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Show: Disney Cheapquels
Episode: N/A
Year: 2006

Writer(s): Rich Burns, Roger S. H. Schulman
Driector(s): Jim Kammerud

Why is it that midquels are a bad idea? That answer is actually pretty obvious really: a midquel or interquel rarely, if ever, adds anything to the original source it's taking place within; a good deal of the time what we see won't actually matter in the end because we know what the end result of the original is anyways. Unless they can add something that we never would've guessed like witnessing a secret that was hinted at or seeing something from a different perspective that can positively change aspects of the original. The Beauty and the Beast midquels are just plain stupid and boring; I don't honestly give a shit what Belle and the Beast were doing all those months because we see how it went for ourselves in the original movie! Plus, they bring up a lot of unfortunate implications that weren't present in the original movie.

The ONLY Disney midquel I'd ever qualify as a good movie was Bambi II, because we don't actually see much of Bambi's adopted father but for a minute in the actual film and we can see firsthand how Bambi grew up. It also helps Patrick Stewart kicks major ass as his daddy. The only other midquel I can see working on a story driven level are the Dragon Ball Z movies Battle of Gods and Resurrection F, along with their retellings in Dragon Ball Super. Those not only add to the original anime and manga giving us details before Uub was born explaining Goku's training during those 10 years, but THEY ACTUALLY MANAGE TO KEEP THE TONE OF THE ORIGINAL!

The Fox and the Hound was a very dark, somber and bittersweet movie about dealing with life changes, letting go and trying to deal with how society sees you and learning that sometimes you cannot completely fight the roles you were born into. Good thing there's absolutely none of that in the midquel, which is before Amos Slade takes Copper with him for months of hunting, turning him into a fox killer. And Todd is actually supportive of Copper doing this training! In the original movie, he had no idea what that would entail until he saw the fox skin shed; here, he seems to realize right away what Copper will do and is cool with it! WHY!?

Amos Slade and Widow Tweed have been derailed from a conflicting pair of old folks into a flirtatious shipping pair. Yes, it did show they were getting along better in the original movie as she nursed Amos back to health somewhat, but that was near the END! And Amos was still as crotchety as ever! Speaking of Amos, he actually seems very mean in this midquel, using Chief as a training dummy for Copper to chase and basically yelling at Copper, having no faith in his abilities even though he's a puppy. In the original movie, he loved Copper and gave him positive reinforcement throughout the movie; he also treasured Chief and was very, very upset when he nearly died. Speaking of Copper, he's an idiot here: he forgot how to track animals when he KNEW how to do it in the original film! His stupidity led to Todd almost getting killed! By the by, that chase scene in the beginning is a mish-mash of the original movie scenes of Todd wrecking the barn and Amos chasing him down; SO LAZY!

The comedy of this movie is poor at best honestly. The original movie barely had any slapstick whatsoever; most of that came from Dinky the finch and Boomer the woodpecker trying to get the caterpillar. It worked because they were comic relief characters! By the by, they, along with Big Mama the owl, don't appear in this midquel; that's the only positive thing I can say about this movie! Although, the cricket that pops up every now and again is a shitty imitation of the caterpillar. The original movie was grounded in reality for the most part and the animals acted as real animals tend to do instinct and all. Here, they seem to have more human attributes to them like SINGING FUCKING DOGS! Another thing this movie does often is toilet humor and butt jokes, like mistaking a fat pigs ass for a pumpkin or a failed paper-training comment, something the original lacked! As a matter of fact, the slapstick just keeps going and going and going on! Padding out a majority of the film! Not even Home on the Range was this bad at slapstick!

The main plot of this movie is the cliché and extremely stupid joining a rock band plot and blah, blah, blah, friends are more important than fame. Or rather, in this case, a country western band of SINGING FUCKING DOGS! These new characters have absolutely no real personalities and are extremely bland. I can see why Patrick Swayze (1952-2009) never did another voice role, and may he rest in peace. The only thing I know about this band of SINGING DOGS is that one of them has a vagina. And to be honest, the singing really sucks. I'm not a big fan of country music to begin with, but it sounds very stereotypical here; plus, it quickly gets grating on you when it's mostly just howling. And this band is also extremely annoying: you've got the crotchety old dog that looks like a rat, the two Patrick Star idiot hounds voiced by JIM CUMMINGS, the Patrick Swayze dog and the primadonna bitch dog. See what I mean? Another thing the original did well was using an ambiguous timeline. By the way, things looked it could've taken place anywhere from the 1910s to the early 1930s. The carnival looks almost modern by comparison, or at the very least 80s, WHEN THE ORIGINAL MOVIE WAS MADE! The kids they got to do Copper and Todd weren't given any real direction whatsoever and they're just plain ear sores, especially the kid who does Todd, who does voice work for The Backyardigans! Fuck, not even Patrick Swayze has a good performance!

The animation actually managed to be worse than the original too, and that's back when Disney used that somewhat grainy animation style, DURING THE DARK AGE! The CGI is extremely noticeable and very uncanny and out of date even for 2006. Compared to Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast’s usage of CGI, it sticks out like an erection. Back to the characters, the only two humans in the original movie were Amos and Tweed; the other humans in is movie look more uncanny than the ones in The Angry Beavers, and they're SUPPOSED TO look ugly! They're even blander than the animals. Also, this movie has ALOT of arguing and characters yelling at each other for no reason whatsoever but to fake tension. It manages to actually be far MEANER than the original movie about learning that sometimes you can't fight the way the cold cruel world expects you to be and that friendships do die sometimes. This movie also has the 2nd worse villain in Disney history next to Sarousch from The Hunchback of Notre Dame II. The original didn't HAVE any villains! This entire movie took place over the course of two freaking days; the pacing is just rushed with a breakneck pace, which kind of makes sense since this is somewhere in the MIDDLE OF THE REAL MOVIE!

Truth be told, you can take all of The Fox and the Hound characters out of this movie and it would roughly be the same. It has literally nothing to do with the original movie tone or otherwise whatsoever. It is quite literally a BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOVIE! Who, who ASKED for a midquel to The Fox and the Hound? Copper was already good at hunting in the original movie! He didn't need to go through this at all! 17 minutes in, I have a migraine from this thing. Remember when MrEnter said this was stupider than The Hunchback of Notre Dame II? He wasn't joking at all! At least I can understand where The Hunchback of Notre Dame II came from: they wanted to give Quasimodo a girlfriend because that's what the fans wanted, and in a twisted way, it succeeded. This Fox and the Hound midquel is NOTHING! It is an insult to the original movie in every single way. In the end, Copper and Todd are still going to become bitter enemies when they grow up in spite of all the stupidity they just went through. Plus, there's twerking, and ass scooting, yeah... It sure uses low-end gross-out jokes, even milk shooting out of Abigail's udders looks like chunky sperm. Honestly in reality not even the Grand Ol' Opery would accept these dreck!

Cringe-Inducing Audio: 7
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 5
Lackluster Writing: 10
Annoyance: 9
Disturbing Content: 2
Unnecessary Cruelty: 5
Rancid Morality: 0
Low production Values: 4
Unfortunate Implications: 7
Character Derailment: 8

Final Score: 57/100

Fox and the Hound 2 is disowned by Disney

Animated Atrocities is from

Regulas314

Description
Show: Disney Cheapquels
Episode: N/A
Year: 2006

Writer(s): Rich Burns, Roger S. H. Schulman
Driector(s): Jim Kammerud

Why is it that midquels are a bad idea? That answer is actually pretty obvious really: a midquel or interquel rarely, if ever, adds anything to the original source it's taking place within; a good deal of the time what we see won't actually matter in the end because we know what the end result of the original is anyways. Unless they can add something that we never would've guessed like witnessing a secret that was hinted at or seeing something from a different perspective that can positively change aspects of the original. The Beauty and the Beast midquels are just plain stupid and boring; I don't honestly give a shit what Belle and the Beast were doing all those months because we see how it went for ourselves in the original movie! Plus, they bring up a lot of unfortunate implications that weren't present in the original movie.

The ONLY Disney midquel I'd ever qualify as a good movie was Bambi II, because we don't actually see much of Bambi's adopted father but for a minute in the actual film and we can see firsthand how Bambi grew up. It also helps Patrick Stewart kicks major ass as his daddy. The only other midquel I can see working on a story driven level are the Dragon Ball Z movies Battle of Gods and Resurrection F, along with their retellings in Dragon Ball Super. Those not only add to the original anime and manga giving us details before Uub was born explaining Goku's training during those 10 years, but THEY ACTUALLY MANAGE TO KEEP THE TONE OF THE ORIGINAL!

The Fox and the Hound was a very dark, somber and bittersweet movie about dealing with life changes, letting go and trying to deal with how society sees you and learning that sometimes you cannot completely fight the roles you were born into. Good thing there's absolutely none of that in the midquel, which is before Amos Slade takes Copper with him for months of hunting, turning him into a fox killer. And Todd is actually supportive of Copper doing this training! In the original movie, he had no idea what that would entail until he saw the fox skin shed; here, he seems to realize right away what Copper will do and is cool with it! WHY!?

Amos Slade and Widow Tweed have been derailed from a conflicting pair of old folks into a flirtatious shipping pair. Yes, it did show they were getting along better in the original movie as she nursed Amos back to health somewhat, but that was near the END! And Amos was still as crotchety as ever! Speaking of Amos, he actually seems very mean in this midquel, using Chief as a training dummy for Copper to chase and basically yelling at Copper, having no faith in his abilities even though he's a puppy. In the original movie, he loved Copper and gave him positive reinforcement throughout the movie; he also treasured Chief and was very, very upset when he nearly died. Speaking of Copper, he's an idiot here: he forgot how to track animals when he KNEW how to do it in the original film! His stupidity led to Todd almost getting killed! By the by, that chase scene in the beginning is a mish-mash of the original movie scenes of Todd wrecking the barn and Amos chasing him down; SO LAZY!

The comedy of this movie is poor at best honestly. The original movie barely had any slapstick whatsoever; most of that came from Dinky the finch and Boomer the woodpecker trying to get the caterpillar. It worked because they were comic relief characters! By the by, they, along with Big Mama the owl, don't appear in this midquel; that's the only positive thing I can say about this movie! Although, the cricket that pops up every now and again is a shitty imitation of the caterpillar. The original movie was grounded in reality for the most part and the animals acted as real animals tend to do instinct and all. Here, they seem to have more human attributes to them like SINGING FUCKING DOGS! Another thing this movie does often is toilet humor and butt jokes, like mistaking a fat pigs ass for a pumpkin or a failed paper-training comment, something the original lacked! As a matter of fact, the slapstick just keeps going and going and going on! Padding out a majority of the film! Not even Home on the Range was this bad at slapstick!

The main plot of this movie is the cliché and extremely stupid joining a rock band plot and blah, blah, blah, friends are more important than fame. Or rather, in this case, a country western band of SINGING FUCKING DOGS! These new characters have absolutely no real personalities and are extremely bland. I can see why Patrick Swayze (1952-2009) never did another voice role, and may he rest in peace. The only thing I know about this band of SINGING DOGS is that one of them has a vagina. And to be honest, the singing really sucks. I'm not a big fan of country music to begin with, but it sounds very stereotypical here; plus, it quickly gets grating on you when it's mostly just howling. And this band is also extremely annoying: you've got the crotchety old dog that looks like a rat, the two Patrick Star idiot hounds voiced by JIM CUMMINGS, the Patrick Swayze dog and the primadonna bitch dog. See what I mean? Another thing the original did well was using an ambiguous timeline. By the way, things looked it could've taken place anywhere from the 1910s to the early 1930s. The carnival looks almost modern by comparison, or at the very least 80s, WHEN THE ORIGINAL MOVIE WAS MADE! The kids they got to do Copper and Todd weren't given any real direction whatsoever and they're just plain ear sores, especially the kid who does Todd, who does voice work for The Backyardigans! Fuck, not even Patrick Swayze has a good performance!

The animation actually managed to be worse than the original too, and that's back when Disney used that somewhat grainy animation style, DURING THE DARK AGE! The CGI is extremely noticeable and very uncanny and out of date even for 2006. Compared to Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast’s usage of CGI, it sticks out like an erection. Back to the characters, the only two humans in the original movie were Amos and Tweed; the other humans in is movie look more uncanny than the ones in The Angry Beavers, and they're SUPPOSED TO look ugly! They're even blander than the animals. Also, this movie has ALOT of arguing and characters yelling at each other for no reason whatsoever but to fake tension. It manages to actually be far MEANER than the original movie about learning that sometimes you can't fight the way the cold cruel world expects you to be and that friendships do die sometimes. This movie also has the 2nd worse villain in Disney history next to Sarousch from The Hunchback of Notre Dame II. The original didn't HAVE any villains! This entire movie took place over the course of two freaking days; the pacing is just rushed with a breakneck pace, which kind of makes sense since this is somewhere in the MIDDLE OF THE REAL MOVIE!

Truth be told, you can take all of The Fox and the Hound characters out of this movie and it would roughly be the same. It has literally nothing to do with the original movie tone or otherwise whatsoever. It is quite literally a BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOVIE! Who, who ASKED for a midquel to The Fox and the Hound? Copper was already good at hunting in the original movie! He didn't need to go through this at all! 17 minutes in, I have a migraine from this thing. Remember when MrEnter said this was stupider than The Hunchback of Notre Dame II? He wasn't joking at all! At least I can understand where The Hunchback of Notre Dame II came from: they wanted to give Quasimodo a girlfriend because that's what the fans wanted, and in a twisted way, it succeeded. This Fox and the Hound midquel is NOTHING! It is an insult to the original movie in every single way. In the end, Copper and Todd are still going to become bitter enemies when they grow up in spite of all the stupidity they just went through. Plus, there's twerking, and ass scooting, yeah... It sure uses low-end gross-out jokes, even milk shooting out of Abigail's udders looks like chunky sperm. Honestly in reality not even the Grand Ol' Opery would accept these dreck!

Cringe-Inducing Audio: 7
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 5
Lackluster Writing: 10
Annoyance: 9
Disturbing Content: 2
Unnecessary Cruelty: 5
Rancid Morality: 0
Low production Values: 4
Unfortunate Implications: 7
Character Derailment: 8

Final Score: 57/100

Fox and the Hound 2 is disowned by Disney

Animated Atrocities is from

Regulas314