Bartok the Magnificent: Difference between revisions

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# On the [[Don Bluth]] trope page, we mentioned that because he does not own the rights to the films he directed, his films tend to suffer from [[Sequelitis]]. Bluth had absolutely nothing to do with any of the sequels to any of his movies... except this one. This is the only sequel he directed. (If you're wondering, if it isn't "better" than most sequels spawned off Bluth films, then at least it is [[Deranged Animation|one hell of a lot weirder]].)

 

In this movie, Bartok is a traveling entertainer and a conman traveling Russia with a bear named Zozi, pretending to be a great hero and adventurer. His facade as a hero backfires when Tsarviech Ivan Romanov disappears, kidnapped by the mysterious Baba Yaga. Ludimilla, Ivan's advisor hires Bartok to get him back, and the bat finds he can't say no. So the pair set off, and Bartok might become a hero yet.

 

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Oh sweet sanity, where do we ''start''? It mixes Imperial Russia (18th-19th centuries) with Russian folklore from the first millennium AD, features a fictional Romanov prince based on a fairy tale character from said folklore, and it only gets worse from there.

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: The stuff Baba Yaga puts in the potion. Especially that mysterious glittery liquid she wrings out of Piloff.