Rarest animated films you've seen / own

There's this one movie I had when I was a kid. I can't even remember the name; it's either "The Thief and The Carpenter" or "The Carpenter and The Thief." It's pretty much an Aladdin rip off.

I can only remember two things from the movie: The first the Thief is in the princesses bathroom and instead of taking notice to the princess, he takes notice to her golden backscratcher. The other is at the end of the movie, the Thief steals the letters "The End."
 
Not as rare as some of those but I have actually seen the hack job that is "warriors of the Wind." most people have just heard the horror stories about it.
 
I believe you're thinking of The Thief and the Cobbler. This movie was a notorious vanity project for animator Richard Williams, who worked on it for 26 years and often worked on other animated projects solely to finance this specific pet one. Unfortunately the people who invested finally pulled it from him and finished it without him. The title was released in the US in a hacked version called Arabian Nights, but an internet re-edit brought the film as close to Williams' original vision as possible.



I actually have a copy of this film, and it is actually not as bad as the internet claims it to be. Yes, the film was shortened to make it move faster, and the voice acting is a product of its time (even though it features Cam Clarke), but the overall story remains intact and they actually kept Jo Hisaishi's score instead of replacing it with generic background music. It's not perfect, and it certainly no longer deserves to be seen, but in a time when hacked plots, terrible voice acting, and changed music were commonplace in anime, Warriors of the Wind could've been a lot worse.
 
Yeah, arxane pretty much summed up the deal with this film. The version you watched probably seemed like an Aladdin rip-off because the company that acquired it after it was pulled from the director (MGM, I believe) used very cheap animation to finish it, as well as adding songs and voice-over narration that were never supposed to be part of the film. If you didn't like the version you saw as a kid (or even if you did), you may find it worth your while to watch the "re-cobbled" version, which you can find online without too much trouble.



Since it was brought up, I'm also interested in taking a look at Warriors of the Wind, if only for its notoriety.
 
Majestic Films International, actually. A group called the Completion Bond Company seized control of the film when Warner Bros lost faith in the project and threw Williams off (Warner was initially interested in it because Williams was an animator on the award-winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit and they wanted to leech off that success, but Williams' perfectionism and Disney's fast-approaching Aladdin finally made Warner throw in the towel). After the film had been changed with cheaper animation and previously nonexistent voice-overs, Majestic Films (an Australian company) released it in Australia and South Africa as The Princess and the Cobbler.

Then along came Miramax, who took the already butchered version of the film and butchered it further to make the American version Arabian Nights. You can imagine how heartbroken Williams was as he watched his pet project being mangled like this. Even now he refuses to discuss this film.
 
Soreike! Anpanman (alternatively called Hoppangman): The Secret of Building Block Castle.

It's an anime, and I used to watch it over and over again as a little kid (dubbed in Korean).
It was about a prince who's lost his block kingdom to Anpanman's rival,
and a princess who can make origami come to life.
 
I'm surprised that noboby's mentioned Little Nemo in Slumberland. Correct me if I'm wrong, but apparently, the film's animation crew consisted of some members from Studio Ghibli, but they backed out. Even without them, I was still impressed by the visuals. Fortunately, that's not all the movie was riding on, even if the plot dealt with a few cliches.
 
Rugrats: Tales From the Crib: Snow White

"Wait, they made ANOTHER Rugrats movie?" is the usual response when I mention either of the two Tales from the Crib films, OR that TV movie with the horrible "Acorn Nuts and Diapey Butts", which is odd, considering that movie had some plot set ups for Rugrats in Paris. But Snow White is the rare Rugrats film I OWN. I'm surprised the internet hasn't milked this film for all it's worth. It's YouTube Poop gold...and one of the musical numbers is so bad, it HAS to be the next Rickroll. THE DIAPER FACTORY SONG. It's so bad...that it's...still bad.
 
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