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Felix the Cat Saves Christmas (2003)
A 10 minute cartoon lazily stretched to over 70 minutes.
Although the animation is FINE, it has some errors such as weird perspective and just WRONG lighting in many places.
A big portion of this "movie" is just the characters talking really slowly to waste time, random subplots that don't end up anywhere and lazy musical sections for no reason.
The literal point of the film, Felix SAVING Christmas, doesn't even come up until like 40-50 minutes in (I'm not gonna watch this garbage again to double check the exact time it happens).
I would not be surprised if this "MOVIE" turned out to be entirely written in a day. It just seems like a 10 minute script of a TV show hastily and lazily stretched to make it a movie and release it on DVD.
Somehow, they got everything bad from the previous attempts at Felix media in the same place - the sub-par comedy and overall scripting of the 1959 show, the time wasting of the 1989 film, the sometimes confusing and overused craziness that happened in Twisted Tales, and to top it all off, they used that mock-up Mickey Mouse voice we all love.
I'm only giving this a three because AT LEAST SOMETIMES THE ANIMATION LOOKS GOOD, because everywhere else it'd be the flattest 1 I've ever seen.
The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995)
Good show.
It's honestly miles better than whatever the hell was made from Felix after the silent cartoons of the 20s. The wackiness of this cartoon can be a little bit too much at points, but it sure is funny nonetheless with unexpected jokes that can be forced sometimes, but those are never dragged long enough for you to be bothered.
The animation isn't perfect (even for 90s cartoon standards), sometimes the voice acting (which after a sub-par show in the 50s and the very meh movie, they realized that making Felix not sound like a discount bin version of Mickey Mouse was a good idea) feels more alive and expressive than the expressions of the characters.
I wasn't alive in the 90s so I can't prove this, but I've read in forums that this cartoon flopped because it aired at the same time other more popular cartoons were being aired in neighbouring channels, making the show have poor audience numbers compared to other cartoons that were just as good or worse than this one, which is a shame, since this cartoon is probably the best thing related to this character.
The small bloopers of this show make me drag this to a 8.5-9, but with more polishing, it could've definetely been a 10, and comparing to the 1959 show, it's 11 lmao.