Hoping it got scanned to the Internet Archive before it was sold. Who knows what info about the project it may have contained that is now lost to some private collector not to be seen again.
Funny how one thing hasn't changed in Hollywood over the past 30 years: studio executives burying or canceling a movie over stupid petty shit and calling it "business interests".
Yep, and it never ceases to baffle me how this is such a common issue amongst the corporate ladder. It's effectively cutting off your nose just to spite your own face. It's such a pathetic display that does nothing but cripple the whole company in the long run just to protect a rich idiot's ego.
Rover Dangerfield had to go up against TERMINATOR 2?! Holy moly, this movie stood no chance regardless of it's quality. I haven't seen such egregious corporate sabotage since Disney pitting the Winnie the Pooh movie against the last Harry Potter movie so they can have an excuse to scrap their 2D animation department.
@@JoJoJoker It's a fantastic little movie, I highly recommend it. It's barely over an hour, but you can tell every scene was animated with love for the series and care for the medium.
Rover Dangerfield was my favorite cartoon as a kid, and it introduced me to the works and fascinating career of Rodney Dangerfield. I'm glad to see someone discuss, let alone even acknowledge it!
If you are ever at a convention that animator Tom Cook is, he sells dvd's of Rover Dangerfield with a cool walk through on the back of the case of how he animated Rovers movements in the film.
Warner Bros. were notorious for interfering with animated features originally aimed for adults. A great example, Quest For Camelot (1998), was indented to be a PG-13 rated animated film similar to (Coincidentally) Ralph Bakshi's 1977 cult classic WIzards. Warner had the film heavily changed to be similar to what Disney was producing at the time.
I remember renting this as a kid. it was the first time I realized the words 'barn' and 'farm' are not the same, but sound too much the same to be comfortable. I was also when i was still grappling with "last names can be just words, it doesn't mean there is actual danger in a field." So i was.. very small. When I first actually SAW Rodney, I was like "holy hell that dog cartoon was -dead on-." like I've never seen a cartoon likeness nailed so perfectly, except maybe in those old weird Looney Tunes, you know the ones where like, a bunch of fish swallow random objects and turn into celebrities of the day..
You're intro to this is spot on. I saw this movie numerous times on cable, know most of the jokes.. but have no recollection of what the movie was actually about.
My friend told me some Karen got Rover Dangerfield taken out of the kids’ section of her local video store growing up because “Rodney Dangerfield’s comedy is inappropriate for children”
I always appreciate your approach to these forgotten movies and almost cult classics: you highlight the things that work about them, rather than point out flaws. It's a lot more fun to like stuff than hate it!
The description "heard of but not much seen" is very apt. This is a movie I've seen advertised, heard mention of, and know that it exists, but I have never seen a physical copy of it or seen it on TV. For a long time, the Boris and Natasha movie was the same way until I chanced on it in a video store.
I think this was the first time I was introduced to Rodney Dangerfield as a young child, I rented the film from Blockbuster. While I don’t remember this film too much, I do remember the weirdest thing to happen to me right after watching it. I went outside while it had been raining, and on the ground was a small Rover Dangerfield plush with its right hand partially missing. I don’t think I would had kept it if I hadn’t just watched that film.
This was always a comfort for me as a kid. Came out when I was 12. I thought back to school was a riot. Rodney hilarious. Grew up on Charlotte's Web so the farm setting was fun. Animation was great and yes, as a 12 year old "I'll never do it on a Christmas Tree" was lyrical genius.
Used to be on Cartoon Network (UK)'s animation film marathons almost every weekend. not bad as i recall, the animation reminds of the 90s tom and jerry fick from that around that time. I like how they did in a way manage to give Rover Rodney's distinctive bulging eyes.
They showed this movie on Cartoon Network many times and I remember watching it more than once. I mostly remember the Rocky character throwing rover into the hoover dam
Watched this a fair bit as a kid but not seen it since. My Nan had a copy on video for some reason. It was probably how I came across Rodney Dangerfield. Now idea if it did ok here in the UK but I know a few of my friends had seen it so it probably wasn't entirely buried here.
I would have sworn he had cartoon shorts based on his dirty nursery rhyme bit on something like on MTV or HBO, but I can't find it. I feel like I'm having a flashback to something that didn't exist. I remember it being a weird animation style like comic panels and the transitions were the models breaking down into colorful swirls that re-arranged themselves into the next panel.
You have a real talent for picking just the right movies for these videos. Movies that stand out as curiosities to me, but never made me curious enough to actually watch them. This was really interesting and informative - great work!
I remember being about 6 years old and catching this movie on HBO. After one viewing I had to have it so me and my mom set up the VCR to record it later in the day. Great memory and god bless that woman for knowing how to record with perfect timing on a VCR...those things were like time bombs.
One I definitely grew up with thanks to Disney Chanel, HBO, and Cartoon Network airings, it's a fun nostalgia piece of childhood that I remember watching a lot. I actually just found one of the old Rover Dangerfield plushes on Mercari not too long ago for a good price and picked it up.
One of my personal favorite films growing up. Seriously, I've lost count how many times I'd watched it. It was also one of my introductions to Rodney Dangerfield.
I remember watching this a lot as a kid and those songs stuck with me for a long time. They actually released a blu ray of this earlier this year (so of course I bought it) and I felt it still held up pretty well!
My brothers and I would watch it all the time when it was airing on HBO back in the 90s. I loved it and it became my gateway drug into his movies and stand up, which got me into other comedians.
I actually had this movie on VHS as a kid. I also remember being pleasantly surprised when I was watching old re-runs of America’s Funniest Home Videos one day & Rodney made a guest appearance & surprised Bob Saget by popping some of the set backdrop balloons (“I’ve been DYING to do that!”)
I loved this movie as a kid. Used to watch it with my sister. By that point I had seen caddy shack and back to school with my dad and I loved Rodney. Still do. Laughed at a few jokes of his in this video in fact.
I could’ve sworn this was covered on the channel already haha I have fond memories back in early elementary school drawing the character in my art book whenever it would come on T.V I did that for every animated film and show that would come on lol had it all in alphabetical order too, this was my childhood when everyone else wanted to go outside and play
Loved this movie as a kid Thought I had just dreamed it for the longest time until rediscovering it as a teenager Would kill to see the original uncut adult version
Thanks for showing me this I didn’t know about it. I grew up on his legend, I even saw him when my parents went to Vegas he was in a robe walking to the pool like just a normal guy; as a kid one of my fave movies was Ladybugs which is still funny AF even today.
Know of this in name only. Never had an opportunity to see it. And I would sit through pretty much anything back in those days. His film Ladybugs from the following year, for example. Probably watched that one 25 times on HBO, as a kid.
Thanks, Joe. I heard of this movie but never felt an urge to watch it. I still don't, but as always with the comments on your ACC videos, I'm glad so many people have good memories of it.
I remember having my dad in Cali drive me to the Wherehouse or another video store I can't remember the name of where I rented this movie many times over. Loved this one.
I'm not even sure if I saw this movie as a kid, but I was familiar with Dangerfield enough to pick up a Rover Dangerfield plush at a Goodwill when I was a kid. It was a strange plush, as it was not filled with stuffing, but instead, it was plush on an a hard Styrofoam body, putting Rover in a fixed position so he was tugging at his tie, the classic Rodney move. I wish I still had that, along with my Kazaam poster!
LOVED this film as a kid. Found in a video store (remember those kids?), and had no clue Rodney Dangerfield was in an animated movie. Back to School is still my favorite film of his. Like you I had forgotten a lot of this, but would love to watch it again someday
This was one of those movies my parents taped off of HBO for me when I was little, along with Brave Little Toaster and Secret of NIMH, all movies that I’d basically watch every day during my childhood. It’s also HOW I found out about Rodney in the first place (I didn’t see Easy Money until I was an adolescent), the same as how I found out about The Beatles through Yellow Submarine. I don’t remember the last time I watched the whole thing from beginning to end, but from what I remember, I’d say it’s cute for what it is, basically a good way to introduce your kids to Rodney Dangerfield before they’re old enough to watch his live action movies.
I had both this movie and Rock-a-Doodle on VHS as a kid. My brother and I would watch both fairly regularly along with the Pagemaster. All three were fairly forgettable but fun. Outside of Disney I generally preferred the work of Don Bluth who I know used to work at Disney.
I'm happy to say I'm one of the few who actually saw this on video and cable a couple years after the fact. And I actually remember quite liking it, even if I didn't get all the jokes. Nice to know I'm not the only one. =)
Judging by the TV Tropes page for this movie, I had assumed there were TWO things people remembered from tthid movie: Rodney Dangerfield as a dof, and how long they keep that dead turkey onscreen.
Fun fact: one of the animators on this movie was Seth Kearsley, who would go on to direct a different movie based on a famous comedian’s schtick: Eight Crazy Nights. (He’s got a RUclips channel now, I highly recommend it)
I was pleasantly surprised by "Rover Dangerfield" too. It may have been funnier as an R-rated movie, but it worked pretty well as a G-rated one. Plus, "I'd Never Do It On a Christmas Tree" was a funny song.
I absolutely loved this film as a child, but like you i had forgotten almost everything about it. And, like you, i recently revisited it, on the Blu-ray, and was indeed pleasantly surprised to find that despite its faults, i still enjoyed the heck* out of it. *comment neutered by Warner lawyers.
I had never heard of this movie until I saw nostalgia critics review on it. Naturally, I decided to form my own opinion by watching this movie myself. And I gotta say I really like it. Yeah it’s got some absurd moments like the Christmas Tree song and moments that were clearly meddled with because of studio executives. I do find the animation very nice and I’m glad it exists. It deserves its status as a cult film.
I never saw this movie in theaters because I wasn't born yet, but I did catch reruns of it in the late 90s on Cartoon Network. I've only seen it twice, then it just somehow disappeared. My father was a huge fan because he also loved the comedian. Oddly enough, finding a VHS copy of the film is becoming tricky nowadays. I check every Goodwill and thrift store around my town, but it's a very uncommon VHS film to find.
Loved this one as a kid. "I'd never piddle on a Christmas Tree". Weird thing is we rented it from a RADIO SHACK. The local owner of the Radio Shack in 1991 was trying to break into home video rentals. Only place in town (population 1500) that had it back then.
I remember watching this growing up & always enjoying it. For awhile, it felt like Cartoon Network would play this anytime they had a block of programming to fill.
This was my introduction to Dangerfield (it was playing on TV one weekend). Recognizing the comedian, my dad then proceeded to show me Back to School, a TV-edited version of Caddyshack, and a couple bits of his stand-up.
Oh man, this story had heart. And I saw it around the time where a lot of famous people would get movies, especially comedians (like you said). But after being burned by Bill Cosby's constant flops, I was surprised that this animated film was good. Like, legit good. I can recommend it to anyone who wants something to watch with the kids. Or without, because it's still good.
Finally, someone reviews & gives some love to Rover Dangerfield!!! I loved this movie as a kid, & always thought it was sad that it never gets acknowledged, & i had no idea it had became a punchline. It's only 74 minutes??? Wow, seems like it was much longer, when i was a kid! Anyways, Rodney is great in this, & absolutely kills it, even with the G rated material! Another Rodney Dangerfield flick that should covered, in this series, in my opinion, is Ladybugs. I certainly remember the hilarious Caddyshack 2 reference, in an episode of ALF, where Kate remarks about ALF crying at the end of Caddyshack 2, lol. Please, please, please cover Bebe's Kids, in a future episode, of this series.
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Last year we found a bunch of animation cels for this and promo material for it in an animation studio locker. wild stuff!
Wow! Have you made a video on them or taken any pictures? I used to watch this every time it came on TV & would love to see those!
have you uploaded these online anywhere?? :0
that would be an amazing thing to preserve!! :D
Link?
I’d love to buy a few cels off you if you are selling them
Hoping it got scanned to the Internet Archive before it was sold. Who knows what info about the project it may have contained that is now lost to some private collector not to be seen again.
"Rover Dangerfield is a movie that deserves a little more respect."
Oh, big time!
Funny how one thing hasn't changed in Hollywood over the past 30 years: studio executives burying or canceling a movie over stupid petty shit and calling it "business interests".
Ironic, "business" being a euphemism for... well, doing your business and all
Or A euphemism for 'we hate cartoons'. I guess the people running WB back then were no better, or worse than David Zaslav.
That Fixed thing looks pretty awful but I still feel bad for Genndy getting the short end so many times.
Yep, and it never ceases to baffle me how this is such a common issue amongst the corporate ladder. It's effectively cutting off your nose just to spite your own face. It's such a pathetic display that does nothing but cripple the whole company in the long run just to protect a rich idiot's ego.
@@felixdaniels37 Hmmm... that sounds familiar.
Remember watching this on cartoon network back in the day had no idea who Rodney dangerfield was but I did recognize him from his cameo in Casper
yea i think it used to play lot around thanksgiving
Oh same dude, I think I even remember the bumpers too
And now I am old.
Rover Dangerfield had to go up against TERMINATOR 2?! Holy moly, this movie stood no chance regardless of it's quality. I haven't seen such egregious corporate sabotage since Disney pitting the Winnie the Pooh movie against the last Harry Potter movie so they can have an excuse to scrap their 2D animation department.
Yep, that sure sounds like Disney!!
I’d never heard of 2011’s Winnie the Pooh. Thanks for mentioning it, the trailer looks wonderful and I can’t wait to watch it with my young son.
@@JoJoJoker
It's a fantastic little movie, I highly recommend it. It's barely over an hour, but you can tell every scene was animated with love for the series and care for the medium.
Don't forget when Disney pitted the Bob's Burgers movie up against Top Gun: Maverick.
Rover Dangerfield was my favorite cartoon as a kid, and it introduced me to the works and fascinating career of Rodney Dangerfield. I'm glad to see someone discuss, let alone even acknowledge it!
@Silent_Lucidity, me too!! Loved this as a kid, & gotta give it a watch, again, sometime here, soon. I can see someone is a big Queensryche fan!
If you are ever at a convention that animator Tom Cook is, he sells dvd's of Rover Dangerfield with a cool walk through on the back of the case of how he animated Rovers movements in the film.
That Christmas tree song has lived rent free in my head for about 30 years.
What does pay rent in your head?
Warner Bros. were notorious for interfering with animated features originally aimed for adults. A great example, Quest For Camelot (1998), was indented to be a PG-13 rated animated film similar to (Coincidentally) Ralph Bakshi's 1977 cult classic WIzards. Warner had the film heavily changed to be similar to what Disney was producing at the time.
All I can say about Quest for Camelot: On second thought, let's not go to Camelot, it's a silly place.
@@torstenscholz6243 It's only a model
The original concept sounds really interesting. A shame it never saw the light of day.
@@torstenscholz6243 WB's feature animation department was A mess. The TV animation department was A different story, entirely.
I watched Quest for Camelot a LOT as a kid. Would've been cool to see the PG-13 version
I remember renting this as a kid. it was the first time I realized the words 'barn' and 'farm' are not the same, but sound too much the same to be comfortable. I was also when i was still grappling with "last names can be just words, it doesn't mean there is actual danger in a field."
So i was.. very small. When I first actually SAW Rodney, I was like "holy hell that dog cartoon was -dead on-." like I've never seen a cartoon likeness nailed so perfectly, except maybe in those old weird Looney Tunes, you know the ones where like, a bunch of fish swallow random objects and turn into celebrities of the day..
Watching Shark Tale as an adult weirds me the hell out because my GOD they really made Oscar look exactly like Will Smith [if he was a fish]
I remember seeing this movie several times. Since "back to school" I developed a taste for Dangerfield's humor
For me it was this and definitely ladybugs..
Go back and watch his old appearances on the Tonight Show on youtube. I could not stop laughing at line after line. Rodney had a knack for that.
@@brad3042 i watched them.
I LOVED this movie as a kid lol. My dad was a huge Dangerfield fan and showed me a bunch of his movies.
Probably the most bizarre thing to come out of Dangerfields career
I don't know, he had a rap album.
@@Noxx55 So did Joe Pesci
"Where's Rodney?" was pretty wild too.
@@Noxx55I actually own it! Found it in a thrift store around here.
Counting his part in Natural Born Killers?
A post from Hats Off?
Yes please!
This & Rock-a-doodle were on rotation for me as a kid born in the mid 80s
Yes, I loved Rock-a-Doodle too, & that also deserves to be covered in a future episode! Or at least, in a forgotten failures episode.
Half the animation staff of Rock-A-Doodle defected from Ireland, coincidentally finding work on Rover Dangerfield.
@@PunkyBear36 Makes sense then!
@@brandonpage7087 I agree!
You mean the mid 90s?
This unlocked a hidden memory, I remembered the talking dog from this, but didn't know it was Rodney Dangerfield related.
I said to myself driving home from work today, I said “HatsOff Entertainment hasn’t uploaded in a bit.”
I think a lot of people have actually seen this movie, but it's such a fever dream that not much sticks in your mind when you watch it.
You're intro to this is spot on. I saw this movie numerous times on cable, know most of the jokes.. but have no recollection of what the movie was actually about.
I think that's cause Rodney puts in such a memorable performance, that it overshadows the plot.
My friend told me some Karen got Rover Dangerfield taken out of the kids’ section of her local video store growing up because “Rodney Dangerfield’s comedy is inappropriate for children”
Rodney was the greatest. Nothing but respect for that man.
Respect? 😉 He doesn't get no respect.😊
I always appreciate your approach to these forgotten movies and almost cult classics: you highlight the things that work about them, rather than point out flaws. It's a lot more fun to like stuff than hate it!
Saw it in theaters. I swear I even had a toy of Rover growing up. It was my introduction to Rodney Dangerfield.
This was such a weird movie to stumble on as a kid in the 90s.
This is a textbook ACC to me. Good choice. It was my introduction to Rodney Dangerfield.
I would rent this movie from Blockbuster every week as a kid. No idea why my parents didn't just buy it at that point lol
Ngl I was expecting you to put this in your Forgotten Failures series.
This is a movie where more people saw the poster than the actual movie 😂
The description "heard of but not much seen" is very apt. This is a movie I've seen advertised, heard mention of, and know that it exists, but I have never seen a physical copy of it or seen it on TV. For a long time, the Boris and Natasha movie was the same way until I chanced on it in a video store.
I think this was the first time I was introduced to Rodney Dangerfield as a young child, I rented the film from Blockbuster. While I don’t remember this film too much, I do remember the weirdest thing to happen to me right after watching it. I went outside while it had been raining, and on the ground was a small Rover Dangerfield plush with its right hand partially missing. I don’t think I would had kept it if I hadn’t just watched that film.
Man, that is pretty bizarre!
This was always a comfort for me as a kid. Came out when I was 12. I thought back to school was a riot. Rodney hilarious. Grew up on Charlotte's Web so the farm setting was fun. Animation was great and yes, as a 12 year old "I'll never do it on a Christmas Tree" was lyrical genius.
I remember this movie because of the Nostalgia Critic review. My favorite is the "what exactly the joke is?" bit, that got me the laughs.
fond memories of watching this on tv when i was a kid, i even got the soundtrack cd off of ebay last month
Used to be on Cartoon Network (UK)'s animation film marathons almost every weekend. not bad as i recall, the animation reminds of the 90s tom and jerry fick from that around that time. I like how they did in a way manage to give Rover Rodney's distinctive bulging eyes.
The scene with the dead turkey is honestly hysterical. The animation of him trying to revive it is great.
I've been waiting for this! One of my favorite movies as a kid!!!
They showed this movie on Cartoon Network many times and I remember watching it more than once. I mostly remember the Rocky character throwing rover into the hoover dam
Watched this a fair bit as a kid but not seen it since. My Nan had a copy on video for some reason. It was probably how I came across Rodney Dangerfield. Now idea if it did ok here in the UK but I know a few of my friends had seen it so it probably wasn't entirely buried here.
Your videos are like comfort food. Thank you.
Can you imagine an Andrew "Dice" Clay Saturday morning cartoon?✌🏾
Dice was in an episode of Rugrats if it’s any consolation
@@BennSimonn I didn't know that. I have to look that up.👌🏽
Ford Fairlane: The Animated Series
I would have sworn he had cartoon shorts based on his dirty nursery rhyme bit on something like on MTV or HBO, but I can't find it. I feel like I'm having a flashback to something that didn't exist. I remember it being a weird animation style like comic panels and the transitions were the models breaking down into colorful swirls that re-arranged themselves into the next panel.
Dice was caricatured on A 'Tiny Toons' episode once.
You have a real talent for picking just the right movies for these videos. Movies that stand out as curiosities to me, but never made me curious enough to actually watch them. This was really interesting and informative - great work!
One time as a kid I got a coloring book of this movie from Alco in Gordon NE. Later, I saw the movie
The only memory I have of this film are the commercials on Cartoon Network back when they aired movies on Saturday nights.
I remember being about 6 years old and catching this movie on HBO. After one viewing I had to have it so me and my mom set up the VCR to record it later in the day. Great memory and god bless that woman for knowing how to record with perfect timing on a VCR...those things were like time bombs.
One I definitely grew up with thanks to Disney Chanel, HBO, and Cartoon Network airings, it's a fun nostalgia piece of childhood that I remember watching a lot. I actually just found one of the old Rover Dangerfield plushes on Mercari not too long ago for a good price and picked it up.
I watched this so many times as a kid. Even had the soundtrack on cd. I can still sing most of it. Underrated af.
One of my personal favorite films growing up.
Seriously, I've lost count how many times I'd watched it.
It was also one of my introductions to Rodney Dangerfield.
I had this movie on VHS growing up and always loved watching it ❤
I lovd this movie as a kid! Thanks for reviewing it @Joe Ramoni!
I remember watching this a lot as a kid and those songs stuck with me for a long time. They actually released a blu ray of this earlier this year (so of course I bought it) and I felt it still held up pretty well!
This was one of the many movies i grew up on and i still enjoy it to this day.. even have the soundtrack.
My brothers and I would watch it all the time when it was airing on HBO back in the 90s. I loved it and it became my gateway drug into his movies and stand up, which got me into other comedians.
My uncle gave me this for Xmas when I was like in 7th grade. And I never stopped thinking him for it. It's a classic in my list.
I was so happy to see this video. I saw you teasing it over on Twitter/X.
I actually had this movie on VHS as a kid. I also remember being pleasantly surprised when I was watching old re-runs of America’s Funniest Home Videos one day & Rodney made a guest appearance & surprised Bob Saget by popping some of the set backdrop balloons (“I’ve been DYING to do that!”)
I loved this movie as a kid. Used to watch it with my sister. By that point I had seen caddy shack and back to school with my dad and I loved Rodney. Still do. Laughed at a few jokes of his in this video in fact.
I was thinking about this movie last week. I seen it when I was a kid and later saw nostalgic critic review.
Love Rodney.i own all off his movies on DVD.yes this one too.its crazy😊
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I recall you saying something over on Not-Twitter about doing a video on this show to honor Louie Anderson. Is that still in the pipeline?
I could’ve sworn this was covered on the channel already haha I have fond memories back in early elementary school drawing the character in my art book whenever it would come on T.V
I did that for every animated film and show that would come on lol had it all in alphabetical order too, this was my childhood when everyone else wanted to go outside and play
Loved this movie as a kid
Thought I had just dreamed it for the longest time until rediscovering it as a teenager
Would kill to see the original uncut adult version
Comedians being the lead of Animated Films based on themselves is fascinating as well as Very 90’s. Love it. ❤
Thanks for showing me this I didn’t know about it. I grew up on his legend, I even saw him when my parents went to Vegas he was in a robe walking to the pool like just a normal guy; as a kid one of my fave movies was Ladybugs which is still funny AF even today.
Know of this in name only. Never had an opportunity to see it. And I would sit through pretty much anything back in those days. His film Ladybugs from the following year, for example. Probably watched that one 25 times on HBO, as a kid.
This movie was on all the time after school when I was in middle school, so I've seen it a number of times.
Thanks, Joe. I heard of this movie but never felt an urge to watch it. I still don't, but as always with the comments on your ACC videos, I'm glad so many people have good memories of it.
I remember having my dad in Cali drive me to the Wherehouse or another video store I can't remember the name of where I rented this movie many times over. Loved this one.
I never even heard of this movie, I would of loved this as a kid, I loved Rodney's comedy.
I'm not even sure if I saw this movie as a kid, but I was familiar with Dangerfield enough to pick up a Rover Dangerfield plush at a Goodwill when I was a kid. It was a strange plush, as it was not filled with stuffing, but instead, it was plush on an a hard Styrofoam body, putting Rover in a fixed position so he was tugging at his tie, the classic Rodney move. I wish I still had that, along with my Kazaam poster!
Life with Louie & Bobby's world!!!
I remember loving this movie as kid. Great stuff.
The animation looks great and free looking , the farm looks amazing and the animals !
LOVED this film as a kid. Found in a video store (remember those kids?), and had no clue Rodney Dangerfield was in an animated movie. Back to School is still my favorite film of his.
Like you I had forgotten a lot of this, but would love to watch it again someday
This was one of those movies my parents taped off of HBO for me when I was little, along with Brave Little Toaster and Secret of NIMH, all movies that I’d basically watch every day during my childhood. It’s also HOW I found out about Rodney in the first place (I didn’t see Easy Money until I was an adolescent), the same as how I found out about The Beatles through Yellow Submarine.
I don’t remember the last time I watched the whole thing from beginning to end, but from what I remember, I’d say it’s cute for what it is, basically a good way to introduce your kids to Rodney Dangerfield before they’re old enough to watch his live action movies.
I had both this movie and Rock-a-Doodle on VHS as a kid. My brother and I would watch both fairly regularly along with the Pagemaster. All three were fairly forgettable but fun. Outside of Disney I generally preferred the work of Don Bluth who I know used to work at Disney.
I'm happy to say I'm one of the few who actually saw this on video and cable a couple years after the fact. And I actually remember quite liking it, even if I didn't get all the jokes. Nice to know I'm not the only one. =)
Honestly, I have always loved this movie.
They need to remaster this great masterpiece.
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This is Rodney Dangerfield's first voice acting role.
Maybe do one on caddyshack 2? 😂
Judging by the TV Tropes page for this movie, I had assumed there were TWO things people remembered from tthid movie: Rodney Dangerfield as a dof, and how long they keep that dead turkey onscreen.
Fun fact: one of the animators on this movie was Seth Kearsley, who would go on to direct a different movie based on a famous comedian’s schtick: Eight Crazy Nights.
(He’s got a RUclips channel now, I highly recommend it)
I wrote to you awhile back about covering Meet Wally Sparks. Very fun movie that not a lot of people have talked about.
@madamedutchess, agreed!! I love Meet Wally Sparks, & definitely recommend that one, for this channel! That one is incredibly slept on!
@@brandonpage7087There’s also “My 5 Wives” that I remember renting on VHS back in the day. Not nearly as funny or memorable though.
The past is a strange world full of curiosities. Weird to think I used to live on that planet. Tragic I'd like to go back.
@TheBeird, we'd all like to man. This current period, is the most miserable period, I've ever lived through.
I only remembered this movie from Nostalgia Critic and the one time Genie lost to a rug.
I still cannot believe you guys have not done a retrospective on John Candys Armed and Dangerous. It’s of my favorite movies.
I was pleasantly surprised by "Rover Dangerfield" too. It may have been funnier as an R-rated movie, but it worked pretty well as a G-rated one. Plus, "I'd Never Do It On a Christmas Tree" was a funny song.
Thanks for posting!!!
I absolutely loved this film as a child, but like you i had forgotten almost everything about it. And, like you, i recently revisited it, on the Blu-ray, and was indeed pleasantly surprised to find that despite its faults, i still enjoyed the heck* out of it.
*comment neutered by Warner lawyers.
I had never heard of this movie until I saw nostalgia critics review on it. Naturally, I decided to form my own opinion by watching this movie myself. And I gotta say I really like it. Yeah it’s got some absurd moments like the Christmas Tree song and moments that were clearly meddled with because of studio executives. I do find the animation very nice and I’m glad it exists. It deserves its status as a cult film.
I never saw this movie in theaters because I wasn't born yet, but I did catch reruns of it in the late 90s on Cartoon Network. I've only seen it twice, then it just somehow disappeared. My father was a huge fan because he also loved the comedian. Oddly enough, finding a VHS copy of the film is becoming tricky nowadays. I check every Goodwill and thrift store around my town, but it's a very uncommon VHS film to find.
Fun fact: the voice actor for Raffles the dog is none other than Ned Luke, the voice actor and motion capture for Michael De Santa from GTA V
Funnily enough this movie introduced me to Rodney Dangerfield
I loved Rover Dangerfield as a kid
Loved this one as a kid. "I'd never piddle on a Christmas Tree". Weird thing is we rented it from a RADIO SHACK. The local owner of the Radio Shack in 1991 was trying to break into home video rentals. Only place in town (population 1500) that had it back then.
I remember watching this growing up & always enjoying it. For awhile, it felt like Cartoon Network would play this anytime they had a block of programming to fill.
This was my introduction to Dangerfield (it was playing on TV one weekend). Recognizing the comedian, my dad then proceeded to show me Back to School, a TV-edited version of Caddyshack, and a couple bits of his stand-up.
Oh man, this story had heart. And I saw it around the time where a lot of famous people would get movies, especially comedians (like you said). But after being burned by Bill Cosby's constant flops, I was surprised that this animated film was good. Like, legit good. I can recommend it to anyone who wants something to watch with the kids. Or without, because it's still good.
Finally, someone reviews & gives some love to Rover Dangerfield!!! I loved this movie as a kid, & always thought it was sad that it never gets acknowledged, & i had no idea it had became a punchline. It's only 74 minutes??? Wow, seems like it was much longer, when i was a kid! Anyways, Rodney is great in this, & absolutely kills it, even with the G rated material! Another Rodney Dangerfield flick that should covered, in this series, in my opinion, is Ladybugs. I certainly remember the hilarious Caddyshack 2 reference, in an episode of ALF, where Kate remarks about ALF crying at the end of Caddyshack 2, lol. Please, please, please cover Bebe's Kids, in a future episode, of this series.
i loved this as a kid! but before your video started i couldn’t remember the plot at all lol
Gotta say, that dog design is a superb caricature.