Among watching this trashfire with my friends, I have offically declared this the worst Felix the Cat movie ever. This movie has one of the crummiest art direction I've ever seen; Who ever told these guys that having Felix not thick lined wasn't a good idea, not only is it a jarring result, but it doesn't make sense why Felix can't have thick lines in this movie. If you're gonna go with the 60's style of Felix, then stick to having everyone have thick lines. Next off, Felix's voice in this feels too babyish and patronizing to listen to. In fact, everyone except for Tom Bosley and Jason Marsden's characters. I'm disappointed that Dave Coulier did a lousy performance as Felix because his Rock Bottom voice is promising. But for the most part, the voice acting is patronizing and insulting to it's target audience; It's like the voices you'd do when you're talking to a baby or a dog except you do it to a 6-12 year old kid and they tell you "I'm not a baby". I'm not saying voices like that should just stop existing because I said so, I'm saying it's the type of voice that kids would hate to hear. The animation is trying somewhat to be Wang Films Animation (Courage the Cowardly Dog, Chalkzone, Garfield and Friends) by having scenes where you still see animation in the body even while they're talking, but they don't really commit to it half of the time and often flip between limited animation, and smooth Wang Films animation (Wang didn't animate for this). When they reuse previous animations though, it becomes jarring to watch. During the Snow Kids Rock scene, I just went on my phone because they just kept reusing animation of the snow kids sledding near the halfpipe. An Audience doesn't want to see the same few scenes reused over and over again during music videos. I will at least say that this was probably a little studio making this cartoon, and Felix's reputation during the 2000's was diminishing (I blame Oriolo) not to mention by the time production of this movie wrapped at around 2003, Don Oriolo was busy working on Coconut Fred prior to Fred's inevitable destruction due to Kids WB dying in 2006. It still is a bad movie regardless, and it sucks that the small studio overseas worked on this abomination because I saw some potential in some of the movie's more smoother animations. If this didn't kill Felix the Cat back in the day, then DreamWorks not doing Jack with the franchise is doing the trick.
Somebody just bring back Twisted Tales of Felix, that was the most faithful to the old Fleischer Felix cartoons.
Somebody just bring back Twisted Tales of Felix, that was the most faithful to the old Fleischer Felix cartoons.