Felix the Cat: The Movie (1989)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Fantastic!

Admirable film.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

I don't know what the scriptwriter was thinking when he scribbled this up. 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. 1950's era Felix and his friends are dragged into a 1980's nightmare. From a purely critical perspective, the movie isn't very good; it's barely passable. 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. You're either going to pioneer a bunch of copycats (Scooby Doo) or be hated and resigned from ever trying again (Tom & Jerry). Felix slides under the radar and sits somewhere in the middle. 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. Her desperate plea for help manifests as a transdimensional tear that finds Felix and leads him (and the snooping pair of the Professor and Poindexter) to an elevator that takes him to Oriana's world. From there, Felix falls pray to the freakish nature of the land of Zill and is eventually enslaved. 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. The animation suffers but the music is great. The story is out of place for something revolving around Felix the Cat, yet the setting is intriguing. The inhabitants of Zill all have monstrous designs, but are otherwise fun-loving people. 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. These are subtleties in the movie you won't see mentioned by people looking to trash it. 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. That scene is eventually topped when the characters are suddenly attacked by a man-eating dragon that randomly spouts Marlon Brando lines. I really thought someone had messed with the version of the movie I was watching when that happened, but I gained some respect when I realized it was intentional. Honestly, who *wouldn't* want to be attacked by a man-eating dragon spouting Marlon Brando lines? 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."

Felix the Cat was a cartoon character I was somewhat familiar with as a child. When I was browsing a list of Nostalgia Critic episodes on Wikipedia, I was surprised to stumble across this film since I never knew it existed. I watched his review of this film on YouTube and it started with a repetitive outburst because he found it horrendous. I disagree with him to some extent because there are some parts of this film that were better than others after also having seen this film on YouTube.This film started off fast-paced due to seeing a fair amount of the first half in the Nostalgia Critic's review; however halfway through the pace began to slow down. 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. Before this scene, I found Felix's jokes a tad lame. I agree with TheLittleSongbird with regard to the ending since I also thought it was rushed. The animation is consistent for the most part, but it is quite rapid when Felix tries to catch Orinana's tear due to the noticeable motion blur. In terms of the lip-sync, it was out of place about halfway through, but I saw it as a result of how the film was uploaded since some videos I've seen on YouTube had lip-sync problems. As for the sound, some of it did drown out the dialogue. 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. 7/10.

This is the most annoying animated movie from I have ever seen. It never lets up for a second. 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. However this intro is a CGI head that might scare people out of the theater. The rest of the film, however, is rendered in hand-drawn animation. So the CGI Felix head is compliantly pointless. the rest of the film is a just a noise, noise, noise that insults your intelligence.There have been many movies based of of other cartoons but they mostly suck. Such as Speed Racer(2008) Scooby Doo(2002) Garfield(2004) Yogi Bear(2010) Alvin and the Chipmunks(2007) Underdog(2007 The Smurfs(2011)My advise to you is to keep away from this one and stay with the cartoons.

My husband brought home this DVD yesterday: THE FELIX THE CAT MOVIE. He bought it for a buck. We,as a family, watched it. I have never felt more like I was tripping on acid without actually tripping on acid as I did watching this movie! (Forget PINK FLOYD THE WALL....I can handle That! 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. Makes me wonder what language it was originally made in. The second thing I noticed was that a lot of the characters in this Don't SEEM TO GO TOGETHER! It feels like they took stock footage from three or four different cartoon shows and melded them all together to make a movie! The princess from another planet looks like a wanna-be Disney princess ala Cinderella. Felix looks like....well, Felix.....an old school cartoon a la Betty Boop. 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. (Where is his head???? How does he see, talk, or breathe with that kettle on his head?????) There were a lot of characters in this and they jumbled them all together...without much success. This was a movie that was so heinous and horrible that I actually stuck it out until the end. I had to! I had to know where this was going! I had to see if the final conclusion would sum the whole story up and make it somehow make sense. It did not. And then I was just glad it was over. My six year old popped it out of the player and put it with her collection...so I guess I'll be seeing it again some day. (Damn!) I went on Knower Of All Knowledge www.IMDb.com today to see if they had this movie in their records. They do! And, boy oh boy, was I shocked to find out this flick debuted in the '90s! It looks so much older than that! I thought for sure it was at least as old as the '70s! (A musical number played by a band of cats in the film had me thinking maybe...maybe early '80s). Nope. 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 weep for them!