Most Forgotten Animated Film.

My favorite "forgotten" films:

Mutant League: The Movie - it's not as good as the regular series because it's a clip-show but it's the only media (VHS) ever made from the show.

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (surprised there is no talk about it here since it was mentioned already) - this is a great sci-fi action film.

Fire & Ice - great animated fantasy film. I'm not a huge fantasy film fan but the action in this one is excellent.

Flash Gordon - I think this was only shown on television one time. I think it got chopped up to make a television series afterwards.

Bravestarr - I haven't seen this movie yet.
 
Sorry I should've been more specific. Anyway's yeah any film from any time peroid that was released in the U.S that failed to find a audience or make much of an impact in the mainstream after it's release.
 
I saw it years ago as a teenager when my family first got The Movie Channel. It's pretty obscure, I never hear anyone talk about it except in the occasional "Does anybody remember....?" thread on internet message boards.
 
How about 'Grendel, Grendel Grendel'? That's pretty obscure. It was an animated musical version of 'Beowulf'. Another obscure film I remember was 'I Go, Pogo', which was a claymation film based on Walt Kelly's 'Pogo' comic strip.
 
I remember that one. The one scene I remember was Rob(?) changing into the American Rabbit to save the bridge from falling into the ocean.

Here's my contribution to the thread:

Felix the Cat: The Movie---Involved our favorite feline going to another dimension in order to rescue a princess (who looked out of place against the cartoonier designs)

The BFG---Adaptation of the Roald Dahl book of the same name. I never got a chance to read it (never too late to read Dahl, right?). Last time I remember it being on American TV was sometime in '93.
 
I think Cool World was memorably bad (not to mention people often make note of the original script for the movie which many consider to be far superior to the story the producers went with), but yeah, those other 2 slipped my memory, so I guess they were forgotten. :anime:
 
Darn it, you took mine XD Good choices all the same. Although, the Jetsons movie did get a release on DVD a few years ago. Raggedy Ann, I think is only on VHS, and it's pretty darn hard to find!
 
I suppose that I could mention the Australian animated films starring a little orange haired girl named Dot. I saw a couple of these movies on The Movie Channel years ago. The Dot movies are almost wholly unknown here in the U.S., but they must have been pretty well known in their native Australia , because there were about 10 of them in total (IIRC). The only ones that I can remember are:

Dot and the Kangaroo
Dot and the Bunny
Dot Saves Christmas
Dot On the Moon
 
I actually remember both of these movies. I'm not sure if I saw the whole movie, but I do recall watching the ending of the Brave Little Toaster. Plus, I thought that a lot of people discuss this movie when talking about films or scenes that scared them when they were little.

Even though I thought Jetsons: The Movie was pretty good, I'm not surprised that it bombed. I don't think that the series was popular enough for a theater release. I think that I still have the video tape for this movie. I remember watching it when I was little and my older brother teased me about the voice actors for George and Mr.Spacely dying. One of my favorite parts of the movie was the song by Tiffany, so I kind of liked it too. It did air on Cartoon Network a couple of times a year or two ago, so I'm not sure if it is that forgettable.
 
Woah I didn't know Chuck Jones made a Phantom Tollbooth movie. I used to love that book as a kid.

Oh I've heard of those. I saw some DVDs of it at the 99-cent store the other day.

Yeah as far as Disney goes, Home on the Range and the Black Cauldron are pretty obscure these days.
 
The Jetsons movie made $20mil in US theatres in 1990, which IMO was quite good for that kind of movie at that point in time (and considering the movie, by general consensus, wasn't great)
 
Those aren't obscure; they're infamous. To a lesser extent, so is The Thief and the Cobbler and all those awful Don Bluth films.

If you want obscure, look through the back end of Box Office Mojo's animated films list. I didn't even remember Kaena: The Prophecy or that crappy CGI version of The Ten Commandments until just a few minutes ago.
 
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