That's the trick with cult films, there is that "something" people find in these films that critics generally are not going to get just from watching the film.
Mick Jaggar declined to voice Mok, so Don Francks did the voice work, and Iggy Pop (Pain and Suffering) and Lou Reed (My Name is Mok, Triumph) did the singing.
Holy shit I can see it. I like Rattigan more, but Mok is totally insanely like nothing else. The design, his acts, how he moves, Mok absolutely steals the show. He's disturbing but interesting and absolutely like noting else.
I wouldn't say any of the characters make this film"hard to watch" I'd say you don't understand omars character. yes he's selfish but its because he wants to be famous and gets insecure when he notices angels talent and is worried she will leave him behind for better things and later he accepts that,he does develop and change towards the end of the film but i find this kind of character refreshing he's more life like because all people are flawed in someway its gets boring following a perfect protagonist around all the time knowing what he's/she's going to do and how they'll react imo when there's a flawed character your more interested to see what happens to them.
I love this movie. The biggest tragedy is that the soundtrack was NEVER released. You could find a few songs online, and on a few old LPs. However, as far as the WHOLE soundtrack on one album, doesn't exist.
I Watched A Thing Maybe because the whole idea is just so fucking stupid and that it's going to become instantly dated in a few years. Oh and the trailer was shit too.
Demon Rantz it's not going to be a good movie, it'll be a movie about finding yourself and standing out and not conforming. Like every movie that's ever done that. It'll have inspiration from "Inside Out" "Toy Story" and probably others that have the same message. Secondly you're calling out a movie for capitalizing on a current trend. People love Emojis so why wouldn't they make a movie about them? Looks like they did a decent job at casting. Steven Wright as a Meh? Brilliant. It'll be a 3/10 maybe 4/10. Let Animat give it an honest review and not be swayed by public outrage.
"Hey Omar, I just had a really crazy dream where you were a real nice guy!" Wow, says a lot when even the film itself acknowledges the main protagonist is a real dick! Must defoe watch this film now, seems like the type of animated film I'd really enjoy (not necessarily for it's story but for it's terrific art style).
Character designs were refined from very "anthropomorphic animal" when the production began as Drats! to "practically human" in the end, so they should have rethought and dropped the evolved animals backstory entirely. For a team making their first feature (and making mistakes as a result) this was a very ambitious effort for the time. I applaud them for making the kind of film they wanted to see, but no one else was doing. Except Heavy Metal, maybe.
"Now it's time for me to teach you the difference between Good and Evil, and why you should devote your life to doing as much of the former and as little of the latter as possible!" Love that movie.
It's amazing the kind of animation coming out when the Mouse was laid low in the 1970s and 1980s. Ralph Bakshi, Don Bluth, this. And then the mouse came back with a vengence, 2D animation went by the wayside....and now all it is is 3d animation for kids these days it seems outside of anime and foreign films
FOR REAL.... when I think about my favorite animated movies, disney is it's own category, the rest are from other studios that make SERIOUSLY awesome animated films... Makes we think we should try to take down the Mouse... lol
Well... this is something... *Different* Certainly an interesting movie. And damn the animation is very detailed! Also I hope he reviews Monster House someday.
1:59- Usually in films like this, the villains are one-dimensional, cackling money grubbers or status hogs that act nice to the singers in order to exploit their fame for monetary benefits. Mok was either a legendary music artist that's always been amoral and is looking for ways to continue his legacy, even at the expense of others through an extra dimensional ritual; or an artist that started off with good intentions, but time and age declined his morality to the point that he was willing to conjure an eldritch horror just to be remembered forever. He also plays myself very low key and manipulative unless it's something that truly angers or drives him; which makes the lucid insanity of his plan stand out even more. And the creature itself isn't a demon, it'a eldritch abomination that was constantly changing, spitting out demonic babies as it was entering the heroes' dimension at one point and changed colors. It only stabilized as a red-orange, blue eyed humanoid monster just to give something tangible and not so bat-shit insane. It's something straight out of Lovecraft's mind that was co-drawn by Bakski and Giger.
"There's no reason for the characters to be these animal-human hybrids" Considering everything in it looks like a scrap pile from a nuclear holocaust, I'd say there's a reason: Radiation mutation
Side note: After R&R, Nelvana's studio suffered a fire, which would have completely nuked them if they didn't do the Care Bears movie, and shortly after, did Droids and Ewoks.
As one who's seen both versions of the movie, I have to agree about Omar, especially in the original version. He's one of the worst protagonists I've ever seen. It's one thing to be a jerk with some sympathetic qualities, but Omar...the original Omar was intolerable. He promised Angel that he'd play both their songs at the beginning, but went back on his word because he wanted to be the center of attention. When Angel did start playing her song, Omar walked off the stage in anger. I mean, Dude! You don't walk off stage during the middle of a song! He treated the band like garbage, not even apologizing for his selfish behavior. All he does is excuse it, claiming that he wants it all. When he wasn't being an outright jerk and mistreating the band, he was useless and barely accomplished anything. The US Version luckily tones down on his rude behavior and he's slightly more tolerable.
this movie's super nostalgic for me. and yeah, the fact that omar and angel look so.... /normal/ compared to p much every other characters' design always bugged me. not near as fun to look at as everybody else! also omar looks like if someone tried to make a human crash bandicoot
it is crazy that I JUST SAW this movie just a day or two before you started talking about it XD I personally loved it, and I can overlook the flaws of the film mostly for the fact that the movie doesn't talk down to the audience.
anthropomorphic characters trying to take themselves seriously? It can work but you need good writing and good personalities. I think Don Blunt kinda mastered that. yeah I like this movie and didn't mind them being anthropomorphic, but the story telling and some of the characters did brought this movie down. If the characters were abit likable with a better personality, this movie might been pretty good.
This movie is really freaking weird, but I actually enjoyed it. there's something about how weird it is that pulls me in and gets my undivided attention. I can't tell if it's the animation, or the characters, but they have me watching every second as if it was a train wreck. You can't take your eyes off of it.
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A rare find. I once had a comic book version of this movie (I may still have it in a box somewhere) but I never saw the movie yet. Yes, there is a comic book version. Check amazon.com. I bought it used and cheap why I lived in the caribbean more than 25 years ago because I was drawn to the art style. As an artist myself I was looking for inspiration. Once I tryed to rent the vhs at a local Blickbusters but it was already out but never returned to the store. I think I can stream it for free on RUclips now.
Just watched this film now and i must say this was pretty damn entertaining for me. Great music (new songs to download now lol) and interesting story. Mok, Angel,and the child like henchman(name?) are my favorites. My only complaint about it is that they are anthropomorphic animals..kinda cringy for me..they look like extra characters in a goofy movie..or furry ocs on deviantart.
Late to this game: The three Roller-skating Schlepper Brothers were named Toad (mean & bossy), Sleazy (unkempt & stupid) and Zip (sweet-hearted & stupid). And their sister in Nuke York, Cinderella.
The only reason why mostly they were rats is because to give the theme of a acoptoliptic and filthy but futuristic world, and since rats are filthy well, I guess that's what they're going for.
Nelvana was known for producing shows like Babar the Elephant Clifford's Fun With... Rupert the Bear Pippi Longstocking Cyberchase (seasons 1-5) Little Bear My Friend Rabbit
not to mention: Franklin Detentionaire Star Wars: Droids Star Wars: Ewoks the cartoon bit from the SW Holiday Special Rescue Heroes the dubs of Medabots and Bakugan
So a movie with an amazing, original world and concept, and superb animation that's hampered by a generic and cliché story and one-dimensional characters? *did you mean Sword Art Online?* Nevermind, at least this movie had a decent antagonist. And not the one that forgets the reason for his own goal, the one who screams like a girl and the one who looks like Reaper's mentally-challenged and even edgier cousin. Anyways, Animat's reviewing the Lupin the 3rd movie that Hayao Miyazaki directed next, so definitely can't wait for that!
LMFAO If they think it's for kids just by the cover or by reading the back, they would deserve to screw up their kids, if that's what it will do to them. Me, I been watching this movie my whole life. And loved every minute of every rewatch and all. And ..hmm.. no, I am not scarred in any way. Don't make kids out to be so fragile.
'Rock & Rule' had a lot of issues, technically and story wise but if you look at it like 'Heavy Metal' with heart, something special arose from all that chaos. I think the team at Nelvana got the atmosphere right, Mok is a very well written and compelling villain voiced perfectly by Don Francks and getting Earth, Wind & Fire, Cheap Trick, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed at their peak, were a perfect get for a film like this and the time it was made. It really is a tragic shame that an official soundtrack never got released or a proper film HD remaster, due to a freak fire that destroyed the original print and tracks. Clearly, GOD hated this movie. Also, Dizzy was great.
I found the climax of the movie actually the only really epic part of the movie. The moment Angel sings in front of the demon and Omar joins her, that gave me a bit chills first time watching it. But yeah, I really wished Omar was MUCH more likable, now he's just a dick, really.
This is a really strange movie. Btw the Studio also did some Nick Shows later including Danny Phantom, so that's something neat. Also The Castle of Cagliostro is next. That's a really interesting one actually. I think for the English Dub they got Solid Snake to voice the main Protagonist. I'm not kidding!
This movie is, unfortunately, why we never got an "Elfquest" movie. Nelvana was in negotiations to do an Elfquest movie, but when Rock and Rule bombed, the deal fell through.
The mock lip movement is because his character was originally a parody of Mick Jagger, threat of a lawsuit, made them change the character considerably, but they kept the lip joke in. It’s all in the special features if you bother to watch them.
4:08 I'll take a wild guess on the lip thing and say it's an allusion to Mick Jagger. I mean, just look at his lips when he talks in this 1983 interview ruclips.net/video/V-zHeMBaBMY/видео.html
Can't wait for the Lupin film review! It's such a weird coincidence since 1. I started watching the series and 2. I was recently rewatching Animation Lookback: Studio Ghibli
Chill Player 123 no its because when i posted the updated scores on the cars 3 review one person said "are you going to post this on all his video's?" so i thought that people were getting annoyed with me doing that but just to keep you updated here's what the scores look like as of 7-21-17 10/10 Toy Story 3 & Zootopia (30 Points) Inside Out, Waltz with Bashir, Princess Mononoke, Yellow Submarine, The Road to El Dorato, The Iron Giant & Fantasia (29 Points) 9/10 Frozen (29 Points) Kubo and the Two Strings, Tangled, The Adventures of Tin Tin, The Secret of Kells, Anomalisa, How To Train Your Dragon 2, & Watership Down (28 Points) The Thief and the Cobbler, The Simpson's Movie, Moana, Kung Fu Panda 2, The Wind Rises, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, The Lego Batman Movie, The Hunchback of Notra Dame (27 Points) Wreck-It Ralph, Finding Dory, The Secret World of Arrietty, Chico & Rita, Big Hero Six, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva & Animal Farm (1954) (26 Points) 8/10 Despicable Me 2, Megamind & Rango (25 Points) Despicable Me, Surfs Up, Kung Fu Panda 3, A Scanner Darkly, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, Rise of the Guardians, The Lego Movie, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water & The Peanuts Movie (24 Points) The Good Dinosaur, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Brave, A Bug's Life, Balto, Legends of the Guardians, Puss in Boots, ParaNorman, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Pocahontas, Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie & Despicable Me 3 (23 Points) 7/10 Ferngully (23 Points) (7/10) Sausage Party, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, The Animatrix, The BFG, Justice League: The New Frontier, How To Train Your Dragon, Winnie the Pooh, The Boxtrolls & The Phantom Tollbooth (22 Points) Epic, Storks, Sing, Frankenweenie & Madagascar 3: Europes Most Wanted (21 Points) Rio, Gnomeo & Juliet, The Croods, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Minions & The Secret Life of Pets (20 Points) Team America: World Police (19 Points) 6/10 Raggedy Ann & Andy (20 Points) 9, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, Monsters University, My Little Pony Equestria Girls, Cars 3 & Rock & Rule (19 Points) Rio 2, The Angry Birds Movie, The Sword in the Stone, The Little Prince, Ducktales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, The Flight of Dragons, Penguins of Madagascar (18 Points) Shrek Forever After, Gay Purr-ee & Cars 2 (17 Points) 5/10 The Lorax (19 Points) Turbo, Planes Fire & Rescue, Bionicle: Mask of Light, The King and I, Home & Smurfs The Lost Village (16 Points) Trolls, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, The Care Bears Movie, My Neighbor Totoro, The Wild, Happy Feet Two & Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (15 Points) Mars Needs Moms, Ice Age Continental Drift & We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (14 Points) Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (13 Points) 4/10 Free Birds, Chicken Little, The Boss Baby, Jetsons the Movie, The Nut Job & Happily Ever After (13 Points) Alpha and Omega, Hotel Translvania, Hotel Translvania 2, Planes, Legend of Oz Dorothy's Return & Ratchet & Clank (12 Points) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs & Surfs Up 2: Wavemania (11 Points) 3/10 Walking With Dinosaurs (14 Points) Beauty and the Beast: Bell's Magical World, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Strange Magic, Ice Age Collision Course & The Wild Life (10 Points) Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil & Escape from Planet Earth (8 Points) 2/10 The Legend of the Titanic & Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (7 Points) Norm of the North (5 Points) 1/10 Foodfight! (4 Points) Where the Dead Go to Die (3 Points)
I watched this with the impression it was garbage and it was better than I thought it would be. Mok had a good motivation (even if his methods to get there were a bit questionable) and an overall cool villain. Omar is leaps and bounds the worst character in the movie. I never liked him enough to want to see him redeemed.
I love this movie because of the animation and the music, that's one of the biggest reasons. I totally love weird and obscure animations so this is totally up my alley, i suggest you to check it out!
The American cut had one scene where the monster that Mok summons actually kills members of the audience by eating them, which I honestly liked, since it gave the monster more of an edge. And when any of the characters died in the movie, they stayed dead.
I have to agree with your assessment especially your extreme dissatisfaction with Omar. I watched this when it came out while I was preteen. It's main redeaming qualities to it is Angel and some of her songs.
Now if you find the Unearthed Films 2-disk collectors set of Rock & Rule, it is a gem of a item. Both versions of the film. A number of featureets and a mini collectors book with interviews with some of the production staff. And to think that film is turning 35... Now I'm feeling old...
I wish they made more animated movies like Rock and Rule. We got too many kiddy ass 3D movies now. Thank god DC decided to make R-rated animated movies.
But I will not deny the underlying lack of story development that does make up of the entire story but the meaning is the same love Rock and roll and all that is good will always prevail over evil.
Well, I was right about Rock and Rule being next to be reviewed all this time! And is that the Castle of Cagliostro & Hayao Miyazaki next to get reviewed?
An acid trip from the Great White North...I kinda liked it and I wish MGM didn't fuck over Nelvana so we could get more weird, wild stuff like this. It took the Care Bears movie for them to survive into the present day, because this movie didn't make back its money and they took the biggest L of all. If it took a change in direction for the studio to survive long enough to make Detentionaire then so be it.
Rock & Rule's an ultra weird movie, but it's honestly one of my favourite films of all time. I just can't help but have fun whenever I watch it.
She can sing or she can SCREAM! But she still pissed me off.
That's the trick with cult films, there is that "something" people find in these films that critics generally are not going to get just from watching the film.
They wanted it to be adult themed because of heavy metal coming out shortly before this movie did. Its very obvious the movie inspired this one.
One of my top 3 all time favorite movies
The reason why Mok's lips look like that is because he is a parody of Mick Jagger. Mok Swagger.
Tempo Roboson or even spitting his own teeth xp
Malchik Blue so was The Crow
@Malchik Blue He was VOICED by Iggy Pop IIRC
@@thenumbah1birdman What about Lou Reed
Mick Jaggar declined to voice Mok, so Don Francks did the voice work, and Iggy Pop (Pain and Suffering) and Lou Reed (My Name is Mok, Triumph) did the singing.
Fun fact: Glenn Keanne used Mok as inspiration for Ratigan's animation.
Hah that’s awesome!
Holy shit I can see it. I like Rattigan more, but Mok is totally insanely like nothing else. The design, his acts, how he moves, Mok absolutely steals the show. He's disturbing but interesting and absolutely like noting else.
I get it
I wouldn't say any of the characters make this film"hard to watch" I'd say you don't understand omars character. yes he's selfish but its because he wants to be famous and gets insecure when he notices angels talent and is worried she will leave him behind for better things and later he accepts that,he does develop and change towards the end of the film but i find this kind of character refreshing he's more life like because all people are flawed in someway its gets boring following a perfect protagonist around all the time knowing what he's/she's going to do and how they'll react imo when there's a flawed character your more interested to see what happens to them.
I love this movie. The biggest tragedy is that the soundtrack was NEVER released. You could find a few songs online, and on a few old LPs. However, as far as the WHOLE soundtrack on one album, doesn't exist.
The character design reminds me of those in the Goofy Movie.
X Leonhart I was wondering what movie this reminded me of.
X Leonhart It was the same character designer.
Exactly. This must be Canada's version of Disney, as if it was a Ralph Bakshi/Disney collaboration.
@@fuzzybuzzy3159 Frank Nissen didn't work on A Goofy Movie, but he's an animator for Disney.
Yeah
When animated movies weren't insulting to the audience. (*Cough* Emoji Movie.)
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Igna Grebe God help us
Wow. Everyone's hatred for a movie they haven't yet seen is pathetic.
I Watched A Thing Maybe because the whole idea is just so fucking stupid and that it's going to become instantly dated in a few years. Oh and the trailer was shit too.
Demon Rantz it's not going to be a good movie, it'll be a movie about finding yourself and standing out and not conforming. Like every movie that's ever done that.
It'll have inspiration from "Inside Out" "Toy Story" and probably others that have the same message.
Secondly you're calling out a movie for capitalizing on a current trend. People love Emojis so why wouldn't they make a movie about them?
Looks like they did a decent job at casting. Steven Wright as a Meh? Brilliant.
It'll be a 3/10 maybe 4/10. Let Animat give it an honest review and not be swayed by public outrage.
I kinda like this movie. It's so over-the-top and cheesy that I can't help but enjoy it. Especially the villain.
And even if the animation isn't exactly "pretty" it's interesting to me.
"Hey Omar, I just had a really crazy dream where you were a real nice guy!"
Wow, says a lot when even the film itself acknowledges the main protagonist is a real dick!
Must defoe watch this film now, seems like the type of animated film I'd really enjoy (not necessarily for it's story but for it's terrific art style).
Character designs were refined from very "anthropomorphic animal" when the production began as Drats! to "practically human" in the end, so they should have rethought and dropped the evolved animals backstory entirely. For a team making their first feature (and making mistakes as a result) this was a very ambitious effort for the time. I applaud them for making the kind of film they wanted to see, but no one else was doing. Except Heavy Metal, maybe.
There is a partial lost soundtrack of Rock and Rule that has yet to be found.
There is your Lost Media fact of the day.
"Now it's time for me to teach you the difference between Good and Evil, and why you should devote your life to doing as much of the former and as little of the latter as possible!"
Love that movie.
It's amazing the kind of animation coming out when the Mouse was laid low in the 1970s and 1980s. Ralph Bakshi, Don Bluth, this. And then the mouse came back with a vengence, 2D animation went by the wayside....and now all it is is 3d animation for kids these days it seems outside of anime and foreign films
FOR REAL.... when I think about my favorite animated movies, disney is it's own category, the rest are from other studios that make SERIOUSLY awesome animated films... Makes we think we should try to take down the Mouse... lol
it's one of the problems with unchecked capitalism. Disney has such a stranglehold on that industry that they push out the other quality films
Well... this is something...
*Different*
Certainly an interesting movie.
And damn the animation is very detailed!
Also I hope he reviews Monster House someday.
I'm one of the guys who wrote the script for the DVD version, ironically.
Oh really, how was your experience working in the script?
1:59- Usually in films like this, the villains are one-dimensional, cackling money grubbers or status hogs that act nice to the singers in order to exploit their fame for monetary benefits. Mok was either a legendary music artist that's always been amoral and is looking for ways to continue his legacy, even at the expense of others through an extra dimensional ritual; or an artist that started off with good intentions, but time and age declined his morality to the point that he was willing to conjure an eldritch horror just to be remembered forever. He also plays myself very low key and manipulative unless it's something that truly angers or drives him; which makes the lucid insanity of his plan stand out even more.
And the creature itself isn't a demon, it'a eldritch abomination that was constantly changing, spitting out demonic babies as it was entering the heroes' dimension at one point and changed colors. It only stabilized as a red-orange, blue eyed humanoid monster just to give something tangible and not so bat-shit insane. It's something straight out of Lovecraft's mind that was co-drawn by Bakski and Giger.
Omar's voice in the Canadian version is much better than the U.S. version. I wanted to gouge my ears with a an auger after I heard that.
What are the words Gouge and Auger? 😮
To be fair, Mok probably moves his face like that because he's had a ton of plastic surgery.
This was a fun movie. I"m disappointed that you did not even mention the fact that Debbie Harry played Angel. Ever heard of Blondie?
"There's no reason for the characters to be these animal-human hybrids"
Considering everything in it looks like a scrap pile from a nuclear holocaust, I'd say there's a reason: Radiation mutation
Side note: After R&R, Nelvana's studio suffered a fire, which would have completely nuked them if they didn't do the Care Bears movie, and shortly after, did Droids and Ewoks.
It's a damn shame, too...I would've loved to see more acid trips like this out of Nelvana.
However, Detentionaire is pretty damn good too.
As one who's seen both versions of the movie, I have to agree about Omar, especially in the original version. He's one of the worst protagonists I've ever seen.
It's one thing to be a jerk with some sympathetic qualities, but Omar...the original Omar was intolerable. He promised Angel that he'd play both their songs at the beginning, but went back on his word because he wanted to be the center of attention. When Angel did start playing her song, Omar walked off the stage in anger. I mean, Dude! You don't walk off stage during the middle of a song!
He treated the band like garbage, not even apologizing for his selfish behavior. All he does is excuse it, claiming that he wants it all. When he wasn't being an outright jerk and mistreating the band, he was useless and barely accomplished anything.
The US Version luckily tones down on his rude behavior and he's slightly more tolerable.
this movie's super nostalgic for me. and yeah, the fact that omar and angel look so.... /normal/ compared to p much every other characters' design always bugged me. not near as fun to look at as everybody else!
also omar looks like if someone tried to make a human crash bandicoot
In defense of the characters, people back then didn't go to the movies to see super realistic characters or a bunch of character development.
The soundtrack for this movie really needs to be made available on Spotify and iTunes!
it is crazy that I JUST SAW this movie just a day or two before you started talking about it XD I personally loved it, and I can overlook the flaws of the film mostly for the fact that the movie doesn't talk down to the audience.
This looks like the lovechild of Gem and Rescue Rangers.
I like Omar more towards the end.
The Emoji Movie is premiering next week.
Pray for Animat, guys. Pray for him.
It's Already on the TV Tropes 'so bad,it's horrible' page.
anthropomorphic characters trying to take themselves seriously?
It can work but you need good writing and good personalities.
I think Don Blunt kinda mastered that.
yeah I like this movie and didn't mind them being anthropomorphic,
but the story telling and some of the characters did brought this movie down.
If the characters were abit likable with a better personality, this movie might been pretty good.
This movie is really freaking weird, but I actually enjoyed it. there's something about how weird it is that pulls me in and gets my undivided attention. I can't tell if it's the animation, or the characters, but they have me watching every second as if it was a train wreck. You can't take your eyes off of it.
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I need to watch this again, thanks for the reminder!
Video game: You've got company at 12 o'clock
Stretch: But the house is such a mess! 😂
Who here wants Animat to crossover with Cellspex to do a rant on Sony Pictures Animation!
Landon Legate Ummm... Who's Cellspex?
Landon Legate I would watch that.
Alex Ashbourne She's a animation reviewer who reviews animated movies. You should check her channel out.
Landon Legate for president.
Landon Legate YESSSS !!!
Isn't Nelvana the same studio that is doing the Hotel Transylvania show.
Landon Legate they did a few good shows such as cyberchase that they did only until season 4 uh. OK not that many good shows
Gaming Squad 27 - Actually, they stopped after Season 5
yeah so
Gee&Tee I knew they stop near season 4 or 5
they also did, uh should I say it
your right on the animation but i watch it for interesting 80s animation with rock music.
A rare find. I once had a comic book version of this movie (I may still have it in a box somewhere) but I never saw the movie yet. Yes, there is a comic book version. Check amazon.com. I bought it used and cheap why I lived in the caribbean more than 25 years ago because I was drawn to the art style. As an artist myself I was looking for inspiration. Once I tryed to rent the vhs at a local Blickbusters but it was already out but never returned to the store. I think I can stream it for free on RUclips now.
Cindy is the best thing that has ever happened in this movie, she's such a doll
Just watched this film now and i must say this was pretty damn entertaining for me. Great music (new songs to download now lol) and interesting story. Mok, Angel,and the child like henchman(name?) are my favorites. My only complaint about it is that they are anthropomorphic animals..kinda cringy for me..they look like extra characters in a goofy movie..or furry ocs on deviantart.
divahime378 If I recall correctly, the child-like henchman was named "Sip."
KelvinMMoore69 thanks :)
Late to this game: The three Roller-skating Schlepper Brothers were named Toad (mean & bossy), Sleazy (unkempt & stupid) and Zip (sweet-hearted & stupid). And their sister in Nuke York, Cinderella.
The only reason why mostly they were rats is because to give the theme of a acoptoliptic and filthy but futuristic world, and since rats are filthy well, I guess that's what they're going for.
I'm a sucker for some damned good animation.
I remember seeing this years ago Saturday night on a Canadian station.
*mat I'm begging you review wizards by Ralph Bashkii*
I find mok to be a vastly enjoyable villian. Wish Villains like him were more common today.
Next week, Emoji Movie, following week, AniMat's Reviews. Next month, another AniMat's Classic Reviews
Nelvana was known for producing shows like
Babar the Elephant
Clifford's Fun With...
Rupert the Bear
Pippi Longstocking
Cyberchase (seasons 1-5)
Little Bear
My Friend Rabbit
not to mention:
Franklin
Detentionaire
Star Wars: Droids
Star Wars: Ewoks
the cartoon bit from the SW Holiday Special
Rescue Heroes
the dubs of Medabots and Bakugan
Wheres my "i knew about this movie before this video was released" gang at
This movie looks so Cyberpunkish....
Nice....!
The opening exposition tells us there was a great war and humanity is gone. Street animals eventually evolved into what we see
So a movie with an amazing, original world and concept, and superb animation that's hampered by a generic and cliché story and one-dimensional characters?
*did you mean Sword Art Online?*
Nevermind, at least this movie had a decent antagonist. And not the one that forgets the reason for his own goal, the one who screams like a girl and the one who looks like Reaper's mentally-challenged and even edgier cousin.
Anyways, Animat's reviewing the Lupin the 3rd movie that Hayao Miyazaki directed next, so definitely can't wait for that!
sword art online has god awful directing tho
this movie has pretty good directing
also this movie has a FANTASTIC soundtrack
What was original about SAO? Everything was borrowed..
Time stamp 4:00. According to the DVD commentary, they used no, repeat NO rotoscoping.
im worry if parent brought this movie from any store.They will think this is a disney movie for kids
LMFAO If they think it's for kids just by the cover or by reading the back, they would deserve to screw up their kids, if that's what it will do to them. Me, I been watching this movie my whole life. And loved every minute of every rewatch and all. And ..hmm.. no, I am not scarred in any way. Don't make kids out to be so fragile.
Cindy kind of sounds like Harley Quinn.
Actually watched Rock and Rule the other day & really enjoyed it, actually thinking of seeing if I can pick it up on DVD from Amazon or something
'Rock & Rule' had a lot of issues, technically and story wise but if you look at it like 'Heavy Metal' with heart, something special arose from all that chaos. I think the team at Nelvana got the atmosphere right, Mok is a very well written and compelling villain voiced perfectly by Don Francks and getting Earth, Wind & Fire, Cheap Trick, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed at their peak, were a perfect get for a film like this and the time it was made.
It really is a tragic shame that an official soundtrack never got released or a proper film HD remaster, due to a freak fire that destroyed the original print and tracks.
Clearly, GOD hated this movie.
Also, Dizzy was great.
oh god omar is the woooorsst thank you.
Is the next classic review the Castle of Cagliostro?
MegaSoulHero shiver me timbers, it is the Castle of Cagliostro!
MegaSoulHero he did that one already, I think
WoodenClockwerk I just looked it up. He didn't do it yet.
I love this weird ass film 💜
Next week is The Emoji Movie!
Landon Legate The movie comes out next week but he's reviewing it the week after. He always reviews animated movies on the week after they come out.
Landon Legate NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Also, there was no CG used, it was slit scan animation, a'la 2001. All hand drawn, baby.
I always thought this was a tie in to those Goofy movies.
I remember Siskel and Ebert reviewing this movie on TV one night.
Does anyone else hope that AniMat could review The Devil and Daniel Mouse and The Secret of Nimh eventually too?
The Devil and Daniel Mouse is more of a Special than a Film.
Since you are Canadian, (and this was inevitable) what were your favorite childhood shows from Nelvana?
I hope he reviews osmosis jones someday.
Mok's henchmen remind me of the Beagle Boys for some reason.
I found the climax of the movie actually the only really epic part of the movie. The moment Angel sings in front of the demon and Omar joins her, that gave me a bit chills first time watching it. But yeah, I really wished Omar was MUCH more likable, now he's just a dick, really.
This is a really strange movie. Btw the Studio also did some Nick Shows later including Danny Phantom, so that's something neat. Also The Castle of Cagliostro is next. That's a really interesting one actually. I think for the English Dub they got Solid Snake to voice the main Protagonist. I'm not kidding!
If only the soundtrack hadn't been destroyed. I'd at least buy "Send Love Through" and "Send Love Through Finale".
This movie is, unfortunately, why we never got an "Elfquest" movie. Nelvana was in negotiations to do an Elfquest movie, but when Rock and Rule bombed, the deal fell through.
The mock lip movement is because his character was originally a parody of Mick Jagger, threat of a lawsuit, made them change the character considerably, but they kept the lip joke in. It’s all in the special features if you bother to watch them.
4:08 I'll take a wild guess on the lip thing and say it's an allusion to Mick Jagger.
I mean, just look at his lips when he talks in this 1983 interview ruclips.net/video/V-zHeMBaBMY/видео.html
Great review! hope to see more!
It's interesting how this movie is PG, because after watching this movie, I just realized it has a lot of sexual scenes.
I love the music put into this, too bad I was only able to buy 5 of the songs on iTunes
Can't wait for the Lupin film review! It's such a weird coincidence since 1. I started watching the series and 2. I was recently rewatching Animation Lookback: Studio Ghibli
The Emoji Movie is next week. You have my deepest sympathy.
Yeah, it's the interesting film by Nelvana...
Well guys 1 week until emoji's that will be a box office end of the world disaster :(
Sean S Sean why did you stop posting AniMat's scores? Was it spam for people?
Chill Player 123 no its because when i posted the updated scores on the cars 3 review one person said "are you going to post this on all his video's?" so i thought that people were getting annoyed with me doing that but just to keep you updated here's what the scores look like as of 7-21-17
10/10
Toy Story 3 & Zootopia (30 Points)
Inside Out, Waltz with Bashir, Princess Mononoke, Yellow Submarine, The Road to El Dorato, The Iron Giant & Fantasia (29 Points)
9/10
Frozen (29 Points)
Kubo and the Two Strings, Tangled, The Adventures of Tin Tin, The Secret of Kells, Anomalisa, How To Train Your Dragon 2, & Watership Down (28 Points)
The Thief and the Cobbler, The Simpson's Movie, Moana, Kung Fu Panda 2, The Wind Rises, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, The Lego Batman Movie, The Hunchback of Notra Dame (27 Points)
Wreck-It Ralph, Finding Dory, The Secret World of Arrietty, Chico & Rita, Big Hero Six, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva & Animal Farm (1954) (26 Points)
8/10
Despicable Me 2, Megamind & Rango (25 Points)
Despicable Me, Surfs Up, Kung Fu Panda 3, A Scanner Darkly, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, Rise of the Guardians, The Lego Movie, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water & The Peanuts Movie (24 Points)
The Good Dinosaur, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Brave, A Bug's Life, Balto, Legends of the Guardians, Puss in Boots, ParaNorman, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Pocahontas, Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie & Despicable Me 3 (23 Points)
7/10
Ferngully (23 Points) (7/10)
Sausage Party, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, The Animatrix, The BFG, Justice League: The New Frontier, How To Train Your Dragon, Winnie the Pooh, The Boxtrolls & The Phantom Tollbooth (22 Points)
Epic, Storks, Sing, Frankenweenie & Madagascar 3: Europes Most Wanted (21 Points)
Rio, Gnomeo & Juliet, The Croods, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Minions & The Secret Life of Pets (20 Points)
Team America: World Police (19 Points)
6/10
Raggedy Ann & Andy (20 Points)
9, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, Monsters University, My Little Pony Equestria Girls, Cars 3 & Rock & Rule (19 Points)
Rio 2, The Angry Birds Movie, The Sword in the Stone, The Little Prince, Ducktales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, The Flight of Dragons, Penguins of Madagascar (18 Points)
Shrek Forever After, Gay Purr-ee & Cars 2 (17 Points)
5/10
The Lorax (19 Points)
Turbo, Planes Fire & Rescue, Bionicle: Mask of Light, The King and I, Home & Smurfs The Lost Village (16 Points)
Trolls, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, The Care Bears Movie, My Neighbor Totoro, The Wild, Happy Feet Two & Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (15 Points)
Mars Needs Moms, Ice Age Continental Drift & We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (14 Points)
Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (13 Points)
4/10
Free Birds, Chicken Little, The Boss Baby, Jetsons the Movie, The Nut Job & Happily Ever After (13 Points)
Alpha and Omega, Hotel Translvania, Hotel Translvania 2, Planes, Legend of Oz Dorothy's Return & Ratchet & Clank (12 Points)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs & Surfs Up 2: Wavemania (11 Points)
3/10
Walking With Dinosaurs (14 Points)
Beauty and the Beast: Bell's Magical World, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Strange Magic, Ice Age Collision Course & The Wild Life (10 Points)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil & Escape from Planet Earth (8 Points)
2/10
The Legend of the Titanic & Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (7 Points)
Norm of the North (5 Points)
1/10
Foodfight! (4 Points)
Where the Dead Go to Die (3 Points)
How about once a month or so?
Yeah Sean should do it at least once a Month.
Well, let me tell you about The Emoji Movie: even though I never understand Spanish, but the Spanish dub of The Emoji Movie really sucks to me!
Say what happen to the music part of the review were you talk about the music in the film
I watched this with the impression it was garbage and it was better than I thought it would be. Mok had a good motivation (even if his methods to get there were a bit questionable) and an overall cool villain. Omar is leaps and bounds the worst character in the movie. I never liked him enough to want to see him redeemed.
I love this movie because of the animation and the music, that's one of the biggest reasons.
I totally love weird and obscure animations so this is totally up my alley, i suggest you to check it out!
I want Nostalgia Critic to review this.
The American cut had one scene where the monster that Mok summons actually kills members of the audience by eating them, which I honestly liked, since it gave the monster more of an edge. And when any of the characters died in the movie, they stayed dead.
Can you do the Berserk: Golden Age movies? Please. I want to see your thoughts on it
I have to agree with your assessment especially your extreme dissatisfaction with Omar. I watched this when it came out while I was preteen. It's main redeaming qualities to it is Angel and some of her songs.
Mok is synthesis of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and Mick Jagger,
The last one explains the Lips...
Omar was quite an unlikable character, I massively agree. To be fair, I’m more taken by Mok Swagger over everyone else.
After cartoon network can you do an animation lookback on nelvana ?
Now if you find the Unearthed Films 2-disk collectors set of Rock & Rule, it is a gem of a item.
Both versions of the film. A number of featureets and a mini collectors book with interviews with some of the production staff.
And to think that film is turning 35...
Now I'm feeling old...
I wish they made more animated movies like Rock and Rule. We got too many kiddy ass 3D movies now. Thank god DC decided to make R-rated animated movies.
There is no Santa Claus, no Tooth Fairy, and NO UNCLE MIKEY!!!
The Castle of Cagliostro is next
But I will not deny the underlying lack of story development that does make up of the entire story but the meaning is the same love Rock and roll and all that is good will always prevail over evil.
Castle of Cagolistro! I'm so exited because it's my favorite Hayao Miyazaki flim and my favorite animated film of all time!
Best Canadian film in my opinion. Very underrated.
Well, I was right about Rock and Rule being next to be reviewed all this time! And is that the Castle of Cagliostro & Hayao Miyazaki next to get reviewed?
You should review Interstella 5555.
An acid trip from the Great White North...I kinda liked it and I wish MGM didn't fuck over Nelvana so we could get more weird, wild stuff like this.
It took the Care Bears movie for them to survive into the present day, because this movie didn't make back its money and they took the biggest L of all. If it took a change in direction for the studio to survive long enough to make Detentionaire then so be it.
The box office results of this movie is crazier than the movie itself, which is saying a lot