Titanic: The Legend Goes On

I know I reviewed the first animated Titanic movie a couple of years ago, but while sorting out my Disney knock-off reviews, I decided to finish the trilogy off so I can finally get these evil abominations out of my brain & bring back the cells I lost watching them. I am fully aware that there are two versions of this movie, so for this review, I'm going to be looking at both of them! The changes made relatively minor in the grand scale of it all as it doesn't really change my overall opinion on this monstrosity of a film! So...can the legend of this movie be washed away by the sands of time never to enter this realm ever again? Well, the answer is already yes, so we best get on with reviewing this trash!

Story: Right from the get-go, the best way to describe this movie is confusing & insane. And by that I mean that it's a copy of the James Cameron film in reverse filled with Disney rip-offs, talking animals & a happy ending without any acknowledgement of the hundreds people that died in the tragic disaster! And if you think that's bad enough, good luck trying to follow all the 'comedic' subplots aboard the ship with most of them having no pay-off & being insultingly stupid filler! Not only isn't there any proper set-up for ANY of the scenes or characters, but the way it's executed has absolutely no cohesion & it just goes along with whatever it wants to do before the iceberg hits the ship. And speaking of the 'romance', it's just creepy as hell with absolutely no pacing, chemistry or even that much interaction! At least in James Cameron's version, they actually got to know each other for the few days before the ship sank & had such strong emotions behind them while in this, it's only a few hours tops & they hardly dive into it! It doesn't really help that the pacing is so off because some scenes just happen quickly while others drag on for no reason (especially during the actual sinking & afterwards since there's no sense of danger or peril & they use some of the most inappropriate comedy I have ever seen). Oh yeah, and the dialogue in the uncut version is utter trite because the characters either say a load of gibberish which makes absolutely no sense at all, or repeating lines of dialogue whenever they run out of things to say. It may be a bit better in the cut version since most scenes are, well, cut out, along with scenes having a bit more flow in transitioning, but it really doesn't stop the numerous ridiculous subplots that plague the screen & how incompetently everything is executed. While it may not be as insulting by having everybody being alive thanks to a giant talking octopus, this movie is still spawn of the Italian devil himself & I felt disgusted while watching this!

To say that this was my face while watching the movie is a massive understatement!

Animation: No matter which version of this you watch, the animation is exactly the same. And by that I mean it's absolutely atrocious! Not only is the quality below Saturday morning cartoon standards, but the numerous errors are so obvious that it's borderline insane how little effort was put into this crap. Filled with recycled/replayed clips (including a complete replay of a mouse trying to steal food from a chef as a' 'flashback' for absolutely no reason), poor lip synching (I know it's an Italian film with an English dub, but it still stands) & many glitches, it's so lazily cobbled together & distracting that it actually made me angry! The character designs are all very inconsistent in appearance & very basic, not fitting the tone of the movie at all (as if they already didn't care about it) & it doesn't really help how it ranges from rough to rubbery. The character animation is also very off because of the inconsistent physics & the interaction of different characters in the background feels virtually non-existent up to the point that it doesn't feel like they're sharing the same space.And the sinking itself is incredibly poor in the execution of the choreography And speaking of the backgrounds, despite being set on the freaking Titanic, not once do they put any effort into making it look grand & almost otherworldly with how beautiful it was. Nope! It just looks like a generic ship without anything interesting that makes it stand out! Without a doubt this is some of the worst 2D animation I've ever seen, and as if the plot wasn't enough for you, this alone should show you how incompetent this film is!

Characters: If the story wasn't ridiculous enough for you, then the characters are more like the diarrhea to this piece of shit of a film! Angelica is just a poor Rose/Mary Sue type character searching for her missing mother & is abused by her foster mother while falling in love with William on the Titanic. And speaking of, William, the rich & British Jack rip-off is about as bland as a rice cake & is just creepy as hell while pursuing Angelica despite knowing absolutely nothing about her! Seriously, why were we 'rooting' for him again?! His nanny that lost a daughter years ago (gee, I wonder who she could be. I'm so invested in this mystery plot. It could be anybody. Heck, even the girl looking for her missing mother who happens to be on the same ship) may be the 'most interesting' character, but we never dive into how losing her daughter affected her, therefore making her more like a one dimensional plot device. As for the rest of the characters...they have no purpose. Literally none. They & their subplots easily could have been written out & nothing would have changed. They're all either Disney or Don Bluth rip-offs or comic reliefs while not being funny whatsoever! And what makes them worse is that there are talking animal characters including mice (obviously due to jealousy from another Italian animated Titanic movie), dalmatians (one of whom is a dick to his pregnant wife) and of course, Fritz the rapping dog (voiced by Gregory Snegoff who voiced Maltravers in the other animated Titanic movie), some of which are racially insensitive or entirely pointless. Add in awful voice acting to top it all off, I just wanted all of these characters to sink with the ship because of how irritating, incompetent & cliched they all were!

Songs: The biggest difference between the two versions of this movie is that the soundtracks are different. And guess what? They both suck! The most prominent one is obviously the rapping dog's out of place song. The more infamous one in the cut version, Party Time, has absolutely no purpose, comes so the fuck out of nowhere, is so out of place & is never acknowledged afterwards. In other words...Big Lipped Alligator Moment! And the same can be said with the original song which I could hardly make out because the rapper sounded like he was mumbling throughout! There's also a different main theme for both versions (unfortunately sung by the multi-talented Liz Callaway), with Holding Me in the cut version pretty much being a crap rip-off of My Heart Will Go On & the other one is just generic & uninteresting. I doesn't help that for some reason the uncut version is played in reverse at the very beginning for no reason! The fake Mariachi song sung by the Mexican mice is also very racist & uninteresting in the cut version & while they use an actual Mariachi song in the uncut version, it's just used for cheap juxtaposition of them happily singing about the day never being forgotten in the ship approaches the iceberg. Neither soundtracks are interesting or fun & they were just the nail in the coffin for this piece of shit of a film that should be left to oblivion!

Titanic: The Legend Goes On is much more incompetent compared to the last one in terms of animation & execution, but both are equally as disgusting in writing, characterization & depicting the tragedy. I like many others cannot understand why Italy wanted to cash in on James Cameron's film by making it into kids films & littering it with Disney cliches & adding in a hugely inappropriate happy ending without considering the relatives of the people that died or those who survived such a life altering event! And given that there's one more movie to go...pray for me, guys. Pray for me.
Story: 0/10
Animation: 1/10
Characters: 0/10
Songs: 1/10
Overall: 0.5/10