The Surprisingly Legal World Of Ripoff Blockbuster Movies - Cheddar Explains
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- You've heard of Ratatouille...but have you heard of Ratatoing? What about Little Bee, Metal Man, Atlantic Rim, or Snakes On a Train? The mockbuster is a slightly ripped off versions of tentpole films that are strategically released within days of the actual blockbusters release. And while that sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen - they’re actually entirely legal thanks to some pretty sneaky tactics.
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the mockbuster singlehandedly makes the *"at home:"* meme popular
Yay. That’s so cool!
Kid: Mom, can we buy Aladdin?
Kids mom: We have Aladdin at home
Aladdin at home:
@@andrewn8002 aladdin at home: th-cam.com/video/ipdqwcqG7hQ/w-d-xo.html
We have that kind of rippoff in india kina hilirous😂😂
some examples of mockup/📺/movies 🎥 \ are better than the ones that got 10X the resources just to be far but yes there's quite a few that are terrible so it's a hit and miss with mockup
i omost wonder if there's 2 mockup films made and they both get screened at corporate but only one go's on to be remade using much better resources aka a blockbuster and the other pilot was supposed to endup in the trash bin or at corporate on some dusty warehouse shelves but the temptation of a quick extra buck is to great so it gets released at the same time or shortly there afterwards
I GREW UP on disney mockbusters without realizing it until I was older and when I couldn't recognize any of the disney princesses, I realized my chinese grandmother just got mistaken at the video store 😂😂
So it was all a dream?
Damn, I feel sorry for you.
Budget cuts
"mistaken" haha. bet they were just cheaper and she thought you won't realize it anyways.
@@IIIIIawesIIIII right! That was not no mistake lol
I used to work for Blockbuster . Sometimes (if it wasn't busy or if the parents were nice) I would give the parents a heads up if the movie was a fake. I would say most people don't care and would rent the mock movie anyway . They just something to entertain little Timmy for an hour+. Several people would watch the movies ironically for laughs. Sometimes the fake movie were 'good enough' when the real movie wasn't in stock. Sometimes people rented them because it was the only new movie that was in stock.
That situation when you already rented every movie and the only ones you had not seen were the cheap mockbusters or the art house movies is sadly lost in today's world.
Sometimes you discovered new worlds in those dissed movies.
Tornado! vs: Twister. Hmmmm, Bill Paxton or The King, Baby! Iunno? Bruce Campbell ftw!
I worked for blockbuster for a couple years too and am still surprised by how many people rented transmorphers and how few complained about it.
@@jarethhsms I mean, when you consider the source material...
I can only imagine what the "little Timmy" perspective to that would be.
Hobbits aren’t a generic fantasy creature that existed in folklore. They may be similar to myths about fairies or hobgoblins or dwarves but the named species called Hobbits are a creation of J. R. R. Tolkien. His estate has gone after people for using hobbits in their works which is why other fantasy works tend the use the name halflings.
I believe dwarves are also his original creations, DnD got used for using hobbits as a playable race now they used halflings
@@zombiekiller7able Dwarves exist in Norse myths. They for example crafted Thor’s hammer and Odin’s spear. The fairy tale, Snow White, that Disney based his movie off of also had Dwarfs before Lord of the Rings was written.
@@username65585 yes your are right I replied without fully thinking my comment I was a half asleep when commented
@@zombiekiller7able Same thing with the Ent. Tolkien's estate went after DnD's publisher, forcing a name change to treant. Dwarves aren't his, they have existed in literature dating back to at least the 13th century.
I always thought it was weird that scientists decided to nickname one of the ancient human species "Hobbits". Wouldn't that be a trademark violation too?
I remember when I was a kid, my stepmom accidentally rented "Kiara the Brave," and I watched the whole thing just waiting for the bears to appear.
That must be one of the only cases where getting duped isn't such a downgrade vs. the real thing... I'm sure the ripoff was shit, but I consider the original 'Brave' 90 mins of my life I'm not getting back.
@@GuillermoSTD . The film won the Academy Award,the Golden Globe,[and the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Feature Film
So you're still a kid, but 4 years older? When did it come out? I watched for the first time last year on tv
@@Ewr42 Brave came out in 2012.
@@amatsua1271 I refuse to believe that, it's so more recent! Like finding Dory recent
My mom didn't want to buy the VHS of little mermaid when it came out since it was expensive at the time so she bought my sisters the traumatizing Hans Christian Anderson version.
Oh come on the Hans Christian Anderson one was better. Like literally she becomes sea foam at the end literally ‘part of our world’😁
That one actually came out before Disney's (at least the original sub, not sure about the dub).
The anime one?? I loved that one so much more than the Disney one as a kid!
Same thing happened to me! I was like 4 or 5 and it scared the crap out of me! Lol
Oh no.
Cheddar: explaining things i didn't know needed explaining for over a year.
When someone copies your homework and gets a lower score.
Just because handwriting was worst.
But he still passed so it doesn't matter
7:03 what on earth is supposed to happen in Titanic II? The ship already sunk, is it gonna sink again or what?
Watch and find out!!!
They built a successor to the titanic called "Titanic II" and the movie follows it's sinking on it's maiden voyage
It's a 1 hour and 40 minute shot of the ship under the sea, with the survivors within the few remaining pockets of air getting desperate and hysterical as they begin to asphyxiate in what little air they have.
@@ginsederp I remember watching that movie and that was not the plot of it at all
1.) Titanic
2.) Titanic 2: Rock Bottom
3.) Titanic Rising (Titanic 3)
4.) Titanic 4ever
5.) Titanic 5: Voyage to Mars
6.) Titanic (2014)
7.) Titanic vs. Godzilla
8.) The First Titanic
9.) I am an Iceberg: A Titanic Story
Heads up there is a version of this on the Swiss Cheese network! ;)
Underrated comment.
Yes, But they have a lot of holes in their quality and production.
@@Fakeaorta Pun intended. 🤪
Ya I saw the documentary of it on TouYube.
I think I could open an art gallery of drug store DVD covers, some of them are kind of brilliant parody, some are just hilariously bad
Sometimes the bad ones are the best. It's the video equivalent to the art work on "dime store" novels.
This is genuinely a good idea! XD
And that was near 10 years after Universal was defeat in the court by Nintendo in the Donkey Kong vs King Kong case
I managed a video store for years. People know the difference. Believe it or not there is an avid audience for these films. Especially the horror and scifi knocknoffs.
My dad LOVES them. I watched them with him when i was a child, and now I like them too. They are more funny than anything else, but I still enjoy watching them
I'm one of these people.
@@evirareid1500 🤣😂🤪
some have better writing ect than the ones coming out of universal studios ect
aka with a better budget and more time some have the potential of winning a Oscar award ect.
Any old D&D player knows you can't use hobbits, it's why Gygax changed them "halflings" instead.
Disney taking public domain stories and then suing others 😂🖐️
Those movies seemed to be closer to profiting off the Disney movies than the stories they were originally based on.
The paradox of public domain is it only applies to the _original_ and doesn't block future adaptations/etc. from getting their _own_ copyright protection.
Disney was, in a sense, facing a "corn flakes" problem.
I don't care about what it does to Disney.
I care about the fact that consumers are being tricked in to buying inferior products, ripped off and defrauded.
This happened with Universal studios and Nintendo with donkey kong conflicting with king kong
And he call the Jewish greedy 👀
Soon: The Baffling World of Blockbusters by Mozzarella
lmaoo
best comment lol
I feel like a big use for mockbusters, these days is to pad out streaming service libraries, make it look like you have more choice.
but they dont appear on NetFlix or Amazon, they shoul dbe on there , its not fair that only big studios are allowed, NETFLIX and Amazon should host them on there streming sites , so just Stick the Mockbusters in the indie section on NETFLIX and DONT Premote them
Screwing over Disney seems to be a valid business to me. 🤑
I would even say gods work
Word
Looking forward to the Mandalorian ripoff: "Space Bounty Hunter from Space."
if you think about it Disney is a mockbuster company they do copy from others.
@@thesailormercury2 Yes, Yes they are! I was SERIOUS about my comment. Doing a "Disney" TO Disney IS a valid business model. Disney makes STACKS on public domain stories. If someone else makes a movie based on the SAME public domain story...AND "coattails" off of Disney's advertising of such stories...GOOD!!! 👍👍 It's the same damn thing THEY do. (Profiting off of someone else's actual work.) 👍😊👍
...But be careful not to accidentally click on the, similarly named, "Did You Know" on the "Cheese" channel.
So basically this is "We got ratatouille at home" meme we've all experienced.
The how to Ratatwang your panda farting scene from the Amazing World Gumball show is funny!
I would like to see a Mockbuster of 2019's Cats!
A nightmarish version of a nightmare, nice
it might actually be good. I mean, you can't do any worst?
Felines
Ngl it prolly be better
@@darianle190 when the original is terrible, sometimes the mockbuster is better, a good example is Battleship, the War Ships mock up movie they did was a bit more grounded and not as stupidly over the top while also being reasonably well acted and I'd say it's quite a bit more watchable then Battleship.
My family got snakes on a train after we saw snakes on a plane... I guess they thought it was a sequel or something...
Snakes in a car coming this fall
Snakes on a boat comming this summer.
Snakes on a bus Christmas 2021
Fashion of the christ
Snakes on a spaceship
I actually remember watching that version of Aladdin. I didn't think it was a ripoff I just thought it was a different take on the original story.
That other version had the Ring Genie, completely ommited on the Disney film
If you were trying to dissuade me from literally going out of my way to become a loyal consumer of these movies then you underestimate the spite I have towards Disney Corp as an ex Disney kid.
Ive been watching Asylums films for years due to the UK version of the SYFY channel showing them all the time here in Ireland and ive gained a oddly wierd appreciation for them and since that other studio signed up with them they've been making better films since 2018 and Battle Star wars was a pretty good space opera for the Asylum. Alien Siege, Trassic world and Battle Star Wars are some of there best , oh and there version of Jack and the Beanstalk was hillarious (as it seemed to be a bit of a comedy)
When your teacher told you that you can copy-paste your classmate's work but you must have originality.
"... But have you heard of Ratatoing?"
Me, an Italian following Yotobi:
"Of course I do"
If they go out of business Danny Gonzalez is going to be having a bad time
Who the fuck now ?
Omg yes
is extended to gaming industry, many AAA games or viral game will have ripoff on mobile.
“Many”
**ALL
Fixed it for ye ;)
Don’t forget the roblox copies
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Reminds me of the FaceBook game Scrabulous getting sued by Mattel because it resembled Scrabble
"Grab That Auto V"...
If these studios had teamed together to make their own streaming service they might have had a bit of luck in the last 18 months.
The video stores could have morphed into streaming subscription services, too, instead of going out of business (that's just what Netflix did).
And there is still time for cable and satellite TV to diversify before they go out of business too. Who wants to see 20 minutes of commercials for every 40 minutes of program? Who wants to see 600 channels of mostly crap? They probably will all die fairly quickly and without warning, at the same time.
Streaming was a concept that did not exist back then. Did you know that Blockbuster, the biggest video rental, was offered to buy Netflix back then? This was because streaming back then wasn't like it is today. You have to remember back then internet connection was through a landline. You have to dial-up to connect to a network. The connection can disconnect anytime if there was an incoming phone call unless you pay for a 2nd line. Plus it was slow speed. I am talking about Kbs back then not the Mbs we have today which is moving to Gbs in the next couple of years and Tbs in the next 20 years. you would have to wait every minute for the download to catch up with the video playback under Kbs speed and as point out, it can be disconnected at any time as well, which means you have to reconnect again and start streaming over. Streaming a video was just impossible back then. Add to the fact that there was no video format type, No one thought that streaming video was going to be a thing. Netflix makes a bet, it pays off.
@@teax25 you ask all said water is wet. No shit the tech wasn’t advance back then, but the foundation which is the internet existed and advancements were in the pipeline. Blockbuster is just a classic case of a big company with poor leadership just like yahoo which could’ve bought google or blackberry and Nokia who thought iPhone was stupid even when people knew despite its limitations it was the future
@@0741921 The advanced was still way off. As I point out, there were thing that did not exist at the time that would make streaming possible. Radio exist for how long before TV come along. Did anyone thought that there would be a device that show moving pictures. How about car? How long Horse-drawn carriage exist, the foundation was there, no one was able to build a self-driven carriage until advance in metal work and fuel, which make it affordable come to be. No one can predict what the future hold, especially if your gambling the future of your company. Sometime it pay off, but most of the time, it failed. The point is to base the technology we have today to yesterday and say if they done this or that is really stupid.
They did, it’s called Hulu, but then Disney bought 20th Century Fox and became a majority owner, then the other studios (NBC, Warner Brothers) sold what ever ownership they had over to Disney so now Disney fully owns Hulu.
I feel like Amazon Prime actually used to specialize in mock busters. Atlantic Rim was a major temptation for a lot of people. I think they’ve got better.
honest trailers of streaming services even joked about 90% or Amazon prime being complete trash
Hahaha TH-cam has a lot of south Asian mockbusters that anyone can watch for free! That’s because Nepalese and Bangladeshi mockbusters have made a lot of views on TH-cam as well.
Prime also hosts The Grand Tour, a car show started by the hosts of the previous iteration of the _Top Gear_ car show, with some similarities in format
@@lzh4950 to be fair, Top Gear is trademarked. So no one can use that as a title.
I mean this only works if you're the type of person who can't tell generic from name brand based on packaging alone lol
That would be most parents trying to rent what their kids asked for, probably. Especially if English isn't their first language.
Or people who don't do any online research lol
My dad always gets random bullshit from the store and never reads the labels 😂
"This isn't Blockbuster"
"This is Blockblister"
"This is better, much better"
This is LackLuster 😆😆
BlockBasterd
This is like that Amanda Show skit where the customers return to the store angry because they got bootleg versions of the movie they wanted. 😂😂😂
blockblister....as classic
@@lucyhannah1227 that’s it!! Lol
Didn't amazon prime used to have hundreds of these included with your subscription? Lol
True
I got hemmed up like this at Redbox. I was so mad I started laughing 🤦🏽♂️
As a kid I loved mockbusters. I couldn't get enough of The Little Mermaid so I was more than happy to have the Disney Version alongside the knockoff 😄
I watched the mockmovie "Operation Dunkirk" instead of Dunkirk. It is amazing how this mock movie industry has gone so far.
Bollywood has had mockbusters since its birth. There have been films which cashed in on the Tarzan mythos for a long time, like Adventures of Tarzan from 1985 and the original Toofani Tarzan from 1937.
Funny......The Asylums' greatest hit was the lovably bad and very original "Sharknado". Maybe they should hire writers and stick with original content.
Sharknado, movie I try to see. I see a few minutes, give up for a few months before trying to continue... Sharknado isn't a bad movie, it would need to be considerably better to reach the hights of "bad".
Omfg Sunday School Musical just imagine how creative the song writers and dancers must be to pull that off. Think about it, you got a group of teens ji-wing and throwing back-flips to the lyrics of “Mary had a liitle lamb” and “praise the lord” ngl I will pay to watch that
Aye in all fairness, that Goodtimes Aladdin was fire when I was a kid.
Ring Genie inclusion makes it a more faithful adaptation
Metal Man looks like something Hammer Industries would think up.
There was a week I spent home sick when I was growing up, and my father asked if he could bring me something. I asked for a particular record by name. What my Father brought home was a joke cover edition done by somebody else entirely. It was performed at a much slower tempo, which is what made it such a joke. So, with record players having multiple speeds at that time, I just played it at a higher speed, and that was even funnier. But, the thing here is that the people most taken advantage of with this are parents who don't know which is the real thing when their kids ask for a specific title by name.
Parents are always clueless. It's a tradition. My mother threw away my stacks of comic books without asking me; would have been worth a lot today and in the future.
That honestly sounds a lot of work for a little bit of profit. Like, it sounds like having a real job would take less effort than making an entire animated movie that no one actually wants.
Depends on profit margins. Probably not every animator has the skills/training to get into the large animation studios so will work for less making something half-baked on a low budget mockbuster which still profits.
this is because you think this is produced in expensive Hollywood, California. Ratatoing was made in Brazil, an inexperienced animator from Brazil is probably like 5% of the salary of an animator in California or other country.
@@LyricsFred California is a state of the United States.
First, there are MANY mockbusters on Amazon Prime video, including "Ratatoing" which I watched about a year ago. Many are free for Prime members, and you can tell they're knock-off's rather easily, and you can quit watching them in seconds with no out-of-pocket money for the experience if they were free anyway. These movies are entertaining in their own right. "American Warships" the mockbuster corresponding to Battleship had to me much smarter aliens. Also, some of these movies have special effects that are rather good, after all a single individual with some talent can do on a home PC what it took big studio money to do not too long ago.
"If they spent half a million and made a million, that's good! They made half a million dollar profit!"
_Which may not be much, but it's more than you'd think._
Right. Do that ten times you’re alright.
And again, most of these movies aren't made in expensive countries like the US, Ratatoing was made in Brazil. They probably hired an animator for a couple of months and that was it lol.
I bought 'Advanced Civilization' by Avalon Hill in '95 thinking it was a more complex version of Sid Meier's Civilization.
There also were German-produced mockbusters of Disney animated movies by the now famous Dingo Pictures. They were supposedly made in Deluxe Paint on Amiga. Did Good Times have anything to do with them?
And I particularly remember one mockbuster terrifying me as a child: Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night. I knew of the Disney Pinocchio movie and when we went to cinema at school, shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, we were told we were going to watch Pinocchio. And then we saw this dark and gloomy version by Filmation. I had nightmares from that. Some time ago I rewatched it and didn’t find it that scary, but it surely was a movie for grown-ups, not children.
And Antz was actually good. I liked it more than A Bug’s Life.
Pinocchio and the emperor of the night is actually from Filmation, the studio behind Tarzan Lord of the Jungle and She Ra.
I remember the mock buster for Dante's Peak was Volcano. I watched both movies, and Volcano was surprisingly good. I did not know it was a mock buster at the time.
Are you sure that wasn't just a 'twin' film?
It was a Twin Film, not a mockbuster. Sorry.
Twin films are fully funded movies on the same subject released by different studios at the same time. They include A Bug’s Life and Antz, Deep Impact and Armageddon, and Dante’s Peak and Volcano.
I'm actually one of the proud owners of few DVD's produced by Asylum studios. 😅
The only Mockbuster that I still own is the amazing feats of young Hercules.
I thought these were called "B" movies. Is there a difference? Some of the B movie horror flicks from the 50-70's are almost as good as the original, they kind of stand on their own, but all of those films are kinda cheesy by modern taste, only a certain crowd likes them.
I’d say these would be a subset of the B movie genre.
@Hersey Hawkins C movies.
The worm pea stew has seriously piqued me interest in Ratatoing
I kinda doubt that they made their money on rentals. A rental store would have staff that'd warn customers. A rental store wouldn't stock these second rate movies (unless there was a demand).
I was young when rentals went out of fashion but I don't really think rentals were part of the business model.
Like, once the tape is sold to a rental company the film studio stops making money. (other than it'd increase demand for their products) a studio didn't care how many times a tape was rented.
I worked for Hollywood Video, and people rented mock busters all the time! Let’s take for example Transformers, on release day we only received a certain amount and would sell out within hours. So people coming to the store after work to rent Transformers would see Transformers sold out and their kids being upset. So what did they do? They’d rent Transmorfers and tell them it’s the same thing. People were also curious to see how good or bad a mock buster was. By the end of that day, both Transformers and Transmorfers would be sold out lol.
I used to work for Blockbuster . Sometimes I would give the parents a heads up. I would say most parents don't care . They just something to entertain little Timmy for an hour+. Several people would watch the movies ironically for laughs. Sometimes it was good enough when the real movie wasn't in stock. A few people would get made at me for suggesting the movie they selected wasn't good. I remembered that I was told not to express my opinion of a movie unless a customer specifically asked me because some karen got mad at me for questioning a rental that her kid made. I also remember being told to respond with a generic ' it's a popular rental ' or ' allot of people seem to like it ' instead of giving a real critique. The vast majority of my conversations with customers were sales pitches for candy / drinks / or whatever promotion was going on.
The Asylum started off as just another low-budget film studio making whatever they could scrounge up the money for, but when they happened to release an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' in the same year that the Steven Spielberg version was hitting theatres Blockbuster wound up buying something like 100,000 copies. That's when they found their niche.
Not an expert on this, but I would have thought that video rentals would have to keep paying some kind of licensing fee or whatever like cinemas.
ANTZ was the shit. The movie that taught me what revolution meant 😌 I feel like the animated ones don't matter cuz little kids genuinely don't care.
Yeah I don’t consider one that to be a mockbuster, it just followed the insect theme
It wasn't a mockbuster, it was a former Disney worker forming Dreamworks and creating films from ideas that Disney had rejected previously
You learned about revolution from an insect movie? 😂 I mean, surely learning it from actual, real history is overrated, right? 😂😂😂
I’ve only been a mockbuster victim once in my life, when I downloaded San Andreas Quake - not paying attention to the title mistaken for the “San Andreas” movie in 2015. I didn’t pay for the move because it was pirated content. Hell I didn’t even pay for the San Andreas movie. But if I bought the mockbuster version, I would’ve been pissed.
This actually started when White artists would have Black artist write,sing and coordinate their style,and they would be thought of as the progenitor of said songs..One example is Twist and Shout. Written by the Isley Brothers, introduced to the world by well you get it
"Twist and Shout" is a 1961 song written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns (later credited as "Bert Russell"). It was originally recorded by the Top Notes, but it did not become a hit in the record charts until it was reworked by the Isley Brothers in 1962. The song has been covered by several artists, including several that appeared in the record charts. Source: Wikipedia
Nowdays all of the big guys are just mockbustering their own classics anyway.
I like that catchphrase.
I enjoyed the Aladdin remake tbh.
At 6:29 does anyone know what that cartoon is called? It was on a recorded VHS of a bunch of different shows I watched growing up and haven't been able to find it. It was on the intro to futurama also.
Judge: You have been found guilty to 10 accounts of murder
Murderer: NO I'm sorry! PLease dont send me to jail!
Judge: Don't worry, I've got something much worse in mind
Murderer: Noo Not the death penalty!
Judge: Nope even worse. I sentence you to watch Ratatouing *10 times*
Murderer: NOOOO SURELY NOT. I'll take the death penalty. PLEASE!
Judge: Silence. For I have spoken!
When I was really young, my grandparents had a hunchback of notre dam knockoff movie that I watched a few times. I grew up on that first for the first few years of my life before we finally got the real version lol. Totally forgot about that memory until now. I also remember being physically grossed out by the vhs cover art when I found out it was a knockoff 😂
In conclusion, Disney and other movie studios don’t own those original movies. They just have the money to make it more fancy and appealing. at least 70% of the movies are from books from a long time ago.
As someone with a beloved Spanish grandma, you can be assured you’re going to get at least one of these rip-off pieces of vhs pig slop for christmas
Well guess this is my new gig, don’t need an Oscar when I’m paying bills
Yes kids, we once had to drive to a place to rent movies and TV shows and had to return it. In person!
Still can walk across the street and use it. I forget it exists until I want to watch a particular movie and no one is streaming it.
Oh, those were the days, my brother and I searching the dollar bin in the DVD store for the latest knockoff movie starring Casper Van Dien... It seemed like he was in every one of them.
I think I can appreciate Killer Bean more than most of these mockbusters.
Mockbusters are what made me a fan of The Asylum. Their movies are so much fun!
After watching many of their movies, I was very surprised with Z Nation. Like "wow, look what Asylum can do if given an actual budget!"
I'm feeling that Cheddar doing a video presentation on mockbusters becomes a little "meta," because I can recall many topics that have been covered on this channel only after the topic has been covered elsewhere. However, I don't think it's exactly the same mockbuster phenomenon, as I really appreciate the presentation style that Cheddar brings to the topics! :)
I remember when I was a kid after watching Cars in the movies, since I loved the movie, my mother bought me 'The Little Cars in the Big Race,' which is the mockbusters version of it. Weird that I still have it in my dvd cabinet. And a few years later when Disney's Planes was released I asked her if she can find a dvd for it, she ended up buying the mockbuster version of it, I can't remember the name though. But since I was older at that time, I immediately pointed it out that it's not the correct movie.
Still a weird moment in my life I'd say.
The worst thing you can do to a person is to fill their childhood with mockbuster and never show them the original
Why do.i want to watch all of these now?
Thank goodness I'm not the only one!
Me reading thumbnail: *ratatOIng*
When they mentioned there was a mock buster of snakes on a plane my mind immediately went to that one episode of gumball
In Brazil, home of ratatoing and more crappy aninated mockbusters, parents used to buy this films by mistake because their children would ask for the real movie. Believe me, I've been there.
Little bee is nothing compared to the terrifying Plan Bee
I watched that as a kod
@@Mizai Did it give you nightmares?
It’s not a loophole, you can’t copyright an idea, it’s the fundamental of how copyright works. Imagine people try to copyright “how a song feels”
Of course you can copyright an idea, it's called a patent
@@bc4life862 patent is not for idea, it is for physical thing, you could patent a computer but not a way to compute something
2:32 Okay but the line
"Eric's new in the neighborhood (no need for that apostrophe no?). Mac's new on the planet"
Is hilarious
The Legend Of Hercules is a blockbuster in theory that resulted in a very disastrous mockbuster in practice
I call these the “mistaken grandma” versions “here you are dearie, I got you that film you liked”
Since 90% of disney films are already "knockoffs" of story that have been told for thousands of years it makes sense they don't count them. But Transmorphers?
Thousands? Try hundreds
@@nordicnostalgia8106 wut
@@nathannakonieczny1343 Disney stories aren't that old
@@nordicnostalgia8106 correct Walt Disney is not thousands of years old. I applaud your diligent research.
@@nathannakonieczny1343 I'm talking about the stories they are based on, dummy
Growing up, I used to think Kimba The White Lion was a mockbuster of The Lion King...boy, did I have a lot to learn 🥴...but to my defense, I didn't know the backstory & the Kimba movies were usually lumped in with a mix of actual blockbusters in supermarket dollar bins & clearance shelves
Well Kimba was indeed based on a shonen manga much darker than the Lion King, which was a Disney family film to begin with.
@7:40 omg - no wonder we are doomed w sequels for EVERY movie! 🤦🏻♂️
I now know the genre of movies Saberspark covers. 🤯
Of course I've heard of Ratatoing, it was King Harkinian's favorite restaurant.
This highlights the stark contrast between how trademark should work and how it does work. Consumers were being duped into paying for the wrong product and this is exactly what trademark should prevent. Instead, trademark prevents someone from sticking a Disney logo on a t-shirt without Disney's permission, which is something the law most definitely should allow because the consumer is getting exactly what they want.
I think it’s important to note that Kevan designed the body of the Black Lagoon suit while Millicent Patrick designed the head. Perhaps one of the other reasons why the heads are different. Check out the book The Lady From The Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Mera.
Of course I've heard of Ratatoing. I watched dave Gorman's modern life is goodish. It rhymes with boing btw, it's not too-ing.
This video is a mockbuster of that dave gorman episode
Nearly identical covers? They look nothing alike. And if you’re not paying enough attention then that’s your problem. The quality of the cover art is a dead giveaway.
My local small town news station had the rights to all the Princess mock busters and that’s what they would play on the kids programming regularly. I grew up watching those versions and I loved them (especially Pocahontas, Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland by Jetlag productions). I didn’t realise they were ‘fakes’ until this video and always wondered why nobody knew these versions but ngl now I know I will look for those DVDs to get them
Goodtimes' movies were part of regular schedule of Cartoon Network in the 90's, during the Saturday morning block. I'm sure there are legimate fans of them!
This video is much more informative than a similar explainer video I saw on the Cheder channel on U-Toob.
I love the video-sharing website YuoTube
I want to watch Ratatoing and I'm not even joking
I guess that there are those that go for the tipoffs just for the fun of it.
Very timely that this shows up just days after seeing Chip and Dale
What’s the song at 0:16?
ANTZ!? Dont you say antz is a the copy of bugs life, its a different movie and it came out ealier, 10/2/1998 vs 11/15/1998
exactly why I came to the comments
They literally mentioned that it was a twin film in that video
😂 I’ve watched a million of those
The Asylum Bound V.S Universal Fifty Shades of Grey, The Asylum Izzy's Way Home V.S. Disney's/ Pixar Finding Dory!
There was a case of a studio releasing a wizard of oz cartoon movie to then sell toys. The courts decided that they were not allowed to sell those toys because people associated those characters with the original movie.
ANTZ and Bugs Life are both great films, ANTZ is better than A Bugs Life and the storylines are completely different.
And Antz was actually released before A Bug's Life.
Those are twin films though, neither one is a mockbuster
@@ShaunDreclin Yup. Totally agree.
I actually always preferred the mockbuster version of Cinderella than the original Disney version 😂👌🏽
I have no idea ov how "good" that one was but since it wasn't an original Disney story to begin with it becomes debatable if it really should be described as a "ripoff".
@@michaelpettersson4919 some of the ripoffs could actually be as good as the original films
so many of those mockbuster disney movies were in my grandparents' VHS library lol
there are a few of these that are better then the originals, the mockbuster of Battleship for instance is actually pretty decent and is far better then it's more expensive counter part.