El Arca

El Arca (English: Noah's Ark) is a 2007 Argentine-Italian animated movie directed by Juan Pablo Buscarini. This movie is based on the biblical story of Noah's Ark, with its focus on the animals' point of view.

Why It Sunk The Ark

 * 1) Almost every single character in this film is unlikable and just plain obnoxious. Xiro is a big offender, since he comes off as a jerk in the censored version of the movie.
 * 2) *Sara is also another unlikable character, due to how obnoxious and whiny she can be, even her New Yorkish accent can get on your nerves at times.
 * 3) Numerous plot holes, even in the edited version.
 * 4) Numerous adult jokes in a movie based on the Bible for a family movie which are extremely inappropriate for it's target audience, such as:
 * 5) *A chicken stripper flashing her breasts.
 * 6) *Bombay massaging Xiro's butt.
 * 7) *Xiro says "big boobs".
 * 8) *Kairel walks into Xiro and his supposed mate, Bruma having sex. Also, where is this line of smoke coming from?
 * 9) *Panthy is an unnecessary character.
 * 10) *Panthy telling Xiro that the door to her heart-and her room-is always open.
 * 11) *A guinea pig talking about drug usage.
 * 12) *A unnamed donkey is sleeping with at least two different animals of a different species on the Ark.
 * 13) *The doves heading towards a jungle strip club.
 * 14) Two other human characters, Farfan and Ester disguise themselves as animals and sneak onto the ship. They are irrelevant to the plot, you just could cut them out and the film won't be any different.
 * 15) When Xiro and the others are about to take on the main villain of the movie, they do a Haka dance to try to intimidate them, which leads to much confusion that feels pointless.
 * 16) Mediocre voice acting for the characters that are in the English dub.
 * 17) Bombay the Orangutan is a gay stereotype which might be laughable or offensive to people who are gay.
 * 18) There is a generic but cliché dance party ending.
 * 19) In 2014, a censored version was released. While it did censor out the inappropriate scenes, it cut out a scene that contributes to the plot. This was pointed out by Saberspark.
 * 20) The film also has a ton of gross-out and toilet jokes such as the doves farting, a skunk peeing on a sheep, and the animal poop scene.
 * 21) God in this movie is badly butchered beyond belief in the most insulting way imaginable, as he is portrayed as being lazy and not doing that much to help the characters.
 * 22) Most of the designs for the animals are all over the place, some animals are anthropomorphic while others are like normal animals.
 * 23) Some of the characters are either pointless or serve no purpose to the movie such as Bruma and the mythical creatures that refuse to board the ark.
 * 24) Some of the background animals keep changing sizes and designs from time to time.
 * 25) While the animation is passable, it can be too overly detailed at times, such as the scene where the sheep was being mean to Kairel, the donkey and the skunk before boarding the ark as well as the predators' plans to eat the herbivores by stuffing them once they get to the new world.
 * 26) False advertising: The poster is misleading, it makes you think that Noah is the main character of the film but the film mainly focuses on the animals that board the ark such as Xiro instead.
 * 27) Some of the character designs for the animals and humans feel like they were ripped off from other films and cartoons:
 * 28) * Xiro and Kairel look a lot like Kovu and Kiara from mh:greatestmovies:The Lion King II: Simba's Pride.
 * 29) * Bombay bares a strong resemblance to King Louie from The Jungle Book.
 * 30) * Patricio looks like one of the vultures from The Jungle Book.
 * 31) * Naamah looks like Carlotta from mh:greatestmovies:The Little Mermaid.
 * 32) * Sara looks like Chicha from The Emperor’s New Groove.
 * 33) * The leopard that attacks Pepe looks similar to Sabor from Tarzan.
 * 34) * The cows and horses look like the ones from Home on the Range.
 * 35) * The hyenas that chase after Pepe look a lot like the hyenas from The Lion King.
 * 36) * One of the warthogs looks like Pumbaa from The Lion King.
 * 37) * The moose look like Rutt and Tuke from Brother Bear.
 * 38) * There is one character that looks like Heathcliff the cat, even Saberspark pointed this out.
 * 39) * One of the aardvarks looks like the Blue Aardvark from The Ant and the Aardvark.
 * 40) * One of the woodpeckers looks a lot like Woody Woodpecker.
 * 41) *Coco looks like King Gator from All Dogs Go to Heaven.
 * 42) The ending with the dove failing to bring the olive branch to Noah to have the flood gone was a huge slap in the face and is insulting to the original story.
 * 43) There is a scene in which Noah's wife tries to break up with him, which is inaccurate to the bible. Plus the film completely goes nowhere with this scene.
 * 44) The movie can't decide if it wants to be a children's/family film or an adult-oriented comedy film due to all of the inappropriate jokes scattered throughout.
 * 45) It's unclear as to why the animals are forbid to speak with humans or why they made that rule in the first place, as the film never explains or touch's upon the concept properly.
 * 46) There are a few anachronisms that can be noticeable, such as Pity the Parrot telling jokes about fable tellers, who aren't born for centuries (Aesop and La Fontaine). And the already establish Sara's New Yorkish accent.
 * 47) While Kairel is likable, there is one scene where she unwittingly helps Dagnino get the upper hand twice while him and Xiro have their fight: once when asking if he's brave enough clobber the real king, and once when she asks if he's willing to kick Xiro when he's down (Xiro even asks her to stop giving him ideas).

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It has decent animation and great mixture of CGI-backgrounds.
 * 2) Just like in WISTA #9, the censored version had removed the inappropriate scenes.
 * 3) The film has a cult following from the furry community and has become quite popular with furries.
 * 4) Dagnino and his gang make decent antagonists.
 * 5) Kairel is a likable character.
 * 6) Some moments can be funny at times.
 * 7) Noah is as faithful as he is in the Bible.
 * 8) The design for the ark is impressive.
 * 9) The soundtrack is good.
 * 10) One of God's lines: "Of course. When they're in trouble, they remember I exist.".
 * 11) Xiro does become better towards the ending.
 * 12) The original Spanish dub can be considered an improvement over the English dub.

Videos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g6tOwxk0d-Q https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KbOVAE22cIU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EvzU6X6kCmg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAQrt2ChGc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bbH0QhSGc5o