animated movie flops/bombs

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yeah pretty much what the title says...and your opinions
I'll start with the most obvious:
Delgo. I haven't watche dthe movie but I can tell it flopped because it was't disney or dreamworks or pixar. It got poor advertising (extremely poor) and just didn't have a very interesting premise/plot. I heard the movie itself wasn't very good but man $40 million and 10 years has to hurt....
 
Pound Puppies & The Legend of Big Paw: Released when the series was still relatively new on ABC Saturday Morning, only... it was NOTHING like said series. Hell, it wasn't even produced by Hanna Barbera. I think the only thing it had in common with the actual cartoon series were Bright Eyes and Whopper's VA's reprising their roles. But horrible animation, an incredibly inane story (The bad guy wants a magical BONE over King Arthur's sword?), and a good chunk of the songs being cringe inducing (barring the ones that were actually parodies of real songs) turned fans of the show away from the movie.
 
I'd never ever heard of Delgo before the day of release, never saw any ads for it. You can't have a successful film if no one knows it exists.

Animated sci-fi definitely has trouble at the box-office:

-Titan AE did so poorly that the studio who produced it, Fox Animation Studios, had to close. It had a budget of 75 millions $ and only made 36 millions $.

-Treasure Planet made a lot more than Titan AE but is also considered a flop. It cost 140 million $ to make but only grossed around 110 millions $. It's sad because I really love this movie.

-Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Budget: 137 millions. Gross: 85 millions. I've never seen it but from what I heard it was a beautiful movie to look at but the story had huge plot holes and absolutely no relations to the games.
 
wasnt the Ducktales Movie such a big flop that they canceled the Chip & Dale RR movie? and renamed the Goof Troop Movie "a Goofy Movie"?

the sad thing is, the Movie wasnt even that bad! I heard the only DVD release it got was through some online prize thing...
 
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm didn't do too well.


Yeah, I was disappointed both of those didn't do very well, because I thought they were great, especially Titan AE. Same for Atlantis: The Lost Empire, also.


Yeah, I believe it was/is only available through some kind of Disney DVD Club or something like that.
 
According to the Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, Daffy Duck's Quackbusters only grossed $300,000. Since its just a compilation movie it probably cost less than that to make it ;)
 
The Emperor's New Groove and Cats Don't Dance, two films from Mark Dindal that totally did not deserve the treatment they got.

The Iron Giant. I'll leave it at that.
 
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The 80's were a bad time for theatrical movies based on cartoons in general:

- My Little Pony (and later Transformers) both bombed so bad at the box office that G.I. Joe the Movie was pushed as a direct to video movie, and the Jem movie was scrapped altogether.

- Gobots: Battle of the Rock Lords I don't think lasted too long.

- The aforemenetioned Pound Puppies & The Legend of Big Paw

- Didn't the Chipmunk Adventure do poorly?

I think it was only when Rugrats The Movie came along that those kind of movies started proving they could do good box office business.
 
The Teacher's Pet Movie. Bought the DVD a week ago and LOVED it. the movie went all-out with the art and animation, and all the songs were A+. I can see that the guys who made it didn't want to make a movie to win awards, gross high, or get critical acclaim (which it did); they just wanted to make a movie, (and have fun making it too).

Now if only Disney XD would show the TV series again.
 
I believe Anastasia made a profit.

Actually, according to Wikipedia, All Dogs go to Heaven tanked hard at the box office but became one of the best-selling VHS tapes ever. So, go figure...
 
For a recent example, how about Everybody's Hero? I dont even recall it being in theatres, and the only promotion it got that i remember was seeing the trailer before Monster House.
 
I remember reading somewhere that it had mixed reviews but despite that it became an instant bomb. Btw the tom and jerry movie was also a bomb and the jetsons.
 
Yeah, you can only get it through a Disney DVD Club, or on Ebay at an inflated price :/ And I love the movie, so it makes me so sad!

Also, I'm assuming the Hey Arnold movie flopped. I don't know anybody besides myself who saw it, and Nick dropped the second movie idea after that.
 
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