Phelous: There is a stop motion Beauty and the Beast Danish version from 1989, but it's silent. So don't expect a review on that one. Ah man... well can we at least have Old Man narrate it?
To address the beast in the room: The tape wasn't cheap, it was clearly cursed. You had to find your beauty within 7 days before you die of loneliness. Good thing Alison had you covered already.
This movie has the weird liminal feeling of something I probably would've watched as a kid, only to spend the next fifteen years wondering if I imagined it all
I don't know if people still complain about the background information about the movie or company, but I really appreciate the time you take to include them. They're interesting!
@@Iridys I forget which video but Phelous was talking about background info and saying how he knows people don't care about that but he was going to say it regardless
@@Emberilliance Yep. Wonder if it’s the same for Bevanfield’s Old Man (or Monsieur De Bois)? Looks like that’s just begging to have his neck broken by the Old Man (LOL 🤣).
It does have a creepy "mysterious" retro stylized youtube video look to it, kind of makes me want buy a unedited bargain dvd of this. Nice for random halloween viewing
You know, I find it hard to really condemn this one. It's kinda dull, and creepy, but it's unique? Like, the beast design is different, they clearly put a lot of work into it, with the candles and all. The puppetry isn't too bad either. I mean it's not perfect or good by any means. But there's something at least kind of charming about a project that they clearly put effort into. It's not great, but I can't condemn it the same way I'd do for the cheap animation ones.
It's a staple of Eastern Bloc animation. Most of our animated movies were either simple like No pagadi from Russia, or claymation/pappetier stuff like this one. And if you've seen, say, "Goodbye, Lenin" (which is about the nostalgia many of Eastern Germans feel for communist years), there is a scene when the main character watches claymation cartoon about Mr. Sandman. I can understand the Russian voiceover too. To this day, if a foreign show or a movie is in Polish TV/streaming service, it has to have a "lektor". We liked it better than our dub and sometimes subtitles. I guess, this version of Beauty and the Beast is a unique way for Westerners to experience animation from the other side of Iron Curtain.
@@RedHatMeg The old puppet shows. I'm 29 now and I remember growing up on puppet tv series back when Wieczorynka(Bedtime Storytime would be a good English translation) used to air. And amongst some Western animation they would show Maurcy i Hawranek(Maurice and Havranek) Koralgol(Coralgol the Bear/Jeremy the Bear), Kasztaniaki(Chestnuts) Mały Pingwin Pik-Pok( Little Penguin Pik-Pok) and ofc the old-time classic Miś Uszatek(Floppy-ear the Teddybear). They were made with heart and had this pleasant atmosphere to them.
@@jerryquiroga7814 Hopefully soon, because I made a comment on here about it and Phelous did see it, saying he had it on DVD so it'll probably happen at some point soon. Plus it's gotten a lot of attention since I wrote it so clearly many of his others viewers are interested in seeing it as well!
Honestly, I find this kind of charming, given it was made under communism, for no budget, and somehow got past their censors. Like, it's pretty impressive and it's clear that there's a ton of work put into it. I can't hate it like it's Dingo or something, because it's clear the people who made it did the best they could and really tried to make something good despite all the challenges.
It would be terrifying if it followed the novel and had the other father transformation scene into a worm and then Coraline taking his button eye out. Book's got a few scenes that are downright chilling and I could see a live action format based on it.
I have a soft spot for stop motion and puppetry. This look really good all things considered. It's not Laika level but you can really see the effort here.
I'll give this Beauty and the Beast feature credit for doing something different with the beast's design and using stop-motion to tell the story. It beats making another generic cartoon any day.
Pfffff "Die Schöne und das Tier" :D Classic East Germany move to use a synonym so that something sounds less english. We usually call the Story "Die Schöne und das Biest" which has a stronger connotation of something wild and dangerous compared to "Tier" which means just "animal". No wonder the beast in this one was p much a pushover.
It's just a thought but, maybe Beauty's godmother is the one who cursed the Prince turning him into a beast so that he would get together with Beauty. Fairy tales are weird like that some times.
Beauty and the Beast: The Tale of the Crimson Flower. A Russian production from 1952 re-released in English in 1998 with Tim Curry as the Beast. PLEASE DO IT AT SOME POINT SOON PHELOUS.
@@phelous Oh that's awesome that you have it on DVD. I watched it on YT because it was suggested to me through the GoodTimes version believe it or not. I look forward to seeing it then! (Your BATB reviews are the best :D)
@@MediumRareOpinions Yes indeed! It's actually quite good overall, but it's not without its Phelous-worthy moments. Like how the Beast is another dying of loneliness weirdo without having to explicitly say it, but at least Tim Curry performs the scene well, because we get to see how Anastasia's (the Beauty) absence effects him. If you want the link I'll post it here!
Honestly, the stop motion here is actually pretty good. This movie, visually at least, looks pretty good but I do wish the models looked less possessed and murderey.
It would be fun if you one day review the film adaption of “Beastly”. The original novel was basically a modern interpretation of the original fairytale and the film adaptation butchered it. There the “beast” is literally just a teenage punk with tattoos and scares, despite the original novel actually had him described to be beastly looking.
Brandon Lyon only if he gives all the characters the typical voices. Like Even though “the beast” has a regular voice phelous gives him the gruff “I’m really scary, right? Right? You’re scared right??”
Wonder if he’ll ever do a review of the movie Beastly which the original book was basically a modern retelling of the fairytale. There in the movie adaption the “beast” is literally just some teenage punk with scares and tattoos.
9:40 Ohhhh, so despite the GoodTimes' "Beauty & The Beast" having that animation screw up, where the trees seemed to split themselves apart in front of Old Man's horse, the Elephant version just straight up has that as a plot point.
To be fair, at least this is a version where she actually goes of her own accord. This and The Tale of the Crimson Flower are refreshing in this respect.
Old Man drinks blood, Beauty glides on the ground like the brides of Dracula, they both have black eyes and are never seen outside in the light... You connect the dots.
The visual bait and switch is obviously to reinforce the moral of the story, as stated on the back of the box: "The unimportance of one's physical appearance is shown..."
Ah, those Russian dubs of Phelous and other reviewers. I remember when my English wasn't very good and their videos didn't have subtitles (at least normal subtitles, not automatic) so the only way to understand the story and jokes was through these. By the way, Phelous, what's it's like to hear yourself in a completely different language?
@@phelous well, not sure if this will make you feel better, but not everyone gets dubbed here. I'm a translator and can tell you -- those dubs (well, the good ones at least) are not just your scripts put into Googgle Translate -- a lot of time goes into adapting jokes. So there had to be a demand to hear you in Russian or someone really wanted to inroduce their audience to you. And like, if there was a RUclips achievements system (or is there one already?) you would get "Crossed the culture and language barrior" badge!
The stop motion puppets in combination with the Beast's design and the audio/video glitches are giving this thing strong SCP-vibes. Pretty sure that tape stole your soul. Or at least what's left of it after watching all those Dingo movies.
I kind of like stop-motion animation...it's sort of magical, watching wooden dolls come to life in exquisite miniature sets. If the Beast hadn't been a FREAKING ELEPHANT, it might have really been something. (There was another stop-motion version that, I think, was through Coronet Films--that had some lovely figurines and a gorgeous score. That one actually started with the merchant heading home with his other daughters' gifts, but lamenting that he hadn't been able to get a rose for Beauty.)
Misleading cover art, check. Starting up immediately as soon as you put it in, check. Tons of static and corruption, check. Black, hyper-realistic eyes on all the characters, check. A ton of vague and misleading information about the production company, check. Looks like we've got a ready-made Lost Episode creepypasta, lads.
"And because she will grow up to be truly beautiful, name her Beauty." Boy is she gonna have egg on her face if it turns out the baby grows up to be a plain Jane.
After all I've seen Phelous review, I wouldn't even call "the elephant one" insane. 1:47 "Seven daaaaays!" Also, whoa, it's a GDR movie. Kind of a treasure.
OMG, this narrator sounds like the same voice actor who narrated the 1965 Kimba the White Lion dub. His 'beast' voice also sounds like Cassius/Toto & the cleverly named 'Boss Rhino' character. Also, this means Phelous had an opportunity to make an evil Black Panther reference!
I have to say...this is one of the more UNIQUE takes of Beauty and the Beast. Granted, I have a book which gives the 'African retelling' of the story where the Beast is a Leopard man....that they drew hot for some reason which sort of offsets the idea that he's a beast. I mean, yeah. He's a wild animal but you sort of defeat the purpose when you make him look like a Leopard bishonen model compared to how even this version did it with the weird literal elephant man with the weird hair everywhere and all that. But aside from that I actually like this version even with your commentary. It's not a cash in considering it came out like..15+ plus years before the Disney one and it just has such a unique feel to it overall.
This was made in East Germany in 1976 as you pointed out. Stop animation was literally the main form of animation of the DDR as they frequently used this form for mostly propaganda films. Almost all, if not all were the favored forms of animation in the east. Even the animators of the east were heavily controlled and monitored to ensure unmarxist creativity was not sprouting up. I'm honestly surprised this was even allowed to be made. Commercial introductions or studio introductions before the film missing doesn't surprise me since this is a DDR govt production.
Trivia: they aren't "dubbing" the content but "lectoring". It's reading outloud a document for many people to hear, pre-radio era term, but also applied to television translations when stuff is just explained rather than fully voice acted. Lectoring works out just like Zelda games where you get the full meaning but the character chatter enhances it enough.
@@TiroDvD Apparently, Poland does lectoring as well. It must be a Slavic thing. I'm from Ohio, and I spent a year in Germany as a high school foreign exchange student back in 2001-2002. My host family and school were located in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a federal state to the west of Poland. The TV would pick up some Polish channels. It was so weird seeing American shows, like the Cosby Show, with the original English voices, and a Polish narrator over top of it. In Germany, everything is straight-up dubbed.
@@krzysztofpiskorz5876 Just in case you were wondering, the TV channel that was strong enough to reach Germany was "Puls." Can't remember if we got any other Polish channels, but Puls was the one with all the lectored American TV shows. You're probably used to it, but as an outsider, lectoring looks soooooo weird. Then again, dubbing is weird to me, too. I don't know how Germans can watch the mouth movements not matching the voice. As an American, I found it such a distraction that I couldn't stand watching dubbed movies. Well, except for cartoons. Disney especially does an amazing job on their foreign dubs.
So let me get this straight. Beauty actually did come straight back to the castle in this version, but the Beast was dying anyway either because he's really that needy or because she decided to do some embroidery instead of wasting her time looking for him any longer.
The big black empty socket eyes and inanimate faces make this look the The Dark Eye PC game from 1995, an interactive re-telling of a few of Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories that uses equally creepy puppets.
I kinda like the aesthetics of the stop motion animation in this movie, probably because it kinda reminds me of the Rankin Bass Christmas movie specials, only creepier.
Oh my god. I had this tape. It was a childhood favorite of mine that I forgot about forever ago, I thought it was just an echo of reoccurring fever dream I might've had once.
YES FINALLY I've been waiting for more Phelous Beauty and the Beast adventures! :) Also does anyone else see this and think it looks like a more low-budget Rankin-Bass creation? (Y'know, those folks who made classics like Rudolph and Year Without a Santa Claus?)
@@koichidignitythief7429 It was a kids’ show in the 80’s/early 90’s. The elephant was a person in a costume. There were three human main characters. The theme of the show was singing songs. Yeah, my description makes it sound super random, but it was a cute show.
Talking about animated movies by DEFA. I'm from that part of Germany that used to be GDR and when my Dad was little he used to watch a traditionally animated movie from that production company. My Mum and I decided to check that one out one day but we stopped after 5min because it was really cheap and terrible. So I actually want to rewatch it now and see if it's something Phelous might enjoy to review.
Im so glad you include the background info cause i couldve sworn this made by the same japanese studio that did this weird stop motion sleeping beauty that featured topless puppets since the style is so similar
Tale as old as Telephant,
Song as old as Relephant,
Beauty and the Elephant...
Phelous: There is a stop motion Beauty and the Beast Danish version from 1989, but it's silent. So don't expect a review on that one.
Ah man... well can we at least have Old Man narrate it?
Yes!!!!!
Old Man: Ooooh! A delicious pork roast prince! 🐗🍖
If Old Man was to be unavailable, could we get Wabuu ? Or maybe King Mah Gawd ? 😃
yes along with pie mountain daughter
oh yes, make it happen!
To address the beast in the room:
The tape wasn't cheap, it was clearly cursed.
You had to find your beauty within 7 days before you die of loneliness.
Good thing Alison had you covered already.
Sounds like an interesting creepy pasta. This looks like a job for Old Man!
@@andreasnickmann370 it's the plot to the Ring, and tape from 1:36 has same effects as in those movies.
@@KasumiRINASadako got wet from being pushed into the well… she’s completely useless now… he he HEEEEEEE
This movie has the weird liminal feeling of something I probably would've watched as a kid, only to spend the next fifteen years wondering if I imagined it all
“I am an ugly beast, and you know it.”
“She vanished in a blaze of light.”
Beauty has left the chat.
Literally
Beauty: 😐
Beauty: 😐✌️
Beauty:
@@SupaHasu one of the best comment ever
Your profile picture is hallirious.
I can't imagine being put off by a guy I'm not attracted to asking me to marry him every day for months. What a prince...
A creepy elephant prince.
I don't know if people still complain about the background information about the movie or company, but I really appreciate the time you take to include them. They're interesting!
Most of the people who complain about that are so stupid
It’s my favorite part
People complain about that? I love that type of information.
@@Iridys I forget which video but Phelous was talking about background info and saying how he knows people don't care about that but he was going to say it regardless
Who are the characters in your profile picture?
I love how no matter what they sound like Phelous always gives beauties father the old man voice.
And, if they don't, Old Man inserts himself into the story to make everything better.
I cried laughing every time until, one certain joke took me out. I'm dead now. Goodnight 💀
Mr. Anime Old Man was the one exception, I believe. He was so deplorable that even OG Old Man wouldn't play along.
EEEEEEE
@@Emberilliance Yep. Wonder if it’s the same for Bevanfield’s Old Man (or Monsieur De Bois)? Looks like that’s just begging to have his neck broken by the Old Man (LOL 🤣).
I think you have a cursed video tape there.
7 days...
It does have a creepy "mysterious" retro stylized youtube video look to it, kind of makes me want buy a unedited bargain dvd of this. Nice for random halloween viewing
I'm sure the effects will manifest when we least expect it.
An elephant NEVER forgets! And they DON'T forgive! 🔫🐘
with the great Old One starring as the beast it's cursed for sure. Cthulhu fhtagn! BTW "please do not offer my god a peanut!"
But which Beast would win??
•Mr. Die-of-Lonliness
•Mr. Offenended
•Mr. Surfer Boy
•Mr. Echo Voice
•Mr. Anime Cat
•Mr. Demon
•Mr. Elephant
Beast Regime vs. The Old Man League!
It would be a Tie. They would all die due to loneliness
@@randomyoutuber1896 That would make all of them completely useless *Throws all the Beasts in the dump*
@@lulucalliope713 Theres only one Old Man
Now I wonder which one belongs to which version of the movie.
not gonna lie, i lowkey love the way the characters look cause i'm a sucker for stop motion doll animations
cool. me too.
Mood, to be completely honest. Stop Motion Dolls always have this antique charm I just can't resist.
I love stop motion animation. I think my favorite one is Coraline, I just love the world in that movie.
@@unamed2516 Oml, same. I just love how it all looks.
@@unamed2516 Coraline is a fantastic example of the beauty of stop-motion animation.
I kind of like this creepy ass stop motion animation, even if this version of Beast is nightmare fuel.
Well, IMO not as much nightmare fuel as the Evil Stick review.
True
The jumpyness of the animation reminds me of the Nine Inch Nails Ghosts video
Good creepypasta material.
Same here, but then, I like stop motion animation.
You know, I find it hard to really condemn this one. It's kinda dull, and creepy, but it's unique? Like, the beast design is different, they clearly put a lot of work into it, with the candles and all. The puppetry isn't too bad either. I mean it's not perfect or good by any means. But there's something at least kind of charming about a project that they clearly put effort into. It's not great, but I can't condemn it the same way I'd do for the cheap animation ones.
It's a staple of Eastern Bloc animation. Most of our animated movies were either simple like No pagadi from Russia, or claymation/pappetier stuff like this one. And if you've seen, say, "Goodbye, Lenin" (which is about the nostalgia many of Eastern Germans feel for communist years), there is a scene when the main character watches claymation cartoon about Mr. Sandman.
I can understand the Russian voiceover too. To this day, if a foreign show or a movie is in Polish TV/streaming service, it has to have a "lektor". We liked it better than our dub and sometimes subtitles.
I guess, this version of Beauty and the Beast is a unique way for Westerners to experience animation from the other side of Iron Curtain.
@@RedHatMeg The old puppet shows. I'm 29 now and I remember growing up on puppet tv series back when Wieczorynka(Bedtime Storytime would be a good English translation) used to air. And amongst some Western animation they would show Maurcy i Hawranek(Maurice and Havranek) Koralgol(Coralgol the Bear/Jeremy the Bear), Kasztaniaki(Chestnuts) Mały Pingwin Pik-Pok( Little Penguin Pik-Pok) and ofc the old-time classic Miś Uszatek(Floppy-ear the Teddybear). They were made with heart and had this pleasant atmosphere to them.
I'm also fairly certain the whole candle stuff is a reference to 1940s adaptation of beauty and the beast so there's that too
Beast: “Do you really find me so very monstrous?”
Beauty: “I really do”
Wow, Beauty. That was brutal.
Beast: "Beauty...Will you marry me?"
Beauty: "Uhhh...What did I just say, jackass?"
She is not into bestiality. She is into quality.
OOOOOOH!
Roasted.
r/MurderedByWords has a new member.
That was in the book
This movie was ahead of its time. They've all got those soulless Funko Pop eyes that people love these days.
Maybe Funko Pop is from Soviet Russia?
At least funkos can be cute.
Benny Boi Not really, no.
Frizzurd
Think the design behind funkos was them being 3D 8bit sprites.
@@HeilRay very few games had sprites that look like those abominations.
Old man: "this old man is narcoleptic AND a vampire, he's completely useless. HEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
kitestar Beautys father is more frightening than the Beast, in this one. 🤯
@@Gasoline85 That says a lot! 😂
Did he get wet? If he got wet I could understand why he is completely useless. lol
@@toddthesweatynerdguy1450 I just watched the "Beauty and the Beast" two-parter yesterday. It was so funny! 🤣
@The M.A. It is, I love that two-parter. I've watched it many times.
The beast here looks like if Squidward and Eeyore stepped into the Jeff Goldblum Fly teleporter and was then stung by 1000 bees.
That sounds... oddly specific
Just calling it as I see it.
ROFL! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"I look revolting - will you marry me" is actually my hookup line.
@@rodrolliv And yet, accurate.
Phelan can never escape the terrifying World of Beauty and the Beast straight to home video.
The Beauty and the Beast Black Hole, it can only be compared to Galaxy Warriors.
How long before he reviews The Tale of the Crimson Flower?
@@jerryquiroga7814 Hopefully soon, because I made a comment on here about it and Phelous did see it, saying he had it on DVD so it'll probably happen at some point soon. Plus it's gotten a lot of attention since I wrote it so clearly many of his others viewers are interested in seeing it as well!
There is still Tales of Magic’s version from the 1980s.
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
This is the weirdest Babar fanfic ever.
We both know that isn't true
Carly Crays
Let him believe
I mean...Babar married his cousin, so Babar was weirder than that.
The Crossover nobody asked for
@@TheHeroOfTomorrow Seriously?! God I haven't seen the cartoon for a long time and I didn't know that
Honestly, I find this kind of charming, given it was made under communism, for no budget, and somehow got past their censors. Like, it's pretty impressive and it's clear that there's a ton of work put into it. I can't hate it like it's Dingo or something, because it's clear the people who made it did the best they could and really tried to make something good despite all the challenges.
Why would they censor this
The communists actually encouraged animation, just look at the USSR animation history
I lost with Phelous voicing over the horse. He absolutely should dub professionally.
And this boys and girls, is what cursed .exe videos and creepy pastas looked like before the days of the internet.
The empty black eyes for humans are pretty common in soviet era animation for what I've seen of it. Not sure why exactly.
it's an art style
Because communism makes us all dead inside?
@@indumatipngtuber2790 Maybe? Never really complained. Soviet animation was generally one of the best at the time.
Because communism?
I asume it's so you don't have to animate the pupils.
I feel like if this was the style used for Coraline it would've been even freakier.
It would be terrifying if it followed the novel and had the other father transformation scene into a worm and then Coraline taking his button eye out. Book's got a few scenes that are downright chilling and I could see a live action format based on it.
I have a soft spot for stop motion and puppetry. This look really good all things considered. It's not Laika level but you can really see the effort here.
I'll give this Beauty and the Beast feature credit for doing something different with the beast's design and using stop-motion to tell the story. It beats making another generic cartoon any day.
"I wanted to see what he could do with that trunk!"
I screamed.
So did she
Pfffff "Die Schöne und das Tier" :D
Classic East Germany move to use a synonym so that something sounds less english. We usually call the Story "Die Schöne und das Biest" which has a stronger connotation of something wild and dangerous compared to "Tier" which means just "animal". No wonder the beast in this one was p much a pushover.
"I wanted to see what he could do with that trunk"
I. Am. Dead. 💀
It's just a thought but, maybe Beauty's godmother is the one who cursed the Prince turning him into a beast so that he would get together with Beauty. Fairy tales are weird like that some times.
Beauty and the Beast: The Tale of the Crimson Flower. A Russian production from 1952 re-released in English in 1998 with Tim Curry as the Beast. PLEASE DO IT AT SOME POINT SOON PHELOUS.
I have a DVD of it so it'll probably happen at some point.
@@phelous Oh that's awesome that you have it on DVD. I watched it on YT because it was suggested to me through the GoodTimes version believe it or not. I look forward to seeing it then! (Your BATB reviews are the best :D)
Tim Curry you say? You have my attention.
@@MediumRareOpinions Yes indeed! It's actually quite good overall, but it's not without its Phelous-worthy moments. Like how the Beast is another dying of loneliness weirdo without having to explicitly say it, but at least Tim Curry performs the scene well, because we get to see how Anastasia's (the Beauty) absence effects him. If you want the link I'll post it here!
@@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose sounds worth a watch, pop a link if its online still
Honestly, the stop motion here is actually pretty good. This movie, visually at least, looks pretty good but I do wish the models looked less possessed and murderey.
It’s nice to see some of the Other Mother’s early acting credits.
“Your right, I’m a horrible monstrous creature.....so wanna get hitched”
Kelley Hawley lol I guess he was betting on her being into teratophilia
will smith can help with that. XD
It would be fun if you one day review the film adaption of “Beastly”. The original novel was basically a modern interpretation of the original fairytale and the film adaptation butchered it. There the “beast” is literally just a teenage punk with tattoos and scares, despite the original novel actually had him described to be beastly looking.
Brandon Lyon only if he gives all the characters the typical voices. Like Even though “the beast” has a regular voice phelous gives him the gruff “I’m really scary, right? Right? You’re scared right??”
I remember seeing Krimson Rogue's review of that movie.
I remember seeing ProtonJon play through it's hilariously bad video game adaptation.
Pretty sure Lupa already reviewed it with him once.
@@swiftshock2615 wait, there was a video game? what do you even do?
15:22 "Did I picked one of my Roses? For that, I must Die!"
Legit got a Laugh out of me! That was Good, Phelan!
You're going to be reviewing Beauty and the Beast adaptations until the end of time.
I've seen worse ways to do.
It will certainly be a tale as old as time, eheh.
*crickets chirping*
Alright, I'm outta here.
Wonder if he’ll ever do a review of the movie Beastly which the original book was basically a modern retelling of the fairytale. There in the movie adaption the “beast” is literally just some teenage punk with scares and tattoos.
@@brandonlyon730 and baldness, never forget the baldness
I wonder how many adaptaions of the story have come out since he started reviewing animation.
Wow, as a Russian, I watched a lot of your and others' reviews with dubbing. Good times. And it really incoraged me to brush up my English.
I’m glad it helped it you guys out🙂
9:40 Ohhhh, so despite the GoodTimes' "Beauty & The Beast" having that animation screw up, where the trees seemed to split themselves apart in front of Old Man's horse, the Elephant version just straight up has that as a plot point.
The level of continuity in the Weird Beauty and the Beast Adaptation Cinematic Universe is insane
[Laughs in Thunderbirds puppet]
So this is essentially Beauty and the Beast meets The Elephant Man and german cinema?
THE BOUGIEST OF ANIMATED FILMS!
tit-titititittitenic
What? No references from The Elephant Man (1980)? What a missed opportunity. :D
"No means no, Elephant!" --Phelous 2020
This is the first beast that just walks around completely naked (The Bevanfield one at least had a cape).
To be fair, at least this is a version where she actually goes of her own accord. This and The Tale of the Crimson Flower are refreshing in this respect.
Old Man drinks blood, Beauty glides on the ground like the brides of Dracula, they both have black eyes and are never seen outside in the light... You connect the dots.
Man that VHS distortion is giving me nostalgia.
The visual bait and switch is obviously to reinforce the moral of the story, as stated on the back of the box: "The unimportance of one's physical appearance is shown..."
Phelan. You are very nice. That is all. Carry on.
@@cozbu9694 Yes.
"I am no sir!"
Oh I'm ever so sorry ma'am.
Ah, those Russian dubs of Phelous and other reviewers. I remember when my English wasn't very good and their videos didn't have subtitles (at least normal subtitles, not automatic) so the only way to understand the story and jokes was through these. By the way, Phelous, what's it's like to hear yourself in a completely different language?
Heh, it was pretty weird the first time I came across one of those dubs.
@@phelous well, not sure if this will make you feel better, but not everyone gets dubbed here. I'm a translator and can tell you -- those dubs (well, the good ones at least) are not just your scripts put into Googgle Translate -- a lot of time goes into adapting jokes. So there had to be a demand to hear you in Russian or someone really wanted to inroduce their audience to you. And like, if there was a RUclips achievements system (or is there one already?) you would get "Crossed the culture and language barrior" badge!
It's an interesting creative choice the way they did the Beastephant's hands - he has fingers, but they all look like individual elephant hooves
Let's address the elephant in the room...
Those puppets look like Gelflings!
"GELFLIIIIIIIING!!!"
The emperor will not be pleased.
@@mr.machine3328 TRIAL BY STONE!
Mhmmmmmmmmmmm
@@crimsondynamo615 I hate your whimper!
Newest Edition to the Old Man Crew: Demon-Eyed Vampire Old Man!
(Still doesn't beat the classic GoodTimes one though)
@D.J. Rose Honorable motion goes to “GOLLY GOSH MY WORD” Beauty’s Father.
D.J. Rose HHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@christopherjones5446 I love Mr. Golly Gosh. Kudos for the mention. 😀
The stop motion puppets in combination with the Beast's design and the audio/video glitches are giving this thing strong SCP-vibes. Pretty sure that tape stole your soul. Or at least what's left of it after watching all those Dingo movies.
Old Man: "Beauty is made of clay. She's completely useless now."
Hhhheeeeeeee
Old Merchant: (Screeeeeeeeeeeeech!) 😱
Kinda want to see a Battle Royale scenario with all of the Beautys
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@@FaeQueenCory The Bevanfield and Goodtimes Beautys just keep gasping until they run out of breath and die
Dream Daddy remake with all the Old Men
I kind of like stop-motion animation...it's sort of magical, watching wooden dolls come to life in exquisite miniature sets. If the Beast hadn't been a FREAKING ELEPHANT, it might have really been something. (There was another stop-motion version that, I think, was through Coronet Films--that had some lovely figurines and a gorgeous score. That one actually started with the merchant heading home with his other daughters' gifts, but lamenting that he hadn't been able to get a rose for Beauty.)
This looks like a cursed videotape. I'll see where I am next week...
Same I wish you luck
Seven days.
Misleading cover art, check.
Starting up immediately as soon as you put it in, check.
Tons of static and corruption, check.
Black, hyper-realistic eyes on all the characters, check.
A ton of vague and misleading information about the production company, check.
Looks like we've got a ready-made Lost Episode creepypasta, lads.
Iamafishproductions Sounds like “Laugh is fun.”
Watched it as a kid. I'm still alive...however my life has been shit so... lol
Why do we live in a world where that title is something that needs to be specified?
Phelous, you should totally do a voice-over for that Danish B&B! Your voice-overs are hilarious!
Danish beauty and the beast has a warthog in it!
I'm for it
"And because she will grow up to be truly beautiful, name her Beauty."
Boy is she gonna have egg on her face if it turns out the baby grows up to be a plain Jane.
meanwhile the 1960's Thunderbirds puppets age like fine wine.
This movie makes the characters in Captain Scarlet look like actual humans
After all I've seen Phelous review, I wouldn't even call "the elephant one" insane. 1:47 "Seven daaaaays!" Also, whoa, it's a GDR movie. Kind of a treasure.
The sane elephant one wouldn't be as catchy a tagline.
OMG, this narrator sounds like the same voice actor who narrated the 1965 Kimba the White Lion dub. His 'beast' voice also sounds like Cassius/Toto & the cleverly named 'Boss Rhino' character.
Also, this means Phelous had an opportunity to make an evil Black Panther reference!
Beast: "Don't call me 'Sir'! Do I look like John Hurt to you?"
I have to say...this is one of the more UNIQUE takes of Beauty and the Beast. Granted, I have a book which gives the 'African retelling' of the story where the Beast is a Leopard man....that they drew hot for some reason which sort of offsets the idea that he's a beast. I mean, yeah. He's a wild animal but you sort of defeat the purpose when you make him look like a Leopard bishonen model compared to how even this version did it with the weird literal elephant man with the weird hair everywhere and all that. But aside from that I actually like this version even with your commentary. It's not a cash in considering it came out like..15+ plus years before the Disney one and it just has such a unique feel to it overall.
When this video is dubbed in Russian, the guy might dub Russian over the already Russian dubbed Phelous :P.
Rub-a-dub-dubception.
Thanks for the grub-ception.
Whoa how do you dub a video then?
8:41 I’ve become so used to him in the joking still image appearances seeing the old man in motion is almost jarring.
Beauty and the Elephant in the Room! 👸🏻🐘
This was made in East Germany in 1976 as you pointed out. Stop animation was literally the main form of animation of the DDR as they frequently used this form for mostly propaganda films. Almost all, if not all were the favored forms of animation in the east. Even the animators of the east were heavily controlled and monitored to ensure unmarxist creativity was not sprouting up.
I'm honestly surprised this was even allowed to be made. Commercial introductions or studio introductions before the film missing doesn't surprise me since this is a DDR govt production.
Phelous: “Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in!”
Now THAT'S s what I call an elephant in the room!
the only thing weirder than Russian dubbed Phelous ( 5:25 ) , is knowing that there's videos of AVGN uploaded to NicoNicoDuogo
Trivia: they aren't "dubbing" the content but "lectoring". It's reading outloud a document for many people to hear, pre-radio era term, but also applied to television translations when stuff is just explained rather than fully voice acted. Lectoring works out just like Zelda games where you get the full meaning but the character chatter enhances it enough.
That dub straight up sounded from the 80's-90's.
I thought it was part of the gag.
@@TiroDvD Apparently, Poland does lectoring as well. It must be a Slavic thing. I'm from Ohio, and I spent a year in Germany as a high school foreign exchange student back in 2001-2002. My host family and school were located in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a federal state to the west of Poland. The TV would pick up some Polish channels. It was so weird seeing American shows, like the Cosby Show, with the original English voices, and a Polish narrator over top of it. In Germany, everything is straight-up dubbed.
@@hamsterama As a guy from Poland I can confirm it. All foreign movies and shows are lectored.
@@krzysztofpiskorz5876 Just in case you were wondering, the TV channel that was strong enough to reach Germany was "Puls." Can't remember if we got any other Polish channels, but Puls was the one with all the lectored American TV shows. You're probably used to it, but as an outsider, lectoring looks soooooo weird. Then again, dubbing is weird to me, too. I don't know how Germans can watch the mouth movements not matching the voice. As an American, I found it such a distraction that I couldn't stand watching dubbed movies. Well, except for cartoons. Disney especially does an amazing job on their foreign dubs.
So let me get this straight. Beauty actually did come straight back to the castle in this version, but the Beast was dying anyway either because he's really that needy or because she decided to do some embroidery instead of wasting her time looking for him any longer.
The big black empty socket eyes and inanimate faces make this look the The Dark Eye PC game from 1995, an interactive re-telling of a few of Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories that uses equally creepy puppets.
1:51 A blaze of light so powerful that it even effected the tape itself
*breathes nervously hearing Phelous say "Old Man"*
*Waits to hear HEEEEEEEEE*
I kinda like the aesthetics of the stop motion animation in this movie, probably because it kinda reminds me of the Rankin Bass Christmas movie specials, only creepier.
Oh my god. I had this tape.
It was a childhood favorite of mine that I forgot about forever ago, I thought it was just an echo of reoccurring fever dream I might've had once.
YES FINALLY I've been waiting for more Phelous Beauty and the Beast adventures! :) Also does anyone else see this and think it looks like a more low-budget Rankin-Bass creation? (Y'know, those folks who made classics like Rudolph and Year Without a Santa Claus?)
Yes!! I was thinking the same thing!
A reference to “The Elephant Show”! Whoohoo!
He had such enormous fun, that he called another elephant to come.
I don’t get it
@@koichidignitythief7429 It was a kids’ show in the 80’s/early 90’s. The elephant was a person in a costume. There were three human main characters. The theme of the show was singing songs. Yeah, my description makes it sound super random, but it was a cute show.
5:28
The weird cosmic coincidence of a dubber that sounds like the EastWest Dingo guy dubbing a Phelous video.
I love your deep-drive research segments in these obscure knock-off films/toys. It makes bootleggers seem more legit in some way.
I’m still not sure which is weirder: the goomba warthog or the elephant.
Oh, but the wolf-bear-buffalo from Disney was perfectly normal?
@@shinigamijack4208 if Disney design was stop-motion animated, it would be as creepy
19:19 "But where is my Beast?"
Looks like he's still in the incomplete cross-fade.
This kinda makes me want to see a version of Beauty and the Beast with John Hurt as the Beast.
I am! A beast!
I have long thirsted to be human again...
Damn you, the “wanted to see what he could do with that trunk” made me almost keel over
6:56 "You might want to look up the meaning of beautiful [lovely] there, Narrator." (Burbank throwback)
Old Man... more like Bored Man, seeing how he keeps falling asleep.
... I’ll go home now.
Talking about animated movies by DEFA. I'm from that part of Germany that used to be GDR and when my Dad was little he used to watch a traditionally animated movie from that production company. My Mum and I decided to check that one out one day but we stopped after 5min because it was really cheap and terrible. So I actually want to rewatch it now and see if it's something Phelous might enjoy to review.
I had this as a kid. We only watched it once and then it sat on the shelf till we moved all our VHS tapes to storage.
Tbh I love this version of the beast, I know he’s meant to be creepy but to me he looks really sweet and cuddly
I’m weird lol
Coincidentally, this came out before the Disney adaptation was even announced.
"Would a peanut change Ur mind?" :D
"You just made things worse! That is nothing but an ugly stereotype! Peanut loving elephants are nothing but a fairy tale!"
“Well, you'd better check the mirror Mr. Elephant, because you’re in a fairy tale!”
Yes! Please more DEFA movies! 😁 The Singing Ringing Tree is even creepier!
Im so glad you include the background info cause i couldve sworn this made by the same japanese studio that did this weird stop motion sleeping beauty that featured topless puppets since the style is so similar
Not gonna lie, I dig this adaptation. Must be my affinity for stop-motion.
i didn't think the og batb movie could get me to laugh in a new way but the way the beasts neck fur jumps up and down at 7:47 proved that wrong lmao
I was expecting lackluster 2-D animation, but instead we get creepy Stop-Motion! You're spoiling us...
The Elephant Beast later went on to have a #1 smash hit with the song 'I'm beastly and I know it.'