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My grandmother wanted to see Leap!, so I saw it with her today. It's alright, not the worst kids' movie out there what with a story/theme/lesson that's good for the impressionable, has a pleasing art design, and has a good female lead, but the distributor of this film clearly didn't trust the audience, so they inserted shitty, out-of-place "inspirational" pop songs where they weren't needed. So whoever was the one who made that decision needs to be dragged out into the streets and shot. There was a little girl several rows down who was up out of her seat and making gestures to imitate the dances she was seeing, so if it wasn't for the godawful soundtrack, I think she'd have the right impression as to what ballet is.

Pretty sure (hoping) the original French version is better in that aspect, so if you want to watch it, hunt that down instead.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
My grandmother wanted to see Leap!, so I saw it with her today. It's alright, not the worst kids' movie out there what with a story/theme/lesson that's good for the impressionable, has a pleasing art design, and has a good female lead, but the distributor of this film clearly didn't trust the audience, so they inserted shitty, out-of-place "inspirational" pop songs where they weren't needed. So whoever was the one who made that decision needs to be dragged out into the streets and shot. There was a little girl several rows down who was up out of her seat and making gestures to imitate the dances she was seeing, so if it wasn't for the godawful soundtrack, I think she'd have the right impression as to what ballet is.

Pretty sure (hoping) the original French version is better in that aspect, so if you want to watch it, hunt that down instead.
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Thanks for helping me dodge a bullet, m8.
 
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DarkRainbowFiend said:
Actually, random as fuck question but considering powerpuff girls somewhat relevant. Whatever happened to luaren fuast after sony kicked her out of that medusa movie?
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:offtopic: As of right now, she's actually working on a fighting game called Them's Fighting Herds as the main character designer.
 
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Mister Loser said:
:offtopic: As of right now, she's actually working on a fighting game called Them's Fighting Herds as the main character designer.
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Good to know she's on something (clever name too).

Having to think about our ol' pal M. Hirtes again, I'm reminded he shared this video he had (perhaps he taped it himself) of a tour through Hanna-Barbera studios around 1994! Worth a look!
 
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Trilby said:
Decent writers I suppose. I feel like we're starting to get the sort of cartoons we should've gotten much, much earlier.
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Pretty much. One of the executive producers was part of the Drawn Together staff. So it's pretty much a toned down version of that, but with Sonic characters.

Explains a lot about Sticks, or the "Baby Blending" joke.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
Oh neat. I thought this was a mostly lost series outside the few Q-Bert and Donkey Kong segments that have been found.
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It still is mostly lost, as far as I know. The Space Ace shorts from the show were shown on the Turner networks years ago, but otherwise, it's lost - and I don't know anyone who's really mourning on this.

(Side note - Ruby-Spears was perhaps the lowest-quality of all the animation studios of the glory days of Saturday morning. You think the H-B stuff is bad? This was often worse.)
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
It still is mostly lost, as far as I know. The Space Ace shorts from the show were shown on the Turner networks years ago, but otherwise, it's lost - and I don't know anyone who's really mourning on this.

(Side note - Ruby-Spears was perhaps the lowest-quality of all the animation studios of the glory days of Saturday morning. You think the H-B stuff is bad? This was often worse.)
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As shit as they might have been, they did come up with some pretty out there ideas. Like Turbo Teen:
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
It still is mostly lost, as far as I know. The Space Ace shorts from the show were shown on the Turner networks years ago, but otherwise, it's lost - and I don't know anyone who's really mourning on this.
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We ought to be lucky for the Q*bert episodes (sans one) that Sony released as a Burn-On-Demand DVD a while back, and whoever found those episodes of Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr. that seemed to be 16mm TV prints MCA/Universal had (perhaps as a consolation for the whole King Kong mess they dragged Nintendo through). Anything else is more or less due to one or two guys out there who had a VCR at the time the show aired and had managed to save an episode/cartoon or two.

(Side note - Ruby-Spears was perhaps the lowest-quality of all the animation studios of the glory days of Saturday morning. You think the H-B stuff is bad? This was often worse.)
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And yet both studios were owned by the same parent company during the 80's (Taft Broadcasting). Of course R-S was basically founded by former H-B staffers anyway. At one point, both studios' output got crammed together when ABC decided on an hour block approach to their cartoon line-up during 1982.

This is why the 1980's was the nadir of animation in this country.

Jewelsmakerguy said:
As shit as they might have been, they did come up with some pretty out there ideas. Like Turbo Teen:
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There's that. Of course Mr. T wasn't a bad idea either to do a cartoon over as well.
 
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Trilby said:
And yet both studios were owned by the same parent company during the 80's (Taft Broadcasting). Of course R-S was basically founded by former H-B staffers anyway. At one point, both studios' output got crammed together when ABC decided on an hour block approach to their cartoon line-up during 1982.

This is why the 1980's was the nadir of animation in this country.
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Didn't exactly help that Filmation was clogging the airwaves with He-Man and everyone was outsourcing.

There's that. Of course Mr. T wasn't a bad idea either to do a cartoon over as well.
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Don't forget Rambo
 
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