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This is the only 1998 /co/ movie I haven't seen yet. I've seen Quest for Camelot, Mulan, Antz, A Bug's Life and Prince of Egypt, but not this.
>>153315494This movie was the shit as a kid with the robot mechas and what not. I'm not sure if it holds up as an adult but I'm sure it's still worth a watch.
>>153315494>>153315547The movie's kind of a trip because it starts off with a really surreal 3D sequence to portray birth, treats the babies being in danger as an actual serious thing where they legitimately could be killed, and has a scene referencing Cain and Abel where Tommy almost kills Dil.
R (R)U (U)G (G)R (R)A (A)T (T)S (S)TAKE ME THERE, I WANNA GO THERETAKE ME THERE, YOU KNOW WHERE
I only saw this movie a couple times as a kid while I had "Rugrats in Paris" on video and watched that one way more. The main thing I remember about the first movie is that it had a much darker tone that I didn't really like. I feel that way about a lot of cartoon movies - for the sake of being theatrical they adopt a darker atmosphere than the series they're based on which ends up with them just feeling sort of "off" and not having the same appeal as the more lighthearted TV content. The Powerpuff Girls movie is another good example of that phenomenon, I never liked that one either.
>>153315655all i remember about the ppg movie is them crying on the moon. it was just kinda bleak.
>>153315547The robot mechas were in Rugrats in Paris, anon...
>>153315655>they take a darker tone and feel sort of "off"I can't think of one cartoon TV show movie that didn't. The only ones I can think of that kind of don't are Chipmunks and SpongeBob, both of which felt pretty close to the show material. Most of the others like Transformers, Care Bears, Powerpuff, Rugrats, whatever get really heavy instead of reflecting the show's qualities. I think when you get on the big screen there's some kind of pressure to make it big and bold and impactful and they end up being darker and weirder than normal built from the ground up theatrical features. I don't know if it's the showrunners trying to prove themselves or what. Simpsons was way more dramatic than the show and it felt like they were trying too hard at times and it should have been more funny. And then Aqua Teen didn't try hard enough to make it impactful and just made it boring by being 80 minutes of nonsense, which is fine in the show for 11 minutes but when you pay for a movie ticket expectations are different. It's a hard thing to get right. That being said I liked the 2nd and 3rd Rugrats movies way more. The Paris one was pretty good and the one where they meet The Wild Thornberrys was fun and I wasn't expecting it to be.
>>153317819Well the idea is that the cartoon movie has a more emotional plot that challenges the main character/status quo in grand ways. An unchallenging movie would be something like Doug's 1st Movie, a longer episode of the show
>>153315547This one was the worst of the three IMO. They introduce Dil in here and you get alot of awful moments from Tommy as a result. I get more from Rugrats in Paris.
She would not be wearing boxers. If I had to see sumo butt over this? "Take me there" is a amazing song,
Anyone who calls the Klasky Csupo style "ugly" should go watch the Rugrats movies and then try repeating that same bogus claim.
>>153320392i just like angelica
>>153314731Who else here had the orange video cassette growing up?
>>153315796>them crying on the moonWE'RE WAILERS ON THE MOON
>>153321158>3 normal black tapesWhy'd they stop with the orange?
>>153317819>when you pay for a movie ticket expectations are different.That's basically the reason. You can't ask people to pay for a regular episode with better visuals and a longer runtime. You got to make it more memorable, and the usual way is to make it darker.
>>153319095In retrospect the Thornberry movie really never stood a chance. Paris was just such a massive send off, it had all the spectacle, all the pathos, all the intrigue. What did the crossover movie have? Vin Diesel as Spike?
>>153322589>Vin DieselIt was Bruce Willis, actually.
>>153315592banger https://youtu.be/CWOPYe3otpc
Chuckie's mom is dead btw
>>153324365Yeah, right.
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>>153314731Why did the first rugrats movie had such a dark color palette especially in their home
>>153326466Made it more CINEMATIC
>>153320392Yeh I always thought it was charming as fuck and weirdly cute. Can't believe there was a time where Rugrats was the most popular nicktoon at the time
>>153324365Oh hey, Isgonna
>>153321434many such cases...
>>153327432>I wonder what's going to happen to you?
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>>153315575they also make a circumcision joke
>>153322326the simpsons movie was more or less this though. it could have easily been a regular show, because the show has had episodes where the stakes seemed higher. hell, the whole marriage crisis plot is nonsense because the first season had TWO different marriage crisis episodes.
>>153314731Who cares about this, but I have something else to say, anybody noticed that there were a good bunch of Godzilla parodies and expies in the 90s but dies down in the 2000s after the 98 movie buried the already piss poor cultural osmozis the big G had before? (Bad dubbing, guys in rubber suits, Godzilla vs megalon).After Shin Godzilla actually revived the IP for real, those dies down.
>>153321158How many episodes those things had? One? Maybe two?, and I wanna EPISODES, not segments
>>153333046About 2 episodes. So 4 sometimes 5 segments plus a 3 minute bonus feature.
>>153333095I suppose that's fair for a VHS.
>>153323608I miss the '90s
