Rock-A-Doodle. The Movie That Almost KILLED Don Bluth... 's Career...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2022
- Rock-A-Doodle is the film that I noticed barely gets talked about by people. MAN, do we need to talk about it!!!
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HONESTLY, at least Rock-a-Doodle is ENTERTAINING. It's insanity is too wild to be boring where a Troll in Central Park was just, the shmaltziest safest g-rated fluff that Don could have ever been dragged into doing.
I liked Troll in Central Park…
I agree! I absolutely love Don Bluth and his movies, even the not-so-great ones like "Rock-a-Doodle", because #nostalgia...I own all his movies except for "A Troll in Central Park." I want to like it, but I just can't. My husband and I both agree it will never be a part of our home, lol! (I was 4 when "Rock-a-Doodle" came out and had it on VHS. I LOVED it and watched it all the time, until it "mysteriously disappeared", so I have fond memories of watching it as a child. ❤️❤️❤️)
You're not wrong. I love this film XD
@@bridanihay88 "mysteriously disappeared"? O.o
@@itfigurescomics6704 AKA I watched it so much, it got on my mom's nerves and she donated it/threw it away 😉 😂
My biggest problem is they NEVER explain why the sun rose without the rooster that one time. You make me laugh with your reviews, thanks
I think it was implied the Duke did something, but that’s really stretching it
Not to mention how sexist Snips is to the point where it really shows that this might just be the first movie Nickelodeon has ever played on their network back in the early 1990s when by hiring John Kricfaluci, it really started to become the monster (partially in the 90s and 00s, wholeheartedly in the 10s & early 20s) it would be infamous as by protecting sexual predators and pandering to the LCD with so much gross-out humour when starting with Ren & Stimpy, it became what it is today (3 decades thus far)!
@@kieranstark7213 Yeah, Snipes is an asshole.
I think God was messing with them.
@@geardog24 hey that's what nostalgia critic said. 😆
The saddest thing about Disney's adaptation is that Walt was confident that if anyone could make the story work, it was Marc Davis and Ken Anderson but eventually he was forced to give in to the other higher-ups at the studio who kept saying it never could. So now, this mess is the only adaptation of play we have.
For now at least, but that's just wishful thinking on my part.
As much as I enjoy The Sword In The Stone, Chanticleer would have been a much more interesting movie, if not even a cult classic by now. What's sad is that they tried YET AGAIN to make it in the early '80s (though going for more typical chicken designs with no fancy clothes), but pretty much stopped there.
@@yrooxrksvi7142that's the first version of this film Don was trying to make, and I'm honestly okay with this film existing.
Honestly I wouldn't mind seeing a decent remake of this movie, just follow the original play and nothing will go wrong.
I'm not going to lie I had good memories of this movie it may not be perfect but I did enjoy this as a kid and I think it would be awesome if someone do another version of this story
If something goes wrong, bring back the blood
@@animezilla4486 True, Rock a Doodle may have been one of Don Bluth's failures, but it was nice to see the magic of turning from live action to 2D animation. Just like they did with Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and the Pagemaster.
@@PeanutTechno Bring back the blood?
@@dreamguardian8320 If ya know, ya know 👨🦰🤖👁
Personally this movie is a massive guilty pleasure. For one, Nostalgia Critic's review of this movie was the 1st NC review I ever saw, and secondly, I just love how absolutely and enjoyably bonkers it is.
NC: THESE ARE THE MOST GAYEST VILLAINS EVER
Same here! I grew up with this movie, and despite its faults, I absolutely love it. It's a movie I've often had in the background while I work just because I love it so much. ❤
@@jakew6162 i haven’t watched that review in years, but seeing your comment my brain perfectly captures his voice saying that like i just recently saw it again.
Agreed it still has elements of what made Bluth’s previous movies great, they’re just in a story that’s a mess where they don’t come together at all, because I feel this film’s story is less of a plot of a movie and more of the plot of a video game you read in the manual back during the 90’s. The kind that’s basically just an excuse to explain the motivation of the characters you’re playing as to why they’re on their adventure.
I mean Diddy Kong Racing’s plot in the N64 manual is very similar being about an evil magic intruder, invading a group of animals home and said group of animals wanting to kick said intruder out. Difference is that’s just there to give context to why you’re going on a racing adventure, it was never meant to be a plot meant to carry a film with a three act structure, because you can point out a lot of holes into the story to the point it becomes a problem, which is fine for a video game like Diddy Kong Racing where the point is the gameplay, but not so much for a film like Rock-A-Doodle, where the point is trying to tell a story.
Don Blueth films are all amazing in spite of how terrible they are on the story end typically. It’s to the point I could never understand how they could be so hated in general. They inspired a lot of imagination and had some of the wackiest animation ever, which is important in itself. We were spoiled to live in a time with such interesting animation before it all went into CG same outline same borders animation that made it all feel so stale and clean.
The Phil Harris narrations were thrown in because the test audience had a hard time understanding what was going on. But, of course, considering how poorly written the story was to begin with, the narrations were doing nothing but pouring salt on an open wound. If test audiences can’t understand what’s going on, rewrite the thing.
It’s a shame they didn’t do the narrations in the same way as Robin Hood with the rooster. That probably would’ve worked better or at least improved on understanding the film a little without the constantly talking throughout.
"rewrite the thing"
Animation back then wasn't digital and doesn't work like live action, back then this was ALL cell animation, each frame was hand drawn and painted on a cell. Then each cell photographed. Rewriting scenes was extremely expensive, time consuming. By doing a cheap trick like narration was probably going to save them a million or two, as well easily a extra year of work.
This issue should have been picked up long before the film was ready for test audiences when it was still in story board phase. Its the reason why some animated movies went through quite a few complete story board revisions before hitting production or never went further than story board phase.
All these issues make me believe it was possibly executive studio push that rushed and ruined a lot of the production phases.
You hit the nail on the head! I hate to say this but a lot people (especially those born after 2000) forget animation was done using elaborate cel frames. Since Don wad trained by the original "Nine Old Men", he knew what the standard was for frames per minute. To re-edit or reanimate something would cost any studio (even Disney) a fortune. This is why storyboards are the be all and end all for editing before the actual animation begins. Even with modern animation techniques. Sidenote: I got to talk to the animation director for GI Joe The Movie. We all know about why Duke's death was changed to a coma so I'll skip that part. After test audiences responded negatively to the coma part, the suits at Hasbro decided to have the original death put back in. He replied, "We can do tbat. But it will come to 4 million dollars (in 1987 money). Hasbro obviously declined.
my adult brain does not remember my child brain having a hard time figuring out what was going on in the storyline, but I guess I need to watch it now
The story wasn't poorly written, I can understand what the heck is going on, test audiences were just plain dumb, also in the original cut of the movie, Goldie was even MORE sexualized.
*Rock-A-Doodle in a nutshell:*
Main Character: I'm a furry!
Other Characters: (sing)
Old Dog: (narrates over them just because he's cranky)
all furry***
The kid didn't speak clearly enough
Having looked up the play, it's a shame the movie wasn't just a film adaptation, or they used the abandoned concept Disney had for Chanticleer of an egotistical rooster and a gang of nocturnal animals with the election plotline.
I still think "A Troll in Central Park" is Bluth's worst picture, but "Rock-a-Doodle" comes pretty damn close, especially when it is ruined by execs and breaks the #1 rule in visual storytelling: Show. Don't tell. It's a movie, not a goddamn audiobook.
And then there’s me who has a childhood bias towards both movies for different reasons:
“A Troll In Central Park”: one of the first Don Bluth movies I ever saw, and I have 2 younger siblings named Zack & Rosie. 😅
“Rock-a-Doodle”: mostly because it’s a goofy story, the owls made me laugh, and Phil Harris (Patoo the dog) is one of my favorite voice actors.
That doesn’t make either of these movies good, but it shows just how powerful childhood bias is.😂
@@SpiritedHeart94 Fr. As a kid I liked “A Troll in Central Park”, but as an adult it’s mostly nostalgic, but definitely not as good as I remembered.
Rockadoodles is much better than Troll in central park.
this movie is literally the definition of "fever dream"
Maybe it was a fever dream in-universe.
@@jakedebruin2246That's what I think.
I loved this movie when I was a kid. I know it’s bonkers, and it’s objectively a terrible movie, but it’s still a guilty pleasure for me, maybe because of how ridiculous it is. But I didn’t know it was based on a play! I’m curious what a more faithful adaptation would be like.
I loved this movie too.
this is one of my favotites
Loved the movie too as a kid!
I really liked this movie as a kid
So the crow who takes up 90% of the poster is only in like 40% of the movie? That's kinda like "Thomas and the Magic Railroad", (yes Thomas the Tank Engine got a movie) has Thomas himself in like 10% of the film, and the other 90% is Alec Baldwin having a mental breakdown.
That sounds strangely entertaining 😂
@@theguybehindyou4762 What do you mean?
Or like Mamoru Hosoda’s “Mirai” which the title character of Mirai only appears for about less than ten minutes of a 98 minute long movie while the majority has her little big brother tantruming about.
@@supermariof0521 Alec Baldwin losing it in a Thomas the Tank Engine flick.
and yet child me really wondered why it wasn't continued
I remember that my parents put this movie on when I was a kid. The death scene scared the absolute shit out of me, as well as the live action bits. I think it was because the dead cat kid looked, at least to my child brain at the time, like an actual rotting corpse. I don’t know what it was about it, but it really gave me nightmares.
Yeah, this movie freaked me out as a kid
I remember watching this as a young kid but I never recalled being scared to by it or unnerved.
So it's kind of hard to say without checking the film again but I imagine the scene where he transforms back into a human probably make you startled because of either the lighting or the fact that, as far as I know, it was a still image.
Like, in one of the scenes in Full Metal Jacket, one of the US soldiers has a dead Vietcong next to him. However, especially with HD versions, you can kind of tell that the actor is actually breathing; just slowly and very still. So maybe Edmund not breathing in the actual scene kind of made it almost uncanny.
At least this is my guess lol.
Bro this movie was low-key Dark and those Owls scared the hell out of me and also gave me nightmares
The Duke had one of my favorite lines in all of cinema. "If I kill my nephew would it be murder or charity?" I paraphrase it very often.
Still, I can’t help but laugh whenever the owls sing “no batteries”. Don’t get me wrong, the song sucks, but, it’s so bad, that it’s hilarious!
“THESE ARE THE GAYEST VILLAINS EVER!”
Twiddly dee.
@@ApricityGlow TWIDDLY DEE~!!!
My sister has been bringing up this movie out of nowhere and is somehow incredibly nostalgic about it... despite the fact that the only thing we remember is that scene where Goldie's shoes fall off. For whatever reason the way she screams MY SHOOOOES killed us when we were kids.
What!? Same!? That was one of the only two things I remember from this movie ( the other is when the live action switched to animation).
we watched this 100000000 times when I was a kid - I just remember the line where the bad guy screams "its not an adequate pipe, its an AQUEDUCT PIPE!!" and always cracking up 😂
I do want to let you know that with the cancelled Disney version of Chanticleer, some of the elements were used when making the 1972 animated Robin Hood movie along with Renard the Fox, which was also a Disney movie that was scrapped.
This was one of the few DVDs my grandma had in her house right before streaming Netflix and cable on-demand got popular. I watched this quite a lot as a kid staying the night.
But all your questions... The film was literally, self-aware-ly, a *fever dream* of Edmond's. I personally imagine Chanticleer living on the very same farm as Edmond's family and the personalities of the family's pets and livestock bleed into his dream? I know it's got a lot of plot holes for sure.
I will say, that GoldCrest was a bit two faced with movies they put out, and it could be a bit difficult to work with them. That, and GoldCrest once told Bluth they owned his movies.
What is Edmond's arch:
When Edmond turns into a cat, he suddenly feels weaker. When he was human his mom told him he couldn't help because he was too little, so the Duke turned him into a very little creature. He learned to make friends with the mouse and see that she is littiler then he is. He lost his courage because the thought of being "too little" got stuck in his brain, but Peeper's death fake out made him snape back to his courageous self.
He never gave up on Chanticleer and he always had faith in him. There is a religious angle to the messages of the film as well. Edmond never gave up his faith in Chantiecleer, and his death in the end finally spurred the other animals to regain their faith in Chanticleer.
Chanticleer is a jesus metaphor.
THIS, this I could even understand LMAO
He complains about the dog explaining everything, meanwhile he don't understand what the dog hasn't explained lmao.
^
ding ding
Ehhh that's a stretch
@spectraloweosparkanimates1595 you understood nothing you donkey
I actually wrote a crossover re-cast version of "Rock-a-Doodle", and many people say that it's better than the original because I fill in some major plot holes & added some character development of the Chanticleer role.
Examples:
*The farm/town the Chanticleer character lived on was under a curse that by the dawn of the 18th year, if a creature other than a rooster doesn't crow by then, heavy rain & darkness will flood the land & the folk will be eaten by the Grand Duke & his owls (who in my remake are portrayed as aliens).
*The Chanticleer character actually couldn't crow for the longest time, and when everyone found out about it, they were disappointed that the so-called "prodigal son" let them down.
But eventually they want to bring him back to give him another chance to crow for real, even if he didn't, this time they won't care if the whole Earth was flooded, as long as they have their friend back with them.
*The Grand Duke character actually uses space cigars that gives him his magic powers.
Can I ask you where can I read it? I'd be really interested to.
Honestly would be interested in reading as well!
I'd like to read that, please. Where can I find it?
This…this is one of my new favorite videos of yours. The editing, the writing, the solid points about the many issues this film’s story has and the issues surrounding its production….just awesome work, bro. Really good stuff. Well done. Also, something something furry joke something something Goldie bruh.
I kind of want to see the Disney version of Chanticleer that never got made. I just really like the concept art for it.
10:50 He learns about being brave on his own terms, rather and forcing himself or letting others attempt to make him.
At first, he feared the Duke since he was almost eaten alive. When turned into a kitten, he felt himself to be less of the brave person that he used to be. He was deconstructed for this Arc.
By the end if the film, he wasn't showing any fear and he rose above his issues and grew brave again. No matter how bad things get for you, you just need to stay brave.
Chanting Chanticleer's name and urging him to crow at the risk of his own life getting literally choked out of him by the Owl, and he went through with it, anyway.
I can see how you could miss that--the kid is annoying as heck and you were most likely too annoyed to see how it all worked, it's okay. I had to figure it out, myself.
🥱
DO PENGUIN AND THE PEBBLE, ITS MUCH WORSE THAT DON BLUTH WANTED HIS NAME REMOVED FROM IT
Oh man, Rock A Doodle is very bad and messy as I don't blame ya seeing it as the worst Don Bluth film as that one is an insane mess and not in a fun way and oh man, almost killed Bluth's carrer? That's awful! O_o
And you know the most insulting part about that most existance, it comes AFTER Land Before Time & All Dogs go to Heaven, two beloved films (I am aware you're mixed on the latter) and you think the next film could get better but due to meddling and other stuff, it is shockingly tragic...... I am baffled that film came after the two as it feels like night & day......
And around the same year as Beauty and the Beast, a great Disney film and Fievel Goes West (a better "Don Bluth-ish" film, you should review and see as it's the best Bluth sequel....)
Interested in your Pebble and the Penguin review soon, but we'll see. As there's An American Tail & Titan A.E. left afterwards.
3:36 Maybe someday Disney will finally find a way to make their Chanticleer adaptation work much like The Snow Queen
Really, Christopher Plummer as the Duke is the only defense I can give this movie. Other than stuff with him, I get nothing from this.
You can decide for yourselves if that’s worse than making me angry
But what about his nephew? I loved him!
What I recall being the best line from the movie goes to the Duke.
"If I kill my nephew, would it be murder or charity?"
@@si1verg3cko That is a great line
Nothing like a great character actor in a bad movie just having fun with it.
The duke and Hunch are hamming up the whole film
and it’s clear so was Christopher Plummer and John Nelson Riley
I personally think that troll in Central Park is worse than rock a doodle because at least rock a doodle is so weird its kind of fascinating A troll in Central Park is just insulting to the audience intelligence it’s basically the equivalent jangling keys in your kids face
Well, honestly to hear Balou, aka Phil Harris, narrate his last movie, it’s a farewell to the bear necessity
four intresting facts about this film
1. Disney attempted to make a movie of it but was unable to make how the film was made.
2. Eddie Deezen (the voice of Snipe) never saw the film
3. It was stated that Snipe and Peepers were a couple.
4. Don Bluth said that doing the animation was easy do to.
Also, i actually liked the movie.
Snipe and Peepers being a couple makes their interactions make more sense. They argue like a married couple!
@@kaiser8659 What weird is that there's no fanart of them together (i think)
@@animeknight8958 Probably because the couple thing was barley implied if at all in the movie. I watched this film plenty growing up. And I can't say I actually remember them being a couple. Though if that was intended it makes sense.
As far as you'd know from the movie itself is they are just barely tolerating each other for the sake of the mission.
@@kaiser8659 but the fact they stayed together despite their fighting means they do love each other.
Just imagine how Don Bluth feels now that Rock a Doodle is a beloved film now when it was a disaster then,
@@animeknight8958 Oh I agree. Knowing they were intended a couple adds a new layer to those characters that wasn't clear before. I wish their relationship was made more apparent. At least a "Aw they do love each other" moment would've been great.
I wouldn't call Rock a doddle beloved tbh. It's more of a cult classic with animation fans. It still has a reputation as a bad film. But some warmed up to it for their own reasons. Most often because they grew up with it like myself.
Poor Raisor Blade, repressing all those fond childhood moments of being bullied in school and going home to more repression. Gotta love being kid.
The first and last time I saw this movie i was sick at my grandmother's house with a nasty fever. I don't remember if this movie was on TV or a VHS tape, but I vividly remember the kid turning into a cartoon, along with cuts of certain scenes. I honestly thought it was a fever dream combined with a different Don Bluth film from my childhood until I watched this lol.
This is one of my favorite childhood movies, there's a lot of plot holes but I still love it. My daughter loves it too, she rocks out to the music lol
Actually, the 1905 play was based on the story in “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer. Chanticleer is the main character in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.
Which is also where Pinky the fox comes from.
I didn't like it at first when I first watched it a few years back, but recently found myself enjoying it a lot. It's not a perfect animated film, but it's far better than most modern animations.
False
@@HobieBrown97 very respectfully disagree my friend
@@OctoCoochi69 very false
Marc Davis’s animal characters are absolutely one of my favorite things ever. I really love his chicken designs.. it’s an absolute utter shame we never got Davis anthro animal movies.
I actually liked this film as a kid and still do.
Me to still till this day, this guy pissed me off
Are you forgetting the fact that there is a narrator talking over good songs?! Seriously don’t you wanna listen to the songs?
Anyone else concerned that a young child knows what a furry is? I'm almost 22 and yet I cannot even define one if you asked me.
He actually said "I'm all furry." It just sounds like he said "I'm a furry"
easy, nostalgia critic
I mean, as a kid I freaking loved the Lion King 2, mainly because I had a crush on Kovu
From my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong), It wasn't originally suppose to be a 'kids' film; It was suppose to be a more adult version of 'who framed rodger rabbit', but after the release and success of 'the little mermaid' GoldCrest threw a fit saying they wanted Don to make them a "the little mermaid" halfway through the movie's production.
there is also a scene where the owl had a huge musical number that was removed because... "owls eat squirrels" wasn't translating well to audiences. They lost a bunch of money from trashing that scene.
When I was a kid I remember waking up at like 7am on a Saturday and seeing this on tv... it was like a fever dream... then I fell asleep and forgot all about till seeing something about it on the internet like 10+ years later
Dude saaaaaaaaame
To the movie's credit, at least Bluth attempted to blend live-action and animation. It's the Don Bluth movie I can think of with live-action elements. Other than that, this sucks. I wish Disney had adapted _Chantecler_ first. Also, love the memes you throw in.
This was unironically my favorite movie as a kid, and I think that explains a lot about how I turned out as an adult lol
Also Edmund's lisp was like, my favorite thing ever for some reason and it's been carved into my brain to such a degree that I can just hear random quotes from the movie playing out in my head
I'm really impressed on how you have been able to create videos weekly
good video Raisor and i love the end where your character... or drawing was given more poses or stances not sure what you call them
Even the narrator from Peppa Pig wasn’t THIS condescending!
Omg, despite all the insanity, plot holes, and *questionable* character designs, this is one of my favorite musical films. Hunch is my hero, and I’m sure Goldie has spawned her fair share of furries, no comment on my part…ahem. I think you simply have to suspend all disbelief and reality, and just enjoy the ride.
You know what's a much better adaptation of Chanticleer? Toy Story. I mean the overall base idea is there.
This unlocked represed memory from my early childhood, for the first time in years I sheed a tear, thank you man
15:47 I'm p sure she gave that expression since she wasn't supposed to actually fall in love with him, so realizing her feelings was scaring her
Everytime a Ex Disney Animator try to be the next Spielberg he loses. Don Bluth, Richard Rich, Phil Nibbelink. It's sad.
This film had potential, but failed.
that's why don bluth remakes should exist
I remember watching Rock A Doodle a lot as a child. I don't recall it being that bad.
Same lol
Its not, Don made alot of films after words the Troll film screwed him over.
I worked in animation for 20 years and majority of the films I worked on we’re mostly what I call, paycheck-films. Usually, at the very beginning they show us a Leica reel The entire movie, which is an animated story board with a temporary voice and music track. This is when you can tell the film is going to work or not and 80% of the time when I’m seeing these things it’s not working. I did work on rocket doodle but I came on toward the end I did it on a freelance basis I never saw the filmUntil I purchased a laser disk and then I fell asleep watching it.
Why would owls hate light when their eyes evolved to get as much of it as possible during the night?
I get maybe getting too much being painful, but still, wouldn’t they want light?
Its supposed to be an exaggeration of how most owls are nocturnal. They just turned light into their weakness because its a cartoon.
14:40 Funny you mention that, because there is now a fan edit where they remove the entire narration, improving the movie ten-folds
I loved this movie as a kid, but even then I knew it had problems. Foremost, the boomer nostaligia. In the 80s and early 90s boomer creators were trying super hard to push their 50s stuff onto us kids and we were not having it.
This is one of those films I watched once as a kid in the 90s, and then YEARS later characters/images would pop up in my head but when I tried describing them to other people no one had a clue what I was talking about and I started to believe I'd just made the whole thing up until TH-cam became a thing and I happened across a clip that finally validated years of confusion.
Cool video, this movie gave me nightmares! I’m with you man.
The anime reviewer Bennett the Sage has said that he notices that people tend to be more forgiving of bad stories in animated films as long as the animation is good. I think there's probably SOME truth to that. In fact, I think there's more truth in that idea than most of us would care to admit.
I still consider a Troll in Central Park as the worst one.
Personally, this is a guilty pleasure movie for me. It's mixed with a bit of ironic enjoyment with Edmound's bad acting / voice acting and it's batshit insane story and unironic enjoyment with stuff like the animation, voice acting (excluding Edmond), and it's songs (I know a lot play in the background, but I listened to them seperately and I personally like the songs "Sun Do Shine" "Rock A Doodle" and "Treasure Hunting Fever". I just enjoyed a lot of this movie, to the point where I call this a genuinely good movie and even an underrated gem. I hope this makes sense. I just really like this movie
For me, it's one of those movies you call "so bad it's good."
The new trailer for Rise of the TMNT movie is online and it looks dark yet fun
I never knew Eddie Deezen committed such terrible acts in recent years.
As for "Rock-A-Doodle" itself, I enjoyed this movie as a kid, but not so much as an adult. The only things I still kind of like about this movie are some of the animation, performances and songs. And even though it's a mess, I'd still take "Rock-A-Doodle" over "A Troll in Central Park" since I found the former amusingly bad, and the latter too cutesy and boring to handle.
Ah yes, "The Sword in the Stone", the Disney film so memorable, more people probably saw Song of the South out of morbid curiosity.
Worst? Nah. A rather hyperbolic assertion.
It's definitely middle of the road for his output.
I am slightly curious to see you cover the rest of Bluth's filmography. Especially Titan AE
My gymnastics studio(?) played this almost every night during the ‘leave your kid here and have a night off’ night. Terrified me. I couldn’t finish it, it scared me so bad.
When I was a kid, I accidentally dropped the VHS of this film and broke it. I felt really bad about it. Now... gosh, I think I did myself a favor!
It's free to watch on TH-cam! Take that for what it's worth!
I still own the movie on VHS tape LOL
One of my favorites as a Kid!
Mom LOVED to see it with me!~
Where did that sun go? It is so weird how as soon as it came up it just went back down not even a few minutes later. That’s so weird!
I watched the movie a lot as a kid, i was easily entertained back then it seems. One thing i do remember from back then was me being confused at the end seeing the kid hanging around the other animals but as his human self and glowing. For whatever reason my brain thought he died and was there on that farm as a ghost or something
At least the concept art for Disney's Chanticleer partially inspired America Sings. But I so wish we'd got to see it, instead of. this
I used to watch this over and over again as a kid.
Along with "Land Before Time", "Fievel Goes West", and "Thumbelina".
With most Don Bluth stuff, at least it's well animated and might have a catchy song or two.
I know you gotta ham it up for the video, but it's definitely not the worst thing ever. Just pick any one of the Bruce Willis straight to Redbox collection, they're WAY worse movies.
Awesome review man! 👍🌟
At the beginning I expected Spongebob to change the channel to another Don Bluth movie like Anastasia
you know, after watching many reviews and refining my tastes as I have aged, i have realized I had terrible taste as a kid, yet I will still watch films like troll in central park and rock a doodle for the nostalgic feelings that the movies give me, nostalgia is truly the greatest thing as it can make a diamond out of air, though I do agree that the main character from rock a doodle is one of the more annoying ones, I enjoyed every other character way more(and goldy was one of the ones I would consider on the list of cartoon crushes for reasons I still dont understand
I loved Rock a Doodle as a kid. I kept seeing the trailers for what seemed like forever on just about every movie that came out. I was very happy once it came out on VHS. We lived in the sticks, so we didn’t have a nearby theater.
6:05 He's a hitman hired by the Grand Duke of Owls to stop Chanticleer from raising the sun because Owls hate the sun and love the darkness and rain.
i love the kids voice tho, even though I hate kids. It was my favorite part. As a child I lived for this movie although I had no idea what what going on
i think I saw this once?
I might not remember. but is there a scene where the owl eats some weird shit? And is there a storm while the movie started? Because I remember the parents going out to help stop the flood with sand bags
I WAS RIGHT
You have unlocked the weirdest memory regarding a babysitter which I don't think is legal... Thanks
I'd honestly forgotten that the live action sections existed.
I remember watching this movie as a kid and it was one of my favourites, so I never really questioned anything simply because I didnt want to ruin that part of my childhood lol
maybe its just me just i absolutely love that little kids voice! so cute it makes me miss my little siblings being kids
I loved both Rock-a-Doodle and a Troll in Central Park as a child and rewatched them alot. I still love them and they hold a special place in my heart
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The movie is about believing in yourself and doing your best. That was the big 'theme' corporate childhood sold to us lil tots when we could barely tie our shoes. It's basically what the friggin rat told Edmund when she first met him, 'it doesn't matter how small or little you feel, if you put your mind to it, you can achieve great things.' And no props to the Duke of Owls wearing a damn Dracula cape, and basically being vampires? Say whatever you want about this movie, it was a hundred times better than that train wrexk Raya and the Last Dragon.
I've spent way too long trying to figure put the name of the song at the end. Can someone please tell me?
Gives me nostalgia even though I never watched this movie, is probably the animation and drawings that just remind me of my other childhood movies
Thank you for reminding me that a recent menace from my hometown voices a main character in this movie
I really liked this movie when I was a kid. I remember renting it and watching it over and over again. I'm not sure what I liked about it. I haven't seen it since. I remember having a hard time understanding what was going on, but I liked it anyway. I kind of want to watch it again.
As a kid when i watched this movie it was trippy from the story the live action bits right fown to the animation it feels more like a weird fever dream you have and when you wake up to tell your parents or something but you cant remember the dream at all
I remember watching it from TV when I was young when it was dubbed as finnish, I barely remember anything from it. I remember liking the animation and details on characters.
I had a novelization of this movie when I was little. I read it, and just figured, well, this is probably better explained in the movie. Then I saw the movie.
It's now the only Don Bluth movie I don't own a copy of.
Listen, if Rock-a-doodle is the price we have to pay for movies like Secret of Nimh, The Pebble and the Penguin, Thumbelina, Land Before Time, ect., then I'll pay it.
Forgot to add Anastasia
I never understood why the owls also flood the farm. Like, eternal night I get, they're owls, it's what they like; but drowning them too?
Rented this movie when I was like seven shortly after it was in theaters. My brother and I had really liked all of Don Bluth’s previous movies, so we figured we had to see this one. We were extremely poor so al we had was an NES and my grandparent’s old VCR. When we rented movies, we’d watch them sometimes 5 times before returning them, that’s how much we could love a truly good film. We watched this one once and returned it that day.
i remember watching this as a kid, i remember felling fear at multiple parts of the beginning but i was entertained the full time. also i love the main characters voice it just tiny and sweet and innocent.
I've always interpreted that sunset scene as because Chanticler (*sp?) won the fight to defend his farm/friends, the sun came up. But because the characters are too slow to realize this, his friends turn on him- because they think it only rises when he crows- and he leaves in despair (I think Chanticler believes he has to crow too), the sun goes back down. You even see that it doesn't set/retreat UNTIL Chanticler walks away in shame. That's why in the movie, if recall correctly, even the mouse acknowledges that the sun hasn't risen since Chanticler left. He was betrayed by his friends and the hurt from that betrayal effected him and the sun. I guess that give's Chanticler some kind of psychic connection to the sun? Meaning that he really does have the power to raise it? But again, that's just how I've always looked at that logic- even as a little kid I understood it that way.
My mom let me and my siblings watch this ONCE, when we were little kids. And never showed it to us again. And I could never figure out why until today. Thanks