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Post by lowtacks86 on Jan 27, 2023 2:39:10 GMT
Easily my favorite Don Bluth film and if were stretching the term, probably my favorite Christian film (Bluth is a Mormon). Apparently there was even a sequel and a TV series (never watched either)
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Post by moviemouth on Jan 27, 2023 2:39:44 GMT
I like it well-enough. The sequel not so much.
His best movie is The Land Before Time imo.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jan 27, 2023 2:44:20 GMT
I don't think it's as good as The Secret of NIMH, which I think is Bluth's best film, but I still like it. Funny how it's basically Ghost with animals. Or should I say Ghost is like All Dogs Go to Heaven with humans.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 27, 2023 3:11:07 GMT
I don't think it's as good as The Secret of NIMH, which I think is Bluth's best film, but I still like it. Funny how it's basically Ghost with animals. Or should I say Ghost is like All Dogs Go to Heaven with humans. Well maybe there'll be a CGI remake of ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN with Channing Tatum too now. |
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Post by James on Jan 27, 2023 3:18:13 GMT
Never watched it, but I did watch the other sequel that went direct-to-video An All Dogs Christmas Carol - it's probably crap now but I watched it a lot as a kid. Yeah.  I also just found out that one was the series finale to the TV series. |
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Post by jcush on Jan 27, 2023 6:30:16 GMT
The Land Before Time is my favorite Don Bluth film, but I like All Dogs Go to Heaven too.
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Post by Archelaus on Jan 28, 2023 2:47:04 GMT
The Secret of NIMH or The Land Before Time is either Don Bluth's best film. All Dogs Go to Heaven has a great premise with all dogs being inherently good to enter into heaven and Charlie having a redemption arc. Unfortunately, it's tonally all the place and the narrative is kind of meandering. There's also a weird scene of Charlie singing with a big-lipped alligator that does nothing to advance the plot. Nevertheless, I liked the animation and Judith Barsi's vocal performance as Anne-Marie. May she rest in peace.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jan 28, 2023 2:56:35 GMT
The Secret of NIMH or The Land Before Time is either Don Bluth's best film. All Dogs Go to Heaven has a great premise with all dogs being inherently good to enter into heaven and Charlie having a redemption arc. Unfortunately, it's tonally all the place and the narrative is kind of meandering. There's also a weird scene of Charlie singing with a big-lipped alligator that does nothing to advance the plot. Nevertheless, I liked the animation and Judith Barsi's vocal performance as Anne-Marie. May she rest in peace. And a trope was born: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigLippedAlligatorMoment |
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 28, 2023 3:00:49 GMT
The Secret of NIMH or The Land Before Time is either Don Bluth's best film. All Dogs Go to Heaven has a great premise with all dogs being inherently good to enter into heaven and Charlie having a redemption arc. Unfortunately, it's tonally all the place and the narrative is kind of meandering. There's also a weird scene of Charlie singing with a big-lipped alligator that does nothing to advance the plot. Nevertheless, I liked the animation and Judith Barsi's vocal performance as Anne-Marie. May she rest in peace. And a trope was born: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigLippedAlligatorMoment
I love that song.
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Post by Archelaus on Jan 28, 2023 3:22:03 GMT
The Secret of NIMH or The Land Before Time is either Don Bluth's best film. All Dogs Go to Heaven has a great premise with all dogs being inherently good to enter into heaven and Charlie having a redemption arc. Unfortunately, it's tonally all the place and the narrative is kind of meandering. There's also a weird scene of Charlie singing with a big-lipped alligator that does nothing to advance the plot. Nevertheless, I liked the animation and Judith Barsi's vocal performance as Anne-Marie. May she rest in peace. And a trope was born: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigLippedAlligatorMomentI'm familiar of this from the Nostalgia Critic. King Gator does come back later on, but the musical sequence, while it's nice, is little bearing on the plot. Don Bluth needed a Howard Ashman-type to make sure the songs advance the story on this film. |
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Post by kolchak92 on Feb 9, 2023 7:57:21 GMT
So I just watched this again. I think it's actually kind of daring how utterly depressing this thing was at times. It actually kind of reminded me of the 1973 Charlotte's Web in that sense.
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