The most inconsistant animated film you've seen?

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I might get mauled for my opinion but... Disney's The Little Mermaid.

After watching the film for the umpteenth time, I really began to notice a lot of errors in that film and also the change in styles and coloring really bothered me.

Part of Your World is a big offender for me. It starts as this well animated (bar a broken shot) and magnificently colored to wonderful effects, but when the song's over, the colors dull away and the lovely water effects disappear.
There's also a problem I have with Flounder's color team not knowing what colors to give him, as he changes to a different shade of yellow almost every minute, and in the same shots!
There are also some of the shades in this film, I swear that the teams did not know whether to have outlined shades or just leave them outlineless.
Characters also seem to jump to many different shots. However, these seem to mostly be in the sections with a lot of nothing in them so its understandable.

I will forgive the film because of where it stood in the Disney line, the animators had to rush out a lot to get this thing to theaters and they did wonderfully with that effort.

But what do you guys think is the most inconsistent animated film you've ever seen?
 
As a kid I always had problems with DuckTales The Movie and how the first 10 or so minutes actually look like a theatrical animated film but after that the entire thing just looked like a slightly better average episode of the TV series.
 
I was going to say the same thing only I never noticed it as a kid (I was preschool or kindergarten aged when I watched it the most). I never noticed it until someone pointed it out to me when I was 18.
 
The Thief and the Cobbler has to take the cake. The difference between the animation in the Richard Williams scenes and the reanimated ones might be the biggest quality gap in a single movie ever.
 
I believe The Last Unicorn takes the cake. Forget the animation, I think the overall tone of this particular movie swings from one end of the spectrum to the other from scene to scene.
 
The tone is pretty consistent. The songs may be a bit incongruent with the film at times, but I never felt the tone changes of the film ever clashed with the overall narrative.

I have to agree with the OP that from a visual standpoint, Little Mermaid is surprisingly inconsistent. There are certain scenes in the film that look shockingly like TV-quality animation, which is surprising even for Disney in the 80s.
 
Pound Puppies & The Legend of Big Paw.

I mean, for one thing, despite it sharing the same characters as the Saturday morning ABC cartoon that was airing at the time of the movie's release, it has NOTHING to do with the t.v. show. They didn't have Cooler, Howler, and Nose Marie's VA's voice their characters in the movie, even though they managed to get Whopper and Bright Eye's t.v. voices.

Then there's the continuity errors and animation mistakes. One character is kidnapped, then immediately shown with the group right after she's taken back to the villain's hideout.

I know this was just a cheap tie in for the toyline like the t.v. show was, but at least the t.v. show had some creativity (at least the first season) put into it. Go look at the Nostalgia Critic's review, he sums up everything wrong with this film.
 
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