Strange Magic was STRANGER THAN I THOUGHT
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- Strange Magic was STRANGER THAN I THOUGHT | When I started this movie two years ago and couldn't finish it NOTHING could've prepared me for this... genuinely
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Fun fact (if its not mentioned in the video): George Lucas literally said this was his "Star Wars for girls" 😅😂
NO WAAAAAY IM DYING I WISH I SAW THAT IN THE VIDEO MY JAW JUST DROOOPPED HAHAHA
@AthenaPOfficial Glad my collection of niche animation trivia could come in handy lol, thanks for the like Athena! Love your channel so much ❤❤❤
Didn’t realize GL made it
Ironically girls become more important characters later on
“Star Wars for girls”
So movies have gender stereotypes now? 😭
What i liked about this movie is that it had the energy of a girl having their OC's break into random copyrighted songs for the mood on Wattpad, and honestly you go girl
I see it
God, as an AFAB person that used to write "song fics" this HITS
It's like looking at the old rps I had when I was 12 and I would have my characters sing freaking mlp songs.
I am so ashamed of those old things.
@@artsrandomstuff436You shouldn't feel shame for that. Mlp songs still slap and Daniel Ingram definetly deserves credit for that.
@@jesterdays Oh I agree MLP songs are great! I'm more ashamed of the part I used them in rp with no music or anything. It's the second hand embarrassment you get from most things your younger self did.
Athena's face when 'Wise Men Say' started a reprise for like the *FOURTH TIME* killed me entirely.
Calling this song "wise men say" is actually insane /j
Strange Magic is a guilty pleasure movie of mine, I love the beautiful animation meshed with the crazy stuff going on. Maybe that is why am I so attached to this film.
You took the words straight out of my mouth.
Omg yes same! I used to rewatch this all the time when I was younger.
I enjoyed it too, honestly...but I wouldn't rewatch it tho.
“Beautiful animation”
*Cue the intense HD close up of the main girls huge mouth while she sings*
(Sorry couldn’t help it xD)
Tbh that’s me with certain Barbie animated movies (the princess and the pauper) it’s a guilty pleasure XD
I once heard Marianne described as a “Fairy Goth Mother” and I’ve never heard anything funnier in my life 😂
Now every time two characters are in love you’ll have to play “can’t help falling in love” in the background
So glad you came back to this movie, so fun watching you react to it!
ATHENA PLEASE CONTINUE USING THIS SONG EVERY TIME TWO CHARACTERS ARE SHOWN TO BE IN LOVE, IT'D BE SO FUNNY
So weird fact about me: this movie is one of my biggest guilty pleasures. I know it’s not good, I know it’s got some troubling implications, I know there’s too many songs crammed in, I know the animation gets super uncanny. And yet…. I kinda love it. I really love the fae folk aesthetic, I actually think a few of the songs stick the landing (I really, really love the “Strange Magic” love duet), and even though it’s got problematic elements and I agree it happens too fast, I actually really love the chemistry between Bog and Marianne. I dunno, I just think seeing these two grumpy characters bond over shared heartache and grow to care for each other as they are is really sweet? Also, there’s weirdly believable sexual tension between them and I’m like honestly good for them. Totally agree that Sunny’s a creep and King Dad needs to go into the garbage can though.
big same!!! exactly!!!!
Why do y'all keep saying this is your guilty pleasure? You shouldn't feel guilty about liking a movie.
Although, if it was more about liking the movie then hating it, I would have said some more encouraging and nice things, but I'm not going to
Took the words right out of my mouth
@@sleepy1.O People say "guilty pleasure" as a term for something you like even though it's kinda really bad (usually medias such as shows, movies, games, etc.)
It doesn't mean they're really feeling guilty. I think.
Personally it's one of those films I say I like, when in actuality I like the version I conjured up in my head where the enemies to lovers takes longer and the entire B-plot isn't a thing
this is so validating because as a kid my grandma made my family watch it with her and i had beef with every character and my family was like “no ur crazy the star wars guy made this is a masterpiece” and its so weirdly satisfying to see other people similarly repelled!
I TOO WAS LIKE “EW THESE TWO BETTER NOT FALL IN LOVE ID BE SO PISSED”
why were they so ride or die for STRANGE MAGIC of all films
@@iwakeupandboomimaratbecause the star wars guy made it
The "Star Wars Guy" also gave us Jar-Jar Binks.
@raelogan We are *NOT* bringing back the Jar Jar Binks hate.
Fun fact: this movie was in development heck for a long time and there's a featurette on the dvd where a rather defeated looking George Lucas talks about how he wanted to have all original music and the original plan was indeed more epic, but he couldn't get the funding so they just started using licensed music and the whole thing ended up the way it is. I think he ends saying he likes the final result, but I think you can tell he doesn't really. Or perhaps I over interpreted his tone and expression thinking there's no way anyone could be happy at having to resort to Elvis to hinge their whole musical on because it's all they can afford.
"more epic" Pun intended?
Feels like the original idea would've been more good for little girls than the one that exists
I mean George Lucas is notoriously bad at film editing. His first wife is the one who made the original Star Wars trilogy what we know today. It could be that he’s satisfied but not happy he couldn’t make what he fully imagined which is perfectly fine.
To quote other people here though: This movie is shit. It’s absolute trash.
And it is and always will be one of my favorite films, just the way it is.
This movie is genuinely a favorite of mine. I found it when I was fourteen, and so so depressed, and it made me feel so good. There was a week where I watched it every single day. I love watching people hate it. This movie caters to such a specific mindset, and if you're not in it when you first encounter it, you will hate it. This movie is not good. I love it so much.
"This is not good. I love it so much."
I have felt this about too many things
@@systematicirony666 It's one of my favorite ways to enjoy things. Once I strip away the need for quality, I can find a much "purer" form of enjoyment in a lot of things. It's a bit like being a child again, and not needing whatever I'm watching to mean anything other than 'good time'.
@@elladaniells1322 ahhh I get what you mean. I always overlook like the quality of some movies, some bad traits of characters and just genuinely give my opinion on whether it's good or bad on whether or not I enjoyed the movie while watching it. I tend to overlook what some people's opinion of what makes it bad are, I'm even shocked when opinions of most people say that the movie is bad but for me it was good and was even one of my go to movies🤣
It's one of my favorite adaptations of A Midsummer's Night Dream because of how batshit insane it is. Totally fits the chaotic tone of the original play; Shakespeare would be proud.
Fun fact : it's called a strange magic because the magic is strange
Definitely
You mean there’s a certain element of strangeness to the magic in this movie?
@@sketchycat6223 no honestly there's nothing strange about the movie is perfectly normal it's all a lie
I didn’t know that
I remember this. I watched it 2 years after it came out and had to pause halfway through and finish the next day because watching it was painful for my brain lmao
There are 3 versions of the Kelly Clarkson against ex scene and all of them are different
1: fairy princess sings Kelly Clarkson at her ex boyfriend while floating in the air trying to be aggressive in a musical (fair but cringe)
2: human walks towards their ex singing Kelly Clarkson in a non musical setting and tries to aggressive (absolutely cringe)
3: what appears to be a normal human starts floating towards a person as background music starts to play,and even though it's Stronger by Kelly Clarkson you can't help but feel fear as they look down upon this person who seems to be taking this pretty well all things considered,a thousand thoughts rush through your mind as your eyes dart back and forth between the two,fighter...ex lovers.... acquaintances,you realize you don't know what's going on,then you come to the devastating realization....where's the background music coming from? It's obviously there but there's no band no speaker...and how is it so clear,is it all in your head,well it must be,a human can't float,musicals aren't...then it happens,the other person breaks out into song (terrified,scarred, traumatized)
I first watched Strange Magic with my best friend in a hotel room at the beach, on a night when we were rained in and tipsy off of margaritas. Easily one of the best viewing experiences I’ve ever had.
It’s a campy fantasy jukebox musical with uncanny valley CGI animation and a Midsummer Night’s Dream-inspired enemies to lovers story, and I lofe it.
I always make jukebox musicals in my head, but this episode taught me that they should in, fact, stay completely in my head. I'd never seen one before, and now I never want to again
LITERALLY-
Tbh? I think they can work as like, fan animations or OC animations, or even short films using 2-3 songs, just not... A big screen film....
Some jukebox musicals can be good, like Mamma Mia, or Rock of ages
@@saraluciaforerogarciaexactly, Mamma Mia and Rock of Ages manage to do it right! love those two.
I think the trolls movies do them fine, like they’re cute :)
I remember watching Strange Magic in theaters when I was ten, and man! I laughed so hard at the scene when Marianne kicked Roland out. 😂
OMG I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS WITH MY MOM WHEN I WAS YOUNGER! Ngl I loved it so much! This is how I got to love the enemies to lovers trope 😂
Strange Magic was the weirdest movie I'd ever seen as a 7 year old. I was so lost, man- Also, congrats on getting engaged!! I'd love a lore video on the 2019 Carmen Sandiego, I think it'd break your brain in a fun way.
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YESSSS that show was so good and im forever mad about s3 only having 5 episodes
BIG SECOND!!! i love carmen sandiego!!
I’ve only seen the newer Carmen Sandiego and I love it! I saw clips of the old version and I wish I knew where to buy or watch the show
“Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?”
@@_SPQR_ I think I had it on a DVD when I was younger!
I feel like they had the right pieces for a great romance story but just used them in the wrongs ways. They were just SOO CLOSE but missed the mark entirely
"Wise men say only fools rush in, and maybe they have a point?" Made me laugh so freaking hard 😂
This is un-ironically one of my favorite movies of all time. I have so much nostalgia for it. I have some songs from the soundtrack on playlists and I know them by heart. With that said, this review was pretty funny
a haters to lovers sums up this movie, and true love is forced. :) Plus Athena saying "I never in a million thought" was so funny lmao, 19:52.
This is a guilty pleasure so I wanted to see them finish it but honestly learning that Athena doesn’t like Beauty & The Beast kinda makes this a monkey’s paw moment for me
Wait wtf does "a monkey's paw momment for me" mean
@@Princess_Muffin_Cakes it means I got my wish but learned something I didn’t want to know
@@somethingsuperbland8829 huh... I'll have to remember that one
Pretty animation, a plot that isnt copy paste, isnt the millionth in a franchise. Honestly not a terrible movie by modern Disney standards
I agree I rather have moive that trys somethings diffrent and fail then a bunch of copy and paste movies
It’s not Disney, it’s Lucasfilm. They were just contractually obligated to release this. It absolutely pales in comparison to everything Disney Animation was making at the time, 2010-2016 was peak.
@@blankiecat9302What do you mean? There are a ton of scenes and characters straight-up stolen from other movies.
is the plot not copy paste beauty and the beast by the end? just added cheating to gaston blond fairy man
Just a couple days ago me and my roommate were watching tinkerbell movies for nostalgia’s sake, and this came up in “similar to what you’re watching.” So of course we watched it, blind, and it was such a fever dream haha. From the moment the singing started we were flabbergasted, and then we were just along for the ride, constantly trying to figure where tf the plot was going. Most surreal experience ever, 10/10
This is a big guilty pleasure for me. I love the animation, the love story, and covers. I love how big and over the top it is especially since they did not take it seriously.
I fricken loved this movie as a kid! It’s so weird! I’m so glad you watched it!
This movie and Epic have blended together in my mind to such a degree that if you showed me a screenshot from one movie I deadass could not tell you which one it’s from
Ooohhh, I _LOVE_ Epic, I watched it last year on RUclips (it's free). 😁. I love Strange Magic _just_ as much. 😁. I don't know why, but I just _love_ movies with little fairies in them that were animated in like the early-to-mid 2010s. :3. I _miss_ those times and those kinds of animated movies, don't you? :3.
This and Rango being the two films from this team feels like it means something. Don't know what but something.
WAIT RANGO?
I saw this movie when I was young with my cousin bc we both thought it was about actual magic and there would he fighting 😅
(We weren't impressed)
The way I screamed. This my favorite movie in the entire world and the joy I feel someone talking about it makes me FLOAT
Edit: should have watched first, they dunked on my favorite film the whole time 😭
LoL yeah same 😂😂
@@JoelBalm When I say my feelings were HURT
I mean, it's called Strange Magic for a reason.
Also I heard the news regarding you two and I'm so happy for you two!
I know I would have needed more than being drunk to finish this 😅😅😅
I thought this movie was dream for a while but than I saw it on tik tok so I watched it and I actually surprisingly liked it and love Is Strange is my favourite song from the movie for obvious reasons
The animation looks pretty good most of the time, it's just that one time where she smiles... eugh...
Watching y’all drunk watching strange magic while I myself am tipsy is a whole other level of hilarity. Why didn’t I try this sooner? 😂
OOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I got this move in a gift basket after a really bad car crash and I thought it was a fever dream! BUT here it is in its glory
I remembered Just Add Magic and I feel like it should be done next
THAT SHOW WASN'T A FEVER DREAM???
i remember watching like.... 1/4th of this movie on demand several years ago and the fact that all the songs are like.... actual irl songs made me cringe so hard i never finished it
I loved this movie when it came out and I will continue to love it. xD The animation is beautiful and I love the character designs, and the music choice was just...chef's kiss.
One summer, my sister and I went to the movie theater to see this movie, Night of the Museum 3, and Into the Woods. We still talk about how bad this film was without talking about the other two rarely… rest in piece Robin Williams.
OMG! I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!! The soundtrack is good and honestly I should have known I was gay just from this lol
Edit - the Marianne song is an actual song, called c'mon Marianne. My nana loved it
This movie is so cringe, I love it. And I even remember hating the ending when I first watched it, but I still think of it like... all the time? It's the worst movie ever, but I still can't help but enjoy it.
Can’t help falling in love with it even
That's What we call a "guilty pleasure"
Honestly i watched this movie when i was incredibly sick and delusional and at the time i thought it was so wack 😭
for some ungodly reason this movie has been crossed with Epic in my brain for 8 years.
solely because i had seen the ads for epic when it came out, and like 20 minutes of strange magic out of the corner of my eye while building lego. the main setting of tiny folk in a forest with animals at war made them identical in my mind
Great video Athena, as always you are great.
Thank you so so much!!
@@AthenaPOfficial welcome. :)
9:43 the starkid reference is much appreciated lmao
I liked the whack-ass angle. Sure, it's less "professional", but it feels more cozy. But I guess it's easier to see at the desk.
Weird movies like this remind me of another weird movie called Mune: Guardian of the moon, but only because it’s the type of movie almost nobody has ever heard of (which is unfortunate because I remember it being a really good movie and I definitely recommend watching it).
If Athena doesn’t mention that the blue fairy is Kristen Chenoweth…
Still watching lol
you mean to tell me this movie has TWO broadway icons in the voice cast?? the bug guy is alan cumming. how do they keep ending up in these kinds of movies (kristen is in space chimps too????). I guess theatre really doesn’t pay at ALL huh
PARDON???????
@@AthenaPOfficialit’s true
I just remembered seeing this movie as a kid and calling it ‘knockoff Tinkerbell’ IT WAS SO WEIRD IS IT JUST ME?
Athena I'm begging you to do an in depth video on a show called "Franny's Feet". I only vaguely remember watching it when I was a wee youngin but from what I remember I think you'd like it
Strange Magic is just Diet Epic.
Change my mind.
I literally JUST rewatched this, your timing could not possibly have been more perfect! Keep up the great work! 😁
My grandma really likes this movie and made me and my cousins watch it together. So we kinda bonded over how weird it was.
Somehow I can imagine this is better than most modern Star Wars films
Well it was made by George Lucas -
@@KingOfGaymes Not necessarily a good thing.
i looove this movie. the whole time i could _not_ wait until they got to that post-ending roland scene. i wish they stuck around for that particular brand of horror
I'm so confused if I've seen this movie or not lol
I saw the movie Epic and the looks of it are so similar that I can't tell them apart (even though Epic had a very different plot and less singing)
Also what is this
I personally like Epic more lol
@@Princess_Muffin_Cakes yeah I would agree it's better than this lol. Also, I love your pfp
@@oliviar.l.v.68 why thank you :^)
I only have *one* thing to say to you
~Wise men say~
re: bug guy’s voice. it changes so often because the va (tony award winner alan cumming???????? how did he even end up in this) is putting on an accent the entire time. he’s normally Extremely Scottish n his american accent has always been wildly inconsistent 👍
This is unironically my favorite movie of all time 😅😅
I wonder how Shakespeare would react to knowing that arguably one of his best pieces was adapted into… this
I wonder as well
Marianne kind of gives if tori vega were in a lin-manuel musical
Originally this movie was gonna have a different ending where the blond sister didn't end up with a guy in the end! She was just gonna be best friends with the elf guy. But then Disney bought Lucasfilms and stuck their grubby hands in this movies production. The love of friendship was going to break her spell. I really wish that we could've gotten the original ending because that would have been a great message. That love comes in many forms and that not all love is romantic. That you don't have to date someone to feel loved or be happy.
Admittedly I do like this movie and it is a guilty pleasure of mine. But I do long for what it could have been.
I’ve known about this movie for a while thanks to videos being made about it, and everytime I see it I just get a bit sad because this movie has so much potential like I wish it was made with more love for it yk lmao.
I can 100% understand why this movie would be a guilty pleasure, the style and animation is really nice
Strange Magic is the jukebox musical of all time
the highlight of this video for me is that you referenced the guy who didnt like musicals because people dont talk about that musical enough dude
also the only thing i like better about this movie than beauty and the beast (im indifferent about beauty and the beast tbh) is that at least the "beast" dude looks more like someone youre meant to root against, like, design wise hes so villain-y looking and a bit weird looking cause hes all buggy. meanwhile in beauty and the beast adam as the beast is still handsome, i mean, buggy dude here is still a bit handsome but about as much as any other guy in this movie, which is to say... uhhh..... not as much as they pretend they are
"Wait I was singing and now it's dark and there's shit in my pants!-"
Ngl this was one of my favorite childhood movies and i still love it to this day and i am so happy your covering it
I saw this movie in theaters with a bunch of my middle school friends and then promptly forgot about it until this very moment
Dead God PLEASE cover the Team Starkid musicals they slap so hard i was at the live recording of Firebringer and it was amazing it stormed so hard on the way home that the highway flooded, and we were stranded for an hour.
this is one of my favorite movies of all time i’m so glad you reviewed it!!
Watching this while singing songs from Hamilton
Cannot wait for your half hour introspective on why this movie is Sunny the elf’s fault
Congratulations on your engagement you guys!!!
Please review Charlie and Lola !! You mentioned in your WonderPets video about the animation being so good and wanting to see more- and Charlie and Lola is very close to it if not the same !! And yes i am posting this to like 20 videos today. Please !!
This is my new favorite channel, you are so funny and joyous that it’s impossible for me to not have a good time watching you.
They got engaged!
The TGWDLM reference got me so excited 👏👏👏
Oh my god, I watched this at the end of the year in my English class, it was a trip.
A week earlier we watched the Lorax
Congratulations on your engagement 😊. Also thank you for showing that Ryan Higa clip
9:43 I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU REFERENCED THE GUY WHO DIDN’T LIKE MUSICALS 😭😭
Love everyone in the comments coming together and agreeing that this is *the* guilty pleasure movie because tbh same this movie sucks I love it sm
I loved this movie so much I watched it 6 or 7 times on tv while I could, then bought a dvd of it a few years later when I remembered it and couldn’t find it on demand anymore. I’m a sucker for this crap. I did hate how fast it was but I love Alan Cummings voice and I love singing to the songs.
You have awakened a memory of me watching this in daycare as a kid and enjoying it.
lowkey wanna sit and watch this movie with my best friend, we'd probably either ironically or not simp for the bog king cuz that's just who we are...
I was just binging the “watching (blank) drunk” series and wondering when the incomplete ones would come back
WELL YOURE FAMOUS To me now. RUclips suggested your page. I was iffy .. but I deff been subscribed like 2 month now(hopefully😂) & all I gotta say is … IMA NEED MORE UPLOADS 24/7 NOWWWWW. YOUR THE IT GURL RN 😂🫶🫶🫶💟
*recorder cover of Darude Sandstorm over drinking montage, sudden exhale of smoke* ATHENA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? 😂😂😂😂
I keep forgetting Strange Magic exists and that I watched it several years ago.
Fun Fact this came out on my birthday when I was a kid. we went to go see it for said birthday and I LOVE IT as a kid
Key word is as a kid
This movie was such a fever dream lol, but it makes me laugh every time so I consider it a guilty pleasure kinda film
Ahhh, i remember loving boggy woggy kingy wingy and hating the dwarf when i was a kid and i felt really guilty cuz i thought the show was about not jugding someone based on their looks and i thought i hated the dwarf cuz of his looks and heights (w/c is very rare cuz im into tiny things especially dwarves) and apparently realizing it now, i just didnt like his nice guy personality bc I didn't really hate bog king's servants :/
And no matter how many people criticize it (fairly and justly), this will never topple strange magic as my number one favourite movie as a kid merely for the fae aesthetic, the strange magic duet, my hots for dom goth girls, hots for tall lanky but sweet men, and those weird gremlin goblin couple lol
Bro I remember randomly watching this movie and I fell inlove with it I loved the love story and all the songs and I’m glad I watched such an underrated movie
I really liked this movie when I was younger. I love fae and all fantasy type things and this really intrigued my brain
I remember watching this movie years ago… how do I still have the song stuck in my head it’s been so long 💀
Before I watch this video I would like to officially state in the comments that I have good taste in movies. I literally and actually have a film degree and I am generally very pretentious when it comes to movies. I have high standards and am backed up by an overpriced university. However: I really really like this movie. I understand that it’s not good, but you’re wrong actually and should consider that this film is goofy, silly, and it slaps. I love it very much.
2:45 why did I think that was rowan Blanchard 😂
I freaking love this I just watched this last night with my friend as it was one of my childhood favourites and I still love it but we counted about 23 musical bits 😂