The American Rabbit

[exball]

OK, I sat through this entire movie. I have seen worse cartoons (for one, "Elm-Chanted Forest" is worse, don't ever bother watching that), but this one was still a real turd. It's a product of the era when people thought it was fine for a cartoon to be totally retarded because only little kids watch cartoons and it's good enough for 'em. The plot is almost as stupid as something from an issue of Sonichu.

And, as an artist and the owner of a pet rabbit, I HATE the way they drew the rabbits' ears! It's like they are one behind the other rather than side to side.

Anyway, the point of this being here; Why did Chris like this so much? True, Lil' Chris would probably happily stare at anything with bright moving colors, but for some reason this was his favorite. This came out in 1986 when Chris was still a drooling, screeching toddler who couldn't talk. He probably didn't see it until a few years later when Borb picked it up on VHS for 99¢ at the Food Lion. I'm old enough to remember the mid-late 80s, and cartoons sucked back then. But still, just for animated movies, we had:
1986, The Great Mouse Detective (which was actually decent as I recall)
1987, The Chipmunk Adventure
1988, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
I can see all of these as having potential with Chris, any of them are written and animated better than American Rabbit, yet none of these became Chris' favorite. The only reason I can think of was that the story in American Rabbit was simple and stupid enough for Chris to be able to follow it, while other cartoons were just too complex to keep his attention.
Until Sonic came along anyway.

The mid 80s had some fantastic cartoons: The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Mr Rossi
Around The World In 80 Days With Willie Fogg
Ulysses 31
Dungeons and Dragons
Transformers (not that CG shite that Chris loves so much)
The Amazing Spiderman
Thundercats
He Man and the Masters of the Universe.

That's just a few from the top of my head which I can still enjoy today.

He Man would have scared Chris. He would think He Man was trying to turn him gay.

 

[Cid Highwind]

He Man would have scared Chris. He would think He Man was trying to turn him gay.

Yet instead, The American Rabbit and later, Sonic, turned him gay.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

I tried watching this movie once before but I just couldn't. And it's not because I'm a film snob, I have lousy tastes in film. I just couldn't stand more than a few minutes of it.

Li'l Chris most likely liked it because it had animals (what kid doesn't like talking animals?) and bright flashing colors. I don't know if he's seen it lately, but maybe even he would wonder why he ever liked it.

 

[Fialovy]

I'm gonna make a confession and say that I sat through the American Rabbit TWICE

Wha...why?

Well, one while I was alone and second time was with Dun and a few other friends.

 

[Thetan]

Don't stop upping the ante until he habitually tells people his favorite film is "Urotsukidōji : Legend of the Overfiend"

Imagine if Urotsukidōji had been one of Chris's earlier influences. Can you imagine Sonichu-themed tentacle pr0n?

 

[CatParty]

Don't stop upping the ante until he habitually tells people his favorite film is "Urotsukidōji : Legend of the Overfiend"

Imagine if Urotsukidōji had been one of Chris's earlier influences. Can you imagine Sonichu-themed tentacle pr0n?

still less uncomfortable than sonichu babies

 

[Thetan]

I saw this in theaters when I was a kid.

Somehow I didn't become a hedgehog/pokemon obsessed autistic tomgirl moron creep despite playing a lot of video games from the Atari 2600 to the PS2 growing up and my childhood hero was not this dip-shit Lagomorpha Leporidae.

So, either I was lucky, or Chris' genetics are shit is the lesson we can all learn from all this.

(And I too also own a pet rabbit and have already received over 90 minutes of pure joy from the experience in less than a year, something you won't find in this movie in a single or through repeated viewings so I caution you all to avoid this crap like the black plague and watch a decent animation movie instead, I'll just toss out Ghost in the Shell for one example.)

I'm surprised you didn't mention Akira.

Grave of the Firefiles is worthy as well. Not a lot of action and adventure, just wonderful, high-quality animation and a moving, engrossing story.

There are others, of course. I just don't feel like compiling a compete list right now.

I think Chris did in fact latch onto Who Framed Roger Rabbit in a fairly major way. It appears to have inspired the main rationalization for the real-world existence of his imaginary safe place of "CWCville."

I thought he was basing that idiotic idea more off of 'Cool World'.

I loved Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The combination of 1940s style Film Noir, high quality animation, and a decent plot work really well. Bob Hoskins is an awesome actor as well.

I wouldn't even compare Who Framed Roger Rabbit to a piece of shit film like The Adventures of the American Rabbit.

 

[Henry Bemis]

Haven't watch the movie yet (And not planned to do so because I got better things to do), but does anyone think Chris made the right choice of replacing Chris's hero: "The American Rabbit" with "Sonic"?

Replacing a creative vacuum with a wholly manufactured "way past cool attitude."

Not much of a choice either way.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

I wonder if Chris has ever seen the also-bargain bin movie "Sebastian the Star Bear."

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[Sakamoto]

I wonder if Chris has ever seen the also-bargain bin movie "Sebastian the Star Bear."

Why are you doing this to us?

 

[Tubular Monkey]

I wonder if Chris has ever seen the also-bargain bin movie "Sebastian the Star Bear."

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This is the kind of thing that I could see Chris HATING with blind fury. Not because of the message, but because it's STEALING THE THUNDER OF THE AMERICAN RABBIT'S WELL-DESERVED LESSONS AND FAME! ;;;

 

[Bugaboo]

OK, I sat through this entire movie. I have seen worse cartoons (for one, "Elm-Chanted Forest" is worse, don't ever bother watching that), but this one was still a real turd. It's a product of the era when people thought it was fine for a cartoon to be totally retarded because only little kids watch cartoons and it's good enough for 'em. The plot is almost as stupid as something from an issue of Sonichu.

Holy shit I watched that once! Remember the guy with a guillotine for a face?

 

[Sakamoto]

OK, I sat through this entire movie. I have seen worse cartoons (for one, "Elm-Chanted Forest" is worse, don't ever bother watching that), but this one was still a real turd. It's a product of the era when people thought it was fine for a cartoon to be totally retarded because only little kids watch cartoons and it's good enough for 'em. The plot is almost as stupid as something from an issue of Sonichu.

Holy shit I watched that once! Remember the guy with a guillotine for a face?

Elm-Chanted Forest? The villain was like some cactus dude. I remember it had some big dumb bear that was always saying he was going to go drink a "light bear" (like "light BEER", get it? ha-yuk!). Chris wouldn't have liked it cause the protagonist was human. It was made in some East European shit-hole around the same time as American Rabbit. Maybe the story wasn't so dumb in the original commie language version, but it probably was.

 

[Bugaboo]

OK, I sat through this entire movie. I have seen worse cartoons (for one, "Elm-Chanted Forest" is worse, don't ever bother watching that), but this one was still a real turd. It's a product of the era when people thought it was fine for a cartoon to be totally retarded because only little kids watch cartoons and it's good enough for 'em. The plot is almost as stupid as something from an issue of Sonichu.

Holy shit I watched that once! Remember the guy with a guillotine for a face?

Elm-Chanted Forest? The villain was like some cactus dude. I remember it had some big dumb bear that was always saying he was going to go drink a "light bear" (like "light BEER", get it? ha-yuk!). Chris wouldn't have liked it cause the protagonist was human. It was made in some East European shit-hole around the same time as American Rabbit. Maybe the story wasn't so dumb in the original commie language version, but it probably was.

Yeah and he had an ultra minion with a guillotine for a face.

 

[exball]

I wonder if Chris has ever seen the also-bargain bin movie "Sebastian the Star Bear."

[youtube]7L6jhwZ4Bis[/youtube]

Duck to the future huh.

 

[Midnight Kissy Bull]

I vaguely remember American Rabbit, Elm-Enchanted Forest, and Sebastian Star Bear. I hate to admit it, but I actually liked Sebastian Star Bear ... of course, I was, like, 8-10 at the time. I remember watching it on the Disney Channel during the channel's earlier years. I probably couldn't sit through it now.

Speaking of obscure cartoons, how about The Bluffers? I vaguely remember the dumb musical numbers, the cruddy character design, cut-out characters (and, hey, one of the main characters was a blue squirrel who could run really fast!)... yeah, it was a bargain bin toon. Something that might have appealed to Chris.

OT: But if you're interested in The Bluffers, do check out the pilot, which differs vastly from the cartoon. And is all kinds of nightmare-inducing. And Count Clandestino's got some gams, yo.

 

[BillRiley]

I think Chris did in fact latch onto Who Framed Roger Rabbit in a fairly major way. It appears to have inspired the main rationalization for the real-world existence of his imaginary safe place of "CWCville."

I thought he was basing that idiotic idea more off of 'Cool World'.

I loved Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The combination of 1940s style Film Noir, high quality animation, and a decent plot work really well. Bob Hoskins is an awesome actor as well.

I wouldn't even compare Who Framed Roger Rabbit to a piece of shit film like The Adventures of the American Rabbit.

Considering how skin-blisteringly bad the movie was, I'm kind of surprised Chris didn't latch onto "Howard the Duck." It came out the same year and was easily just as stupid. Maybe it didn't have enough bright colors to catch his attention.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

I feel that this thing could have been radically improved by expanding all the aspects that are only hinted at in the kid's version: The Panda guy doing drugs, the bikers raping the pig girl, Rob copping a feel of Bunny o'Hare the b/hooker etc.

Yep, I've been re-watching Fritz the Cat today

 

[LordCustos3]

I feel that this thing could have been radically improved by expanding all the aspects that are only hinted at in the kid's version: The Panda guy doing drugs, the bikers raping the pig girl, Rob copping a feel of Bunny o'Hare the b/hooker etc.

Yep, I've been re-watching Fritz the Cat today

Hmmmn.
I wonder what Chris'tard would think of the works of Ralph Bakshi.

 

[Bugaboo]

I think Chris did in fact latch onto Who Framed Roger Rabbit in a fairly major way. It appears to have inspired the main rationalization for the real-world existence of his imaginary safe place of "CWCville."

I thought he was basing that idiotic idea more off of 'Cool World'.

I loved Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The combination of 1940s style Film Noir, high quality animation, and a decent plot work really well. Bob Hoskins is an awesome actor as well.

I wouldn't even compare Who Framed Roger Rabbit to a piece of shit film like The Adventures of the American Rabbit.

Considering how skin-blisteringly bad the movie was, I'm kind of surprised Chris didn't latch onto "Howard the Duck." It came out the same year and was easily just as stupid. Maybe it didn't have enough bright colors to catch his attention.

He probably like it now because of that one scene at the beginning with the topless duck lady in the bathtub