Back to obscure movies played when Cartoon Network tried to show films, this time it's a German animated film released in English by Warner Bros called The Fearless Four.
It starts with a dog named Buster voiced by James Ingram who's been driven out of his home for not being a proper dog and getting placed in the pound.
Then we join Fred the Donkey voiced by B.B.King who's been made redundant by a robot centaur with a sweet singing voice.
Then we join Gwendolyn the Cat voiced by Oleta Adams who's been driven out of her home by her late owners obnoxious relatives.
And finally we join Tortellini the Rooster voiced by Zucchero who's been driven out of his home for too much sex. (Look that's whats been implied by the scene just go with it)
The four animals some how meet up and decide to form a singing quartet as they journey to Paris to find their fortune only to stop in Bremen on the way and get scouted by an evil food company called Mix Max; they are made to perform the Mix Max jingle in order to increase control over Europe, I don't know, it makes no sense, the main villain looks like that guy from "Series of Unfortunate Events".
The group rebel with an awesome song, one of many awesome songs throughout the film, it is a musical after all and win against the villains, the film ends as Gwendolyn finds out that she now has ownership of her owners mansion and turns it into an animal home.
Okay verdict on this film is simple: good music, silly plot, overly dull color scheme, somehow manages to mold computer graphics well despite being a 90s film and decent English dub despite being all voiced by professional singers.
If you've even heard of any of the singers voicing the animal characters then you've won a cookie.
Compared to the Scarecrow I covered last time, The Fearless Four has better production but the plot is a bit silly and can be seen as a vegan's revenge story seeing as the underlying message seems to be that meat producers are evil and everything is better with singing.
The film is fairly obscure so don't expect to find much beyond it's original German release, I had trouble finding any information about this film in English so I'm doing this review on memory.
Overall it's a nice little distraction but nothing memorable about it beyond the songs.
Cartoon Vault: The Fearless Four
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