Most Forgotten Animated Film.

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I guess this thread is inspired by the success of Toy Story 3. I was amazed at how sucessful the franchise is even after an eleven year absence between sequels. Count on Pixar to make quality films that are timeless and the importence of story and charcters.

This brings me to the topic at hand. In your opinon which animated movie do you feel is the most forgotten or made the least impact on the mainstream since it premiered in theaters? The one that springs up in my mind is Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within. This was Squaresoft's( before the merger with Enix) feeble attempt to out-Pixar Pixar in the CGI boom. The film was overhyped and had a obnoxiously high budget for a first film from an unproven studio. I remember me and some friends going to see the movie and I litilery fell asleep after the first 30 min. The movie had spectactular animation for it's time but not even that could save it from an painfully dull story and flat, unintresting characters. Overall, it's a movie that tried to be epic and thought provoking and ended up being pretentious and boring. Fast forward to today, next to nobody remembers this movie even existed. Square gambled it all on the technology and lost.
 
I think a lot of people have seen it since it is one of the better Don Bluth films. I believe that it also aired on Cartoon Network a few months ago, which gave a chance for even more people, especially younger kids, to see it. If it is an iconic film, though I just think that it is a movie a lot of people can recognize, I don't think that it could be labeled as a forgotten animated movie.
 
You'd be surprised. I ask certain people if they ever heard of it and they're like 'oh yeah, there's a marathon once.' or 'Oh, yeah, the E.T. cartoon. It was cool.' But that's mostly it. A lot of people actually do know about it but they've simply moved on. You've just got to remind them. Heck, I forgot about it off and on too.
 
Cats Don't Dance was mentioned. I first saw this on Cartoon Network and was surprised they were digging up such an obscurity. WHY didn't this one do better?!

For being from Don Bluth's waning years, The Pebble and the Penguin isn't that bad. It's pretty formulaic, but unlike A Troll in Central Park or Rock-a-Doodle, it's not sappy (except for the Barry Manilow songs) and it doesn't have any Big Lipped Alligator Moments in it.
 
I don't know if Spirits Within is forgotten, exactly. It constantly shows up in articles about the biggest bombs and in discussions about if video game movies can possibly be good, usually with someone saying it wasn't that bad only to be reminded it had nothing to do with any videogame outside of the title.
 
My babysitter INSISTED we watch this. I would always get painfully bored. I watched it years later: maybe better off forgotten, I found it to be incredibly weird.
 
Gah, that's the one I was going to mention! That was meant to kickstar to the British animated film industry. Did it work? Well lets just say I don't think there was another British animated film in cinemas for another 13 years!




Haven't seen it, but I picked it up on good ol' VHS recently. My expectations aren't high.
 
I remember the both of them and remember McDonald's having promotions for them. when you think about it, the reasons the films didn't do so well might had been because, for Dinosaur, people were afraid of Disney being CGI only for their films without Pixar. As for Doug, while might had been popular among us, wasn't popular enough for the mainstream movie going audience.

*raises my hand* Oooh, ooh, teacher pick me.

I have all of the films at home on DVD and VHS. Because of the failure of Hey Arnold! The Movie, the DVD release barely featured anything worthwhile besides the film in the Special Features section. When an okay film has to have a game from a straight-to-video sequel that wasn't needed to conclude the ending of one of E.B. White's novels to entertain the kids, it's bad...a bad move from Paramount that is.
 
Yes, I saw it when I was a kid about 25+ years ago. I liked it back then but I'm not sure if it's stood the test of time. I'd definitely cop it on DVD if it's available though to find out. The animation and music was fantastic.
 
I also remember the three movies for Rugrats and Hey Arnold. I believe that I mentioned earlier that a lot of discussion about Hey Arnold series usually leads to a desire from some people for a second movie to be created like the creator originally wanted, which shows that other people clearly remember the first one.

To be fair, I think that the third Rugrats movie is less rememorable than the first two. The first two affected the series by introducing new characters, while the third one was just a big crossover with the Wild Thornberrys. Plus, I think that the popularity of the Rugrats series was fading out by the time they made the third movie.
 
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