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This plot has been compared to the вЂњmovie equivalent of вЂMad LibsвЂ™ (The Nostalgia Critic, вЂњ Rock-A-Doodle review.вЂќ March 17, 2009)вЂќ, and itвЂ™s not really hard to see why. But it turns out that Chanticleer has actually become a huge, Elvis-like singing sensation! How are Edmond and the gang going to get Chanticleer to stop the Grand DukeвЂ™s plan of eternal rain? Edmond teams up with Patou, a magpie named Snipes, and a mouse named Peepers, and they travel to The City to find Chanticleer while being pursued by the Grand DukeвЂ™s owl henchmen.

It turns out that ChanticleerвЂ™s crowing did bring the sun up, so they now have to find him to stop the rain. Luckily, Edmond is saved by Patou the dog and all the other farm animals. As his family struggle against the flood, Edmond calls out for ChanticleerвЂ™s help, but is instead visited by the Grand Duke, who explains about his evil plan and turns Edmond into a cartoon kitten with his magical breath. However, it turns out that this is simply just a story being told by a mother to our main character of the story, Edmond, whose family is attempting to hold down a huge flood from destroying their farm. The animals discover the Chanticleer is a fake and drive him out of the farm, causing a continuous rainstorm and the Grand Duke to reign terror over the farm. However, after getting attacked by another rooster sent by the evil Grand Duke of Owls, Chanticleer, despite winning, forgets to crow but the sun rises anyway. All of the animals adore and look up to Chanticleer because they believe that his crowing brings the sun up, just like in the fable. It begins with Chanticleer crowing/ singing a song to make the sun rise. Well, I suppose I should just give a brief overview of the plot first.

#The game creators doodlefail movie#

The purpose of this was to revisit my childhood, remove the вЂњNostalgia GogglesвЂќ (as I personally thought this movie was wonderful as a child), and watch Rock-A-Doodle with the perspective of not only a fan of animated movies, but a fan of Don BluthsвЂ™ movies. However, thanks to the Internet I managed to find a complete upload of the whole movie. To a 6 year old, however, Rock-A-Doodle was one of those animated movies that your mother picked up at Blockbuster to keep you entertained during a snow day youвЂ™d watch it maybe 3 or 4 times during the rental period, but once it was returned, you promptly forgot about it. Sadly, Rock-A-Doodle was not well-recieved by either critics or audiences, making only roughly $11.6 million dollars and leading to the bankruptcy of Sullivan Bluth Studios. According to Wikipedia, in the late 1980вЂ™s, Bluth proposed the the idea of the animated Chanticleer movie, but wanted make the movie a live action/ animation hybrid in an attempt to capitalize on the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. However, Walt Disney personally rejected the idea, and the concept was put into limbo. Originally, the idea was to create an animated movie that would crossover the fables of Chanticleer the Rooster and Reynard the Fox. The whole idea behind Rock-A-Doodle and its origins dates back to when Bluth was still working at DisneyвЂ™s animation studio. This became apparent when his newest animated movie at the time, Rock-A-Doodle, was released in theaters on April 3 1992, as it signaled that not only was Bluth dethroned from his position in the 1980вЂ™s, but also that he would continue this downward spiral throughout the 90вЂ™s (despite having good success with the 1997 release of Anastasia, only to plummet back down in 2000 with the commercial failure of the now cult hit, Titan A.E.).

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However, during the early 90вЂ™s, Disney was back in full swing of making animated box office hits during what many people call the вЂњDisney RenaissanceвЂќ, and Bluth fell on hard times when it came to finances, movie development, and quality. Despite the protagonist reaching a happy ending at the end of the films, they arguably go through a great deal of pain and sacrifice, but become a smarter person as well.

Compared to a typical Disney plot where the main character had light-hearted fun,then a conflict came, but the character resolves it and lives happily ever after, BluthвЂ™s plot and story-lines were a lot more mature-themed as well as having a very dark and threatening atmosphere or environment threatening the protagonist. His movies differed greatly from the usual standard Disney, mainly because he didnвЂ™t stick to copying from the Disney Formula when he first started out. What can honestly be said about Don Bluth, a former animator for Disney as well as the creator of a few animated films himself? During the 1980вЂ™s after his departure from DisneyвЂ™s animation studio, Bluth went on to make movies such as An American Tale, The Land Before Time, and what many consider to be his masterpiece, The Secret of NIMH, and actually prospered during a time whereas Disney was in both a financial and creative slump.