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I haven't even finished the first half and I'm already completely lost.

•What's so special about him? They were having a huge ass party when he was born and random strangers were complimenting him for no reason.
•Is that old rabbit following him a pedophile?
•What exactly makes him worthy of having powers?
•Why is he "the American rabbit"? I don't even think it takes place in America
•What's with the fruity roller skates?
•Why does he need skates when he can fly
•Why does the mom rabbit have such prominent cleavage?
•Why was this shitty movie even conceived?

Man, I don't get why Chris even feels the need to bring up this movie. I'mshocked that someone who is legendary for having exceedingly shitty tastes even enjoyed this.
 
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.

Hulk Hogan said:
Brother, if only the American Rabbit was a Real American Rabbit and preached the demandments of Hulkamania: Training, saying your prayers and eating your vitamins. Chris would have turned out differently. He could've been so much more.
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Hulkster, as you have so often shown us, Hulkamania is the key. Even this total shit movie could have become a box office SLAM if they had given it a dose of Hulkamania.
 

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Don't need to see it, I already did, 20 years ago. It as on TV during school vacations on the late 80s early 90s, there was nothing else(in my country the tv stations had this really stupid idea of changing their cartoon line up during holidays, putting retarded movies instead of the usual cartoons, goddamit I just wanted to see the fucking thundercats the whole week not holiday shit.) so I sat through the whole thing, and at the end my grade schooller brain came to the realization that, "I have just wasted an hour of my life!"

This movie is so bland nothing really interesting happens there are a lot of loose ends and the main thing to me is that this fells like several episodes of a tv series edited together to make a "Movie" something that was a common practice in the VHS era.
 
Whoa, I can just feel the awesome radiating off of that. Heh.

Seriously, God knows kids can have shitty tastes (for example, I actually liked the show "Small Wonder" when I was 6), but my God, this takes the cake. Seriously, why throw in the part about giving people chocolate? Fuck getting chocolate, I just don't want to get my ass killed.



This was really released in theaters? It looks more like a made-for-tv, or made-for-video. Give me the Care Bears any day. (I still have mine!) :lol:
 
Mrs Paul said:
This was really released in theaters? It looks more like a made-for-tv, or made-for-video.
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The Wikipedia article says
The film was among the first to be released by Clubhouse Pictures, a division of independent distributor, Atlantic Releasing, which specialized in children's entertainment. It was not well received by critics or audiences through its original run. The film made $291,126 during its opening weekend from 242 screens and ran for two months, grossing $1,268,443.

Charles Solomon of The Los Angeles Times said, "Both the writing and the animation in The Adventures of the American Rabbit are so inept that the viewer expects the governor to interrupt the film and declare the theater a disaster area!"
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For whatever reason when you guys kept mentioning this movie, I thought you were talking about "An American tail". That movie with the immigrant mice. That one actually is a pretty decent movie.

This shit is awful. Just awful.
 
I saw it a loooong time ago, and I hated it back then. It's really inept at what it's trying to be. Like, they build up the villain to really being the vulture, but the movie pretty much just says "whatever" two seconds later. For fucks sake, don't bother to do a (horrible) twist like that if you don't even give a shit about it.

And then there's the ending itself. The American Rabbit doesn't fight the vulture, or even really tries to. He just...chases him north into a Canadian blizzard until he dies. Goddammit, and I thought One Hundred and One Dalmatians (the animated one) had an anticlimatic climax. But this movie manages to be even more anticlamatic at the end. Not to mention thoroughly dull.

Chris probably loves it because it's so simple. There is no complex plot, or complex plot twists, nor anything remotely exciting enough to give anybody prickly wricklies. My favorite movie growing up was An American Tail (which apparently came out the same year). I hold it dear to me because the movie convinced me to care about the characters, to worry when they're in danger, and cry at the saddest moment right before the ending. Which of course means that Chris would have cried early on and refuse to watch the rest. Or fail to get the point at all.
 
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"?
 
I haven't seen it but it really looks like a movie on the same level as The Pebble And The Penguin. I saw part of that movie (napping on the couch, woke up and it was on) and I was pretty amazed that people got paid to make that. I'm sure American Rabbit is full of the same shit tier writing and extremely forced musical numbers.
 
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 :hulkster: 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.)
 
the voice of the american rabbit played a ferengi on deep space nine...
 
Sakamoto said:
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.
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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."
 
Well I had the brilliant idea of watching this movie after reading about how influential it apparently was to Chris's work on Sonichu.

And I can definitely see the similarities. The main character is a mary sue with pretty much no humanizing traits and nearly all the side characters are bland and provide nothing to the story.

The only redeeming factor to me was probably the villain's design. Well, when we were lead to believe he was a faceless suit anyway, I was kinda let down when he was in fact just the Vulture itself, although I wasn't really surprised either as I found the movie pretty dull and stupid to begin with.
 
I( only watched about 10 minutes of it by skipping ahead many times. Some old rabbit shows up at the baby's party and then disappears. He discovers his powers saving his parents from some random falling rock and the old man shows up again. Oh boy.

One thing that really bothered me was the vulture on the bridge, there is no way vultures are strong enough to peck a bridge cable, seriously. I'm pretty much doing a facepalm and wondering how I was so lucky enough to skip right to such a gem.

Another thing was when the gorilla was being drowned in the tank, so Rabbit destroyed it, and the water that poured out filled the caverns. A tank does not hold that much water. I don't even...

As others have said, why have rollerskates when you can fly?

One thing one of the other members said was that the jackal with the nazi helmet was the best character in the movie. How sucky does a movie have to be when that statement is true?

One final thing... HOLY MOTHER OF FUCKING GOD WHY ARE THE RABBIT'S EARS SO FUCKING HUGE. Seriously, all the rabbits have these freakishly huge and weirdly shaped ears.
 
Tubular Monkey said:
I was very sorry to learn of The American Rabbit's death this summer. Another grim reminder of the long term health risks of smoking and unprotected sodomy.
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Thanks to this comment I squirted a mouthful of bourbon up through my nose and onto my keyboard. My sinuses hurt
 
Interesting how Chris latched onto another character whose powers are derived from sprinting.
 
Picklepower said:
Interesting trivia, "Adventures of the American Rabbit was based upon the poster character of the same name created by pop artist Stewart Moskowitz. The artist's characters were adopted as the mascots for many major Japanese companies, hence the film's backing by Japanese investors"
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Really? If that's true, then this is the most baffling thing to come from pop art since Andy Warhol attempted to adapt A Clockwork Orange.

As for the cartoon itself, this is just utterly generic and boring. It's the kind of thing I'd probably have seen once on cable as a kid, then only vaguely remember as an adult in the "Oh yeah, that existed...what was it called again?" way. I can't really see how any kid, autistic or otherwise, would latch onto it.
 
Sakamoto said:
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.
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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
Flight of Dragons
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.
 
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