The Legend of the Titanic

The Legend of the Titanic (Spanish: La Leyenda del Titanic; Italian: La leggenda del Titanic) is a 1999 Spanish-North Korean-Italian-American animated film directed by Orlando Corradi and Kim Jun Ok. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1912 RMS Titanic sinking and featured several fantasy elements such as anthropomorphic animals. Much like another Italian animated film about the Titanic, this was heavily criticized, but this film is considered to be the worse of the two. It has also received a 2004 sequel, In Search of the Titanic, which is widely seen as being even worse than both of the films that came before it.

Plot
A grandfather mouse tells his grandchildren the "real" story of the Titanic disaster, including himself, evil sharks, a giant octopus and an evil whaling scheme.

Why These Qualities Sunk This Movie

 * 1) While the animation is admittedly better than that of Titanic: The Legend Goes On, it's still pretty bad. One notable example is that Tentacles is an average-sized octopus when he's underwater, but when he comes to save the Titanic, he's suddenly almost as big as the ship itself.
 * 2) *Speaking of which, this film is also incredibly similar to Titanic: The Legend Goes On, to the point where both films have talking mice in them.
 * 3) Incredibly insensitive to the people who lost their lives on the Titanic. For one thing, NOBODY DIES! In reality, over 1,500 people perished as a result of the disaster and only 705 people survived. But here, they just write it off as all being "just a misunderstanding", which, yes, they actually say in the movie. We're not making this up. At least Titanic: The Legend Goes On had the sense to imply that some people actually died!
 * 4) The characters never. stop. TALKING.
 * 5) The anthropomorphic animals' ways of living with the humans are incredibly inconsistent. For example, the dolphins at one point have to explain to Elizabeth how they're ability to talk is derived from magical moonbeams. And yet, the other animals can just go up and talk to her without any sort of reason as to why. And the dogs can talk, but not in front of the humans, but this doesn't apply to the mice for, again, no explained reason.
 * 6) Tentacles the Octopus grabs the Titanic and tries to put it back together during the breakup, something that obviously didn't even happen in real life.
 * 7) *Also, Tentacles and the whales save Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship both in real life and the 1997 film.
 * 8) Tentacles, for some reason, has a dog-like nose, which real octopi do not have.
 * 9) The movie completely and utterly defies all logic. From the magic moonbeams that allow Elizabeth to talk to dolphins, to the villain's henchman being able to talk to a gang of evil sharks (which is never explained, by the way).
 * 10) Unlike in both real life and James Cameron's film where there wasn't enough room for everyone on the lifeboats, there's somehow room for everyone now.
 * 11) Horrendous lip-syncing that almost never matches up with what the characters are actually saying. Not to mention how it can get to the point where the characters' mouths don't move at all when they talk.
 * 12) Two characters (Camembert and Tentacles) seemingly die during the climax of the film, but are somehow alive in the end, ruining any emotional impact the scenes may have had.
 * 13) This movie is so annoying and unrealistic that it makes Titanic: The Legend Goes On look more realistic.
 * 14) The voice acting ranges from wooden to downright horrible. One notable example of the former would be when Elizabeth says to her father “I have some vital importance for you, daddy!". As for the latter, it mainly applies to Elizabeth's father, the Duke of Camden, who sounds like he's mumbling almost every time he talks and it's almost impossible to understand a word of what he's actually saying.
 * 15) *There's also an enormous waste of talent found within this movie's voice cast. This particularly applies to Maltravers/Mr. Ice. As he's voiced by Gregory Snegoff, someone who's had other notable roles in mh:greatestmovies:My Neighbor Totoro, mh:greatestmovies:Kiki's Delivery Service, Cool World, and Dragon Ball's Harmony Gold dub. Yeah.....
 * 16) The romance between Elizabeth and Don juan doesn't make any sense as they want to marry each other when they just met.
 * 17) * Don juan is a creepy love interest as he sniffed Elizabeth's glove twice.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) While it looks more TV quality than cinema quality and is full of errors, the animation is at least better than that of Titanic: The Legend Goes On.
 * 2) The soundtrack can be at least decent and romantic.
 * 3) The CGI shots of the boat admittedly look pretty cool.

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