Queen Snow White: "Our Daughter is dead and Grunyon returned alive. This is truly a terrible day."

In true Filmation fashion, the Evil Queen is pretty much a He-Man or She-Ra villain who despite having near omnipotent magical powers can’t defeat her adversaries out of the convenience of cartoon incompetence.

6:13 I will admit, the notion of Snow White repressing her trauma for the sake of her daughter's emotional health would have been a interesting concept for a fairytale sequel than what we actually got here. On a side note. The Queen transformed herself into a GIANT old lady and used a poison flower instead of just squishing the kid?!

I kinda like the idea of the face in the mirror just being herself and the problem was her own insecurities, but the execution of it sucks, if that even is what they mean by the queen's ending.

Filmation productions, in spite of their tendency to reuse animation, have a certain charm to them. Also, it's surprising that Disney didn't make their own Snow White Christmas sequel during their straight to video sequel faze.

The mirror being the queen implies that the queen hated herself and secretly wanted to die

I would unironically go watch an action movie called "Snow White in the Land of Doom".

The evil Queen being frozen is also ironic when keeping in mind of the original Grim Bro’s version of the story, considering in there she was killed off through being forced to dance in burning hot iron shoes in coals, the exact opposite of being frozen.

I like how when the queen gets thawed out the first thing she does after cheating death is immediately booking it to her old castle just to ask the mirror the same old question

For a Snow White Christmas it doesn't feel very Christmassy, it's basically forgotten once the Step Mother Queen appears

It’s staggering how good the original Snow White still looks, especially compared to imitators!

The idea of the magic mirror secretly being a reflection of the queen's insecurities the whole time could be interesting... not in this story, of course.

Old Man: "You think we should bring Grunyon into our Motley Crue?" Wabuu: "Sure. Torturing Wuschel has lost its excitement."

„Meanwhile over in Eternia..,“ 😂

Considering that Disney’s Wish ended with the reveal that King Magnifico became the magic mirror, does this mean that the Wicked Queen is also King Magnifico?

"Something strange has happened. Now there are TWO Snow Whites!"

It's been a good while since Phelous has reviewed a batshit insane animation, always an intellectual treat

I'm a little surprised they didn't use elves as the dwarf stand-ins here, since it's, you know, a Christmas movie. Heck, considering how this film had a Snow White befriend giants and the Snow White from "Happily Ever After" befriended seven 'dwarfelles,' I wonder if Filmation wanted to make their own Snow White multiverse with other creatures like elves, gnomes, etc.

This just feels like the He-Man and She-Ra special again

Don’t worry evil Queen, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.

It wouldn't be Christmas without a wacky yuletide tale from a bargin bin animation studio. Thank you and Merry Christmas, Phelous.

Funnily enough, there was actually a Disney Princess book where Snow White befriends some giants.

Dammit, why'd you have to say that at the end? Now I've melted into a puddle and exploded into a pink smoke, and it's all your/my fault!

Thank you so much for pointing out the Mandela Effect with the "mirror, mirror" quote. It's been bugging me ever since I rewatched Disney's Snow White and noticed she didn't exactly say that.

Hearing Melendy Britt as the voice of the Wicked Queen brought a smile to my face. Always a pleasure to hear her. For the dishonor of Grayskull.

Disney villains have always been impressive, but nothing has ever compared to the Filmation queen who uses the powers of East West!

kept waiting for He-man to show up and save the day

You know it's the season when Phelous reviews shoddy Christmas animation movies

Kind of weird that they did two Snow White sequels and yet didn't use the dwarves for both of them. Even weirder is the fact that the giants here are related to the dwarves for some unexplained reason

"We are the seven friendly giants" over and over again. drives you mad.

Furious that I'll now have WE ARE THE SEVEN FRIENDLY GIANTS stuck in my head for the rest of the year.

It took me a hot second to realize this was a review for an animated special, because there's actually a live-action made-for-TV film called A Snow White Christmas from 2018 that uses the Snow White fairytale in surprisingly quite clever ways in order re-tell it as a modern-day Christmas story. (It's part of an unofficial trilogy of sorts that also consists of 2016's A Cinderella Christmas and 2019's A Beauty & the Beast Christmas). ❄🎄

That end credit music is the most Filmation sounding music ever.

Phelan's “I am thou, Thou art I” shattering and presumably killing the audience transitions directly into the credits. This suggests that Phelous credits are the last thing you see when you die. Self burn, those are rare

I am guessing the Mirror was a sort of magical object the Queen's life force was bound to, like a phylactery for Liches. Why the Queen forgot all that is beyond me...

That interview said it all. "Who cares." That when a children's film company is in good hands. Wooow.

That was so disapointing when demons vanished. I really wanted to see that fight!

I've heard of Happily Ever After, but not this. The fact there are not two Snow Whites, but 3 of them counting the original Snow White, the daughter Snow White, and the Happily Ever After Snow White, it's going to get confusing fast

Wow, you're the first person I've heard mention Happily Ever After. I grew up watching that movie. I hope it gets its own coverage, for there are a couple of decent moments, primarily involving the villain voiced by Malcolm McDowell, and the animation is surprisingly decent for Filmation standards.

Its so funny that og snow white got a fancy glass and gold casket Meanwhile snow white junior gets a fucking _match cardboard box_

I feel like there’s a kernel of an interesting idea in the mirror saying “I am you”, but it belongs in a film that actively studies themes of body image issues and an examination of how we can often focus on our own imperfections in a mirror, rather than being a throwaway line in a movie that has a guy named Grunyon beat up by a novelty clock.

Also, the evil stepmother has the look of He-Man's Evil Lynn.

Gotta love how the giants are dressed in the colours of the rainbow (mostly)

The real Christmas miracle is that somebody got away with doing a Dusty Springfield impersonation while ripping off her version of "Who Gets Your Love" on that "Ooh She's Sleeping" song.

I remember them showing us this in Kindergarten or First Grade and I spent the longest time thinking it was just some weird fever dream.

One of their first major projects was a TOTALLY NOT sequel to that famous 30's Wizard of Oz movie that was completely their own creation and sequel to the book if the lawyers came about. And it took them the better part of a decade to even finish it. Filmation tasks me. They are capable of some actual good stuff like Groovey Goolies, He-Man, their Mighty Mouse, and especially Bravestarr. Then of course, there's stuff like this. And now that I see it, I wouldn't be surprised if Snow White Jr. was just their Sabrina the Teenage Witch cartoon model slightly altered and reused. Because we ALL know how they love to recycle things. And that "I AM you" would have worked better in a stronger Snow White script if they foreshadowed anything about it. Like, "I am you Id" or subconscious or something like that.

This should have been called Snow White and the big friendly giants. I love they mixed Roald Dahl influences with a dash of Christmas for this adaptation.🤣

You have GOT to review Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night.

When the mirror said "I am you!" and then shattered, I rather expected the Queen to turn into the magic mirror and then be transported back in time, forced to serve her past selfe, knowingof everything that will happen from that point on, but unable to change things.

Please, please do the other Snow White sequel too! I actually remember watching that one when we rented it from the video store. The bad guy had a blanket that turned people to stone and there were 7 "dwarfelles" or whatever the heck they called the annoying girl dwarves. I think they were cousins to the original dwarves, which seems...plausible. As a kid I was confused by the pseudo-sequel nature of that movie because I didn't understand the concept of copyrights.😂

21:24 I unironically love the Mirror Mirror's delivery of that line - so much passion, so much anger

like if you also screamed and melted when phelous said "i am you!" and shattered.

As if Disney didn’t made enough sequels to their movies, here comes Filmation making some for them! Niiiiice!!! 👍 …. But seriously, I hope Phelous does Happily Ever After next ‘cause I remember that one was quite « something »…. 😉👍

Please tell me I'm not the only one who actually pretended to die after Phelous shattered at the end

🎶 "We are the Seven Friendly Giants." That's my new ringtone.

Evil Queen screaming "blow" intensively is so funny to me This blows enough alright XD

There's a Hungarian cartoon titled Hófehér (Snow white) from the 80s. It's a dark comedy retelling of the original fairytale with the titular heroine being an albino and the dwarves are named after the days of the week. Plus the Evil queen is an alcoholic. Sadly I didn't found the English subtitled version, I only heard of the movie because of TvTropes.

17:18 Queen: This is indeed a very special homecoming... For me. Wabuu: For yoooouuuuuu

It can't be worse than the Beauty and the Beast Christmas

I just can't get over "it doesn't sound very good, but who cares?"

Guess I’m dreaming of a SNOW white Christmas.🤣

Could those seven giants remind me who they are again? They seem friendly, so I'm sure they'll gladly oblige.

I remember seeing this when I was a kid. Every once in awhile, "We are the Seven Friendly Giants" still pops in my head.

2:47 cue Donatello's "That was last year!" line from We Wish You A Turtle Christmas.

I actually used to watch Happily Ever After a lot as kid, mostly for the creature designs. One slight critique I have for this vid is the use of the Spider-Man AI bit cuz of all the ethical issues surrounding it.

22:34 "Wow, great Simpsons joke, Phelan!"

you know, I gotta give it to Emperor Of The Night for that scene where he turns back into a puppet holy shit lol

Honestly, I think Disney did have a case with "Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night" because that movie had an insect-like companion named after an interjection used to express surprise, Gee Willikers... you know, like Jiminy Cricket? And no, that name isn't from the book, as the cricket had no name, that was purely Disney's invention, so, yeah, I think Filmation just got lucky with the whole "Disney doesn't own the original story" loophole. But when they made "Happily Ever After" and realized that they couldn't use the 7 Dwarfs as, again, they had no names in the original story and the Disney ones are the ones everyone recognizes, so it's not like they could use them and thus had to create the Dwarfelles and say the Dwarfs were having a vacation, not even trying to give them different names, Disney had a better case there because this time Filmation's more clumsy attempts to hide the movie's status as an unnofficial sequel didn't help them. Also, this is probably just a stretch, but the Dwarf in this movie is called Grunyon... which sounds like Gruñon, which is Grumpy's Spanish name... yeah.

And of course her Red Hot Iron shoes should I prevented her from being frozen.

I found the movie on YT, remembered watching it as a kid, and got as far as the friendly giant number before I decided I needed a reaction video. Coming here was the right choice.

Well, technically when the evil Queen said "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall", Filmation was just more faithful to the original fairytale. In the original the evil queen says "Spieglein, Spieglein and der Wand".

A Phelmation review is what we needed

Having seen the Dwarfettes first and the Giants afterwards- I prefer the former- the majority have unique designs, an actual attempt at a personality for each of them, and at least one having a decent character arc.

Emperor of the Night was legit amazing.

Okay, now that you've graced us with a review of a Christmas movie, it is truely Christmas

Everyone! All together now!!! "We are the seven friendly giants!"

This film really missed an opportunity to have Christmas actually matter in the plot here. If the intention was to have a varied environment with the giants living in a place where it didn’t get cold enough to snow, why couldn’t Snow White Junior try to have them celebrate Christmas how she was used to, but it didn’t work in a warm climate. Could have been an interesting parallel to the Southern hemisphere celebrating Christmas in summer. Wouldn’t have saved this film, but it would have been something to use.

I'm biased towards Flimation Snow White/ happily Ever After because I do enjoy it as a kid and I have nostalgia for it But God I never saw this one, just wow

Holy crap, this unlocked an ancient memory of me watching Happily Ever After a lot as a kid.

It isn't Christmas until Phelous blesses us with a Christmas cartoon. 🎄

I hope Phelous will review their Pinocchio movie. It feels like both a sequel and a retelling of the original tale seeing it's set one year after the events of Coloddi's tale but Pinocchio goes through similar stuff nonetheless and briefly returns to being a puppet for an evil puppeteer (closer to Disney's Stromboli than the original Mangiafuocco). Also, James Earl Jones voices the titular Emperor of the Night and it's obviously awesome.

I love these films were meant to be pseudo-sequels to their Disney equivalents when they're so visually different, tonally different and of a much lower quality even compared to the standards of actual Disney sequels. Though I suppose Phelan's stint of watching these shitty animated adaptions riding of more successful animated adaptations shows it works as long as people don't look too hard at the box cover.

I see that the fashion sense in Snow White kingdom is somehow similar to Eternia and Etheria

For some reason I lost it at the Seven Friendly Giants' really repetitive song, I guess I really needed that laugh

In terms of the knockoff animation studios we've seen on this channel, Filmation's quality seems among the highest. Variety of character designs that still feel like they belong (for the most part, 4 and 5 finger hands all over), good camera angles and the animation itself is fairly smooth. Judging by the clips alone from the others they only got better on the animation front too. That stuff looks quite good.

Yay! Someone else remembered this movie!

"Oh come on! I was cryo frozen for, like, 20 years! I should be fairer than the older Snow White at least!"

I can exactly imagine how the Dwarfs and Giants family works, and them being cousins makes perfect sense to me. They've probably got some other cousins on either side who are trolls and elves; you know, Scandinavian folklore stuff. A family blessed to always have seven children too, it seems.

Maybe it’s California humor having a character with a name that sounds like “grunion.” The fish regularly beach themselves in order to breed and when they do this they’re easily caught for food. In California you need a fishing license if you’re an adult but by law you must catch grunion only by hand. The season is restricted and the fish seem in no danger of overfishing given the restrictions on when and how it’s legal to catch them.

15:01 I laughed at this for an inordinately long time. I don't even know why.

now Disney is giving us 7 Magical Bandits.

Oh god. I've seen this. The "Seven Friendly Giants" song unlocked some ancient core memory.

I love your goofy holiday reviews. I don't know what it is exactly, but they always feel even more fun than the usual fun and silly reviews. Also I'm surprised Filmation did their own knock off movies. With how iconic they were back in the day it feels weird finding out they did this, but it's honestly still a lot of fun.

Love these animation reviews

Discovered this movie via pure accident a few years ago and that "OOOH SHE'S SLEEPING" song has been stuck in my head ever since. Thanks for putting this curse on the general public Phelous

coincidentally, i acquired a book recently about "grunion hunting"--apparently it's something of a California-specific version of the snipe hunt; i wouldn't be surprised if that's where Filmation got the idea to name their character that

Given that Snow White's daughter's also named Snow White that would make it confusing and awkward for the King having his daughter and wife sharing the name

Well it's a mirror, so it's her reflection. Maybe it never told her she was the prettiest because she never believed it herself, so was telling herself she was ugly this whole time? Maybe that's a bit much for Filmation though. xD

I think I recall reading a Disney book with a story where Snow White meets three giants and has the dwarves meet them and it's a lesson about finding what we all have in common or something.

I totally believe the Queen would survive; falling from a cliff, being crushed by a giant boulder AND freezing. She has magic powers but i'm not sure controlling fire was one of them 🤨Geez this old lady is stronger than i imagine!