Felix the Cat: The Movie

Plot synopsis:
In the Kingdom of Oriana, Princess Oriana, ruler of the kingdom, has been informed by a local fortune teller Pearl that her evil uncle, the Duke of Zill, is invading the kingdom. To counter the threat of the Duke, Oriana and Pearl descend into the cavern underneath the castle and attempt to use an ancient device called the "Dimensporter" in order to escape to another dimension and find a hero to save the kingdom. However, they are caught by the Duke's robotic army and imprisoned, while the Duke himself seizes control of the kingdom. As the princess is taken away by the Duke's "Cylinder" robots, she sheds a magical tear, which flies into the Dimensporter in her place and is transported to Felix's dimension, where the eponymous feline is taking a nap underneath a palm tree when the tear finds him. The tear wakes and guides him to an abandoned gold mine, where the Dimensporter is located. Felix, with his magical bag of tricks, is soon transported to the Kingdom of Oriana.
Meanwhile, Felix's nemesis, The Professor, and his nephew Poindexter, who had been spying him, follow Felix to Oriana in the hopes of catching Felix and stealing his magic bag. Once in Oriana, the tear tells Felix that it cannot guide him any further and vanishes. Felix gets lost and subsequently ends up in a swamp in the Land of Zill. There, he meets Pim, who offers to guide him, but Pim later betrays Felix and hands him over to Wack Lizardi, the owner of a local circus and a lackey of the Duke. At Pim's suggestion, Wack confiscates Felix's bag and puts him to work as a performer, locking Felix in a cell before and after every show.
Eventually, Felix manages to sneak out of his cell and meets with the princess, who is being held in an adjacent cell. She explains to Felix about the Duke's conquest of her kingdom, whom she reveals is actually her uncle. In the past the Duke was a scientist who disagreed with the pacifistic views the kingdom held. After a laboratory accident left him disfigured, he rebuilt his body into a mechanical shell. For attempting to seize the royal secrets of their ancestors' high technology, he was banished to the Land of Zill. He plotted revenge, meanwhile gaining allegiance of the strange creatures of Zill, built a robotic army and stormed Oriana by force. Not content with simply ruling Oriana, he continued his efforts to find the royal secrets contained in the "Book of Ultimate Power", which the princess has refused to reveal the location of. Felix escapes with the princess using his magic bag to fly away in the middle of a stage performance. Felix, Oriana, and a reformed Pim set off toward the kingdom of Oriana, eventually joined by the Professor and Poindexter after they fail to steal Felix's bag.
The heroes infiltrate the castle, but are quickly subdued and captured by the Duke's army. The Duke forces Oriana to reveal the location of the Book of Ultimate Power to him by threatening to kill Felix and the others, but upon obtaining it, he discovers its contents are of no use to him. Enraged, the Duke unleashes his ultimate creation, Master Cylinder, to destroy the heroes. However, Felix throws the book at Master Cylinder, causing it to short circuit and break down, which in turn shuts down the rest of the Cylinders. With his army gone, the Duke flees, swearing to return. The kingdom saved, Oriana transports Felix, The Professor, and Poindexter home with the Dimensporter.

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Review:
The only way I can describe this movie is a bunch of kids jumping up and down on a bed yelling.The film was made in 1989 and it's opens with an introduction by Felix the cat.
Overall, the movie was good, although Felix himself can get really annoying..
Overall, the movie was good, although Felix himself, his personality, and his voice can all get really annoying.
I watched Felix the Cat: The Movie for the first time today expecting it to be terrible, as I had heard people say it was bland, uninspired and an insult to children.
As a lover of animated movies, I will say I have been better, but I have also seen a hell of a lot worse as well.Felix the Cat: The Movie was overall an enjoyable if somewhat unexceptional animated film.
But it is in the latter half when the film does drag, but the real bummer was the rushed, abrupt and misplaced ending that could have been so much more.There are many good things though.
In fact, the voice acting was very well done, Peter Newman was superb as Duke of Zill and Wack(who you don't trust at first but you do sort of like later) and Maureen O'Connell at least emotes.
Chris Phillips is good as well as Felix, and Alice Playton(Blix from the 1985 fantasy film Legend) is decent as Madam Pearl.Overall, not a perfect animated film, but even with its problems, it was enjoyable.
He then says: "I think I'm beginning to fall for you!" I enjoyed stuff like that.I COULD nick pick what snippets of the movie I enjoyed.
And some characters have annoying voices-like Felix, and the villain's also evil nephew.Oh, and the nephew has a random shot of him picking his nose for 3 seconds, with sound effects.
What a waste of paper for that to be drawn!Oh, and speaking of which, this is not the best looking animated movie, either.
Oliver and Company and The Land Before Time came out the same year, and both look way better!Just skip this movie.
I think if you take a strip of acid to try to forget this horrible movie, it wouldn't help.
Even watching NC review this, I can tell I was already on acid.Felix the cat, is similar to that Tom and Jerry movie, unessisary.
The movie has a lot of problems, such as the non-stop pacing, the bouncy weird animation and the unnecessary stupid scenes.
The worst thing about this movie is how bad the animation is.Everything just looks so shoddy and the dubbing is horrendous.
Maybe I would have to watch more of Felix the Cat, but I doubt this is loyal to the original character.
Never mind Mickey Mouse, Felix was really the first cartoon character to actually have a personality.
If really deranged animation is your guilty pleasure, I know it's mine, then by all means watch this because it makes Ren and Stimpy look like Filmation.
But if you like animation where the protagonist doesn't laugh at dead people's remains or say "woah" every two seconds in an annoying voice, and the characters' dialogue actually makes sense at least 90% of the time, then better leave this one in the bargain bin.
I don't know what the many eyes poring over it once it was conceived thought about it, how the movie even got green-lit, and how anyone that read it could think, "This is the PERFECT movie for Felix the Cat!" What I do know is that they were all high as a kite, and I'm glad that it happened.Felix the Cat: The Movie was created on acid, and you'll feel like you've dropped some yourself when you watch it.
From a human perspective, it's a unique, unforgettable experience that is an (poorly) animated smörgåsbord of crazy.Taking classic cartoon characters and giving them theatrical movies has overstayed its welcome by now, but Felix was one of the first to do it.
It's my honest opinion that if it wasn't so obscure, it would be a cult favorite.The basic gist of the movie's plot is that in an alternate dimension, Princess Oriana is forcefully dethroned when her villain-uncle, the Mysterio expy named the Duke of Zill, returns from exile and forcefully takes the throne.
Using his magic bag of tricks, Felix finds the Princess and they escape, heading for the castle in an attempt to take down the Duke of Zill.This movie is such a mixed bag.
When you see the state of their world versus the pristine land of Oriana, it makes you wonder if the Duke is really that bad, and just why they were content to see the princess forced to dance in a bubble if they considered her the source of their misfortunes.
If Felix wasn't a hopeless optimist with an annoying voice and plenty of crummy jokes, this movie would be a lot darker.My favorite aspect of this movie, however, are the frequent moments where you just have to stare in disbelief and wonder if that really happened.
Besides several bouts of terrible animation that border on hypnotic, there is a scene where the good guys are attacked by flying menaces known as "headhunters" that presumably decapitate (!) their victims, which features a quick frame of a bloody (!!) Oriana that they probably meant to delete.
You're not going to get this kind of satisfaction from Frozen.This is one of the few movies that I think legitimately qualifies as "so bad it's good.".
Corny lines are kind of fun, but the story itself is good enough that it's unfortunate the dialogue and character development aren't taken as seriously.All in all, I enjoyed this movie and think it's definitely worth a view.
That quote right there, that quote easily tells you right there that Felix The Cat is a downright insane person that would look fine at a local Asylum.Come to think of it, so does this film too.
It constantly strangles itself like a crappy Poundland Bart Simpson knockoff and shoves so much weird and trippy imagery down our eyelids and our throats that there is literally, and I mean LITERALLY, no room to breathe for an actual story.Or actual characters too.Felix The Cat: The Movie is an 82 minute hellhole, hold on, what am I even saying lads, this is not a film, this is an exercise in constant unbearableness.
No, it bladdy well didn't.Also I think this must be the first animated film where you'll want everyone dead within under 4 seconds...The incredibly irritating and rather psychopathic Felix who could make even Hannibal Lecter cry in his sleep.The two random guys who want his bag.The unbelievably retarded princess who actually withdrew her army at the start despite the fact she KNOWS she needed them.
Even then they would have done better.Felix The Cat: The Movie is an unbearable psychedelic trip that not only hurts the eyes but blows up the ears as if it's some crappy Michael Bay film.
Even as a drug it still wouldn't be fun in the slightest.Everything grates on your nerves within 1 second and it completely spits on the legacy of this beloved character.Easily one of the worst animated films ever made and a horrible experience I never want to revisit again.Now run away children, run as fast as you can and never look back at this damn thing.AAAAARRGGGH!.
So, when I got the chance to watch it again, I had to take it and confirm that, yes, even before I developed any sort of taste, there was a reason You've got: Colliding art styles: Felix retains some of the start-stop jerkiness often found in old cartoons, while the princess shows some (but not quite enough) fluidity.
For a kid's movie, why the heck is there a scene with mutant seahorses trying to attract the attention of a pair of legs by flouncing their boobs about, and a gag where a young fox is straining to pee on Felix's magic bag?There's almost no plot.
That person should have their brain examined.The film is about Felix the cat who travels to the land of Oriana to help Princess Oriana to fight off her evil uncle after a science experiment and wants to rule the land of Oriana.
There is also a sub-plot about how Felix's Magic bag keeps getting stolen by this mad scientist.This is a loud and obnoxious film filled with bad characters, stupid story and the sound mixing with characters is awful.
Let me put it this way, its cheaply made, its poorly animated, the dialogue is crass, the sound management sounds like it was done by a 3 year old banging away at the console, the movie never knows when to stop making noise for a few moments, the images seen are enough to leave children mentally scarred and the story is practically non-existent.Let me break it down.
One, the animation is a joke, with the dialogue and the lip movements never matching up, as well as it not having any rhythm, like every other frame was left out to save on cost, so it makes the whole thing rather jumpy.
And everyone else is just there to make noise and make this movie justifiable, with none of them really making any pivotal points in the story.As for the story, I don't even want to go there, you folks can try and figure it out, as for me, I have much better things to waste my time on rather than fathoming out what some idiot in Broadmoor could have written in half an hour.Overall, its a miserable excuse for a film, it's just a waste of animation and film time.
Shoddy animation and inconsistent character designs (Princess Oriana, for example, looks like she belongs in a different movie altogether.) go hand-in-hand with hauntingly beautiful music and rather clever ideas that, for lack of a better term, are pretty bizarre.
It almost feels like the movie makers were setting up for a very complicated final showdown against the Duke of Zill, only to find out that the deadline they had to meet was a lot sooner than they realized.
You watch as Felix builds acquaintances with characters like the Mizzards and Tim, only to see them rendered useless in the later scenes.
If you look closely, you can even see some animations from the previous act cycled to fill in for lost time.It's a good movie, but for limited audiences.
If you love Felix, by all means, buy the movie for you or for your children.
Few people aside from children, people who grew up with the film, or avid fans of Felix will enjoy this movie.
I'm sorry, but I never heard of Felix the Cat. And when I watched the movie, it's as if Hannah-Babara hated kids and decided "Hey, let's make this movie and make millions of children cry"!
The character design: Why does the villain look like a rip-off of Darth Vader from Star Wars?
All the characters are loathsome beings, the animation looks like an obnoxious Zelda CD-i game, the music is generic, the songs are idiotic, the story makes no sense, and the main character is a sadist.
I'm starting to notice that this movie is like a rejected Zelda CD-i game.
Yet another good movie i watched as a kid, and still do.
I liked the way they ACTUALLY put an interesting villain (Duke of Zill) and good yet simple enemies (the Cubes and Cylinders).
This time i understood the story, a princess in danger i knew that, i just didn't know why or how Felix ended up in Oriana, but now that i understand the story more, i give the story a solid 8 out of 10.
This is my only favourite cartoon movie that i can watch over and over again because of the characters, originality, use of effects and animation (The Cylinder and Cube lights) and i like the way they put their own music in.
A reason why the Duke of Zill is a good villain is that the movie actually explained and told you about his history, that he is the princess's uncle and why he became a robot, doesn't leave the audience hanging.
My husband brought home this DVD yesterday: THE FELIX THE CAT MOVIE.
I have never felt more like I was tripping on acid without actually tripping on acid as I did watching this movie!
FELIX...No, just too weird for words!) One of the first things I noticed, aside from the all around poor quality, was it seems like this movie was dubbed to Engish.
Then we have the "Let's Be Modern" bad guy who looks like a cartoon version of something you might see in a Power Rangers show.
Some poor saps had to actually sit in a movie theater with their kid(s) and watch this garbage from beginning to end...and pay to do it!
I must be one of the very few people who was born in the 90's (the movie actually came out the same year I was born) who never saw "Felix the Cat: The Movie".
I just watched the movie from start to end on YouTube yesterday for the first time (much thanks to shatteredeve for uploading it) and I was quite impressed and I overall like it.
Here's the story for "Felix the Cat: The Movie": Felix travels to another dimension to the land of Oriana, where the Princess (who's also called Oriana) needs Felix's help.
It's up to Felix, Princess Oriana, Poindexter & the Professor (who followed Felix into Oriana),Pim- a man who captured Felix and sold him to Wack's circus but later befriended Felix, and two Mizards (hybrids of mice and lizards) to stop the Duke of Zill."Felix the Cat: The Movie" has a mixture of good and bad points; here is a summery of the good and the bad aspects of "Felix the Cat: The Movie" The Animation: Without a doubt the biggest bad aspect of the film.
"Felix the Cat: The Movie" has a clash of good and bad animation (but more bad than good) as well as some horribly done lip syncing in some parts.
I also agree with blueflower_phoenix that a much more better and challenging climax was planned, but were strapped for time, so they just threw in a very short climax where Felix throws a book at one of Zill's robots, which decimates the entire army, and the Duke of Zill fades away saying "I'll be back" (also, it sounded like that the line "I'll be back" was voiced by some one else other than Zill's voice actor)Audio: "Felix the Cat: The Movie" does have a good, clear sound in general, although you may have to do a double take in some parts 'cause the audio is a little unclear and in the Goofs section it says that Wack doesn't talk in English, but rather another language at one point.
There's also the part where Princess Oriana looks up and screams before the rocks come down, as mentioned in the animation summary above.Music and Songs: Most definitely the biggest highlight.
"Felix the Cat: The Movie" has some of the most beautiful music and songs ever in an animated film.
I don't know the name of the music that plays when Princess Oriana is dancing in a bubble at Wack's circus, but it is absolutely gorgeous and very "Labrynth"-like.
The scene that it plays in is a strange yet intriguing and well done one inside Wack's Circus (a few minutes before Princess Oriana's dance); the Zillions all sing and chant that the Duke of Zill is their boss and it's a scene you just have to see with your own eyes.All in all, although there's a majority of badly done animation, some audio problems here and there and the rushed climax, "Felix the Cat: The Movie" rises above the cut of its imperfections and is a terrific film in general.
Frankly, I didn't find this movie looking that bad.
SO when I found this movie, I had no expectations, but I was curious enough to waste my time and started watching this flick.
To find help, the princess (Oriana is her name) uses a golden tear to travel to our dimension where Felix the Cat lives with a magic yellow back.
Long story short: Oriana get saved by Felix, the evil uncle doesn't like the book and his army get destroyed by the book...
I sympathized with a villain, because he demanded Felix to stop making jokes nobody likes.
I also groaned cause of the stupid cliché at the end about Felix having a heart of gold.Another problem are the characters: there are just too much of them being completely unneeded for the story (there are 3 important characters and more than five unimportant ones with more than 10 minutes time on screen).
I might have been able to live with a poor story if the actual animation quality had been better, but to me, that's where the film really falls down.
I understand that good animation is hard, hard work; it takes time, talent, money, and inspiration.
Felix the Cat was a cartoon character I was somewhat familiar with as a child.
There were also a few moments that made me think, "What's going on?" such as a fox cub looking as if it's about to pee on Felix's bag; Felix pointing at a skull, laughing at it and pulling a funny face at it (some may find this disrespectful); and Princess Oriana appearing with her hands over her face during the wacky show scene.
There is also a minor use of scene repetition such as when Princess Oriana dances in the bubble and Madam Pearl watches out for her.
Felix was the star of this cartoon, but I also liked Princess Oriana and her change of heart towards him.
Overall, this film wasn't as bad as the Nostalgia Critic said in spite of its uneven pace and inconsistencies with sound and lip-sync.