Anger-Inducing Animation

Another screening of "The Room" was in order of entertainment
last night, a movie now famed for being the worst of it's art form.

But whilst "The Room" has now evolved into a worldwide
cult phenomenon, and maybe a bigger audience participation
movie than "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", there are many
other films that are so bad, that they don't even have any
redeeming features for comedic effect.

In fact the only emotion they can produce is that of anger, or phsycological
disturbance, and many films that fall into this category are
extended animation features.

Many of them seem to last far longer than the actual length.

Here's four such animated atrocities, as reviewed by online critics
who are able to provide far funnier observations than I can.

The Return Of Jafar (1994) - Reviewed by Coded Lock



There's many a video blog showing disdain for Disney's first
straight-to-video sequel, though I've decided to go with The Code Monkey's analysis of a film my younger brother made me sit through not long
after we purchased our first VHS recorder.

I'm not going to go into too much detail as it's covered above,
but it's notable for the shambolic animation, the absence of
Robin Williams as the Genie, and worst of all, Iago being given
not one, but two songs.

Though if you don't like Gilbert Gottfried's squawking voice
for the parrot, then you're not going to enjoy the identical-voiced
rants of the next reviewer...

Felix The Cat - The Movie (1988) - Reviewed by The Nostalgia Critic



I've never been as obsessed with films as I am with music and
broadcasting, and that maybe because the more downbeat parts
of a film when the action slows down turned me off at an early age.

Though when viewing the above video you realise that such water-cooler moments are vital, otherwise the film ends up being a loud, manic
tour-de-force that has you wanting to smash the television screen,
or lunging towards the cinema screen in a rage.

There's far too much going on,with what seems like a new plotline
introduced every minute, and meaningless songs that add very little
to what's going on.

Essentially, nothing in this film makes any sense whatsoever.

Pinocchio and The Emperor Of The Night (1987) Reviewed by
Jackie Marquez



If there's a logical reason Disney started to produce sequels
to its established animated features (other than capitalizing) then
it was to prevent any other animation house from making their own
animated sequels that are even worse.

None more so than Filmation (He-Man, She-Ra) and their rather
disturbing sequel to the tale of a puppet without strings.

Again I won't go into too much detail, than what's already mentioned
in the video itself, but the scene with the evil puppet master is more
than just a bit sinister.

Though if the review could be made even funnier, it's worth pointing
out the striking retina resemblance of the evil ferryman, to that of
Transfer from "Around The World With Willy Fog".

But in Filmation's defence, their interpretation of Pinocchio isn't
the worst I was tortured with at an early age.

That dishonour goes to Saban, whose animated update of a
1972 Japanese adaptation of Pinocchio, caused a fair bit of disturbance
towards me as a five year old.

It lead to me drawing a picture of "Real Pinocchio" which was
the Disney equivalent, though not in human form, and "Wooden
Pinocchio" which was the Saban caricature.

It didn't help that the series itself was very melancholy, and
had an annoying theme tune that my younger brother would
often repeat, and always got the letters spelt wrong.

He's now training to become a doctor...

Tom and Jerry - The Movie (1992) Reviewed by The Nostalgia Critic



This doesn't make me angry at all.

It has me feeling distraught at how two well known characters
are taken out of context and placed in an over-the-top movie
with unmemorable songs and a sickly storyline.

Tom and Jerry being able to talk is just the starting point of
what may be one of the worst movies ever to be projected onto
a cinema screen.

It's as if Turner Pictures forked out a rejected pitch for an animated
movie and re-tooled it for Tom & Jerry to be the starring points.

Nostalgia Critic gives it a more than justified dissection.