Felix the Cat: The Movie: Difference between revisions

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[[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|No, really.]]

 

The film was produced by Pannonia Film Studio in Hungary, and directed by Tibor Hernádi. The film is estimated to have been completed in 1986 or 1987, but it only received limited release in 1988 and 1989, finally getting its full release in the United States in August 1991. The film was a box-office failure, due in part to being released in the same month as Disney's ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', Amblin's ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West'' and [[Don Bluth]]'s ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]''. Ironically, it received many airings on Disney Channel, which, along with subsequent VHS rereleases, allowed the film to gain a small following.

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* [[A God Am I]]: The sentient reptiles and amphibians that inhabit Zil believed that the Duke of Zil was a god who had come to help them when he was banished there. He took full advantage of it. He wants Oriana's Book of Ultimate Power to become the real deal.

* [[Awesome Backpack|Awesome]] [[Awesome Backpack|Bag Of Tricks]]: Felix's bag of tricks can turn into [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|just about anything the plot calls for.]]

* [[Big Damn Movie]]

** However it does fit with the spirit of the "Twisted Tails" version quite well. Except in ''Twisted'', the weirdness was there in the service of the [[Rule of Funny]]. In this film, it's hard to discern what the ultimate goal of the oddness was.

* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: The movie is NEVER brought up outside of maybe a historical handwave from the creators, and none of the movies characters appear in merchandising.

** "[[Deadpan Snarker|Where are we,]] [[New Jersey]]?"

** Not quite. The Land of Zil is a hell hole that the Duke made worse. From what we can see, Oriana gets covered in large crystals.

* [[Damsel in Distress]]

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Probably the first ever attempt at taking a classic cartoon icon and giving it this treatment.

* [[Deranged Animation]]: Especially the part early in the film where Felix is underwater. If one of the films goals was to capture the surreal nature of the original shorts, it did its job a bit TOO well.

* [[Dueling Movies]]: With Disney's ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West'' and ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]''. [[Failure Is the Only Option|It had no chance]].

* [[Large Ham]]: The Duke of Zil.

** As well as Oriana's oracle, Ms. Pearl. "[[Non Sequitur Thud|A black duck on a green planet!]]", anyone?

* [[Lizard Folk]]: Lizardi and most of the inhabitants of Progress City.

* [[Lull Destruction]]: The movie's audio never has any breaks in it.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Both subverted and played straight with Progress City. Subverted because, despite the name, it's a rundown hellhole of a city in the middle of a polluted swampland. But then if you consider that The Duke wants Oriana to be under his complete control with the subjects idolizing him like a god, Progress City ends up fitting his idea of progress.

* [[Mood Dissonance]]: All Felix can do to a skull he finds in the mineshaft is say this:

{{quote|"Boy, could you use a Big Mac! Uwahahahahaha!"}}

* [[The Movie]]

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The opening CGI head actually has Felix talk to the audience.

** Not to mention the poster, seen at the top of this page. Compare Oriana and the Duke on the poster to how they appear in the film...

* [[Opening Narration]]: That CGI head again. And he patronizes you too.

* [[Princesses Rule]]

* [[Pungeon Master]]

* [[Real Is Brown]]

* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]

* [[Rotoscoping]]: Princess Oriana's animation.

* [[Save the Princess]]

* [[Steampunk]]: Oriana has a lot of this.

* [[Swiss Army Tears]]: When the princess of Oriana can't finish summoning Felix, one of her teardrops finishes the job for her...activating the machine, punching in codes, pulling levers, entering the voice command, finding Felix in his world, and leading him back to the portal and into Oriana.

* [[Throw the Book At Them]]: {{spoiler|Done by Felix to defeat the Master Cylinder.}}

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Wack Lizardi's unnamed lizard pet, which makes different squeaks depending on what kind of mood it's in.

* [[Villain Song]]: "Who is the Boss?" Rather catchy tune and shows the extent of the Duke's ego.

* [[Was Once a Man]]: The Duke of Zil was an ordinary human before a prototype of his cylindrical soldier robots went haywire, severely disfiguring him and forcing him to [[We Can Rebuild Him|rebuild himself.]]

** Zil's secret weapon, the Master Cylinder comes out at the end battle. {{spoiler|Felix knocks it over by throwing a book at it.}} Fight scene over.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Felix literally just defeats the {{spoiler|Master Cylinder}} by {{spoiler|throwing a book at it.}}

 

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[[Category:Animated Films]]

[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]

[[Category:Western Animation]]