How's It Hold Up?

The oldest surviving animated feature film is actually the third one known to have been made, and even still it is over ten years older than Walt Disney's Snow White. It also does not use traditional animation, but instead a cutout and silhouette animation style hybrid. It's also German, while the story itself is based on the 1001 Nights. So all that said... is it any fun to watch? And does something that is nearing 100 years old still hold up all these years later in like ANY regard? Listen to find out!

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Animation has existed for well over 100 years now, yet in the grand scheme of things, it is a relatively young medium. How long ago did it begin, exactly, and who pioneered it? What of the earliest bits of animation still survives today, and perhaps more importantly - is any of it any good? Like, historically, sure, but is there any other reason to watch these things? Watch to find out!

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Our final episode of the year is another Soyuzmultfilm movie! The most well known in the west of the studio's output, actually. This is a film many people might remember from their childhoods, albeit in an English dub form. But how does the original hold up? Do the Russian voices hold up, and does the film itself deserve to be well known? Listen to find out!

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On the second episode of our 2020 Holiganza, we see the final hurrah of the original Animaniacs run, featuring not just the Warner siblings but practically every minor character that ever appeared in the show. It's a wild ride with cartoon antics and zany songs - but in the year 2020 with an Animaniacs reboot already out, how does the finale of the original series hold up? Listen to find out!

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For our first Holiday 2020 episode, we cover two classic half-hour Mickey Mouse shorts from the 80s and early 90s. The first is one of the many, many interpretations of the classic Dickens tale, while the second is a classic 'two people from different walks of life switch places' type of story. How do these compare, and more importantly, how do they hold up so many years later? Listen to find out!

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We've arrived at our first Gulliver's Travels movie, but it certainly won't be the last. This is a strange one from 1977 featuring Richard Harris and cartoon Lilliputians. The budget is clearly low, and the video quality on the Youtube copy we watch is poor, but... does the movie hold up anyway? Is this one of the better versions of this story, or is this one best left to obscurity? Listen to find out!

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The first anthology film this podcast has covered that's more than two shorts, Robot Carnival is a movie created by animators in Japan to showcase their craft. With a unifying theme of "robots", Robot Carnival runs the gamut in tone, length and focus. It's certainly a fascinating film - but is it a good one? Do all of the segments hold up, or is it better to just watch one or two shorts rather than the whole movie? Listen to find out!

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Fifteen years after the original, a second Vampire Hunter D movie was made. What had been learned in those years? Would this sequel follow the original's schlocky mold, or do its own unique thing? Ultimately, is it worth watching, or are the Vampire Hunter D films relegated to the niche? Listen to find out!

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In the early days of anime OVAs, a movie based on one of Hideyuki Kikuchi's novel series released, and 35 years later we watched it. Both anime and OVAs have changed a lot since then - how does this early production, which pushed the violence and sexuality farther than it could if it were made to air on television, hold up in the year 2020? Also, since we're in the midst of our Halloween Spookaloo, how spooky is this thing? And finally, has an ending song ever slapped as hard as the one in this movie? Probably not. For the answers to the other questions, you'll have to give the episode a listen!

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Next up on our 2020 Halloween Spookaloo is an entry that was admittedly shoehorned in, but look this movie kept getting pushed back and needed to be worked in somewhere. Anyway, this sequel to the early-2000's television show was a long time coming, but is it any good? Will Zim fans like it? Will people who've never heard of the show like it? And how's the "lol random" humor holding up in this day and age? All these answers and more in today's episode!

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