As I said, they aren’t shot well and the scenes that mix live-action and animation never look convincing, all the more disappointing when you consider that Who Framed Roger Rabbit premiered about three years earlier. There is very little to like about the live-action segments of the film.
Coincidentally, Edmond’s farm is also plagued by constant rain and his mother is trying to comfort him by reading him the story of Chanticleer. Edmond lives on a live-action farm filmed with bad lighting and shaky camera work. The movie’s actual protagonist is a little live-action boy named Edmond. Chanticleer may be the guy with the power to solve the movie’s central problem, but he has so little screen time and character development that his role is almost reduced to "MacGuffin," more of a problem-solving device than a true character. Realizing that they’re up a dell without a pitchfork, the farm animals set out to find Chanticleer and get him to come home. Because as it turns out, Chanticleer’s crow really did keep the sun shining and the farm has been plagued with torrential rainstorms ever since he left. The good guys want to bring him back to the farm and the bad guys want to keep him away.
#ROCK A DOODLE CAR PINK MOVIE#
But despite a title and movie poster than feature him prominently, Chanticleer is not the protagonist of Rock-a-Doodle. His similarities to Elvis could have made for some entertaining moments. He has a relatable problem: he believes his friends don’t care about him anymore and that the talent that made him special may have never even been real. Chanticleer’s barnyard pals label him a fraud and the crestfallen rooster leaves for the city, where he becomes a singing sensation.Ĭhanticleer could be an interesting character.
(His vocals are provided by country singer Glen Campbell, Elvis having left the building over a decade before.) All of the farm animals believe that Chanticleer’s crow is what makes the sun rise, until one morning when Chanticleer misses his morning crow and the sun comes up regardless. Chanticleer is a rooster with an appearance and voice reminiscent of Elvis Presley. Rock-a-Doodle kicks off with the story of Chanticleer, who gets his name from the character in the Reynard the Fox fables and in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Had my father and I been unfair? Was this movie actually a flawed gem like The Secret of NIMH? Or was it really the cinematic disaster that my dad remembered? Despite Dad’s negative memories and my own vague recollections of it being less than stellar, I tried to watch it with an open mind. Dad also wanted to chide me for awakening his long dormant and thoroughly unpleasant memory of Don Bluth’s Rock-a-Doodle, a movie which he now remembers as being “god awful.”Īfter reading his e-mail, I decided that I had to rewatch Rock-a-Doodle and write about my impressions. (Have I mentioned that I love my dad?) But it wasn’t all praise. He mostly wanted to share his reactions to animated films he had enjoyed, such as The Incredibles, The Triplets of Belleville, and WALL-E - which Dad thinks should have won Best Picture. Author’s note: A version of this post originally appeared on my old site, The Ink and Pixel Club.īack when I was blogging solo, I posted about a "How many of these animated movies have you seen" meme.
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