The truest telling of Anastasia ever as she is followed by talking musical instruments and is chased by Russian Cobra Commander. Also THAT Secret... wow... phelous.com / phelous
Most historians reject the idea that the Romanovs became talking instruments after their deaths, but it's nice to see some documentaries take the minority view.
Wabuu: most of the historians who reject this idea are soooooooooooooooo stuuuuuuuuuu-😒 I don't wanna finish because it's sound to reject this ridiculous idea. I mean, everyone knows that the Dingo version is the one and only true story of Anastasia. Wait a sec! Who wrote this 💩? No, no it isn't the true story of Anastasia.
Olga and Maria didn't deserve this fate. They got lucky. Well, granted, none of the Romanovs did. Not even Tsar Nicolas II, even though the only half-decent thing about him was that he was apparently a good father (and literally nothing else.) But hey, at least Rasputin was also spared in this.
Ra Ra Rasputin, forced in every Russian thing Golden films had him win the throne! Ra Ra Rasputin, got to kill the king and queen They had the Soviets throw him a bone!
"And this Tsar, who was really nice once you got to know him" - Oh yeah, he was great guy. He was responsible for the events of Bloody Sunday, he foolishly pushed his country into war that they couldn't win and his aristocratic pride and ignorance lead to the rise of Communism and the death of nearly his entire family. What a nice guy! XP
Tho to be fair a lot of problems attributed to Nicholas the II were actually set in motion by the previous czar, Alexander the III, boneheaded decisions to revoke a good number of reforms made by Alexander the II. There by pissing people off and putting more responsibly, work, and power onto Nicholas the II
Bloody sunday, going to war with japan then the Axes, speech repression, promising governers with their own part of the government, taking it away, repressing the people again, shooting the people, they just overthrew him because they felt like it, surely not for being yet another tyrant showing the outdated nature of inbred royals.
Nell Ross You would think he would look like a Pale Hunchback, with his rib cage able to be seen through his skin due to starvation Or he'd be dead and just a skeleton, but he needed to be there because..... Plot convenience!
At first, I assumed the instruments weren't really alive and were just Anastasia coping with her families death, but I put too much faith into this movie to have a clever twist.
like how 20 years of isolation inside the former palace caused her to hallucinate personalities for the musical instruments, the only things that staved off her suicidal tendencies?
I think that’s what a lot of people were hoping the gargoyles were in Disney’s Hunchback of Norte Dame. I liked Laverne as a motherly guardian type who encouraged and comforted him. Hugo was cool, I liked his mannerisms and the way he spoke but Victor should have been toned down and remove the song “A guy like you”, since it served only to break poor Quasi’s heart.
I keep expecting Knuckles the Echidna to take over his voice and sing "How dare you try to infiltrate my home in hopes you may steal my precious jewels." Look up Sonic shorts, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
no no actually that'd make perfect sense, it would explain why some ex soldier wearing the imperial uniform was allowed to wander around russia this whole time IT WAS A DISGUISE FOR THE REAL VILLAIN-
As a Russian I must say that this is f*cking insulting. Of course, original Anastasia movie wasn't historically accurate either, but at least it had some respect for Russian culture, not to mention its attention to details, great visuals and music. But this stupid flick with wacky narrators and talking instruments? Total disgrace.
Also, this movie makes everything look so generic. Anastasia's family looks nothing like they did in real life, never mind that two sisters are missing. As someone else said, Nicholas II here looks more like Alexander III, Anastasia's grandfather. Also, the family lived in St. Petersburg, not Moscow.
Don Bluth's Anastasia Wasn't that accurate..... But it was still a Don Bluth Film, the visuals would be amazing and songs would be catchy and fun. Also Christopher lloyd as Rasputin is like the best thing
The historical accuracy in THIS was so unbelievably outrageous that I could not watch the whole thing. I honestly can't help but feel embarrassed. The horror!!!
@@Sonichero151 the story wasn't accurate, yeah, but at the same time it was respectful: at the time Anastasia's body hadn't been found yet, so it was normal for people to romanticize the idea of one of the poor children of the Romanov's managing to run and finding a happy ending. Also, Bluth's version didn't transform the Romanov's into musical instruments.
Ah yes the twist that Elsa was really Sub-zero and Anna was Scorpion, who then kidnapped Olaf, and jumped in a portal while shouting "SUCKERS!" Elsa "I'm letting let this one go" walks away not to be see for the rest of the movie.
@@ashur24 Well, that makes sense... A little. Cheka (main villains) could actually arresting RUSSIAN people, who's "Enemy of people", like Anastasia; sure, they couldn't kill them, but they could arrest them and back to Russia and there kill them (that's why Russian Cobra Commander didn't kill her, because he can't do this). Although, I still can't understand WHY he couldn't arrest her soon as she become "his princess"? That would make more sense, if Paul and Russian Commander were actually two different villains: First one - trying to save his ass and get Anastasia's money, Second one - arrest and kill her.
The fact that Vladimir emerges from the suitcase after Anastasia's tear falls down makes me think that either Vladimir was a corpse stuffed into the suitcase and got revived by Anastasia's tears (explains his outfit and lack of knowledge about last 20 years), or Anastasia is slowly freezing & starving to death on that train and this is some pre-death hallucinating. ...hey, don't look at me like that. If the writers insist on writing nonsense and leaving plotholes, nobody should be surprised I fill them with some real morbid stuff.
Alternative explanation: He's a living mannequin/manifestation of the Stranger who somehow got lost from the Circus of the Other which was touring in Russia at this point and is wearing the skin of a Russian soldier whom he murdered. After the film he kills Anastasia and steals her skin and identity in a similar manner,
This makes a lot of sense. Another thing I noticed is how tf would he have been a general? Wouldn’t he then be like into his 50s or 60s then at least if he was made a general before the Tsar was killed?
Surprisingly, I grew up watching this version of Anastasia. As a child I did not even know that Don Bluth's adaption existed. The more I look back on the films of my childhood, the more I realized how susceptible my parents were to buying knock-off versions of popular movies.
"Don't tell her! We'll have to go if you tell her." I like how this is just completely brushed off. Not even responded to. Like the mom basically made the decision to kill the entire family and didn't even for one second consider that her son, or the others, may not want her to.
That one's honestly a better twist, insanity aside. It was better hidden and only hinted at a few times (healing powers and something white hidden in the hunched back.
XD I lost it when the lion shouted "My god!". And it was hilarious when Russian Cobra Commander sported fangs for a moment, I was like " Huh so I guess the secret in this movie was that it's villain is actually a werewolf!".
Oh boy... As a Russian, here we go. I really love that he found a Russian Mtn Dew bottle for 6:29, but yeah, never saw Doritos in Russia. The Russian TMNT books in the background are a nice touch. 8:17 Most Russian uniforms are green. Why is the general a red coat? Also, depending how much time has passed after the murder of the Tsar family he should be either fighting in the Civil War or be in France, in immigration. 12:43 - 1920-1930s Russia, placing an order like that would surely give you away as a part of the bourgeois class. The NKVD is on its way. 13:19 - That's a cello. 25:23 - Tatania? Tatania? Did they mean Tatiana?
Damn. I was hoping the secret was that she had a psychotic break after witnessing her family get killed and just imprinted their identities onto musical instruments as she went further into madness after living alone in the palace where they died for 20 years.
To be fair, Rasputin was 'believed' to be a wizard by the Queen who would often 'heal' the sick. And was apparently super hard to kill. So most people sorta believed had made. It's just the Don Bluth movie, took above a level...
They tried to poisoned him 2 times, and when that didn't work they shot him and when that didn't work they put him in a bag and drowned him. A few hours later when they went to look if he died he died but not before he clawed his way out the back. Not to mention the fact that he told the Queen before he died that if he would be killed her family would not survive the year. And that's exactly what happened! Talk about scary 😣
Dark Mountain Productions I remember in 6th grade a reviewer for Playstation magazine talked about the legend of the titanic cartoon. He wrote about it ripping off American Tale. I was pretty weirded out after watching it.
i kinda figured it out when by noticing the crown on the harp's head was similar to the one in Alexandra's portrait. I was like......."Oh, its one of these where the person takes the form of something or other to hide themselves for some reason until the big reveal" trope.
I wish a movie would finally show what rasputin really was. A dark summoner who was able to summon creatures from Russian mythology, and he was also an android.
Day Man I just realized that Russian Cobra Commander is a Russian Orator... wait, The Secret of Anastasia was released in the late 90's... He's Russian Mediator!
Fironnathedarkelf it's a reference to a game and I'll just copy some stuff from the wikia. He crosses paths with Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV while Raidou is investigating the disappearance of Kaya Daidouji. Rasputin was apparently hired by General Munakata in order to insure that his Soulless Army plans went as they should, but he is actually an artificial human sent back in time from Tokyo Millennium to deal with the unknown events that are changing the past. However, Rasputin's true purpose seems to fall down the ladder of priorities as he begins to behave like a lush, drinking and hitting on women. It is revealed he is also a time traveler from the future, apparently sent to maintain the timeline, but ignored his mission to pursue his own goals. By the end of the game it is implied Rasputin remains in Raidou's time to become more 'human'.
So after watching this I decided to actually look up what happened to the Romanovs and.... wow. It was horrible. Like yes, the Tsar was a horrible leader who led his people into ruin and got thousands of innocent lives killed, but the family didn't deserve that. Their murder was inhumane, messy, and unnecessary in the end. They were held prisoner in a house for several years after the uprising before being led into the basement under false circumstances and shot. Some of them weren't killed immediately and were stabbed multiple times before finally dying. The youngest, the son, was like 8 at the time. Their bodies were then dragged out into the woods (the women were groped and violated) and dumped in a mass grave. Like, damn. That just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Well….that’s horrifying…… but yeah they didn’t deserve to be murdered😨 I have to assume Russian politics at that time was very complicated among the public or something
@@someguyontheinternet604 from what I could tell the new communist party didn't want any of them to be martyred or idolized by the still active supporters of the royal line.
@@thetuftedpuffin1025 So it's kind of like the situation, where Oda Nobunaga ended up slaughtering an independent mini-nation of sorts, because a lot of its warriors were average folk, and therefore, made it harder for him to really decipher who was who, and therefore, leaving him with not much of a choice on the matter.
At least better that than Donald Duck dreaming being part of the Nazis. Daffy did something to Hitler more physically in his own cartoon unlike that duck who called him the n word.
This becomes a hell of a lot scarier when you imagine this and the Goodtimes Hunchback movie take place in the same universe. Do Esmermelody's instruments also have the same gruesome origins as the ones in this movie? Did these instruments also complain about how many stairs there were as they ascended the stairway to heaven at the end? Does anybody really give a shit?
@S.Y.U.20 My my, you're right. We've actually got to a point where there are so many crappy animated Hunchback movies that I'm getting them muddled up. That's a worrying thought.
The thing about this is that it could actually be a pretty good story if it cut out a lot of stuff. It could be a darker tale about how Anastasia was forced into hiding and had to work hard to find even the most basic necessities as famines hit her former homeland while she tires to move towards western Europe while being tracked by USSR spies. Shame they wasted the idea in favor of talking instruments and songs.
Next "Secret of" movie is the secret of Humpty Dumpty. The secret is that the king's horses and men couldn't put him back together, but the necromancer did, and now he wants revenge...
I believe Disney did sued Good times at least two times, the first was about the misleading covers deliberately trying to confuse consumers thinking their the Disney ones, which lead for their dvds to clearly show that their Goodtimes movies. The other was to shut them down but Goodtimes used the public domain argument for their movies and won that case, though they still went bankrupt anyways.
Brandon Lyon This may sound cruel, but boy I wish they had won that lawsuit because FUCK Good Times. They are nothing but cockroaches trying to get scraps from more talented people, and that goes to the successor Video Brinquido.
Nicholas II a "nice guy"? The guy who slaughtered an entire peaceful protest outside the Winter Palace? Not to mention he reigned during the second Age of Oppression of Finland where the Russian government tried to suppress the initially granted autonomy of Finland. "Nice guy" indeed...
Well.... he loved his children and was a good father and husband. To be fair, he was given NO prior training to being a Tsar. Alexander III just handed the title over to him and said, "there you go. You're the ruler of Russia now."
I can buy a child murderer stuffing the corpses of his victims into mascot suits, but the Russian royal family being turned into instruments? Suspension of disbelief: BROKEN!
So, they ripped of Don Bluth and tried to cover themselves with a slightly more accurate sounding name(Which, by the way, they failed to do. The right emphasis should be on the last part of the name. But Phelous is correct, that's really is unimportant, I'm just not sure what they were going for) But the fact that her surname is Romanova is ignored. So now it sounds awkward in both languages. Good job UAV! As a side note, the actual story of Anastasia is sad, tragic and, worst of all, real. It should be remembered of course, but I never truly understood why people would try to make a fairytale out of it. The entire Russian Civil War was full of so many twists, backstabbing and pointless deaths that I'm kinda surprised George R.R. Martin didn't used it for his books. Never the less, great review Phelaus! Can't wait to see what other secrets lie ahead of us. Perhaps they involve a certain someone named Mulan?)
Because Disney can make fairy tales out of dark fantasy stories then why can't people make fairy tales out dark real world events. Aside from all the reasons they shouldn't.
Mmm well I assume these movies were made based on a myth about Anastasia surviving and people claiming they were her😅 I think 🤔 I mean Phelous mentioned that Anne fraud lady who claimed to be Anastasia which is what this movie and the Bluth one appears to be based on. What’s CLEAR is these movies were at least written before it was known she didn’t survive 😅
Why do they assume that the woman they hear singing in the old palace is Anastasia? Isn't it more likely that she'd just a squatter living in a condemned building and therefor they'd have no reason to suspect that she's who they think she is?
Was I the only one rooting for the KGB agent? He had a cool design. He had the hindsight to look for the princesa at the palace. When she escaped, he inmediately knew where she will go and put a plan in motion that would result in his Motherland getting the Romanov's treasure. He had his rival beaten up not for being a threat, but for anoying him. And when he kipnaps the princess, he doesn't even give enough of a shit to put any emotion in his acting. He already won, why should he lower himself and continue to humor her? This is one cool villian.
@@user-zd8zm6uh6b I'm sure he must be a NKVD commander because I'm sure this movie takes place after Cheka was replaced by NKVD and before NKVD was replaced by KGB.
Even the higher quality Don Blurh production couldn't get that right .. it's kinda scary when lower quality animations are more historically accurate, like dingo picture 😱
@@MrOrcshaman the Dingo Picture one still used Rasputin as a villain and even had him alive, at least the Don Bluth one had him killed and for most of the movie he was a sorcerer zombie. While they moved when it happened, they even got it right by including part of how he died by having him fall into a frozen river at the beginning of the movie. While it was a dumb plot point, it is still much better than what Dingo pictures tried to do with Rasputin which was have him actually murder the Romanovs with a comically large bomb.
She was 17, that can't be right. In Shadow Hearts 2 she was a little girl and survived because she followed the demon fighting Samurai she had a crush on around when the coup took place. I think that's pretty much what happened historically as well.
Kaefer1973 nope, look it up, she was 17. Think most of these adaptations make her younger yo add to the tragedy of her family being killed and in some cases to explain why she doesn't remember everything
Kaefer1973 yesh, it's weird that they keep making her a little girl in the beginning but I guess they want her to be a young woman in the story and for not much time to pass - but enough to have some memory loss occur, this film is still pretty insulting
The Secret of Anastasia? It wasn't even hers secret at all. More like The Secret of the Romanovs. The lack of subtlety truly hurt the secret of the movie and the NKVD commander being a twist villain. At least the NKVD commander is one of the twist villains who have villain songs. Did someone at UAV really think that turning the Romanovs into instruments was the funniest thing ever? Narrator: "Tsar was like a king" Me: "Actually, the term tsar literally means emperor" But the tsars were in fact kings and even grand dukes, the Kings of Poland and the Grand Dukes of Finland.
I just discovered that Enrico Casarosa, the director of the upcoming Pixar film “Luca”, worked on this tripe as a character and background designer. Well, at least he’s moved on to better work.
Heck I loved Luca...about the closest Disney/Pixar can get in approximating the feel of a Studio Ghibli film Makes me wonder if Pixar's HR team overlooked him ripping off Beauty & The Beast here...
At least this version didn't have a song where the Russian people hope for the restoration of the royal family that lived in obscene wealth while they all starved.
Now let’s get ready for The Secret of King Arthur, where the Sword in the Stone was a superweapon developed by an alien civilization thousands of years in the future, and Merlin was actually a robot from the future sent back to retrieve it! Oh, and King Arthur was actually a hot anime swordswoman all along! ...Wait a minute.
You know, seeing how the Arthurian legends have been incorporated into popular culture, I wouldn't be surprised if there was something like what you're describing.
+French Paul 1988 The last bit was a reference to Fate/Stay Night, where King Arthur really is a hot anime swordswoman. And you can romance her. It’s good stuff.
@@madsceptictrooper6803 I'm guessing they felt superfluous, plus that would mean more characters to make and more voice actors to hire. It's why Disney made Belle an only child and why many Disney Renaissance Princesses were not given a mother.
And changed the birth order. Alexei was younger than Anastasia (and the youngest child) in real life, here he's older. Though it does make me wonder what instruments Maria and Olga would have ended up as.
@@0deadx21 From what I read, Belle's sisters were omitted so the audience wouldn't confuse it with Cinderella (both having two older (step)sisters who bully them). Not sure if that's true. And there were very few mothers in early Disney movies because supposedly Walt Disney had a strained relationship with his own mother.
Seconded: my wife is Russian and she's very into monarchy stuff. One time we were in London, we went to Kensington Palace to see the exhibit of Princess Diana's dresses and one time we were in Paris, we went on an excursion to Versailles. We also went to Tsarskoye Selo (that's got the palace with the Amber Room in it) and Pavlovsk when we were in St Petersburg (the Russian one, not Florida).
Gonna have to say that Quasimodo being an Angel was far more stupid. That just came right the hell out of nowhere. But you know the real secret of Anastasia? She was killed by Dingos, and I can't wait to examine that corpse later.
not gonna lie, if they scrapped the anastasia plot, turned these characters original and flesh out the villains better, this could be a pretty passable movie. ana herself is cute, her exchanges with vlad are actually pretty funny, there's potential ruined by the absolutely OFFENSIVE butchering of the romanov story. ofc it wouldn't be perfect. passable, ok, but not perfect. honestly the story of a girl who lost her family only for their spirits to be trapped in instruments can be a great idea, just as long as you don't use real people and call the tsar "a really nice guy".
just saying, the Bluth version was better in several ways. Better animation (obvs), better story, Rasputin was actually a good villain and kinda fit with the history of the Romanovi (and he was kinda demonized as an evil man and a sorcerer BEFORE the fall of the Czars, even if he died LOOOONG before it), good songs, and I THINK they at least TRIED to do a fairly accurate depiction of what actually happened, only adding fantastical elements. Also, I don't think anyone, including the fake Anastasia, knew that she WAS a fake until fairly recently.
I couldn't agree less. While the bluth version was defiently well crafted on a technical level the actual story, inacurries or included or excluded, was fairly lack luster and really is only better then do it going overboard on the fantastical elements.
The villain song is the reason why the villain of this movie is better than Hans from Frozen. Hans doesn't even have a villain song. "Love Is an Open Door" doesn't count.
It still is actually=) I don`t think we should pay attention to these details, it`s all entirely fucked up, I`m Russian, so the first seizure stroke me when he pronounced her name\patronomic name\surname))
My God! This was one of the best non-Dingo reviews yet! I loved all the little easter eggs. I laughed out loud at the lion. Mr. Phelous you are gifted with (among other things) comedic timing. As for the movie itself, just goes to show you that no matter how controversial Don Bluth or Disney or DreamWorks or whatever may be with some of their movies, it could always be so much worse (and often is, with the help of Dingo or Golden Films).
It makes me happy that there's one version out there that doesn't have Rasputin being a sorcerer who was behind the killing of the Romanovs. By their very nature any 'Anastasia survives' movie has to be historically inaccurate, and that's fine, but it seems a bit ridiculous for all the Anastasia movies to universally decide to blame a guy who died two years prior. I appreciate that this movie decided to come up with their own historical inaccuracies to really make this movie their own. Aside from all those things they ripped off from the Bluth version.
I think Don Bluth made Rasputin the villain because of that alleged ‘curse’ he put on Russia for the event of his death that apparently matches the events of the rest of the century.
The thing is, that's explained in the Bluth movie, as far as I remember, but not in any other movie which are all just ripping off Rasputin being the villain but not having any reason for it.
@@The3y3 It wasn't really a curse. He was more making a prophecy, stating that if he was assassinated by a commoner (which he nearly was), then Russia would achieve great prosperity and live in happiness, but if he were assassinated by a member of the nobility, the country would fall into ruin.
Prince Paul! Wait a second, he was the Prince Regent of Yugoslavia before WW2! Did the Soviets kill him and secretly replace him just to finish off Anastasia!?
Why does this movie's Czar Nicholas II look nothing like he did in reality? Come to think of it, none of the historical figures in this movie look much like their real-life counterparts.
PLEASE, review Freddie the Frog (a.k.a F.R.O.7)!!! This is too perfect for this world! [EDIT] For those who are not familiar with this masterpiece: It's a story about time travelling wizard prince turned into the frog by his evil aunt. Eventually he grows into human size anthropomorphic frog and becomes France's top secret agent. Wrap your head around that!
So here's a question that's been bugging me for some time: Why does the KGB want to kill Anastasia? She was a little girl when the revolution occurred(at least with how this movie tells it...), it's been 15-20 years since the rise of the Communist party, and she has no influence or claim to the seat of power. "Well, she's still a royal and could incite a rebellion as long as she lives." ...Well, in that case, ALL of the Romanovs and their relatives would be a threat, so why is there no effort to kill off the grandmother/aunt character and other family members that escaped? Why not just send HER into exile as well? "Well, she's a symbol of hope that the Romanovs could return to power." Again, the other family members could fit that role. In fact, ANY of them are more equipped for that role due to their power, wealth, and influence, while Anastasia's basically been a homeless orphan beggar all her life. Killing Anastasia would have just reignited the martyr status of the Romanovs for anyone opposing the party. In fact, it would be more to the party's advantage if "Prince Paul" DID marry Anastasia, thus turning her into a symbol of the party's power and influence, as they have inducted what was once of the Tsar's reign into their ranks and tarnished what was a symbol of those who still respected the Tsar. So basically, the murder of Anastasia in this movie would have been completely pointless and they wasted their time looking for her all those years. ...You know a movie's bad when a mad prophet-turned-sorcerer who has sold his soul in exchange for the power to enact revenge on the Romanovs during a time he shouldn't even be alive is the more logical story.
Okay, I am going to say this about magical talking objects. I know the concept has been around for years but it's sort of clear by now, and especially with the original release date of these movies, that they were copying the Beauty and the Beast (Disney) idea about the enchantment but I think the IMPORTANT thing those movies forgot was that while yeaaaa, talking objects are funny they were PEOPLE. CURSED PEOPLE. PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO BE HUMAN AND HAD THE SAME FATE AS THE BEAST IF HE WERE NOT TRANSFORMED BACK. Yes, it was funny and interesting to see the household of the castle turn into object they shared a theme with and it was nice to see Disney play with how they would act, move and behave as said object but throughout the movie their whole conflict was that if Belle could turn the Beast back into a human they would be freed as well. They had an OBJECTIVE and a fucking good reason to want to be freed. They weren't just goofy magical things that Belle could talk to. They were actual CHARACTERS that had actual connection to the story, even if they were not in the two leading roles. Movies like this shit wipe that out of the fucking window and just put in magical objects to HAVE magical objects because they can't think of anything else to do. Yes, Bluth's version of this movie had a lot of weird shit and was inaccurate as fuck but at least with Bartok he was ONE thing who's main goal was to be a comedic relief and that was it. There were not a million of him and one could argue that being a bat made sense in how they were depicting Rasputin as a creepy old warlock. It was stupid but even that had more thought put into it than these rip-offs inserting random talking objects that do nothing to further the plot or even feel like they have a real connection to whatever character they are with, protagonist or antagonist. BUT....HOLY AND SHIT. HOLY AND SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ENDING! You know what? Fuck The Legend of the Titanic and those movies! THIS! THIS IS IT BOY! You want to know why this is worse than those? Yes, the Titanic movies did have talking mice and the other one said NO ONE DIED but this one is fucking insulting in the fact that it claims that the Romanovs were TURNED INTO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. TURNED INTO TALKING OBJECTS! And they had magical powers and the only thing that was keeping them on Earth was NOT TO reveal who they were but they have magical Jesus powers to bring people back to life! THAT is worse than saying no one on the Titanic died! That is WORSE because it's taking the horrific MURDER of an actual family and sugar coating it by ripping of both the Bluth film AND Beauty and the Beast from Disney. And they didn't even get the FAMILY MEMBER NUMBER RIGHT! There were more than just three children! THERE WERE FIVE but they only Anastia and then two siblings?! ( *NERVOUS BREAKDOWN IN PROGRESS* )
About Vladimir falling in the water and immediately passing out. I did hear in the documentary series Hidden Killers that if a person falls in cold water there is a natural reaction of inhaling because of the cold. But yeah lets be honest. The makers of this movie don't know that. So probably as little thinking went in to that scene as the rest of this.
13:55 Vladimir: "The very *first* thing you must learn is how to hold your head." Anastasia: "I intend to hold it on top of my neck." (siiiiiigh) That line deserves to be in a better film than this garbage.
21:57 Russian Cobra Commander looks bald at the beginning but when it's revealed he was pretending to be a prince, his hair shows through his hat and scarf.... what?
"You thought it was a Russian Prince...BUT IT WAS I, DIO!!!!" Actually, I do want to see a JoJo that takes place during the Russian Revolution now. X_x Since we know so little about Joseph's Dad.
Is no one going to mention the fact that Vladdercakes *has* to be pushing 50 (unless he was an extremely young "general") and by definition, Ana would have been a child when he was a general in the army? Definitely makes the romance even creepier.
I didnt think it would be worse than the Hunchback's Secret but... wow. And the twist wouldn't be so obvious if they didn't spend so much time showing you what Anastasia's family looked like and then showing the instruments soon after.
Vladimir was in the Tsar's army as a grown man when the Tsar died.... Anastasia was a little girl when her father died.... Oh God. Oh God! OH GOD, NO! OOOOOOHHHH MMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYY GGGGGGOOOOOOODDDD, NNNNOOOOOOOOO! DO YOU HAVE NO SHAME, UAV?!?!
The Romanovs were executed in Yekaterinburg, which is many miles east of Moscow in Siberia across the Ural Mountains. Also, my wife (a Russian) sometimes buys red caviar in small metal shoe polish-like tins: it's orange.
"Goofinov" is such a terrible yet hilariously appropriate pseudo-Russian name for a piece of kid's media I'm kinda surprised I haven't ever heard it before. On an unrelated note, the 90s kid's show "Road Rovers" got in trouble with the moral busybodies one time because of a joke on Russian naming conventions: it was explained to one character by another that to "make a name sound Russian" you just added the suffix "-ovich" to the person's actual name. The joke? One of the characters was named "Sonov." So..."Sonovovich." I liked those kind of jokes kid's shows used to make back then. They'd usually go over the head of little kids, but adults could chuckle at them. Rocko's Modern Life did it all the time.
I never get tired of watching these Anastasia reviews. You did a great job on them, Phelous, and you got me interested in learning more about Anastasia and her family.
Since it was revealed that Anastasia didn't survive, all Anastasia-based movies that have her alive might as well be an alternate reality. If Anastasia's true faith was revealed much earlier, maybe none of the Anastasia animated movies would have existed.
Or the live action ones. Before seeing Phelous' reviews, I used to think Bluth's Anastasia was the only movie based on her life. I was thinking that the story of the Romanovs would make a great movie, albeit a dark and sad one. But there is an Anastasia movie from the '50s, and there was even a movie about Rasputin. So I guess we have Anna Anderson to thank for keeping Anastasia's memory alive. If she hadn't tried to impersonate her, she and the rest of her family might have been long forgotten by now.
I remember when the Fox movie Anastasia was released I wanted to see it and instead of taking me to the movies my mom decided to rent Anastasia at the video store. Imagine my surprise when I saw that it wasn't the movie I wanted, so this movie isn't one of my favorites. I remember but not exactly fondly
Most historians reject the idea that the Romanovs became talking instruments after their deaths, but it's nice to see some documentaries take the minority view.
Wabuu: most of the historians who reject this idea are soooooooooooooooo stuuuuuuuuuu-😒 I don't wanna finish because it's sound to reject this ridiculous idea.
I mean, everyone knows that the Dingo version is the one and only true story of Anastasia. Wait a sec! Who wrote this 💩? No, no it isn't the true story of Anastasia.
Well it is kind of stupid.
I guess two of Anastasia's sisters decided to immediately go to Heaven instead of turning into talking instruments.
Olga and Maria didn't deserve this fate. They got lucky. Well, granted, none of the Romanovs did. Not even Tsar Nicolas II, even though the only half-decent thing about him was that he was apparently a good father (and literally nothing else.) But hey, at least Rasputin was also spared in this.
I bet one of them was the drum they destroyed at the beggining. Still got lucky to not be involved with the plot.
Not sure making the super-Christian and austere Tatiana into a posh bully is a step up
what I want to know if the accordion still has hemophilia
Given the choice, I would rather enter the Kingdom of God than be turned into a viola or a maracas...
Ra Ra Rasputin
Not appearing in this film.
He looked at the script and said "I'd rather die."
That's why most movies based on Anastasia suck-none of them include that song
smurvin especially the turisas version
gunmunz He said he'd rather get shot, whacked over the head, poisoned and thrown out into the cold for 3 days, survive, then drown in a puddle.
You win all of the internets
Ra Ra Rasputin, forced in every Russian thing
Golden films had him win the throne!
Ra Ra Rasputin, got to kill the king and queen
They had the Soviets throw him a bone!
That twist was instrumental to the story.
Way to end on a high note!
Mustardy Girl I think the twist fell a bit flat.
Man, you're all really sharp with your assessments.
I hate you all e_e
(jk I love puns)
I'm guessing you minor in comedy.
"And this Tsar, who was really nice once you got to know him" - Oh yeah, he was great guy. He was responsible for the events of Bloody Sunday, he foolishly pushed his country into war that they couldn't win and his aristocratic pride and ignorance lead to the rise of Communism and the death of nearly his entire family. What a nice guy! XP
... too nice, if you ask me...
At least he was very good crowns and street cats shooter(no joking here- that was his hobby or something...)
Tho to be fair a lot of problems attributed to Nicholas the II were actually set in motion by the previous czar, Alexander the III, boneheaded decisions to revoke a good number of reforms made by Alexander the II. There by pissing people off and putting more responsibly, work, and power onto Nicholas the II
He's just too quirky ^0^
Bloody sunday, going to war with japan then the Axes, speech repression, promising governers with their own part of the government, taking it away, repressing the people again, shooting the people, they just overthrew him because they felt like it, surely not for being yet another tyrant showing the outdated nature of inbred royals.
for a man who spent 20 years in a trunk in Russia he sure does have a good tan
Not to mention his posture is still perfect.
And he must've brought some shaving cream and razors with him too to keep that stache.
Nell Ross You would think he would look like a Pale Hunchback, with his rib cage able to be seen through his skin due to starvation
Or he'd be dead and just a skeleton, but he needed to be there because..... Plot convenience!
Dr Strangelove A hunchback, you say?
*Vlad sprouts wings and flies away*.
That was the true secret all along!
Nell Ross I don't get it.
At first, I assumed the instruments weren't really alive and were just Anastasia coping with her families death, but I put too much faith into this movie to have a clever twist.
Lol I figured her family possessed the instruments upon her death
Kinda like you were hopin' this would be sensitive too?
that wouldn't explain how they can eat actual food 😂
like how 20 years of isolation inside the former palace caused her to hallucinate personalities for the musical instruments, the only things that staved off her suicidal tendencies?
I think that’s what a lot of people were hoping the gargoyles were in Disney’s Hunchback of Norte Dame. I liked Laverne as a motherly guardian type who encouraged and comforted him. Hugo was cool, I liked his mannerisms and the way he spoke but Victor should have been toned down and remove the song “A guy like you”, since it served only to break poor Quasi’s heart.
I still can't get over how the villain guy starts wagging his fingers in rhythm as the music intro for his song starts.
Banjo Peppers I know.
He can hear it too~
I keep expecting Knuckles the Echidna to take over his voice and sing "How dare you try to infiltrate my home in hopes you may steal my precious jewels." Look up Sonic shorts, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
My friend and I called it the metronome dance
Iconic
Of course the Czar could turn his family into musical instruments. He may have been an average ruler, but he was a brilliant scientist.
geardog24 SSSCCCIIIIIEEEENNNNCCCCEEEEE......
but an average ruler. Hence the revolutions
The Soviets would have killed Anastasia...too bad it's Sunday
Tareltonlives I can see (not)Prince Paul's lifevest he's okay
Funny thing to, the Soviets actually persecuted and killed a lot of Genetics scientists, for allegedly supporting a capitalist and religious science.
The "twist" should have been that Vladimir was the bad guy and really Joseph Stalin in disguise. I mean, he's got the moustache for it.
no no actually that'd make perfect sense, it would explain why some ex soldier wearing the imperial uniform was allowed to wander around russia this whole time IT WAS A DISGUISE FOR THE REAL VILLAIN-
Alas, that would have required even a shred of creativity
Lol now THAT would be a secret
Then he should have been a little bit shorter and chubbier. And yeah, then he'll look exactly the same😆
Lol, I thought Vladimir looked like Stalin.
As a Russian I must say that this is f*cking insulting. Of course, original Anastasia movie wasn't historically accurate either, but at least it had some respect for Russian culture, not to mention its attention to details, great visuals and music. But this stupid flick with wacky narrators and talking instruments? Total disgrace.
Also, this movie makes everything look so generic. Anastasia's family looks nothing like they did in real life, never mind that two sisters are missing. As someone else said, Nicholas II here looks more like Alexander III, Anastasia's grandfather. Also, the family lived in St. Petersburg, not Moscow.
Don Bluth's Anastasia Wasn't that accurate..... But it was still a Don Bluth Film, the visuals would be amazing and songs would be catchy and fun. Also Christopher lloyd as Rasputin is like the best thing
The historical accuracy in THIS was so unbelievably outrageous that I could not watch the whole thing. I honestly can't help but feel embarrassed. The horror!!!
@@Sonichero151 the story wasn't accurate, yeah, but at the same time it was respectful: at the time Anastasia's body hadn't been found yet, so it was normal for people to romanticize the idea of one of the poor children of the Romanov's managing to run and finding a happy ending. Also, Bluth's version didn't transform the Romanov's into musical instruments.
The Romanovs are rolling in the ground of Siberia!!! Damn it Secret of series!!! 💢
I can't believe Frozen ripped this off with its villain story
Nicholas Pirrelli Same here. Though at least in this movie the villain does look more like Dio Brando than Hans in Frozen (who only sound like him).
BAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah, it was stupid there, too
Ah yes the twist that Elsa was really Sub-zero and Anna was Scorpion, who then kidnapped Olaf, and jumped in a portal while shouting "SUCKERS!" Elsa "I'm letting let this one go" walks away not to be see for the rest of the movie.
dio? DIIIIIOOOOO!!!!! sorry, i had to do it
*to be continued*
I love how a guy wearing imperial uniform raises absolutely no suspicion whatsoever.
And how a bunch of communists in uniform raise no suspicion arresting people in foreign countries.
@@ashur24 Well, that makes sense... A little. Cheka (main villains) could actually arresting RUSSIAN people, who's "Enemy of people", like Anastasia; sure, they couldn't kill them, but they could arrest them and back to Russia and there kill them (that's why Russian Cobra Commander didn't kill her, because he can't do this).
Although, I still can't understand WHY he couldn't arrest her soon as she become "his princess"? That would make more sense, if Paul and Russian Commander were actually two different villains: First one - trying to save his ass and get Anastasia's money, Second one - arrest and kill her.
The fact that Vladimir emerges from the suitcase after Anastasia's tear falls down makes me think that either Vladimir was a corpse stuffed into the suitcase and got revived by Anastasia's tears (explains his outfit and lack of knowledge about last 20 years), or Anastasia is slowly freezing & starving to death on that train and this is some pre-death hallucinating.
...hey, don't look at me like that. If the writers insist on writing nonsense and leaving plotholes, nobody should be surprised I fill them with some real morbid stuff.
I actually like the corpse idea. Makes more sense then him just being some random soldier.
the suitcase was an egg, he hatched with some genetic memory
Alternative explanation: He's a living mannequin/manifestation of the Stranger who somehow got lost from the Circus of the Other which was touring in Russia at this point and is wearing the skin of a Russian soldier whom he murdered. After the film he kills Anastasia and steals her skin and identity in a similar manner,
This makes a lot of sense. Another thing I noticed is how tf would he have been a general? Wouldn’t he then be like into his 50s or 60s then at least if he was made a general before the Tsar was killed?
@@d.dodebier7825 What.
Surprisingly, I grew up watching this version of Anastasia. As a child I did not even know that Don Bluth's adaption existed. The more I look back on the films of my childhood, the more I realized how susceptible my parents were to buying knock-off versions of popular movies.
"Don't tell her! We'll have to go if you tell her."
I like how this is just completely brushed off. Not even responded to. Like the mom basically made the decision to kill the entire family and didn't even for one second consider that her son, or the others, may not want her to.
The Hunchback twist is still more insane. I'm still reeling from the fact that he sprouted angel wings and flew into the sun.
That one's honestly a better twist, insanity aside. It was better hidden and only hinted at a few times (healing powers and something white hidden in the hunched back.
Was alluded to better and...
well, even the movie was better than this~
XD I lost it when the lion shouted "My god!". And it was hilarious when Russian Cobra Commander sported fangs for a moment, I was like " Huh so I guess the secret in this movie was that it's villain is actually a werewolf!".
Oh boy... As a Russian, here we go.
I really love that he found a Russian Mtn Dew bottle for 6:29, but yeah, never saw Doritos in Russia.
The Russian TMNT books in the background are a nice touch.
8:17 Most Russian uniforms are green. Why is the general a red coat? Also, depending how much time has passed after the murder of the Tsar family he should be either fighting in the Civil War or be in France, in immigration.
12:43 - 1920-1930s Russia, placing an order like that would surely give you away as a part of the bourgeois class. The NKVD is on its way.
13:19 - That's a cello.
25:23 - Tatania? Tatania? Did they mean Tatiana?
"Tatania" is even more fun if you speak Polish, "ta tania" translates to "the cheap one" :P
Also, why aren't Olga and Maria instruments. I guess they preferred to die rather than being instruments.
We have Doritos. XD
Only, not NKVD, but CHEKA.
Lmao i also noticed Tatania
@@user-zd8zm6uh6b When did it become the OGPU?
Damn. I was hoping the secret was that she had a psychotic break after witnessing her family get killed and just imprinted their identities onto musical instruments as she went further into madness after living alone in the palace where they died for 20 years.
To be fair, Rasputin was 'believed' to be a wizard by the Queen who would often 'heal' the sick. And was apparently super hard to kill. So most people sorta believed had made. It's just the Don Bluth movie, took above a level...
They tried to poisoned him 2 times, and when that didn't work they shot him and when that didn't work they put him in a bag and drowned him. A few hours later when they went to look if he died he died but not before he clawed his way out the back. Not to mention the fact that he told the Queen before he died that if he would be killed her family would not survive the year. And that's exactly what happened! Talk about scary 😣
TheDisneyLover58 wasn’t he less of a villain and more of a party animal?
Greatest Love machine in the dark of the night~
a friend of mine is convinced he was a wizard who's powers were fueled by sex
Before all that, they hired a deformed prostitute to kill him, who stabbed him in the stomach and pulled his intestines out.
Dear God, this is almost as insulting as Titanic the Legend Goes On and The Legend of the Titanic.
Dark Mountain Productions I remember in 6th grade a reviewer for Playstation magazine talked about the legend of the titanic cartoon. He wrote about it ripping off American Tale. I was pretty weirded out after watching it.
And.... as dumb
Phelous should do videos on both of those.
At least there weren't any rapping dogs in this movie.
@@FandubWorldall I can think about is Jontron's face when the dog started rapping. I would kill to see Phelous reaction too
I actually was stunned by this twist when watching the movie for the first time.
When I was 28..... 5 months ago....
*hides head in shame*
FarelForever Really? I called it the minute I heard one of the instruments call another one by NAME. I think that was a mistake on their part.
i kinda figured it out when by noticing the crown on the harp's head was similar to the one in Alexandra's portrait. I was like......."Oh, its one of these where the person takes the form of something or other to hide themselves for some reason until the big reveal" trope.
yeah, ok, guess I wasn't paying enough attenton :p
When I saw this review, I figured out the secret a minute after seeing the instruments.
Gonna need a senzu for that one.
I wish a movie would finally show what rasputin really was. A dark summoner who was able to summon creatures from Russian mythology, and he was also an android.
Day Man I just realized that Russian Cobra Commander is a Russian Orator... wait, The Secret of Anastasia was released in the late 90's... He's Russian Mediator!
homesponge I don't see what that has to do with the fact that rasputin was historically an android that could summon demons but ok.
OK it seems 0 people got the reference.
pathfinder?
rasputin must die?
Fironnathedarkelf it's a reference to a game and I'll just copy some stuff from the wikia.
He crosses paths with Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV while Raidou is investigating the disappearance of Kaya Daidouji. Rasputin was apparently hired by General Munakata in order to insure that his Soulless Army plans went as they should, but he is actually an artificial human sent back in time from Tokyo Millennium to deal with the unknown events that are changing the past.
However, Rasputin's true purpose seems to fall down the ladder of priorities as he begins to behave like a lush, drinking and hitting on women. It is revealed he is also a time traveler from the future, apparently sent to maintain the timeline, but ignored his mission to pursue his own goals. By the end of the game it is implied Rasputin remains in Raidou's time to become more 'human'.
So after watching this I decided to actually look up what happened to the Romanovs and.... wow. It was horrible. Like yes, the Tsar was a horrible leader who led his people into ruin and got thousands of innocent lives killed, but the family didn't deserve that. Their murder was inhumane, messy, and unnecessary in the end. They were held prisoner in a house for several years after the uprising before being led into the basement under false circumstances and shot. Some of them weren't killed immediately and were stabbed multiple times before finally dying. The youngest, the son, was like 8 at the time. Their bodies were then dragged out into the woods (the women were groped and violated) and dumped in a mass grave.
Like, damn. That just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Well….that’s horrifying…… but yeah they didn’t deserve to be murdered😨 I have to assume Russian politics at that time was very complicated among the public or something
@@gracekim25There was also this little thing called THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. No shit things were complicated.
Damn. I understand being mad at the Tsar, but why did his family deserve punishment too? Guilt by association?
@@someguyontheinternet604 from what
I could tell the new communist party didn't want any of them to be martyred or idolized by the still active supporters of the royal line.
@@thetuftedpuffin1025 So it's kind of like the situation, where Oda Nobunaga ended up slaughtering an independent mini-nation of sorts, because a lot of its warriors were average folk, and therefore, made it harder for him to really decipher who was who, and therefore, leaving him with not much of a choice on the matter.
omg the secret better not be that the instruments are her family
ffs I was lowkey hoping that wouldn't be it smh
I kinda wish they had her sprout wings and fly like a moron
welp
Here's my theory. Someone wanted to cash in on Don Bluth's Anastasia but didn't realize it was inspired by true events.
Vladimir got all wet...he is completely useless now...HHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
It seems old man was right all along, don't get wet or else you'll die
CWDTrixie
Gotta admit, I found it really weird that Phelous didn't make that joke himself.
Probably cause it was either too obvious or he forgot.
I mean, Vladimir has been known to be descended from tea leaves, sooooooooo....
So did Rasputin. X_x
Come on, Phelous, you gotta talk about The Secret of Mulan now
But the secret of that movie is even MORE oblivious...
Wow, the "secret" movies are basically a trilogy...
im eagerly awaiting dalmations 3....were all going to need therapy after that
+overlookers Hey, no spoilers!
Actually overlookers, the "secret" is that she was a *butterfly*... And in her universe, the people of China are all human-caterpillar beings.
As a historical doctor of doctorology I must say that your understanding of the Daffy Duck War against the Nazi's is quite inadequate.
At least better that than Donald Duck dreaming being part of the Nazis. Daffy did something to Hitler more physically in his own cartoon unlike that duck who called him the n word.
I actually watched this movie when I was a kid, and I was completely convinced that it was Beauty and the Beast.
I was not the smartest child.
But now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
probaby because of the talking inanimate objects
This becomes a hell of a lot scarier when you imagine this and the Goodtimes Hunchback movie take place in the same universe.
Do Esmermelody's instruments also have the same gruesome origins as the ones in this movie?
Did these instruments also complain about how many stairs there were as they ascended the stairway to heaven at the end?
Does anybody really give a shit?
I suspect Esmermelody (being an immortal sorcerer) placed the souls of the Romanovs into the Instruments herself
So THAT explains the missing Romanov siblings!
*IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL MESSAAAAAAAAAAAGE!*
Ally Gator Animator nope nope nope that was goldenfilms not good times the other Anastasia movie would be in that universe with the stupid birds
@S.Y.U.20 My my, you're right. We've actually got to a point where there are so many crappy animated Hunchback movies that I'm getting them muddled up. That's a worrying thought.
The thing about this is that it could actually be a pretty good story if it cut out a lot of stuff. It could be a darker tale about how Anastasia was forced into hiding and had to work hard to find even the most basic necessities as famines hit her former homeland while she tires to move towards western Europe while being tracked by USSR spies. Shame they wasted the idea in favor of talking instruments and songs.
Plot twist, she's insane and has been hallucinating this while time.
Well...the woman who claimed to be Anastasia (Ana Anderson) was found in an asylum so not to out of the ordinary to assume that
Next "Secret of" movie is the secret of Humpty Dumpty. The secret is that the king's horses and men couldn't put him back together, but the necromancer did, and now he wants revenge...
No, the real secret was that he was secretly a golden egg all along... wait, Dreamworks already did that.
Spoiler alert:
Humpty Dumpty was a cannon. A sentient cannon with a huge stash of c'balls who now wants revenge!
I'd watch that!~
Here’s how the horses put Humpty Dumpty back together:
First, they go to the glue factory then they’re sent to the King’s men as glue.
I actually do kind of like Russian Cobra Commander's character design. :P
ThePreciseClimber i love it!
I think his design in Communist Mode is cool.
Hey! Phelous should have him as a regular guest character in his reviews. Then maybe he and Angry Joe's Cobra Commander can have a face off.
It actually is a pretty cool design. Too bad it's wasted on such a shit movie and mediocre "twist".
Where does his hair go though? I mean besides after he's revealed to be not-prince and he has the outfit back on.
At least the villain LOOKS cool.
Much better than Gaston with a curly mustache.
I still can't believe how blatant it was. It was seriously Gaston with a mustache, I'm shocked Disney never sued anybody.
I believe Disney did sued Good times at least two times, the first was about the misleading covers deliberately trying to confuse consumers thinking their the Disney ones, which lead for their dvds to clearly show that their Goodtimes movies. The other was to shut them down but Goodtimes used the public domain argument for their movies and won that case, though they still went bankrupt anyways.
Aly indeed.
Brandon Lyon
This may sound cruel, but boy I wish they had won that lawsuit because FUCK Good Times. They are nothing but cockroaches trying to get scraps from more talented people, and that goes to the successor Video Brinquido.
Nicholas II a "nice guy"? The guy who slaughtered an entire peaceful protest outside the Winter Palace? Not to mention he reigned during the second Age of Oppression of Finland where the Russian government tried to suppress the initially granted autonomy of Finland. "Nice guy" indeed...
NeoDragonCount He was a nice guy, once you got to know him.
Psh, this movie is on all the drugs.
Laura B This movie is like it was written by a friend of the czar
+Nakia11798 Well the U.S. at the time of the Russian Revolution was opposed to the communist takeover. So in a way, it was.
NeoDragonCount he also hated the Jews
Well.... he loved his children and was a good father and husband. To be fair, he was given NO prior training to being a Tsar. Alexander III just handed the title over to him and said, "there you go. You're the ruler of Russia now."
I can buy a child murderer stuffing the corpses of his victims into mascot suits, but the Russian royal family being turned into instruments? Suspension of disbelief: BROKEN!
At least the dead kids backstory makes sense
So, they ripped of Don Bluth and tried to cover themselves with a slightly more accurate sounding name(Which, by the way, they failed to do. The right emphasis should be on the last part of the name. But Phelous is correct, that's really is unimportant, I'm just not sure what they were going for) But the fact that her surname is Romanova is ignored. So now it sounds awkward in both languages. Good job UAV!
As a side note, the actual story of Anastasia is sad, tragic and, worst of all, real. It should be remembered of course, but I never truly understood why people would try to make a fairytale out of it. The entire Russian Civil War was full of so many twists, backstabbing and pointless deaths that I'm kinda surprised George R.R. Martin didn't used it for his books.
Never the less, great review Phelaus! Can't wait to see what other secrets lie ahead of us. Perhaps they involve a certain someone named Mulan?)
Because Disney can make fairy tales out of dark fantasy stories then why can't people make fairy tales out dark real world events. Aside from all the reasons they shouldn't.
Mmm well I assume these movies were made based on a myth about Anastasia surviving and people claiming they were her😅 I think 🤔
I mean Phelous mentioned that Anne fraud lady who claimed to be Anastasia which is what this movie and the Bluth one appears to be based on.
What’s CLEAR is these movies were at least written before it was known she didn’t survive 😅
@@gracekim25 also I think the fairytale was also made as a feel good fantasy story to uplift people
A darn shame indeed.
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMarioum maybe 😅
Vlad was either already fully grown when Anastasia was five, or he was the youngest soldier ever. Neither makes sense really.
Why do they assume that the woman they hear singing in the old palace is Anastasia? Isn't it more likely that she'd just a squatter living in a condemned building and therefor they'd have no reason to suspect that she's who they think she is?
Was I the only one rooting for the KGB agent? He had a cool design. He had the hindsight to look for the princesa at the palace. When she escaped, he inmediately knew where she will go and put a plan in motion that would result in his Motherland getting the Romanov's treasure. He had his rival beaten up not for being a threat, but for anoying him. And when he kipnaps the princess, he doesn't even give enough of a shit to put any emotion in his acting. He already won, why should he lower himself and continue to humor her? This is one cool villian.
I totally agree. His design is cool, and it’s actually pretty funny when they dudes come to kidnap her.
He's not KGB. He's Chekist - employee of the All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage.
@@user-zd8zm6uh6b I'm sure he must be a NKVD commander because I'm sure this movie takes place after Cheka was replaced by NKVD and before NKVD was replaced by KGB.
At leas they got one other thing right, not using Rasputin as the villain, as you pointed out that he died before the execution of the Romanovs.
Even the higher quality Don Blurh production couldn't get that right .. it's kinda scary when lower quality animations are more historically accurate, like dingo picture 😱
To be fair, he was a magic zombie in that one, so they were kind of right!
Hey I know you, I played TF2 with you
@@LakinMae5 mmm good point he’s technically dead in the bluth one
@@MrOrcshaman the Dingo Picture one still used Rasputin as a villain and even had him alive, at least the Don Bluth one had him killed and for most of the movie he was a sorcerer zombie. While they moved when it happened, they even got it right by including part of how he died by having him fall into a frozen river at the beginning of the movie. While it was a dumb plot point, it is still much better than what Dingo pictures tried to do with Rasputin which was have him actually murder the Romanovs with a comically large bomb.
Spoiler alert it ends with a bloody massacre at a house in Yekaterinburg and their bodies dumped in the woods.
And burned
But it's okay, since it's Guffinov doing it and his wacky talking bayonet sidekick!
This movie isn't just insulting to viewers and their intelligence and historical knowledge. ITS INSULTING TO THE REAL ROMANOV FAMILY. I AM APPALLED.
Wow, that narrator treats the audience like absolute idiots. I hate that so much.
To be fair, idiots and nearsighted grandmas WOULD be the types to pick up this movie.
"Anastasia" also looks like a blatant rip off of Ariel, ironically.
Hmm.
Ana is a natural red-head, Ariel has more coral red hair. Eh, close enough!
Plus, in France, The Little Mermaid 3 was called The Secret of the Little Mermaid !
Especially with that red hair. I don't even think the Anastasia's hair was that bright colored
@@shimyku7820 wait really?
@@gracekim25 Yes, really.
And The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 2 was subtitled "The Secret of Quasimodo" too.
She was 17, that can't be right. In Shadow Hearts 2 she was a little girl and survived because she followed the demon fighting Samurai she had a crush on around when the coup took place. I think that's pretty much what happened historically as well.
Kaefer1973 nope, look it up, she was 17. Think most of these adaptations make her younger yo add to the tragedy of her family being killed and in some cases to explain why she doesn't remember everything
So that was the part of my post that was historically inaccurate? Okay.
Kaefer1973 yesh, it's weird that they keep making her a little girl in the beginning but I guess they want her to be a young woman in the story and for not much time to pass - but enough to have some memory loss occur, this film is still pretty insulting
Kaefer1973 and I'm more likely to believe your tale of events than this films lol
How does Russian Cobra Commander lose his hair and ears when he's in his uniform?
The Secret of Anastasia? It wasn't even hers secret at all. More like The Secret of the Romanovs.
The lack of subtlety truly hurt the secret of the movie and the NKVD commander being a twist villain.
At least the NKVD commander is one of the twist villains who have villain songs.
Did someone at UAV really think that turning the Romanovs into instruments was the funniest thing ever?
Narrator: "Tsar was like a king" Me: "Actually, the term tsar literally means emperor"
But the tsars were in fact kings and even grand dukes, the Kings of Poland and the Grand Dukes of Finland.
Also Tsar Nicholas wasn't really a nice guy especially to the jews
Alexis's portrait makes him seem pretty spry, considering he was a hemophiliac.
I just discovered that Enrico Casarosa, the director of the upcoming Pixar film “Luca”, worked on this tripe as a character and background designer.
Well, at least he’s moved on to better work.
Heck I loved Luca...about the closest Disney/Pixar can get in approximating the feel of a Studio Ghibli film
Makes me wonder if Pixar's HR team overlooked him ripping off Beauty & The Beast here...
Oh my God, I am eagerly anticipating a review of The Secret of Mulan now.
Loli Buster Worse, lol
Alfie Uke Burger Jones Yee. I even tried watching it. Strong drugs and alcohol are not enough to get through it. DX
Still waiting
@@bundleization Thank goodness we have it now. And the secret is there is no secret!
@@1Thunderfire the real secret was the friends we made along the way
Only 7 minutes in the review and I can already call the twist. The musical instruments are her family.
Yup.
They even looked the part!!
Wait you have a TH-cam account?!
New Phelous animated review. Time to drop everything I was doing.
At least this version didn't have a song where the Russian people hope for the restoration of the royal family that lived in obscene wealth while they all starved.
I have a lot of schoolwork to do, but Phelous made a new video so I don't mind being behind.
Lady Marmalade as long as it wasn't you performing surgery...
Lady Marmalade Hopefully you weren't holding a shot-put ball.
You can actually see musical instruments who are alive in Russia; you just have to drink a lot of vodka :D
This whole movie is just Ana's drunk nightmares
@Shwah Gamers that’s actually not a bad idea. Like Anastasia’s been drinking alone in the palace and is hallucinating the entire thing.
7:40 Oh, no. The instruments are probably going to be her family.
Nicole Schoenhoft yep
sweetcinnamonpnchkin Straight up shyamalan right there.
Nicole Schoenhoft it feels like the same amount of respect as the animated Titanic movies.
sweetcinnamonpnchkin Well, yeah. All these movies essentially make light of tragedies.
it was it was better use for the instruments than the Hunchback ones. :P
Now let’s get ready for The Secret of King Arthur, where the Sword in the Stone was a superweapon developed by an alien civilization thousands of years in the future, and Merlin was actually a robot from the future sent back to retrieve it! Oh, and King Arthur was actually a hot anime swordswoman all along!
...Wait a minute.
You know, seeing how the Arthurian legends have been incorporated into popular culture, I wouldn't be surprised if there was something like what you're describing.
+French Paul 1988
The last bit was a reference to Fate/Stay Night, where King Arthur really is a hot anime swordswoman. And you can romance her. It’s good stuff.
Hey don't call out Ben 10 like that.
TITANIA??! Not only did they left Olga and Maria out, but they changed Tatiana's name.
Actually it's a good thing that Olga and Maria were left out.
@@madsceptictrooper6803 I'm guessing they felt superfluous, plus that would mean more characters to make and more voice actors to hire. It's why Disney made Belle an only child and why many Disney Renaissance Princesses were not given a mother.
And changed the birth order. Alexei was younger than Anastasia (and the youngest child) in real life, here he's older. Though it does make me wonder what instruments Maria and Olga would have ended up as.
@@0deadx21 From what I read, Belle's sisters were omitted so the audience wouldn't confuse it with Cinderella (both having two older (step)sisters who bully them). Not sure if that's true. And there were very few mothers in early Disney movies because supposedly Walt Disney had a strained relationship with his own mother.
@@FandubWorld it makes the most sense to me
To be perfectly fair, many people would probably assume that after 20 years, the secret police would’ve given up.
I hope this movie was never released in Russia. The Romanovs are literal SAINTS there.
Seconded: my wife is Russian and she's very into monarchy stuff.
One time we were in London, we went to Kensington Palace to see the exhibit of Princess Diana's dresses and one time we were in Paris, we went on an excursion to Versailles.
We also went to Tsarskoye Selo (that's got the palace with the Amber Room in it) and Pavlovsk when we were in St Petersburg (the Russian one, not Florida).
4:34 “Nope, I hate it! It’s probably a little better…” probably my favorite bit ^__^
"czar nicolas was a really nice guy when you got to know him" i'm sure the starving and impoverished masses who suffered under his rule felt the same
Well they just didnt know him
Gonna have to say that Quasimodo being an Angel was far more stupid. That just came right the hell out of nowhere. But you know the real secret of Anastasia? She was killed by Dingos, and I can't wait to examine that corpse later.
1TrulyMad killed by dingoes? I presume Wabuu had a lead in that
Spoons McGee
Wabuu: These comments sections of TH-cam are so stupid!
For yooouuuuuu...
Killed by Dingos? Muh God!
She ultimately died when the pain resulting from the injuries became too much to bear (Anastasia passes out) **insert wanh wanh music**
not gonna lie, if they scrapped the anastasia plot, turned these characters original and flesh out the villains better, this could be a pretty passable movie. ana herself is cute, her exchanges with vlad are actually pretty funny, there's potential ruined by the absolutely OFFENSIVE butchering of the romanov story. ofc it wouldn't be perfect. passable, ok, but not perfect.
honestly the story of a girl who lost her family only for their spirits to be trapped in instruments can be a great idea, just as long as you don't use real people and call the tsar "a really nice guy".
25:39 that right there is the elephant in the room for any adaption of Anastasia. These were real people!
just saying, the Bluth version was better in several ways. Better animation (obvs), better story, Rasputin was actually a good villain and kinda fit with the history of the Romanovi (and he was kinda demonized as an evil man and a sorcerer BEFORE the fall of the Czars, even if he died LOOOONG before it), good songs, and I THINK they at least TRIED to do a fairly accurate depiction of what actually happened, only adding fantastical elements. Also, I don't think anyone, including the fake Anastasia, knew that she WAS a fake until fairly recently.
Very well said. :-) Couldn't agree more!
I couldn't agree less. While the bluth version was defiently well crafted on a technical level the actual story, inacurries or included or excluded, was fairly lack luster and really is only better then do it going overboard on the fantastical elements.
@@fightingmedialounge519still a better story than this 🤷♂️
The Villain Song is probably the best thing that came from this Movie
The villain song is the reason why the villain of this movie is better than Hans from Frozen. Hans doesn't even have a villain song.
"Love Is an Open Door" doesn't count.
Also, the Winterpalace was in St. Petersburg.
It still is actually=) I don`t think we should pay attention to these details, it`s all entirely fucked up, I`m Russian, so the first seizure stroke me when he pronounced her name\patronomic name\surname))
1 minute and people have already thumbed up. Now that's what I call dedication.
We just knew it was gonna be good.
Bane Knightfall Some of the comments are from two weeks ago. He posts reviews early for patreons.
"Liking videos before watching? Wake up sheeple!"
And as you know it is physically impossible to change your vote once you make it. Why? Because Raspoutine will kill you.
My God! This was one of the best non-Dingo reviews yet! I loved all the little easter eggs. I laughed out loud at the lion. Mr. Phelous you are gifted with (among other things) comedic timing.
As for the movie itself, just goes to show you that no matter how controversial Don Bluth or Disney or DreamWorks or whatever may be with some of their movies, it could always be so much worse (and often is, with the help of Dingo or Golden Films).
It makes me happy that there's one version out there that doesn't have Rasputin being a sorcerer who was behind the killing of the Romanovs. By their very nature any 'Anastasia survives' movie has to be historically inaccurate, and that's fine, but it seems a bit ridiculous for all the Anastasia movies to universally decide to blame a guy who died two years prior. I appreciate that this movie decided to come up with their own historical inaccuracies to really make this movie their own. Aside from all those things they ripped off from the Bluth version.
I think Don Bluth made Rasputin the villain because of that alleged ‘curse’ he put on Russia for the event of his death that apparently matches the events of the rest of the century.
@@The3y3 oh ok that does make some sense
The thing is, that's explained in the Bluth movie, as far as I remember, but not in any other movie which are all just ripping off Rasputin being the villain but not having any reason for it.
@@The3y3 It wasn't really a curse. He was more making a prophecy, stating that if he was assassinated by a commoner (which he nearly was), then Russia would achieve great prosperity and live in happiness, but if he were assassinated by a member of the nobility, the country would fall into ruin.
The bad guy just carries around a framed picture of himself for when he's ready to sing his evil charming prince song to Anastasia. That goofin'off!
I watched this as a child and had a crush on the villain. I've never been so ashamed of myself
I watched it as an adult and kinda have a crush on the villain lmao
Prince Paul! Wait a second, he was the Prince Regent of Yugoslavia before WW2! Did the Soviets kill him and secretly replace him just to finish off Anastasia!?
Why does this movie's Czar Nicholas II look nothing like he did in reality? Come to think of it, none of the historical figures in this movie look much like their real-life counterparts.
They couldn't be bothered to do that much research.
As soon as I saw the instruments, I thought, "Are those *supposed* to look like her dead family members?"
PLEASE, review Freddie the Frog (a.k.a F.R.O.7)!!! This is too perfect for this world!
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For those who are not familiar with this masterpiece: It's a story about time travelling wizard prince turned into the frog by his evil aunt. Eventually he grows into human size anthropomorphic frog and becomes France's top secret agent. Wrap your head around that!
I...suddenly want to see this.
Made in England in the 1990s.
So here's a question that's been bugging me for some time: Why does the KGB want to kill Anastasia? She was a little girl when the revolution occurred(at least with how this movie tells it...), it's been 15-20 years since the rise of the Communist party, and she has no influence or claim to the seat of power.
"Well, she's still a royal and could incite a rebellion as long as she lives."
...Well, in that case, ALL of the Romanovs and their relatives would be a threat, so why is there no effort to kill off the grandmother/aunt character and other family members that escaped? Why not just send HER into exile as well?
"Well, she's a symbol of hope that the Romanovs could return to power."
Again, the other family members could fit that role. In fact, ANY of them are more equipped for that role due to their power, wealth, and influence, while Anastasia's basically been a homeless orphan beggar all her life. Killing Anastasia would have just reignited the martyr status of the Romanovs for anyone opposing the party. In fact, it would be more to the party's advantage if "Prince Paul" DID marry Anastasia, thus turning her into a symbol of the party's power and influence, as they have inducted what was once of the Tsar's reign into their ranks and tarnished what was a symbol of those who still respected the Tsar.
So basically, the murder of Anastasia in this movie would have been completely pointless and they wasted their time looking for her all those years. ...You know a movie's bad when a mad prophet-turned-sorcerer who has sold his soul in exchange for the power to enact revenge on the Romanovs during a time he shouldn't even be alive is the more logical story.
STOP ASKING QUESTIONS OLD MAN.
Okay, I am going to say this about magical talking objects. I know the concept has been around for years but it's sort of clear by now, and especially with the original release date of these movies, that they were copying the Beauty and the Beast (Disney) idea about the enchantment but I think the IMPORTANT thing those movies forgot was that while yeaaaa, talking objects are funny they were PEOPLE.
CURSED PEOPLE.
PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO BE HUMAN AND HAD THE SAME FATE AS THE BEAST IF HE WERE NOT TRANSFORMED BACK.
Yes, it was funny and interesting to see the household of the castle turn into object they shared a theme with and it was nice to see Disney play with how they would act, move and behave as said object but throughout the movie their whole conflict was that if Belle could turn the Beast back into a human they would be freed as well. They had an OBJECTIVE and a fucking good reason to want to be freed. They weren't just goofy magical things that Belle could talk to. They were actual CHARACTERS that had actual connection to the story, even if they were not in the two leading roles.
Movies like this shit wipe that out of the fucking window and just put in magical objects to HAVE magical objects because they can't think of anything else to do. Yes, Bluth's version of this movie had a lot of weird shit and was inaccurate as fuck but at least with Bartok he was ONE thing who's main goal was to be a comedic relief and that was it. There were not a million of him and one could argue that being a bat made sense in how they were depicting Rasputin as a creepy old warlock. It was stupid but even that had more thought put into it than these rip-offs inserting random talking objects that do nothing to further the plot or even feel like they have a real connection to whatever character they are with, protagonist or antagonist.
BUT....HOLY AND SHIT.
HOLY AND SHIT!
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ENDING!
You know what? Fuck The Legend of the Titanic and those movies! THIS! THIS IS IT BOY!
You want to know why this is worse than those? Yes, the Titanic movies did have talking mice and the other one said NO ONE DIED but this one is fucking insulting in the fact that it claims that the Romanovs were TURNED INTO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
TURNED INTO TALKING OBJECTS!
And they had magical powers and the only thing that was keeping them on Earth was NOT TO reveal who they were but they have magical Jesus powers to bring people back to life!
THAT is worse than saying no one on the Titanic died! That is WORSE because it's taking the horrific MURDER of an actual family and sugar coating it by ripping of both the Bluth film AND Beauty and the Beast from Disney. And they didn't even get the FAMILY MEMBER NUMBER RIGHT! There were more than just three children! THERE WERE FIVE but they only Anastia and then two siblings?!
( *NERVOUS BREAKDOWN IN PROGRESS* )
I would say saying no one died is more disrespectful then saying they did die but the souls remained on earth. At least one acknowledges the tragedy.
@@fightingmedialounge519 OOOOOOOOOH. Touche. Painfully true touche.
About Vladimir falling in the water and immediately passing out. I did hear in the documentary series Hidden Killers that if a person falls in cold water there is a natural reaction of inhaling because of the cold. But yeah lets be honest. The makers of this movie don't know that. So probably as little thinking went in to that scene as the rest of this.
13:55
Vladimir: "The very *first* thing you must learn is how to hold your head."
Anastasia: "I intend to hold it on top of my neck."
(siiiiiigh) That line deserves to be in a better film than this garbage.
"Grandmama, it iss me, Annatassia."
Come On! Come On! Do the Secret of Mulan please! PS: AWWWWWWWW, CUTE KITTY!
SuperMega GamerHD yes, now he has to do the secret of mulan. pretty please with a cherry on top :3
Is there really a movie by that name?
LadyEvilest Yes, there is!
LadyEvilest yep made by the same people who made this movie. if you watch phelous' review of the secret of the hunchback he mentions it.
He needs to complete the "Secret" trilogy.
21:57 Russian Cobra Commander looks bald at the beginning but when it's revealed he was pretending to be a prince, his hair shows through his hat and scarf.... what?
16:40
oh boy, I didnt know Dio Brando was part of the Anastasia story
"You thought it was a Russian Prince...BUT IT WAS I, DIO!!!!"
Actually, I do want to see a JoJo that takes place during the Russian Revolution now. X_x Since we know so little about Joseph's Dad.
Brother Malachai
well, we do know that he wasnt a hamon user, so not sure how that'll work
WRRRRRRRYYYYYYYY
Is no one going to mention the fact that Vladdercakes *has* to be pushing 50 (unless he was an extremely young "general") and by definition, Ana would have been a child when he was a general in the army? Definitely makes the romance even creepier.
I just assumed he was mid to late 20's
It’s be creepier if he raised her and then fell in love with her
I didnt think it would be worse than the Hunchback's Secret but... wow.
And the twist wouldn't be so obvious if they didn't spend so much time showing you what Anastasia's family looked like and then showing the instruments soon after.
*Wants to marry prince without knowing anything about him just after meeting him who turns out to be evil.
Frozen ripped off Secret of Anastasia.
Before I finish, I'm making a stupid prediction....her parents weren't murdered but transformed into a couple of the instruments.
Son of a bitch!
You found the Secret!
I'm so sorry.
MY GOD!
Vladimir was in the Tsar's army as a grown man when the Tsar died....
Anastasia was a little girl when her father died....
Oh God. Oh God! OH GOD, NO! OOOOOOHHHH MMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYY GGGGGGOOOOOOODDDD, NNNNOOOOOOOOO! DO YOU HAVE NO SHAME, UAV?!?!
I'm Russian and this hurt my feelings. (Sorry for mistakes)
Наталья Романова actually that is pretty good writing. Better than some English speakers.
You made no mistakes. :)
Thank you) its so sweet))
Thanks)) plasure to hear this))
@@romgeonat your English is pretty good mate 😊
The Romanovs were executed in Yekaterinburg, which is many miles east of Moscow in Siberia across the Ural Mountains.
Also, my wife (a Russian) sometimes buys red caviar in small metal shoe polish-like tins: it's orange.
"Goofinov" is such a terrible yet hilariously appropriate pseudo-Russian name for a piece of kid's media I'm kinda surprised I haven't ever heard it before.
On an unrelated note, the 90s kid's show "Road Rovers" got in trouble with the moral busybodies one time because of a joke on Russian naming conventions: it was explained to one character by another that to "make a name sound Russian" you just added the suffix "-ovich" to the person's actual name. The joke? One of the characters was named "Sonov." So..."Sonovovich."
I liked those kind of jokes kid's shows used to make back then. They'd usually go over the head of little kids, but adults could chuckle at them. Rocko's Modern Life did it all the time.
I like the idea of Phelous being in the hotel room next to Anastasia and just yelling the Grand Duchess line
I never get tired of watching these Anastasia reviews. You did a great job on them, Phelous, and you got me interested in learning more about Anastasia and her family.
Since it was revealed that Anastasia didn't survive, all Anastasia-based movies that have her alive might as well be an alternate reality. If Anastasia's true faith was revealed much earlier, maybe none of the Anastasia animated movies would have existed.
Or the live action ones. Before seeing Phelous' reviews, I used to think Bluth's Anastasia was the only movie based on her life. I was thinking that the story of the Romanovs would make a great movie, albeit a dark and sad one. But there is an Anastasia movie from the '50s, and there was even a movie about Rasputin. So I guess we have Anna Anderson to thank for keeping Anastasia's memory alive. If she hadn't tried to impersonate her, she and the rest of her family might have been long forgotten by now.
Mother harp was actually MOTHER??? Star wars has NOTHING on this flick!
23:34 the reshooting of the Romanovs
I remember when the Fox movie Anastasia was released I wanted to see it and instead of taking me to the movies my mom decided to rent Anastasia at the video store. Imagine my surprise when I saw that it wasn't the movie I wanted, so this movie isn't one of my favorites. I remember but not exactly fondly