Uhg...screw this movie. Thats really all the review it deserves.
Well...since I probably have to write something more about this animated apocalypse to be considered a full review...here you go.
-Horrendous script. I will say this only a few times in my life as I believe in subjectivity, if you like this film I seriously question your taste. -Unfaithful to its legendary predecessor. There's a limit to just how much a sequel can betray the movie its spawned from to the point it baffles all reason, and this movie crosses that limit by the distance between Earth and Mars. It doesn't take a genius to see that the people behind this movie had minimal, if any exposure to the original film. -Horrendous character design. -Horrendous musical numbers, and the fact it even has musical numbers is horrendous in itself. -I can't believe what they did to Martin in this film... -I can't believe what they did to Brutus in this film even more so... -Animation quality is forgivable for a direct to video, but combined with extremely simplistic color scheme in backgrounds and characters, overly glossy (for late 90's) look and aforementioned horrendous character designs, its hardly a strength. -Where's the Amulet?
....better yet, where's the soul in this movie? Look at it this way, Don Bluth has never seen this movie (and he had nothing to do with it before any come to that abomination of a conclusion) nor does he probably intend to. Fans either forget its existence altogether, or count it as non-canonical, and the general populace has forgotten about it already while the original film still has at least some note out there still.
And that is the way it should stay. If you came here by accident like I did, and was reminded of this thing's existence like I was...leave this page and forget about it again.
Consider this not a review, but a warning...maybe even order not to see it. No its not even funny bad. Considering how great the first movie was, and if it were to have a sequel...how much it deserved a good one...it is seriously soul-crushing to even remember this movie and how it denied it that. It is that bad folks.
Well...since I probably have to write something more about this animated apocalypse to be considered a full review...here you go.
-Horrendous script. I will say this only a few times in my life as I believe in subjectivity, if you like this film I seriously question your taste. -Unfaithful to its legendary predecessor. There's a limit to just how much a sequel can betray the movie its spawned from to the point it baffles all reason, and this movie crosses that limit by the distance between Earth and Mars. It doesn't take a genius to see that the people behind this movie had minimal, if any exposure to the original film. -Horrendous character design. -Horrendous musical numbers, and the fact it even has musical numbers is horrendous in itself. -I can't believe what they did to Martin in this film... -I can't believe what they did to Brutus in this film even more so... -Animation quality is forgivable for a direct to video, but combined with extremely simplistic color scheme in backgrounds and characters, overly glossy (for late 90's) look and aforementioned horrendous character designs, its hardly a strength. -Where's the Amulet?
....better yet, where's the soul in this movie? Look at it this way, Don Bluth has never seen this movie (and he had nothing to do with it before any come to that abomination of a conclusion) nor does he probably intend to. Fans either forget its existence altogether, or count it as non-canonical, and the general populace has forgotten about it already while the original film still has at least some note out there still.
And that is the way it should stay. If you came here by accident like I did, and was reminded of this thing's existence like I was...leave this page and forget about it again.
Consider this not a review, but a warning...maybe even order not to see it. No its not even funny bad. Considering how great the first movie was, and if it were to have a sequel...how much it deserved a good one...it is seriously soul-crushing to even remember this movie and how it denied it that. It is that bad folks.