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Felix the Cat: The Movie (1989)
Felix the Cat has taken quite a few strange turns since the character's debut in 1919, but the absolute oddest take is arguably the feature film co-produced by a Hungarian and American partnership. Development dragged from 1985 to 1987 and the resulting movie, which inexplicably dropped the character into a high fantasy setting reminiscent of He-Man or Heavy Metal, was released to critical dismissal and tepid box office several years later. This effort was part of an unsuccessful campaign to turn Felix into a heavily-merchandised multimedia sensation like Garfield, Alf, My Little Pony, The Smurfs, or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Ryan is joined by Sylvan and Cheryl for a dialogue about this fever dream of a feature, something that was a modest yet persistent source of childhood weirdness for all parties. Talking points include the various permutations that Felix went through before the film and since, the deceptively fun platform game released to Nintendo several years after the movie flopped, and why Felix hasn't completely fallen into the public domain despite being created over a hundred years ago.
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By Ryan Valentine
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Felix the Cat has taken quite a few strange turns since the character's debut in 1919, but the absolute oddest take is arguably the feature film co-produced by a Hungarian and American partnership. Development dragged from 1985 to 1987 and the resulting movie, which inexplicably dropped the character into a high fantasy setting reminiscent of He-Man or Heavy Metal, was released to critical dismissal and tepid box office several years later. This effort was part of an unsuccessful campaign to turn Felix into a heavily-merchandised multimedia sensation like Garfield, Alf, My Little Pony, The Smurfs, or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Ryan is joined by Sylvan and Cheryl for a dialogue about this fever dream of a feature, something that was a modest yet persistent source of childhood weirdness for all parties. Talking points include the various permutations that Felix went through before the film and since, the deceptively fun platform game released to Nintendo several years after the movie flopped, and why Felix hasn't completely fallen into the public domain despite being created over a hundred years ago.