J Roscoe It is trying to be like the Never Ending Story. But that movie was better

J Roscoe you do realize he just said the movie sucked

Jon Stewart Got to agree with you on that one

Night Flare I know he slated this movie a lot and to be fair looking back I agree with him, but at the time I felt that the film introduced me to so many characters I had never heard of and, after asking my parents which books they were from, I went out and read them to find out more about the characters I had seen. I like this review mainly because its funny well presented, unlike the movie itself. Plus it was also the first Nostalgia Critic review I ever saw so, in a way, its like The Pagemaster in that it made me want to go and watch more of his stuff.

I really loved it too haha xD

Nah, you want to be terrified of libraries try watching Something Wicked This Way Comes while running a high fever.

I tend to watch movies when I get sick, sometime I choose poorly.

HBHaga one time i watched that weirdass anti drugs animation with the cartoon characters. In its entirety while I had a fever

Sounds like that might have gotten a bit trippy. I made the mistake of watching the House on Haunted Hill remake while running a 105.

HBHaga hey that movie is awesome, loved it as a kid was the first horror movie i liked.

Damn, I hear it too.

What a bundle of sticks.

@@johngoetzinger1605oh look! A homophobic comment disguised as being “clever” directed towards a 7 year old comment 🤡

It would be if it tried harder

A dissapointing Star Trek reunion in animation with no plot that is...

Frank Welker did the screams for Spock in Star Trek III.

@@walkerchisholm5257 Now that's a fun fact.

who did christopher lloyd play in star trek.

@@OfficerFriendly2006 he was a Klingon in Search for Spock

Ditto

Same. It has flaws but at the same time it’s enjoyable. Rich does show signs of development towards the end of the movie.

Me too! It was one of my favorites. Contrary to what this guy says, I for one was more interested in reading after I first watched it. I actually just looked up a full version and it sucked me right back in at the age of 27. It's certainly entertaining in my book (hah!)

Same here.

I hope my little brother can say that when he grows up. He likes the movie too, he even watched it on his last birthday. P.S.: 4:08 That means its working.

An all-star trek cast! Captain Picard, Cmdr Kruge, Mr Spock and Guinan!

Don’t forget Frank Welker’s in this to. Also he’s Megatron.😊

Correction: An all Star TREK cast!

But no mention of the voice actor GOD, Frank Welker, playing Horror? Sheesh.

both nimoy and lloyd have played master xehanort in the kingdom hearts games

DAHLicious Wafflez same

yup that and the dragon part ^_^

My brother screamed

Scarred me and my brother , for sure.

Sounds about right.

marinerman "He, he'll be missed!"

No! No you're not.

I actually rather ejected prognnetersasakidfontsesaslifesygrvins

That's like me making a movie for kids to wanna learn history and show a bunch of dead people. "Wanna know what happened to them and when? Look up the Vietnam War." Like Doug says here, the moral falls flat because the mc is already a bookworm from starters, his whole life is what he reads in books. I get that it's more about the things book teach you, such as courage, but if he was already a nerdy kid he would have read those books and learnt that lesson ANYWAY. The reason why Neverending Story works here and Pagemaster doesnt is that the main kid was an average kid, so that anyone could relate to him, I cant relate to this stuck up statistics kid. But even besides that, the whole movie is boring as hell, I distinctly remember changing the channel whenever they aired this, and it's not that the plot is boring, it has a lot of off colors, it's paced like a turtle and it's a drag to watch, not even the climax picks up the pace a little. It's a snoozefest.

Even the scene where a rapid dog came out of SH hounds of the baskervilles, it's one of the best sherlock novels, sure the movie didn't expand on the fictional novel characters that much, maybe it's best they shouldn't have, if kids got interested in them from the scenes of the movie, they would want to read the books to learn more

@@patrickzalatoris3206 The good news is that 20th Century Fox would get better with better with Animation with Anastasia. Even the animation in this film feels Don Bluth-ish. The bad news is that they would also get worse with Titian A.E.

Well Mister hyde was first not even a bad guy. he was a guy that don't forced himselfe into the social moral and norm Dr jackel force himselfe his whole life. The other Side of him, that life his life under non moral lifetime slip slowy into Evil. Also you can argument that Special " The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" basical copy the incretibly Hulk.

@@benjaminschiel3339 I have no idea how I was able to understand that post, it was hard to get through, but I got through it..

Yeah I remember the Incretibly Hulk. One of my favorite characters

And it was even more complex than that, in a way that NO adaptation has ever gotten right: Jekyll is just as vile and evil minded as Hyde, but he represses his dark urges, and then later learns to split off these urges into the uninhibited Hyde identity, whom he lets loose to wreak havoc and do what he wants to purge himself of his guilt, and then clean up after him as Jekyll to atone for it.

​@@femomanyeah it's just a second identity with a disguise he could turn on and off eith what amounts to a magic potion, right? Hyde doing bad things and not reflecting poorly on Jekyll's reputation was exactly what he wanted when he made that potion!

Always heard that as "The cute section is actually the porno section. We get a lot of complaints."

Kinda dark if you think about it as cheeze pizza

Hear hear

I don’t often get the urge to revisit classic NC/AVGN, but when I do it’s a week long binge

@@naedanger123same

Ironic

it's like a 4th wall break inside a 4th wall break! that's like 16 walls!

...that's from something, I know I've heard that before...

I think that sounds like a line from the "Nostalgia Critic Anthem" song

...guys...it's deadpool XD the line was from deadpool

When you’ve read that comment under the last dozen NC videos... you puke all yourself without getting up...

One that tries to create some last-minute conflict storywise

Used to be limits long ago. I remember that as a kid in the 90s

I remember those days you had a limit of 5 at my local library. I also remember people in my school crying because the newest harry potter at the time (goblet of fire) were sold out and they couldn't read it. I went to the library the day of its release and just checked it out thinking my classmates were so dumb. Libraries are so underrated

The Screenplay Library, apparently

All the libraries around where I live you can only take out 2 or 3 books

GaiaX5 And that's no good.

Keith Pixton No.

that's NO good!

True

clericofchaos1 i feel like the colors, aside from the paint falling everywhere, were very dull and muted throughout the film.

lol still looks better than most cartoons today.

clericofchaos1 My ma bought a bootleg of this on the street and we all loved it lol

agreed. :-) i saw it so many years ago, i thought i dreamed or imagined it

The Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde part suprised me, in a bad way. I hate scary things.

Ikr

Yes^^

Stale Meme totally

Yeah that is a really dumb rule for a guy who is trying to get kids to read more.

Have you been to a library? That was a pretty common rule

@@CrudeConduct666 Right? It was 2 with practically every library I ever dealt with until college. I remember asking my college librarian "So, 2 books right?" and he was like "2?! Nah man, you can check out up to 10. 20 if you have a referral from a professor". I remember thinking my whole life up until that point had been bullshit.

@@takigan it was probably that way for PUBLIC libraries, not the ones that Colleges tend to have, they know their students arent gonna go far with those books, while Public libraries had a problem with ppl checking them out, but forgetting to check them back in. also it was probably for the movie to cause a bit of a dramatic moment, albeit poorly done.

Bullshit reason

I had an actual fever dream of this movie and that is all I could remember of it for the longest time.

yup

Lol i did too

You know that's a shitty Ghostbusters joke right?

DeltaPrime350 Not even a guilty pleasure for me I'll happily admit I love this film.

mriee same

Same here.

But it's basically a watered down version of Never Ending Story!

Seeing again makes me feel like a little kid again back when things were so simple I miss those days

He can pair up with the real Lenin lookalike in Julian Glover from For Your Eyes Only.

me too. I remember the same place when I saw it. I especially remember the ending and the jekyll and hyde part.

I understand the idea but I doubt it works in practice. I'm into reading and this movie doesn't make me want to read about any of the characters.

How does that excuse the characters based on said novels being underdeveloped? Be a movie first, then be an inspiration for kids to read.

@@supermariofan03 I don't know, I would be inclined to agree with you, but the overwhelming amount of comments referring to how much people enjoyed this movie as a kid (and even now) kind of proves to me that this movie did exactly what it intended to do. There are movies with incredibly diverse and fleshed out characters, there are visually interesting movies, and some movies that do both wonderfully (all having the ability to carry a message while being entertaining). This movie did a fair job showing the base traits of characters from various novels, especially with the short amount of time each character was on screen. At the same time, the animation was breathtaking and really sucked you into the genres being portrayed. Putting too much focus on fleshing out these characters we only really get a glimpse at would defeat the purpose of the film. I wouldn't go so far to say this movie is a masterpiece, but it is fascinating if nothing else, especially for a 90's film about reading. It holds a special place in my childhood as well as the childhoods of many others. Trying to put it under the microscope of (fancy voice) 'Serious Critique' shows (in my opinion) a lack of understanding for what this movie is trying (and succeeds) to be: a film to convince children, through exciting/beautiful visuals and a glimpse into various novels, that exploring fiction is a worthwhile endeavor.

TheRoloSound Look if you like this movie, more power to you. But considering that you admitted the movie didn’t flesh out these characters, it contradicts your point of the movie trying to get the kids to read these literature novels. Why not, oh I don’t know, have these characters along with Culkin and the books on this grand epic journey?! Add some intriguing dialogue moments to further flesh them out that will most definitely have kids be like “Wow. I want to read Jekyll and Hyde. I want to read Moby Dick.” Having these characters appear for only a few minutes and just get them the fuck out would only drive kids further away from said novels and just go back to more grinding on Final Fantasy VI. Oh and by the way, you might want to do your research. The movie “succeeded”? That’s not what the overall box office results and critic reviews tell me.

@@supermariofan03 My point is that the movie has no need to "flesh out" the characters from these novels. If you watched the movie, then you would know that these characters are (in a way) confined to their stories. Bringing them along the journey defeats the premise. The point is not to follow these characters through the story. The point is to have Culkin and the books (as well as the audience) catch a glimpse of those characters within their respective stories. It is meant as a metaphor: Culkin gets lost in the library and begins skimming through random books based on which section of the library he is in. The number of people in the comments who attribute either their beginning or continued interest in reading fiction to this movie contradicts the notion that this movie had no effect. Finally, I guess I need to address the last thing you said. I never once said that this movie did well at the box office, nor did I claim that critics loved it. I said that the movie succeeded in what it was trying to accomplish. In clearer terms, "The final product matches the filmmaker's vision for it." This movie introduced Jekyll and Hyde, Moby Dick, and Treasure Island to me as a kid, which is more than I can say for many of the adults in my life at that age, and did it in an easy-to-digest, colorful, and creative way. Again, this movie has its flaws. It isn't a critically great movie, but none of that even matters. What matters is that the filmmaker's vision reached the audience it was intended for. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this discussion. It was fun visiting a comment thread I started 3 years ago, but I think I may have said all I can from my perspective. It was nice meeting you.

It's Strange

Tristan Hartup maybe, who am i to judge

The wifi password. We're not savages

docter who?

no who's on third

I just find it funny.

sascachuhuan PBG?

having fun isn't hard, when you have a library card

kyle wolman No, i actually played the game myself as a kid and i gave up trying to find that fucking card

Collecting all the library cards didn't give you shit. Just a congrats in the credits. :(

1997residente they already did with those stupid ass names

David Taylor I'd say Reading Rainbow is better. That's just my opinion.

No

I have the book?

Now it has a 5th season...WITH BLOOD!!!

i came to this fro a samurai jack video

so anytime before a month ago?

Watchaa!

For me it was, although I'm willing to hear what you get out of it, because I really want to like this movie.

Well, what I got out of it was the atmosphere. It conveyed the horror of the horror part really well and the adventure of the adventure part well too. It inspired me to go and read the books from those sections and discover for myself why they were such great literary classics. I actually like how it only vaguely glossed over each individual book from those sections, and told more with the animation than it did with the dialogue and story telling, because they would say what the book was and give you a snippet of story from it to get you hooked in sometimes an entirely visual manor. But the images that it gave me were striking enough to stay in my imagination after the film was over. The fantasy section however, I feel was completely wasted. As far as dumb 90's movies go, this ain't the worst, and the visuals and atmosphere (mostly) are its main draw.

Yeah, it existed, but there was virtually NO WAY you'd be able to access it if you're that young. His parents would have had to do all the work for him, and they sound like they don't approve of him getting all those statistics and thus wouldn't want him looking them up, so he'd be screwed.

(I know this comment is old) existed ?? man, 1994 ! nobody even knew what the internet was back then.

@@JJtoutcourt The internet existed back then, but there were very few people that had it! Heck I didn't use internet even in 97' unless i went to the library! I didn't use it ti'll about HS in 98-2002!

@@jeremykegley1669 and even then, I suppose you're american ?

@@JJtoutcourt Yeah! But like i said the internet even in USA wasn't popular yet!

360p was the 1080p of 2009

Just Laura I still have to watch in 144p

Mister Torgue High-Five Flexington haha!

Marco Fantasy AND HALF OF THE TIME IT BUFFERS!

I think your kind had gone extinct..........

Yep, it is the reason why Lloyd is such a great talented actor for doing so incredibly well, even in movies like this one

Optillian were all old, friend

*we're

Fuck. I'm 21 now, which means this came out when I was 13. And I remember watching it as it came out, too. Damn, the Critic's always been there for me.

Let it go.

No you got to say it right I was FROZEN TODAY!!!!!!

Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know . . . well now they know.

Ha

Jasmine Blue Deez nut

@@thatoneguywhocomments.8091 I wish this was an anime.