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Warner Bros Feature Animation: A History Of Failure
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2018
- A long video that no one asked for but here it is, you can't stop me. Warner Bros is a company well known for its library of films and especially for their iconic brand known as Looney Tunes. But, in spite of having everything in their favor, they're more known for their failures than anything else when it comes to their Feature Animation division.
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Warner Bros really just went "Ok let's start off strong with our new studio" and released literally the best movie ever huh
You really liked Rover Dangerfield huh?
"Osmosis Jones" is a mixed bag.
I feel like it should have kept its PG-13
Me too.
I've seen Looney Tunes Back in Action twice, and I still can't remember a single thing that happened in the film
It tried.
@@AlexThe1Menace It's the movie that introduced me to Looney Tunes when I was 5 it's pretty good. Original Looney tunes is funnier though.
@@AlexThe1Menace It's better than Space Jam.
Back in Action was actually a good movie
back in action is fucken great
I can't believe it took me this long to see this video, but this was a nice retrospective on the history of Warner Bros. Feature Animation.
Recently, I was watching some clips and moments from Cats Don't Dance, The Iron Giant and Osmosis Jones, and they helped me gain more appreciation for Warner's Feature Animation efforts (I definitely feel that Cats Don't Dance and Osmosis Jones are among the most-underrated films of the bunch).
I wonder how different things would've been if Warner Bros. had attempted to promote their animated features and had more of a chance to produce other original animated films (the concept art for "Haunted Holiday" looked really cool!).
Ah, well, at least we have the memories of WB's Feature Animation efforts (I still love Space Jam to this day; Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Cats Don't Dance, The Iron Giant and Looney Tunes: Back in Action have great cult followings; and I have fond memories of watching The Powerpuff Girls Movie growing up).
However, I'm honestly surprised that they didn't try to make Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island a WBFA film. With the amount of promotion it got for its original release, I think Warners could have utilized that approach to make it a critical and box-office success alongside Space Jam.
All in all, great video! 💯💯💯
Yeah I actually forgot to mention that part about Zombie Island. What inspired the creation of this video was actually a conversation me and some friends had about Zombie Island and how Warner should've released it theatrically. Probably would've done really well.
Oh and thank you. I appreciate it :)
@@AlexThe1Menace In my head canon, Zombie Island would have been released in theaters a week or so after Quest for Camelot and it would have made more money than Camelot with $75 million domestically and about $185 million worldwide and seeing how the movie's budget could be somewhere between $15 million to $35 million it would have served its numbers pretty well. Sure it may have been overshadowed by Mulan but at least it would overshadow Camelot and its video release would be even BIGGER! Its theatrical marketing campaign would be as big as Space Jam.
@@hamursh and it would’ve had a Hollywood composer and have the film animated in widescreen to give it a big screen look.
The Space Jam album is still a B O P
This opinion is correct
1992 Harley quinn was better than space jam!
I mean, the animation of both Osmosis Jones and Iron Giant were so SMOOTH.
it's too bad the company shut down when it should've been giving a another chance for redemption just like 2d animation
YOU KNOW, SPEAKING OF WHICH, YOU SHOULD CHECK MY TEASER FOR MY OWN ANIMATION HISTORY LOOKBACK REGARDING WARNER FEATURE ANIMATION- WAG IN MY CHANNEL, AND IT IS GOING TO BE INSPIRED BY ANIMATS ANIMATION LOOKBACKS ;)
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Dumbass!
Looney tunes back in action deserved to be successful.
And The Iron Giant
@@johanestilaar1445you said it they both deserve to be successful at the box office
Good lord, that was a roller coaster.
When all is said and done, I still have very fond memories of many of these films. A lot of them also have surprisingly good music for some reason too. Great video!
oh hohoho , IN MY CHANNEL I WILL A MUCH BIGGER LOOKBACK ;)
Never thought Space Jam could startle me
You've opened my eyes
You sick F*ck!
The villain in Osmosis Jones is basically AIDs...
Whoa.
@@AlexThe1Menace Bill Murray was patient zero.
@@AlexThe1Menace Osmosis Jones I Have A Collection On RUclips
@@AlexLikesToons people should stop complaining how bad the film performed at the box office or how grossed bill murray was in the movie
Quest for Camelot was actually an OK movie. it had good soundtrack and it was a unique universe revolving the era of King Arthur
Not to mention great fantasy world building
I actually enjoyed watching quest for Camelot.
The first movie actually released in the Renaissance era of animation by WB was actually the 1991 film The Nutcracker Prince. It was a *VERY* limited release, and they eventually lapsed the rights- by the late 2000s, it was one of the last releases by GoodTimes Home Video. Not much of note with the film, just the typical Nutcracker story, though the prince IS played by Kiefer Sutherland (yes, the lead of 24.)
And another likely reason for their failures- they picked the WORST possible times to release.
Mask of The Phantasm- came out when films like Mrs. Doubtfire and Sister Act 2 were big
Thumbelina- same week as the successful Mighty Ducks 2.
Troll in Central Park- didn't even matter, they basically just crapped that one out
Cats Don't Dance- a week after Liar Liar, plus the same week as another kid property, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
Quest for Camelot- a week after the much-promoted Godzilla
The King and I- ironic enough, *two* other WB films, Analyze This and True Crime, outperformed it
Iron Giant- came out when The Sixth Sense was utterly dominate, and they spent a majority of advertising on Wild Wild West- which ironically came out the same week as South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, which due to the ownership structure of the channel at the time, WB distributed overseas
Osmosis Jones- same week as the anticipated American Pie 2, plus films like Jurassic Park III and the Planet of the Apes reimagining were still strong
Powerpuff Girls Movie- THE SAME DAMN WEEK as Men in Black 2
Looney Tunes: Back in Action- against a damn murderer's row, including Lord of The Rings, The Matrix Revolutions, Elf, The Cat in The Hat, and so many others.
I didn't mention The Nutcracker Prince because it was merely distributed by WB. It had no involvement from them production wise as it was a Canadian film.
And How About The Fearless Four?
@@johanestilaar1445 That too was a German animated movie merely distributed by WB who also paid the english voice cast.
Back in Action was also released at the same time as Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
My biggest problem with WB:A (prior to lego movie) is that when it comes quality films that are good, there isn't much.
Mask of Phantasm, Cats don't Dance and Iron Giant are great.
Space Jam, PPG and Osmosis Jones are guilty pleasures. But those are the only ones that I can comfortably say are fun to watch
You mean Warner Bros. Feature Animation (the hand-drawn animated predecessor of the Warner Animation Group), which the only films they have produced are Space Jam (getting a long awaited sequel produced by the Warner Animation Group), Quest for Camelot, The Iron Giant, Osmosis Jones and the final film they have ever produced before their shut down in 2004, Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
@@LooneyCartoonMan November 2003 by the way
@@wildethang93 What, that was the month Looney Tunes: Back in Action was released in theaters worldwide, while WBFA was shut down in 2004.
Unfortunately with WB A going gir they're mostly focusing on adaptations of old properties Looney Tunes Hanna-Barbara DC & Dr Suess Books which means little in any 2ill be original new ideas or concepts
What does PPG stand- OH, you mean the Powerpuff Girls Movie!
LordMiller: “Hey dude, we’ve seen that your feature animation department has been dead in the water for 11 years, so we got an idea. Here’s a script for an animated movie that we want to make.”
Warner: “Cool!”
LordMiller: “Here’s the thing, you’re gonna have to make it CG. It won’t work any other way.”
Warner: *sigh* “Fine! But we won’t do it the traditional way! We’ll make the animation look like it is really stop motion made by professionals!”
1:51 You're wrong. Rover Dangerfield wasn't the first animated movie in the 1990s to be distributed by WB. They released The Nutcracker Prince a year before Rover.
Well he's counting American Animated Films, The Nutcracker Prince doesn't count because it's a Canadian Production.
Fun fact about Thumbelina and A Troll in Central Park: They were also made by 20th Century Fox, and they were made before WB purchased Turner Entertainment.
The important point always is to do your own thing regardless of 'who the best is'.
Walt E. Disney was not even an animator ( he had talent for drawing, though ) and he wasn't the Alpha to Omega of the animation art form.
For a studio that made Looney Tunes, Warner Bros sure does seem to hate animation and animators. Even there most recent animated movies aren’t completely animated
I agree with the greatest director WB ever had, Chuck Jones - Space Jam was TERRIBLE. It got the characters all wrong, it was like Warners didn't even know their own cartoons. But then, Warners has never fully appreciated its animation department. According to Chuck, the original one was shut down because Jack Warner found out they actually DIDN'T make Mickey Mouse.
The reason why he doesn’t like Space Jam it’s because he doesn’t like how Bugs Bunny asks Michael Jordan to fight the Nerdlucks.
Great video man! Iron Giant is incredible
7:46 that’s my favorite movie from the iron Giant.
Warner Bros Animation was too rushed and without a vision. It was created solely to profit from Disney Renaissence that made animated movies popular again in the West. Amblin Entertainment had the same problem and the same thing happened to Fox Animation.
"First of all I think everyone can come to the conclusion that Warner Bros. is run by some of the biggest fucking idiots out there." You fucking SAID IT.
Eating a steak while listening to your sexy voice. Truly an incredible experience. Thank you for your cartoon knowledge.
Hope the steak was good.
I need the sources for those brad bird clips
It's from The Giant's Dream documentary from 2016. It's on the recent Blu-Ray but you can find it on RUclips.
One interesting fact: The one single reason why Batman: MOTP didn't go well at the box office was mainly the lack of marketing and promotions. WB tried their best to give the film a huge profit to advertise by using their budget but there were no advertising being mentioned (since the WB executives ran out of ideas) like billboards or merchandise and the only two things we ever got is the poster and trailer, that's it! It is also caused by a rush production at the time (usually each animated film takes either 2 to 4-ish years to complete but this took around less than a year to finish it) when the film was already green-lit.
"It truely was bad marketing that killed the movie star." Oof, bad pun. ;-; It really was a shame, since their animated movies are among my favorites (besides Disney films like Lilo & Stitch and The Fox and the Hound) as a kiddie such as (especially and still is among my top favorite animated movies) The Iron Giant, Cats Don't Dance, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, and Osmosis Jones. Except Rover Dangerfield....fuck that movie. >:[ "The dog who gets no respect," indeed. More recognition of these movies wouldn't have hurt, had they a better marketing team.
Great video as always. Definitely worth the wait. :3 I can't wait for what you have planned for October. Keep it up!
I don’t think that was a pun
Sorry for the long delay but hey I got it out before the month ended at least. I've been working on this for over a month and a lot of things kept getting in the way of me finishing it like college and the recent Spider-Man game but also just the video itself. It was originally going to be a lot longer as I recorded over 30 minutes worth of dialogue but I ended up trimming a lot of that out to save me time as well as to make the video have less filler (like most of the opening pre-history stuff got cut). My voice might sound a little tired or worn out at some parts but that's what happens when you're not used to recording yourself in such a tone for that long. I would've rerecorded some of those lines again but I felt that if I did that some other day when my voice wasn't as tired, it would've sounded tonally inconsistent.
Anyway, hope you guys tolerate my boring ass voice for this long and hopefully, you'd be willing to stick around for what I have planned for October.
Also we recently hit over 100k views and 300 subscribers so that's pretty neat.
AlexTheMenace Your voice sound even sexier here.
Not as much as yours.
:>
AlexTheMenace OH MY GOD THANK YOU!! I have been waiting for an animation RUclipsr to talk about Warner Bros like the other RUclipsrs mostly talk about Disney,DreamWorks, Illumination, and Sony Pictures Animation but I've finally found a video about Warner Bros.
Looney tunes back in action was the last film to be produced by Warner bros feature animation 😭
Yeah, I read the whole Warner Bros Family Entertainment History on wiki pedia, A Division Doomed From The Start due To Too much poor marketing and decisions on their movies. They were Sucsessful In 1993 with Denace the Menacce and two other Films. 1994 (Just One Later) Was one of their worst Year of Box Office Bombs ever. However Later on after space jam, Quest for Camelot Failed, later also king and i and Iron Giant Failed Due To Poor Marketing and Opening Sales but later became Sucsessful on tv. Heck, The Producer of Iron Giant Didn't even wanted the WBFE logo on his movie Becuase of their most failed movies. Their Biggest Successfull movie was Cats and Dogs, Wakko's Wish, Free Willy, Shiloh (It did Okay) And Space Jam. But Finally they Died with the Release of Laura's Star in 2004. And The logos were Completely Removed In 2007. Only to be seen for one more time in 2009.
1:51 even the dog can't get some respect
Good video, shame you don't have many subscribers. Have my subscription.
The worst part of space jam was how most the looney tunes characters were demoted to extra and/or didn’t even speak at all.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and Teen Titans Go! to the Movies are produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the only films produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation (hand-drawn animated predecessor of the 1990's for the Warner Animation Group) are Space Jam, Quest For Camelot, The Iron Giant, Osmosis Jones and Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
I didn't say they made it though. It was more of an honorary mention since I can't not talk about Warner Bros' animated films and not mention Batman. Notice how I also talk about The Lego Movie and other films not made strictly by them.
@@AlexThe1Menace The Lego Movie was the first film (including short films) to be ever produced by the Warner Animation Group.
I feel like WB's direct-to-video animated movies are better than their theatrical projects
In terms of consistency probably yeah.
I actually since 2014 I actually saw waner animation film in theaters which I actually enjoy most of them I think teen Titans go sucked but lego ninjago was decent I LOVED SmallFoot Storks and The First two Lego Movies
Jayden The critic what’s your favorite part of the LEGO ninjago movie? My favorite parts were every single scene where jay gets scared and when cole was all covered in mud and he puts mud on his face.
Does the Warner Animation Group count as a revival nowadays here?
I'd personally say so yeah. Different management and everything really but it's still Warner's main film animation division
The Ant Bully *(2006)* 17:53
*The Movie That Killed DNA Productions And Cancelled Jimmy Neutron With Tiny Proportions To Bully.*
Their getting back on the game again
Good job fam OwO. Working on the podcast if thats ok :3
Why doesn't this have more views?
Because I'm not cool.
You're all right
Warner Brothers animation has always been run by idiots. Chuck Jones, Fritz, Bob Clampett, McKimson etc has constant arguments with the guys in charge and always proved that the animators knew better than the people in charge.
They said the crew and animators that worked on Space Jam didn’t like Chuck Jones involved on the project nor his opinion on how he felt about the plot. The Warner Bros security guards escorted Mr. Jones off the studio property that same day. But in my opinion I’m glad Chuck Jones wasn’t involved on the Space Jam movie project. It would’ve been the same repetitive shit he was doing back in the 1950s. Because if you go back and watch all of the Looney Tunes shorts he worked on you can definitely see the similarities in each one. But yeah Warner Brothers are ran by idiots. Look how they fucked up the Superman franchise in the 1990s with Jon Peters suggesting the Superman Lives script about a scene where Brainiac has to fight some polar bears guarding the Fortress of Solitude. And then he suggested to Kevin Smith, the writer and director of Clerks & Mall Rays, to include a giant spider in the climatic battle scene. And don’t get me started how they let Teen Titans Go! stay on the air and have so many episodes currently being played 24/7 on Cartoon Network.
Nathan Explosion : WE CANT DO ANYTHING RIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!
*¡¿What Were They Thinking?!* 6:24
Just wish they could've been successful
And yes I have watched the video
And also I've seen the iron giant and batman mask of the phantasm and there where astounding beautiful and great 👍 But I didn't see space jam
And I'm sorry for calling you all mean and cruel to waner bro feature animation
And also I am new on RUclips
I love warner bros feature animation for some of the movies it makes and once I make my own studio I'm gonna buy this production
"That's right. All you are is a failed production company." -Adam West, Family Guy
Osmosis Jones would turned a profit if you kept the deleted scenes and swearing in the movie while sponsoring the film through Burger King or McDonald's.
The good news is that we’re going to have space jam a new legacy to come out this coming Friday.
It was very nice if you put souls don’t die (the iron giant) on the end.
Please tell where the clip from 7:30 is from! I never thought hearing Brad Bird yelling in anger "They're pussies!" is something I needed.
It's from a documentary called The Giant's Dream
@@AlexThe1Menace Thank you!
You forgot to mention happy feet
It's sad that most of their films were box office bombs
The only movies I saw were Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action and The Powerpuff Girls Movie, all of which I do love, but God, I can't believe not many of their movies did well! Just what's up with that?! How can they not have ever boosted the marketing?! 🤷♂️ But even so, at least Warner Animation Group made up for it with The LEGO Movie, one of my favourite movies to this day. And I'm happy to check out more of those classics, particularly The Iron Giant and Batman, but not The Quest for Camelot.
Yeah please do yourself a favor and watch Iron Giant and Batman lol
@@AlexThe1Menace Thanks. I will try and consider them. Cats Don't Dance and that other live-action/animated hybrid movie I can't remember the name of sound good too.
Can you talk about Warner Bros Television Animation?
Isn't that actually Warner Bros. Animation?
@@LooneyCartoonMan Yeah
7:00 what’s the music in the back?
"Flop And Go A" by John Fox. You've probably heard it on SpongeBob at some point
Dude thank you for pointing out Nostalgia Critics’ crybaby bitchass on him shitting on Space Jam. I know that’s the one video that started his major rise in the RUclips community but how many times do I have to watch a video of him/Doug/NC bitching about how bad he thought Space Jam was. It’s like, “Okay. You didn’t like it. These isn’t your favorite version of the Looney Tunes. But not everything that requires change is going to be pleasing to everyone.” I know what the movie is really about but it’s a smart move that Warner Brothers made first hand. Not too many commercials can be converted into a movie like Space Jam. I mean Jake from State Farm is only good as a commercial. If Disney greenlit that into a film whereas Jake is just selling car insurance then it would be boring and be a commercial box office bomb. It if he teams up with The Avengers then it might okay, not great nor good, but ehh if he’s the main focus. But let’s be real if you add Captain America and Iron Man in your movie then it’s straight up a Marvel movie. But I also loved this video essay that you described about the birth, date, and resurrection of Warner Brothers Family Entertainment/Animation Studios.
I want to collab!!! I love it!
We live we love we lie
Happy Feet: Am I a Joke to you?
That doesn't count, since this was released after the shut down of Warner Bros. Feature Animation in 2004 and the Warner Animation Group was founded in January 2013.
@@LooneyCartoonMan But it's still significant considering it was the first Animated film from Warner Brothers to win an Oscar.
How dare they
It also helped the Powerpuff girls movie
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Lego Movie is so overrated. I went to see that movie in theaters, and the more I went through that film, the more I hated it. It was so loud and annoying. Thank god Big Hero 6 and Dragon 2 came out that year.
The Sequel is actually better only because Emmett’s mood is so incoherent with the post-apocalyptic setting it’s actually funny.
This would be sooooo much better if you sllllloooowwwed down and enunciated!
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