Friends, this is it; the darkness of the deep, the mightiest of tidal waves, this IS the most pathetic, insulting, irritating and flat-out worst film that this critic has ever seen. Unless there exists a film along the same title as Dancing Puppies at 9/11 you will never find any product of media that would try and market itself by attaching to an event of such sorrow.
Let us examine the first question, why would the viewers want an entire movie devoted to the octopus that sunk the Titanic in another animated flop? Perhaps that’s the reason why said octopus doesn’t go under the same name and that this movie, however falsely implied by the title, barely includes him in the story.
Tentacolino, or In Search for the Titanic as it’s also been called, tells the story of our familiar humans Juan and Elizabeth, along with their mice friends Top Connors and Ronnie and their bring-along-dog Smile. After the five end up in a submarine accident, they’re taken to the wonderful lost city of Atlantis to be greeted by a collection of continuously unimaginative and loathsome characters. There they discover a rebellion of rats who want to break free from the city and take over the world.
We go from a film that is only historically accurate when it suits its ridiculous plot to a sequel that is so bizarre and lacking direction that it draws “world domination” as its newest plot thread. How low the low proceed to fall…
The humans are basically body-checked to the sidelines of the story, leaving the animals to receive the most involvement in the plot. They’re also joined by characters that are either predictable or only creative to the point that you wondered what drugs the writers and animators must have been on while thinking them up. The motivations and actions of these characters are so horrible that you may actually sympathize with any of the antagonists!
Let us examine the first question, why would the viewers want an entire movie devoted to the octopus that sunk the Titanic in another animated flop? Perhaps that’s the reason why said octopus doesn’t go under the same name and that this movie, however falsely implied by the title, barely includes him in the story.
Tentacolino, or In Search for the Titanic as it’s also been called, tells the story of our familiar humans Juan and Elizabeth, along with their mice friends Top Connors and Ronnie and their bring-along-dog Smile. After the five end up in a submarine accident, they’re taken to the wonderful lost city of Atlantis to be greeted by a collection of continuously unimaginative and loathsome characters. There they discover a rebellion of rats who want to break free from the city and take over the world.
We go from a film that is only historically accurate when it suits its ridiculous plot to a sequel that is so bizarre and lacking direction that it draws “world domination” as its newest plot thread. How low the low proceed to fall…
The humans are basically body-checked to the sidelines of the story, leaving the animals to receive the most involvement in the plot. They’re also joined by characters that are either predictable or only creative to the point that you wondered what drugs the writers and animators must have been on while thinking them up. The motivations and actions of these characters are so horrible that you may actually sympathize with any of the antagonists!
If you thought that anything in this movie should make sense compared to the first film, you’re wrong. Not only by the end does this film almost totally contradict the concept of its predecessor, but it lacks continuity even in itself!
If you want anything to be consistent with The Legend of the Titanic, listen to the soundtrack. It’s almost exactly the same, save for a few strange additions.
For the sequel to something so morally deprived and a secondary title claiming involvement with the famous ship, you would think the Titanic would at least circle around the plot.
It doesn’t.
The occasional mention is there, such as a radio announcer talking about the “mythical” Titanic, but it only really comes back in the end. And for a film that is so boring, pointless and insane with story arcs and characters, they save the biggest middle finger for the end.
To award Tentacolino even a zero would be a compliment. It isn’t just a slap to cinema, it’s a slap to common sense and it’s a slap to the human ethical code. It is shameful and it deserves to be forgotten.
-Braydon K
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