Allison and Phelan team up to look at one of the most abysmally animated nightmares ever created by someone who isn’t Dingo Pictures. But they’re gonna need a little help from Harry Partridge!
Ali Baba & the Gold Raiders
Allison and Phelan team up to look at one of the most abysmally animated nightmares ever created by someone who isn’t Dingo Pictures. But they’re gonna need a little help from Harry Partridge!
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OH. MY. GOD.
So, I’ve talked before about ‘stuff happens’ movies, where it’s exactly that; stuff happens with no real plot about it, like Miracle in Toyland or Countryside Bears. But this? This is a ‘nothing happens’ movie. I don’t believe anything more needs to be said. People wasted their time working on this. Moment of silence for their time.
Order of quality animation, worst to least worst: Dingo Pictures, Bevanfield’s Beauty and the Beast, Ali Baba and the Gold Raiders (by a VERY slim margin), Aladdin and The Adventure of All Time, Golden Films, Goodtimes Entertainment, UAV.
Also, REALLY? OSAMA BIN LADEN?! WHY?!
Also might I add, when Kasim said “credit card” he sounded very Canadian. Very Bob and Doug McKenzie kinda Canadian.
This looks like what if the animators of the Hotel Mario and the Zelda CD-I cutscenes made a movie.
0:33 NONE OF THAT SHIT EVER HAPPENED AND YOU KNOW IT!!!
I can’t wait to bomb some Gold Raiders!
Now bring me some Zaitooooooon and I can make this a magic cloak!
Harry Partridge x Phelous was the OTP I never knew I needed! I know it’s been a while since you’ve done a commentary track, but I’m just dying to know how this one came together.
I think the art here reminds me most of those cheap animated Bible story anthologies that are either put on DVD/video or are aired on local Christian networks at 7 AM. Indonesia’s 87% Muslim, though, so there’s obviously no connection.
This movie is beige. Beige as hell. So fucking beige.
So beige I half expected it to turn into an FPS.
This movie seems like a fun watch with drunk or like-minded friends.
Kasim was my favorite character. How about you guys?
Who was Kasim again?
The nervous fat guy with the big brown mustache.
Looks like an old Carmen Sandiego game pasted over Elder Scrolls: Redguard backdrops.
Geeze…Any more walking through the desert & we can start calling this Gerry 2.
I’ll give them one thing…The human face designs aren’t bad….Eh, for the men anyway…..Sometimes….Never mind, I take it back. There is no design consistency in this movie at all. Ali Baba’s is okay though.
Haha, I was starting to miss the A&W meme song, especially after rewatching all of your videos this year.
How did the World’s Fattest Detective snag a wife with Rocket Boobs? It must be his collection of ceramic turd emojis.
The 80s cellphone in the cave cracked me up.
Brilliant parody animation. Totally nailed it. Well, everything but the jagged character outlines. The inverted eyes were especially funny.
I love the community feel of crossovers.
I actually miss when he’d use “The Syncopated Clock” for the pointlessly long scenes. I wonder why he changed it; copyright claims or something similar, I imagine.
I miss the Imogen Heep song whenever someone gets shot.
Am I the only one here who has seen MarzGurl’s review of this? She said that it was the worse piece of animation she had ever seen.
Man… I haven’t seen MarzGurl or JesuOtaku in ages. I thought they both quit reviewing cartoons.
JesuOtaku (Jacob Chapman) is now writing at Anime News Network, so he’s still reviewing cartoons at least, albeit using a different format.
Speaking of IFD, are you going to review Beauty and Warrior by any chance Phelous? Because MarzGurl already reviewed it years ago. Just wondering.
I somehow found another cartoon from “Bening Studio”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g97USpXGA8
Oops I meant this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbp5UVsN2RA
Here’s another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9PXsWkEq0s
24:22 on that last one makes me REALLY want to see Phelous review it. Annoying voice acting, no lip sync, alien landscape, awkward character designs, & then to top it all off a poorly sung disco LSD trip with lazy lyrics & looping animation sequences. Holy shit…This is so much worse than Scruff.
The first one wasn’t made by Bening Studio but it was also from Indonesia.
Somehow, Bening Studio has also made a Timun Mas cartoon as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qynup1i71K8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CroYHReVrII
It’s called Timun Mas 2 . Maybe, it might be a sequel to the first one?
Wow, Bening Studio must be the Dingo Pictures of Indonesia. Why? Because they make terrible cartoons based on folk tales.
Oh wow, that’s really interesting to see. I really wonder now if there are English versions of any of these out there.
Speaking of horrible cartoons from Indonesia, could you please check out Beauty and Warrior (AKA. Dewi Mayang Sari)?
It was also dubbed into English by IFD and is considered by some to be the worst anime rip-off of all time.
Man, the changes they made to this adaptation make no sense. In the original story, there is no Magic Measuring Bowl; Ali Baba and his wife just ask to borrow a regular old scale for portioning out the gold. Also, the rich couple come up with a much better way of finding out what Ali Baba needs the scales for; they coat the bottom of the scale with something sticky, and when they get it back they find a gold coin stuck to the bottom. But I suppose keeping it that way would have cut out a few scenes of interminable repetitious dialogue. 😛
Also in the original story, Cassim is quartered by the thieves and displayed as a warning to others. The thieves are able to find Ali Baba’s house from the tailor who stitched the body back together again.
Can’t imagine why they left that out.
Hey ! You planning to do a review of Resident Evil Vendetta by any chance?
Are you going to review Dingo Aladdin at some point then? XD
I’m sure Phelous will get to all the Dingo cartoons, or at least the ones with English dubs. “Aladdin” has one, if you have a generous definition of what counts as English. Wow, it’s even worse than Animal Soccer World, and that had one guy doing voices.
I guess I can’t blame whoever put Dingo’s “movies” out in English for going super cheap on the voice acting. But that still begs the question of why they bothered releasing them at all.
I found a Dingo Version of Atlantis…with a talking Dog. X_x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOZYq6ZKhO0
The only thing I remember from that version is the horribly mutated crab-thing.
Excellent review, Phelan. Getting Harry do those animations was such a nice touch. It did sound like something was off with the mic you guys were using. There was a bit more echo on your voices than usual.
It makes me a little sad to see what is clearly a lot of effort and work from a tiny dedicated staff putting effort into something like this, and it ends up becoming garbage because they have no idea what they’re supposed to be doing. Kinda like Ed Wood, where he had ideas and couldn’t manage it.
Though that walk cycle in the middle of the movie looks hilarious to witness. They seriously do look like they crapped their pants, and partway through it looks like their legs got absorbed into their butts. Though I’ll admit, personally I’m getting tired of crappy low-to-no-budget animated shows, especially Dingo (I realise this isn’t Dingo, and at least this doesn’t look like a four-year-old drew it). I’m not sure that there’s much or anything left to say about them. That and the whole ‘dragging out the review by showing endless scenes and looking bored’ bit is wearing a wee bit thin now.
Sorry, I meant to reply but accidentally clicked the report comment button. Why is that button where the reply button is on most other websites?
Oh, that’s fine. Accidental click, no biggie–doesn’t seem to have had any negative repercussions ^^
I’ll never get tired of Dingo.
This was the greatest thing I have ever seen…
… and the review was good too.
P.S.
Harry Partridge is a God
So apparently zaitun is a real thing, and it’s…olive. They bring a scene to a grinding halt just to gratuitously use the Arabic word for olive about 20,000 times.
The animation looks like something you’d find on a children’s computer game…from the 90s. And wow, the pacing is so slow, I was falling asleep just trying to get through the review.
Oh, god. That zaitun scene. I mean, other parts were repetitious, but this was just a whole different level. I know they were trying to go for a comedic bit, at least I think so. However, they quickly drove that into the ground. I enjoy when the three of you get together for these special reviews, but even the clips of this were a slog to get through. It’s definitely no Birdemic 2, or even Foodfight.
It’s nice to see an appearance by Harry Partridge, even if it’s just in animation form.