Twice Upon a Time (1983 film): Difference between revisions

Now Botch launches a master plan: He has Greensleeves and company kidnapped, and then tricks innocent fools Ralph (an "all-purpose animal", so called for his shapeshifting abilities) and Mumford (a Chaplin-esque mime) into stealing the spring of Din's Cosmic Clock for him. They do and this stops time in Din -- at a moment when everyone is awake. Botch will send the vultures there to drop powerful nightmares everywhere, then restart the clock and detonate them, which will trap all the Rushers in ''waking'' nightmares...forever. It's up to Ralph, Mum, Greensleeves's niece/aspiring actress Flora Fauna, inept superhero Rod Rescueman, and a harried Fairy Godmother to put things to rights before it's too late.

 

 

Notable names among the crew, years before they became famous as directors, are [[Coraline (animation)|Henry Selick]] (sequence director) and [[David Fincher]] (special photographic effects).

 

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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Scuzzbopper.}}

* [[Lilliputians]]: The residents of Frivoli and the Murkworks.

* [[Never Learned to Read]]: [[Played for Laughs]] -- this applies to the Chef Justice of Frivoli, which is why he just tosses away Greensleeves's letter (which is a plea for help). Luckily, Flora Fauna has noticed that ''all'' letters sent to him get tossed away in this manner, and decides to retrieve it and see what it actually says...

* [[Once Upon a Time]]: The phrase is used in the opening narration (naturally).

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[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]