Little Nemo | KYOTO VIDEO
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2019
- In 1989, a Japanese studio released a film that aimed to showcase the best animation talent from both Japan and the United States. That anime was Little Nemo, one of anime's most ambitious failures. This is its story.
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In Nemo's defense, he was a child. Kids get dragged around everywhere- taken to school, taken to extracurricular activities, whereever their parents put them. I think Nemo did have a small character arc- making a BAD mistake, and then rectifying it.
I feel like this movie is truly underappreciated, and I'd love to see a remake one day...
Seeing the short film makes me feel like Nemo could have been very successful as various independent shorts made into a collection. They had all these hands and names and having the cart blanch of dreams as a setting would have been amazing.
TMS deserve so much better than what they ever receive. Still my favorite animation studio. Every time when I need little bit inspiration and motivation to draw my comic books, many times I have to watch something made by TMS.
Okay but you gotta admit that the NES game was bangin'
It seems to me this movie is something of a 'Wizard of Oz,' or an 'Alice in Wonderland.' The point really isn't about having a complex main character who has some major arc, but rather putting them in a bizarre setting with quirky characters and seeing them react, about the imaginative visuals, and set pieces, and the overall experience. Disney's 'Alice' and 'Oz' weren't successful upon release, but 'Alice' is quite well-regarded now, and 'Oz' is one of the most beloved films of all time, so this kind of movie *can* be enjoyable if you're in the right mindset for it. They're not going to please everyone looking for more focus on story and character, and that's perfectly okay, but they still do have a lot to offer.
Fun fact: I'd lived literal walking distance from Windsor McKay's former studio all my life and didn't know it until a few years ago.
One thing im still happy about this production is these fantastic animators would also do Fox Kids Peter Pan and the Never Land Pirates !!!
My favorite nod to Little Nemo is the music video for "Runnin' Down a Dream" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Awesome song, awesome video.
I don't remember at what age I watched this movie, must been 8 probably.. But got to tell you.. This movie was soo heavy on me.. It wasn't super scary as horror, but maybe one third of the scenes were so much heavy, intense, dark and stressed me out a lot!!! I think actually nemo dies twice in this movie.. Absolutely crazy. But the beautiful and cute characters and background made for it.. It was worth it. One of the absolutely best movies out there. This is not anything like Disney. Absolutely opposite. Disney is all about happy endings and progressive story telling and adventure. This movie here is wild. You don't know what will hit you... It starts with bloody nightmare intense train scene.. And it traps you for more than hour, you never get bored.. Just mind blowing
So TMS has Warner Bros. to thank for getting them out of the rut they were in making 'Little Nemo'. Good on their part since TMS did such phenomenal work for them on 'Tiny Toons', 'Animaniacs', and 'BTAS'.
@@ShanaReviews I know. Though, 'Gargoyles' was done by Disney's Japanese studio by that point. Not TMS.
There's something uncanny about seeing Disneyesque character designs move in ways that feel distinctly like Japanese animation. To my untrained eye it seems like it's the generally lower emphasis on anticipation/follow through, though I'm sure people with more technical knowledge of animation could point out other things that contribute to it.
Nice slam against the nostlagia critic, recently rewatched some of his early stuff and I can't believe it was ever acceptable.
I too, also appreciate that nice little "Fuck you" to Doug Walker. Doug and his brother Rob, and especially their producer Mike are the most contemptible, disgusting people and are completely undeserving of their fame and fans. They aren't simply just untalented hacks, they are abhorrent, thoroughly shitty people on an ethical and personal level. Any diss against them gets a hearty cheer and a thumbs up from me. Channel Awesome, and anyone still associated with them to this day, are miserable, awful human garbage.
@@the-NightStar CALM DOWN
@@the-NightStar Any true arguments 'bout this?
I would read those with an interest^^
do a nostralgia critic reference=dissing him now. That's kind of...stupid you know? The fact that a lot of 90s-80s animated bombs got ripped a part in the early 2010s is a fact not something to be condemned
Which part did you he slam him?
I loved Little Nemo as a kid! Thanks for covering this.
This kind of movie would never be produced for obvious reasons but a plotless story of just Nemo flying around these places sounds more appealing than giving it a plot.
They should've slapped an "R" rating on it and marketed it to stoners. Voila: Instant midnight movie cult classic!
It's a real shame that all this hard work and talent that this film didn't do as well. Whatever your thoughts are on the story, Little Nemo is a Visual Masterpiece.
"They had enough material between all of them to make a six hour long film"
OOF. This fact hurts so much. So much talent, art, potential, all wasted due to lack of direction. :(
My brother (who was in that initial millennial audience you mentioned) showed this film to me as a little kid while we were traveling.
It lives in my mind as a barely-remember fever dream.
I remember Kondo Yoshifumi's amazing version - a beautiful "what could've been" animation. It confuses me to no end that Hayao Miyazaki hated the idea that Little Nemo stories were all about dreams. That's like wanting to direct a film about Pinocchio but you absolutely hate puppets. o_0
This sure wasn't any production Hell. This is what production hell is described on a dictionary.
TMS is my favorite animation studio ever!
I recall seeing this movie at a rental store but never actually renting it as a kid. I think with no knowledge of the source material at the time, I wrote it off as another Disney knock-off and didn't see it until it was put on youtube quite a few years later so I do not have the same nostalgia goggles when I look at this as you do, but I still enjoyed the movie. Maybe SOME nostalgia not for the movie itself, but for the vibe of the movie since it did come out when I was a kid and therefore has an aura of the type of animated movies I did watch and enjoy as a kid, but I mainly enjoyed it for the reasons you gave. I could tell even then and even more so on repeat viewings that the movie struggled story-wise but absolutely loved the character designs, the world building, and over all animation and visuals. Enough so that it made me seek out the original comics which I became a fan of for similar reasons. I just enjoyed seeing more of the world and what went on around it. Also, I'll admit... as much of a blank slate Nemo comes off as, I still found him likeable and cute. And I'm kind of a sucker for cute XD
A nostalgic ghost indeed. I mean I watched it countless times on VHS and on Disney Channel in the 1990s and liking the film as a kid. Then early 2000s came and it just vanished from my mind, only to be revived in the 2010s in movie reviews.Yes I do admit it has a lot of issues as I grew older with the story, plot... and characters. But with the animation, music, and the talent put behind it, it was an alright film.
I appreciate how even handed you were. I do think Nemo being such a blank slate for projection onto is part of what made it work so well if you were
I loved this movie as a kid, even though as an adult I can tell that it had something of a troubled production. I didn't know that it was based off a prolific early comic strip character and an Ameircan one. Excellent documentary @Kyoto Video!
Little Nemo was my first ever Anime I've experienced!
Man I’m glad my mom was picking out my weird movies cause I own all them mentioned minus Pagemaster 😂 This video is great, Little Nemo is one of my favorite childhood movies.
Jodorowsky's Dune comes to my mind the more I watch the video. A huge magnet for talent of which a lot landed later on Ridley Scott's Alien. With the little difference that Jodorowsky movie never left pre production.
If I could play armchair filmmaker for a moment, to me the obvious solution for adapting a comic like Little Nemo is to just do what Disney did with Alice In Wonderland in the 50’s and just make it a trippy episodic adventure highlighting the best moments from the source material. Then just give Nemo a motivation with a personality worth a damn and BAM you have a good basis for a Little Nemo movie.
Ray Bradbury is an amazing sci fi author.
I was 12 when this came out and I distinctly remember seeing it in the theater, also remember seeing it on a DVD some years later, but still before 2000. It has been a LONG time, but I know I remember being wow'd by the animation and the story too. I get you want to blow him off as a one note, but the comic was too, the dreams and nightmares clash, he pops out of it, does in print, does in animation. It works, it's strange, but it works, and they did the best they could with something so ancient even then and made an animated movie that flowed nicely enough to keep you entertained and not just blown away with the attention to visual detail. I've been hoping to see a second hand dvd pop up for years in my area, may just have to drop on the blu ray since it has those lost pilots included.
I honestly enjoyed Little Nemo, particularly Nemo began having feelings for Princess Camille.
Really great video! I saw Nemo last year on Amazon prime video (a version of it anyway), and I pretty much agree with your assessment here. Some of it feels like an homage to the original Windsor McCay comics, some bits are really anime inspired, and some other parts just feel like they're copying Disney (the Nightmare King is basically Chernabog), not to mention that the story's crap. There's one point I feel like I have to disagree with you though: Little Nemo waking up. Each time that it happened in the movie I thought that he had really woken up ala the comic strip and would have to wait until he fell asleep again to go back and save everybody. Both times this isn't the case, and I feel like McCay would have been shocked and/or proud of the movie for taking one of the conventions of Little Nemo and turning it on its head. Like I said though, great video. This movie needs to find an audience, or maybe more of an audience than it already has. :)
LOVE that jab at Doug Walker
My nana had a VHS of this, I sincerely wish I thought to take it when I went to clean up her apartment
This is why Wes Craven had a better idea how to utilize dreams in a movie.
I remember getting excited to see this movie after seeing the trailers and connecting the dots to the allusions made in Tom Petty's "Running Down a Dream" music video. I only saw this movie once as a kid and I think I was lost and confused and may have fallen asleep. I would love to watch it again.
Also, I LOVE how much music you feature in this video, along with the song choices themselves - especially Art of Noise. Did you stop or change the level of music in the later videos because of possible copyright strikes? I've enjoyed each that I've seen, but having the music present really adds a wonderful extra touch.
I am so happy that he's reviewing Little Nemo. Also, Nice F you to Doug Walker. (The Nostalgia Critic)
Give me a time stamp so I can appreciate that FU to Doug
@@erichfiedler1481 7:25 he doesn't name drop him exactly, but he does call him "Critics of Nostalgia the proliferated the internet like a bad rash"
At least I have a name for the movie that freaked me out as a small child. Great Video!
I got cosplay ideas from this movie and it is sad that even if I did do it, I would be laughed out of the conventions
It's a shame that the film turned out to be what it is now despite the amazing animation. I feel it deserves a second chance. Bring in Steven Spielberg as the director. He loves animation (as shown with Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures and Freakazoid), he's a fan of Winsor McCay (he's the recipient of the 2014 Winsor McCay Award from the Annie Awards. I can provide a link to the video if anyone wants to see it), and he has already directed an animated film (The Adventures of Tintin), even though it was motion capture rather than actual animation.
As for my views on it, I'm from Australia, so Little Nemo never got released there. I only found about it because of The Nostalgia Critic (nice jab though).
I love your videos man! Awesome job!
This was a very cool history lesson.
TFW the only thing you knew about this franchise growing up was that the NES game was absolutely lit.
I think I'm just wired differently than most people, it seems like everyone hates the "It was all a dream" trope because then the hero was never in any real danger. And? It's fiction! The hero _is_ literally never in any danger, I mean sometimes they kill the hero for a subversion, but 9,999 times out of 10k it's just a boring fake-out movie death. Also, if it's a dream, that diegetically justifies all plot holes, inconsistencies, and anything you personally didn't like. Also, it's just so refreshing to see a male character with no agency for once. Call it "reverse-sexism" but girls get dragged around by plots all the time, Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy in Oz, Wendy in Neverland -(wait a minute?)- she actually chooses to leave the racially unsensitive stereotypes and eventually Neverland itself, I guess they all get a few choices, but for the most part they get dragged across the strange new lands... those are older *isekai* but they check out. Nemo makes some choices too, like he hates girls... until he tries her cookies, then he decides he loves girls! See? Agency, and not coercion.
Also, as someone who is plagued by *false awakenings,* I found that particular running theme to be very relatable. One time I remember waking up, eating breakfast, taking a shower, getting completely ready for school, all on time for once... only to be reawaked by my infernal alarm clock and forced to start the whole grueling process over again.
W o a h
You're editing for this video is amazing
This is my favourite too
This is a very cool history lesson.
lots of tracks off the "Neon Palm Mall" vaporwave video in this vid -- KB, did you first see Little Nemo footage in a mall display back in the 90's ?
good content my guy! have been binging some of ur videos, found u through ur gunbuster video but this hits a heart string haha. keep killin it my guy!
for real tho from the crazy research and the esaki reference haha
i remember watching this in my after school day care program
I confused Little Nemo on the NES with Finding Nemo
I want all 3 shorts on a Blu-Ray.
Me and my brother were rewatching old VHS tapes in like 2002, and even I couldn’t help but notice how many Japanese names were in the credits, so I wondered if this was supposed to be one of those “Japanese cartoons”. (I never heard the word “anime” yet, but I was already quite aware that things like Pokémon, DBZ, Nintendo, and Sailor Moon were products of Japan).
its free on the official tms channel now so id say its made a bit of a comeback
also, using legaia music. nice
In 1921 makay guest spoke at a school in Japan sorry for any miss spellings or if the years wrong
Also, I actually have fonder memories of the awesome Nintendo game that came out with the movie...
Ok, so it was TMS who were also working on Tiny Toons and Animaniacs. I wondered why Little Nemo looked so very Warner Bros.
My cat growing was named Nemo because of this movie..
I got some animation cels from one of the lost pilots, couldn't pass them up
5:12 ”[Windsor McCay] might as well be the root from which all knowledge of modern cartoons and comics springs from.”
No one is denying that McCay was a major pioneer in these mediums, but this is a gross oversimplification. For instance, McCay’s colleague and fellow comic strip creator George Herriman was just as instrumental in elevating comics into a respected art form (see Gilbert Seldes) and developing the visual language associated with funny animal type cartoons. Herriman has been cited as an inspiration by half the industry at this point. Another reason later animated cartoons look the way that they do is because of the shortcuts invented by early animation studios to make the process more simple and affordable. A quick note on William Hearst: He basically saw what McCay was doing on his free-time, created his own animation studio by buying out competitors like Raoul Barré, then greenlit screen adaptations of comics he thought would be easier to animate (including Herriman’s Krazy Kat). McCay had his qualms about that, sure, but in retrospect it’s not like that streamlining hindered the medium in the long run.
I like Little Nemo.
Good stuff. Love little Nemo have all the comics
Saw this on Amazon Prime
Nemo's personality was: throw candy at animals until they go into a sugar coma, then jump in/on them and use them as methods of travel... oh, wait, that's in the game...
Hmm... very small, quick fix I had while watching this: No door. Nemo arrives and the nightmares attack Slumberland, leading to Morpheus handing Nemo the scepter (a backup scepter) and the incantation, Morpheus goes out to fight the nightmares at the front lines, and doesn't return, leaving Nemo to have to go save the day.
Weird bit of... not sure if it's trivia, but, a neat little detail is, in dreams, reading written words is very difficult because the brain apparently can't focus long enough in REM to keep the words in order, so Nemo having trouble with the written incantation makes sense...
"Critics of nostalgia" I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. I fell in to the trap of "oh wow this movie I saw as a kid was Actually Bad because NC said so!" and while some of them were pretty crappy in hindsight (I liked Milk Money but I can completely understand why some might find it creepy, North could never be made today for obvious reasons) but I saw Little Nemo as a kid and I liked it! Wasn't an all-time favorite, but it was fun.
(I do appreciate that NC at least acknowledged the troubled production as one of its problems, though.)
Bruh I litcherallly OWNED this tape
Lol this movie was fucking scary when I was little hahaha
Another great video but... while I hate when people always complain about songs in animated films, and the Sherman Bros could sometimes be very good--nothing about how by this point they rarely were any good?
First off, I did not know the micheal jackson connection, thats pretty lit. You didn't like the Flip Nemo Door scene? Damn bro. Yeah its a quick segway but its the deal with the devil. Flip's devilish nature takes em right to it. Basic dream logic. You also knock the early comics too hard for being low stakes - it was the original full page graphic novel, people weren't ready for that kind of drama yet. Let McKay invent some genres like fuck. This movie is everything. Trigger, Ghibli, DIsney, Bradbury, Jackson - damn. Stacked. Nemo's general character: The spirit of boyhood. The spirit of romance. Hes a young harlock and la mime in this movie too. The Princess has Toadstool's hair color before she changed it. Yeah, nemo is more The Ring than Bilbo. Look at the Yordles tho.
Read black science. Grant McKay is a good main character.
33:39 - this literally was on my mind since 31:09
Tms also animated Tiny Toons and Animanicas
Y'know, a lot of isekais are extremely relaxing from how easy the heroes have it, and so is some of Little Nemo.
I'd also say the movie suffers a bit musically, because while the goblin song is visually amazing, it's not very fun to listen to.
Anyone watch the new movie and compare?
ah i see where the NES game is based off
Or based of 1990 Capcom CPS1 arcade game, Nemo
“Pamonia”?
Did you say Pimonia?
5:00 UMMM ACKTCHEWALLY, SNOW WHITE WAS NOT THE FIRST FEATURE LENGTH ANIMATED FILM. IT WAS THE FIRST FEATURE LENGTH ANIMATED FILM TO USE CELS, BUT THE ACTUAL FIRSTS WERE EL APOSTO (1917), SIN DEJAR RASTROS (1918), AND THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED, THE OLDEST SURVIVING ANIMATED FILM FROM 1927. NEXT TIME, YOU SHOULD REALLY DO SOME BETTER RESEARCH HEHEHEHEHE *snort*.
Way more interesting than class traitor Doug Walker rants. I outgrew Doug.
Other reason wasn't a disney movie lol
You have a problem with wanting a story to make sense in a media that's about the designs and animation. The story doesn't matter, it's just a made up script someone wrote to justify having cool looking things happen one after the other. You got the curse of realism.
lol spanking isn't beating
And now there's a gender-swapped adaptation on Netflix. Nemo's name isn't even in the title. I haven't seen it but from what I've heard it sounds like typical Netflix quality (not great).
Why does everyone hate The Nostalgia Critic? (Not referring to the joke in the video, but the many apparently serious comments.)
I thought it was decent entertainment, for what it was... don't remember anything worth getting upset about. Maybe I missed something?
Where were you during 2018?
look up the Not So Awesome Document and then look at Channel Awesome's "Apology" and you'll see why so many people have changed their views of Doug.
but even taking that aside, Doug's review videos haven't aged well because it started a nasty trend of "being angry for angers sake" when talking about old media because Doug popularized the trend with his persona.
It has gotten to the point where a lot of bad faith criticism has lead to a bunch of media, new and old, being unfairly shamed, mocked, or torn down all because people want to emulate the success Doug did. In short, Doug's reviews did more harm than good in the long run even if not all of his old works are "bad" it's just the legacy he left behind.
Let's just say it involves poor management, aggressive work practices, sexual misconduct... and many other controversies that Channel Awesome has faced and got leaked a few years ago.
Shojo is for teenage girls. Not children.
Kodomo-muke is the ONLY manga and anime demographic aimed at children.
Kodomo - (for children)
Shojo - (for teen girls)
Shonen - (for teen boys)
Seinen - (for adult men)
Josei - (for adult women)
Like it’s not that hard.