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The Legend of the Titanic

Original title: La leggenda del Titanic
  • 1999
  • G
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
1.4/10
3.7K
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The Legend of the Titanic (1999)
AnimationDramaFamilyFantasyRomance

A grandfather mouse tells his grandchildren the "real" story of the Titanic disaster, including himself, evil sharks, a giant octopus, and an evil whaling scheme.A grandfather mouse tells his grandchildren the "real" story of the Titanic disaster, including himself, evil sharks, a giant octopus, and an evil whaling scheme.A grandfather mouse tells his grandchildren the "real" story of the Titanic disaster, including himself, evil sharks, a giant octopus, and an evil whaling scheme.

  • Directors
    • Orlando Corradi
    • Kim Jun Ok
  • Writers
    • Clelia Castaldo
    • Orlando Corradi
    • Loris Peota
  • Stars
    • Gregory Snegoff
    • Francis Pardeilhan
    • Jane Alexander
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  • IMDb RATING
    1.4/10
    3.7K
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    • Directors
      • Orlando Corradi
      • Kim Jun Ok
    • Writers
      • Clelia Castaldo
      • Orlando Corradi
      • Loris Peota
    • Stars
      • Gregory Snegoff
      • Francis Pardeilhan
      • Jane Alexander
    • 69User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Gregory Snegoff
    Gregory Snegoff
    • Everard Maltravers
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • …
    Francis Pardeilhan
    Francis Pardeilhan
    • Don Juan
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Jane Alexander
    • Elizabeth Camden
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • …
    Anna Mazzotti
    • Ronnie
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • …
    Sean Patrick Lovett
    • Top Connors
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • …
    Teresa Pascarelli
    • Rachel Camden
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Manfredi Aliquo
    Manfredi Aliquo
    • Chinese Mouse
    • (Italian version)
    • (voice)
    Ferruccio Amendola
    • Icetooth
    • (Italian version)
    • (voice)
    Maria Teresa Cella
    • Ronnie
    • (Italian version)
    • (voice)
    Stefano Crescentini
    • Top Connors
    • (Italian version)
    • (voice)
    Oliviero Dinelli
    • Tentacolino
    • (Italian version)
    • (voice)
    Vittorio Guerrieri
    • Don Juan
    • (Italian version)
    • (voice)
    Emanuela Rossi
    Emanuela Rossi
    • Elizabeth Camden
    • (Italian version)
    • (voice)
    Luca Ward
    Luca Ward
    • Baron von Tilt
    • (Italian version)
    • (voice)
    Nick Alexander
    • Duke of Camden
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Pat Starke
    • The Dolphin
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    John Stone
    • The Shark With Tourettes Syndrome
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Frank von Kuegelgen
    • The Captain
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Orlando Corradi
      • Kim Jun Ok
    • Writers
      • Clelia Castaldo
      • Orlando Corradi
      • Loris Peota
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    1Croc320475

    I'm sure it looks dreadful

    I've only seen some bits of it on YouTube before I think. I thought I never saw any foreign animated films like that before in my entire life. It doesn't even make any sense to me at all like the octopus named Tentacles who has a black snout but octopuses don't have snouts. They can breathe underwater, can't they? Of course octopus aren't mammals at all! I don't know why the octopus has a black snout in this awful foreign animated film. I'm sure it is one of the worst foreign animated films of all time. The animation looks kinda very cheesy.

    If you're reading this, don't waste your money on this rubbish on DVD. Go abf watch James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic or any classic Disney animated films instead.
    1planktonrules

    I hated it...but not Bottom 100 hated it!

    Currently, this Italian animated film is #28 on IMDb's infamous Bottom 100 list. In some ways, I am very surprised since it's not a particularly famous bad film and there were a lot of animated films in the 1970s which had just as terrible animation! Still, I do concede that it's a bad film...and not one I'd let kids watch unless I hated them.

    The film begins with a grandpa mouse telling his grandkids his story about the Titanic. Oddly, then the film switches to the perspective of all the humans! What follows is a bizarro story of evil sharks and a scheme to destroy the whales?! Huh...somehow I missed this when I've watched documentaries about this 1912 disaster!

    Let's talk about what I really liked about the film... Okay, finished.

    Okay, now let's talk about what I didn't like. The animation was very poor, with a very low cel count (making the characters move in a choppy fashion) and often only animated small portions of the characters in an effort to make the film less expensive. So, often the characters expressions were flat and a bit zombie-like. Also, to save money, bad CGI was sometimes used that looked so stunningly different from the other animation that I was a bit surprised. This sure ain't a Disney product! In many ways, it's akin to the cheaper Hanna-Barbera films of decades ago. The story was just bizarre and stupid...'nuff said about that. The voices used were occasionally not terrible. As for the music, it was odd to hear so much cheap electronic music (made using a keyboard) for a film set in 1912.

    So my final verdict is that I did hate the film. But I still wonder how it made it to the Bottom 100 list. After all, there have been a lot of crappy cartoons (such as "Pinocchio in Outer Space")....so why did this one manage to achieve the notoriety of the Bottom 100 list? I'd like to understand this...as well as a studio's decision to make such a misguided cartoon!
    1I_Ailurophile

    Genuinely appalling

    Nothing assures a quality viewing experience quite like needing to pause by the time that only two minutes have passed because the decisions that the filmmakers have made are so bewildering and flummoxing. Even recognizing how poorly it's regarded, I thought I knew what I was getting into when I sat to watch 'The legend of the Titanic.' I thought, after watching Camillo Teti's own animated Titanic film, 'Titanic: The legend goes on,' that there couldn't possibly, truly, be another comparable film that was so perplexing. I was wrong. This 1999 feature is effectively a series of one questionable choice after another, not to mention otherwise low quality. It's not that the entire picture carries that same baffling tenor all the way through, but nonetheless it's so plainly dubious from the very start that one knows immediately how rough it's going to be.

    To be clear: this is a film set aboard the RMS Titanic, a vessel that sunk is a tragic humanitarian disaster at the loss of many lives, in an incident that's well known around the world. In this film, we're given bizarre fantastical elements of which anthropomorphized (and talking) animals are the least likely to raise a skeptical eyebrow. We're treated to the giddy silliness of Saturday morning cartoons, the type of gags and simplified writing geared toward the youngest of viewers. Some themes and ideas are common yet admirable, but are too direly heavy-handed, out of place, and/or oversimplified to come off well; furthermore, these are mixed into a narrative that flies in the face of all good reason (if not also good conscience given the setting), which is so sloppily written that it strains to even be cohesive, and which is mostly just downright weak and flimsy. The scene writing, dialogue, and characters that fill out this narrative are equally heavy-handed, out of place, and oversimplified, similarly defy good reason and conscience, and moreover are so shoddy as they present that it feels like the screenplay wasn't even fully finished as production began. The animation, meanwhile, ranges from bland and generic but broadly suitable, to mediocre and lacking - though some small details are more appreciable than others - and there were specific choices made in that capacity that just don't make much sense at all. And why is the giant octopus given the face of a teddy bear, more closely resembling a nightmarish monstrosity out of 'Akira?'

    The editing feels as choppy as the writing too often is. The voice acting, or perhaps more accurately the direction of the voice acting, ranges from unremarkable to dubious, and the dubbing - particularly the matching of lip movements to spoken dialogue - is altogether slovenly in too many cases. In fairness, there are some sparing instances herein of ideas that were serviceable or possibly even "good." And no matter how much a title may flounder, I'm generally willing to give it a little more leeway if a production can at least be said to have represented earnest effort from those involved. Yet part of the problem with 'The legend of the Titanic' is that I'm at best unsure if even the latter is true. This goes beyond dramatization, beyond romanticization, and far, far beyond even "fantasy" to increasingly prove itself to be altogether outrageous in its far-out outlandishness and outright absurdity. There are thoughts here that I don't think would be acceptable even if it were a more conventional kids' cartoon, and the fact that all this takes place on board the RMS Titanic, twisting an infamous catastrophe into a brazen, almost farcical slice of confounding "family-friendly" schlock, is pretty much just plain contemptible.

    What's really incredible is that I'm quite sure Orlando Corradi's Titanic movie is, in fact, worse than Teti's. Despite poor craftsmanship and astonishingly awful ideas, 'The legend goes on' was at least borne of honest if misplaced intent to tell an honest tale aboard the doomed ocean liner. This, in contrast, is overflowing with flagrantly immoderate cartoonishness, foolishness, and straight-up inanity, and it somehow only gets worse as the length draws on. The writing may have been baseline appropriate in any other context - if it were a purely fictional genre romp akin to 'SeaQuest DSV,' for example - or if writers Celelia Castaldo and Loris Peota, or Corradi in his capacity as producer, had simply deigned to declare that this was NOT a picture about the Titanic, but instead just some cruise ship conjured from the imagination. Nevertheless, even if that had been the case, this is so feebly written and otherwise made that entertainment is impossible. Entertainment is impossible, and moreover, the experience of watching is really all-around aggravating. I don't know what anyone thought they were doing when they conjured 'The legend of the Titanic,' but when all is said and done this is such an astoundingly terrible feature that the word "abomination" ultimately comes to mind. No matter what it is that has drawn one's attention to this title, let me speak in no uncertain terms: you should not watch this. No one should watch this. This is a creation that wholly deserves to be dropped into the memory hole of cinema history and lost forever. Ugh.
    1tmwna

    It's exactly as bad as everyone says

    Just WTF. The film is basically feels like the net result of if you showed the James Cameron film to a three year old, and a week later gave them a bunch of crayons and asked them to draw what they thought the film was about, and presented the pictures to animators as a legitimate storyboard.
    1trevhall6

    Worst Animated Film Ever!

    Why was this film made? You basically take the tragic fate of Titanic and turn it into some environmental film?! I'm sorry, but what was wrong with the makers of this film. If you want to do a save the whales movie, then just make another sequel to Free Willy instead! The fact that this film insults the tragedy of Titanic and its victims just sickens me. I would rather watch James Cameron's Titanic movie instead of this one. Nuff said!

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    • Trivia
      The first animated Titanic movie.
    • Goofs
      When the main mouse character dreams about Elizabeth, his friend says "She's a woman and you're a mouse." His reply "If there is one thing I'm not and that's a racist" makes no sense at all.
    • Quotes

      Ronnie: [re: Elizabeth] I'll see her in my dreams for the rest of my life.

      Top Connors: I hate to be a spoilsport, but I would like to draw to your attention the fact that she's a woman, and you're a mouse!

      Ronnie: Well, there's one thing I'm not, and that's a racist.

    • Crazy credits
      The song "Ocean Dreams" continues even after the credits are done scrolling, leaving a black screen.
    • Connections
      Featured in Cartoon Corner: The Legend of the Titanic (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      Ocean Dreams
      Written by Gianni Sposito (as J. Sposito), Douglas Meakin (as A.D. Meakin), and Cynthia Z (as C. Zanna)

      Sung by Cynthia Z

      Music publishers Doro TV - C.P.M. Cinematografica

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    • Release date
      • April 17, 1999 (Italy)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • United States
      • Spain
      • South Korea
      • North Korea
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • La leyenda del Titanic
    • Production companies
      • Hollywood Gang Productions
      • International TV Broadcasting (ITB)
      • Mondo TV
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    • Budget
      • €4,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 24m(84 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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