The Legend of the Titanic
The Legend of the Titanic
| 17 April 1999 (USA)

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Old Grandpa mouse tells to his grandchildren the "real" story of the Titanic disaster, including evil sharks, a giant octopus, and an evil whaling scheme.

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Redwarmin

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

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Manthast

Absolutely amazing

Breakinger

A Brilliant Conflict

Payno

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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MartinHafer

Currently, this Italian animated film is #28 on IMDb's infamous Bottom 100 list. In some ways, I am very surprised since it's not a particularly famous bad film and there were a lot of animated films in the 1970s which had just as terrible animation! Still, I do concede that it's a bad film...and not one I'd let kids watch unless I hated them.The film begins with a grandpa mouse telling his grandkids his story about the Titanic. Oddly, then the film switches to the perspective of all the humans! What follows is a bizarro story of evil sharks and a scheme to destroy the whales?! Huh...somehow I missed this when I've watched documentaries about this 1912 disaster!Let's talk about what I really liked about the film... Okay, finished.Okay, now let's talk about what I didn't like. The animation was very poor, with a very low cel count (making the characters move in a choppy fashion) and often only animated small portions of the characters in an effort to make the film less expensive. So, often the characters expressions were flat and a bit zombie-like. Also, to save money, bad CGI was sometimes used that looked so stunningly different from the other animation that I was a bit surprised. This sure ain't a Disney product! In many ways, it's akin to the cheaper Hanna-Barbera films of decades ago. The story was just bizarre and stupid...'nuff said about that. The voices used were occasionally not terrible. As for the music, it was odd to hear so much cheap electronic music (made using a keyboard) for a film set in 1912.So my final verdict is that I did hate the film. But I still wonder how it made it to the Bottom 100 list. After all, there have been a lot of crappy cartoons (such as "Pinocchio in Outer Space")....so why did this one manage to achieve the notoriety of the Bottom 100 list? I'd like to understand this...as well as a studio's decision to make such a misguided cartoon!

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connormacrae

If I could list everything wrong with this movie, I would, and I'll do it now.1. There are talking animals, particularly mice.2. The names of the mice are Italian stereotypes.3. There's a song about no cats being in America, which is obviously false.4. There is an extremely inaccurate joke of one describing himself as not racist.5. There is some form of magic coming from tears that allows a woman to understand human language from animals.6. There was a plan to sink to Titanic and was done allegedly.7. There's apparently enough room for everybody on the lifeboats.8. This is historically inaccurate as EVERYONE survives the sinking in the movie.9. This was all made up by an old sailor mouse.10. This completely mocks the infamous sinking of the Titanic.Any questions?

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James DeLong

This movie should have never existed my class took a trip to Washigton D.C and we watched BOTH animated Titanic movies and the sequel to this one. And I am being serious I was the only one on my bus who did not like the movies everyone else they loved them and they were either 16 or my age 17 my girlfriend was not on my bus and when she heard. She was like I'm sorry and promised to make out with me later. Now onto the movie there only 2'deaths and even then the ones that do die are brought back to life without explanation my whole bus started crying when that one mouse died and when tentacles died. Me I cheered. I was like OH BOO HOO HOO NO KNE CARES ABOUT YOUR THEIR DEATHS. I mean no one dies in this one and it so insulting to all the people who sailed especially me because my great-Grandfather died on Titanic. I am insulted my girlfriend's insulted(whose great-Grandfather also died on Titanic)and so is about 99% of people who saw this movie except for the idiots who thought this movie was good.

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ironhorse_iv

This movie is just a disaster as the producers went way overboard with its outlandish story! The Legend of the Titanic is an Italian animated film directed by Orlando Corradi and Kim J. OK. The film is a very loose adaptation of the RMS Titanic sinking and told through several anthropomorphic animals. The movie starts out with old sailor-mouse named Top Connors (Voiced by Sean Patrick Lovett) telling his grandchildren the supposedly "true" story of the RMS Titanic. The movie then flashback to 1912, with a young Connors help a rich aristocratic human female named Elizabeth Camden (Voiced by Jane Alexander) overcome her arranged marriage to over the top evil whaler tycoon, Evarard Maltraver (Voiced by Gregory Snegoff). Instead, she falls in love with a poor gypsy named Don Juan (Voiced by Francis Pardeilhan). The Titanic then sets off to sea, only to lead to destruction events. If this plot shows familiar, it's a total rip-off of James Cameron 1997's Titanic. The plot gets worst, as the movie pretty offensive everybody, by claiming that nobody really died when Titanic sank because a giant dog-faced Octopus save everybody from the evil plot set up by whalers and talking sharks. This movie is an insult to all the victims that died that day by having little real life historical characters like Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor, and Thomas Andrews. It's an insult for history buffs and education when the movie lies out of its teeth with the ship having plenty of lifeboat with its historical contradictions. It's disgusting to watch a movie turn a tragic event like the Titanic sinking into a ploy to 'Save the Whale' anti-whaling propaganda. The whole 'Saving the Whale' exposition get so annoying by the end, because of how much, they mention it in the end. Due to the large amount of whale exposition, the film doesn't have any room to explain any other things in the film. First off, the love story. The two leads, fall in love with little to no story. I really don't get this Don Juan. How can he be a poor prince? Also, is Don Juan, the name of the legendary, fictional libertine womanizer? How on the world, is Elizabeth going to even have a stable relationship with him. The dude looks and acts like a stalker, like sniffing gloves. His dog is just as sick. The dog looks like about to cum, every time, somebody pet the dog. It's so creepy. I like how Elizabeth's father forced her to marry the whaler in the beginning, only later, throughout the film, change his mind for some odd reason about her, not marrying him. The whole villain plot to destroy the Titanic, to leave no witnesses to the whaling rights is just over the top. Tricking a dumb down giant Octopus for an iceberg throwing contest is one of the worst ideas, I have ever heard. Another lame lack of explaining, is the talking animals. The mice have little to no depth to them, only to be fed as supporting stock characters that seems to exist only to provide help to the main characters for some odd reason. Why would the mice help save the whales? It makes no sense. If they're not doing that, throughout most of the movie, they talk about boring ship protocol. The movie pace really slow down, when they talk endlessness about what to do, and what not to do on the ship. The movie even has the nerve to bring up racism when a mice is fantasizing about falling in love with a human female. It's not racism. It's just a weird bestiality fetish. It must had been some mistranslated from Italian, the films' original language. They try some lame excuse like moonbeams, about why the human can hear the animals, but it doesn't make sense, since the main character, Elizabeth got the power from crying during a moonlight. Honestly, how on Earth is the bad guys talking to the sharks? Did they cry during the moonlight, too, because I didn't see that? How on earth is everybody on the ship able to talk to every animal? Did they all cry at the moonlight? It's so badly written. Don't get me with the talking dolphins that jump very high out of the water and seem to levitate! What was the writers smoking? While, the writing sucks. The animation isn't half-bad from the Italians. Still, it looks like they were trying really hard to make this movie into anime or something. It was flat and uninspired hand-drawn images as human characters look crossed eyed, and animals look ugly looking. While, computer animation was still in it infantile. In 1999, the computer animation should had gotten better. The limited computer animation used by this movie were pretty bad. Just look at the Brooklyn Bridge toward the end for an example. The English dubbing is terrible. Voice work is flimsy and oftentimes a vocal will be heard when an animated character's mouth is clearly wide open. They're talking, but mouth isn't moving in some scenes. Overall: This is worse than the 2001 animated Titanic film with a similar name. The Legend of the Titanic was followed by a 2004 sequel titled Tentacolino which is just awful. These movies successfully bludgeon the intelligence of children and adults alike, with insultingly stupidity. The only reason to watch it, is how laughably bad, it is. Even with that, it's still painful to watch.

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