going on a quest with her new magic (and fennel) powers to find her real parents? I'm sold!
I love the narrator's change in tone when she describes King Solomon discovering that his daughter married the poor guy anyway AND had a kid with him XD
The animation on the first one isn't that bad either, imo. Very Tex Avery-ish.
The video (especially the Fenchelchen segment) has made me go off on a mental tangent where the story is that a witch takes the baby in exchange for vegetables or whatever, but the witch is actually a good person who wants to take care of a child and knows that whoever would sell their baby would be a shit parent anyway.
The Rapunzel segment was actually pretty well animated and creatively cartoony. Got real Sheep In The Big City vibes.
I swear these Tales Around The World cartoon series was aired on the HBO Kids channel, it all seems really familiar.
The witch was too old and decrepit to fly but was spry enough to climb Rapunzel's hair..ahuh...
I weirdly like the animation this one. In comparison to the majority of the cheap knockoff stuff you review. It's not perfect. But it's significantly more... alive looking. Lol.
Ikr
Honestly, the animation isn't that bad!
It's smooth, the mouth movements synch well with the audio and lip reading them isn't hard, definitely one of the more well done mockbusters
Then again that's probably cause it wasn't intended to be a quick cash grab at first so the animation team had more reason to put effort into the film
RIP On , RIP Off
That witch's chin is disturbing.
Also farmer Dilbert. XD
"SQUAAAK!" King Solomon said calmly.
"I kinda wonder though about her turning inanimate objects into living creatures, you shouldn't just be creating life all willy nilly Fenchelchen!"
*Giorno Giovanna:* |:(
This is a guilty pleasure of mine....
The art style in Rapunzel reminds me of a 90s Cartoon Network show.
The only thing worse than ripoffs is when they put a fake title on some random movie.
I think the witch in the second story didn’t want Fenchelchen to leave the tower because she was promised to be given to her and she wanted her to stay forever. And I think at twelve she would hold a grudge toward the women who kidnapped her from her real mother.