Once Upon a Forest - Nostalgia Critic

Michael Crawford as a badger? Oh this has GOT to be an instant classic! The NC reviews 1993's Once Upon a Forest.
Originally aired on May 31st, 2011.
Once Upon a Forest is a 1993 British-American animated children's film based on the Furlings characters created by Rae Lambert. The film was directed by Charles Grosvenor and produced by David Kirschner.
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Once Upon a Forest was released on June 18th, 1993 and was directed by Charles Grosvenor. It starts Michael Crawford, Ben Vereen and Ellen Blain.
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[@nickcopeland6915]

Fun fact: Michael Crawford struggled not to cry during his song.

[@Senjuina77]

Nick Copeland That's what it sounded like, too. The clips I've seen here came across as really emotional.

[@wiibrockster]

Nick Copeland Seriously??

[@hoobadooba2000]

Nick Copeland probably because of how bad the song was

[@JoeRossProductions]

@@hoobadooba2000 no

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

@@hoobadooba2000 It was the context of the song, being about a LITTLE GIRL DYING in her bed.

[@FlamesOfTheRuined]

"You are no longer Furlings, you are now furnitures"Cut to Cornelius sipping tea next to a fireplace while sitting on a chair made of the skin of the mole and hedgehog, an ottoman made from the mouse, and a skin rug made of the badger. Seriously, was I the only one who imagined it? Could have made the ending so much better.

[@cjwrench07]

Maniacally Sinister I thought of Mr.Burns’ dog song on the Simpson’s. “See my loafers, former gophers” “see my hat, twas my cat” Then you can add “Badger hair, underwear”

[@raijyn2452]

I don't know which is sicker, the parents who were throwing a funeral for their not-dead-yet child or *YOU*

[@moviemaniac9034]

Or maybe Cornelius has their butts above his fireplace like what Mr. Krabs could've done to Spongebob and Patrick.

[@blankblank1284]

I think of Umineko. God that got so messed up...

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Makes Sense Badgers will eat Mice Hedgehogs and moles

[@jinx1987]

13:28 that's kinda sick, throwing a funeral for your dying child who isn't officially dead yet in front of him

[@magicmaria5632]

Jay Villanueva ikr

[@ironmaster6496]

Jay Villanueva i know WTF!!!??

[@ironmaster6496]

Jay Villanueva also he COULD HAVE WALKED AWAY he even raised his foot

[@TeruteruBozusama]

Jay Villanueva Just watching him starve to death, screaming and scared....

[@jinx1987]

Hey my comment got highlighted, cool.......MOM LOOK AT THIS!!!!! Mom:"Did you finally get a job you deadbeat?" No Mom:"Then I don't give a shit!" 😢

[@Wandergirl108]

This movie was one of my favorites as a kid. And I think, especially for kids, the message that not ALL humans are evil was an important one to include in there - while our technology can have devastating effects, we can still do better than just be mindless instruments of destruction, we can work to mitigate the damage we cause through our technology. Keeping Michelle's parents dead, too, gives the movie a more grounded feeling - sometimes bad things will happen, and there's no undoing that, and all we can do is work to make better what we still have a chance to change. It honestly has a lot of really good messages that I think may have helped shape me into the person I am, and I will definitely be showing it to my kids if/when I ever have any. I'm not sure if I ever saw Fern Gully, and if I did, I don't remember it at all, but I have ALWAYS remembered this movie, because it shows the full spectrum of the good and the bad in our world and encourages us to be better without telling us we're inherently the worst things ever. I still think fondly of this movie and love it to this day.

[@cyborgninja5489]

We have to de-populate the earth otherwise climate change will kill everyone, the aliens said so

[@Necron00b]

Actually the first definition for "Ramble" is "walk for pleasure in the countryside."

[@DRKLCNS1]

Necron00b but that's not nearly funny enough

[@SangTheCryptek]

The Critic doesn't listen to Led Zeppelin, apparently. (Ramble On)

[@CaptainSpycrab]

A rrrrrrrramble with rrrrrrrrrrrheumatism.

[@knightmarewolf3856]

I could not breath after the Tim curry part

[@YMangaka]

well of course ! Cause of the gas ! >;3

[@imurvenus2605]

Because of the toxic gas?

[@chrisnicolet8910]

Neither could the badgers

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

Who the fuck ordered a truckload of poisonous gas?

[@damnbastard8794]

Well you can find anything on Amazon.

[@AdmiralBlackstar]

Pest control?

[@coletrainhetrick]

they tend to not label exposition on trucks all the time but it in the real world needs to get shipped. it's for weed killig, bugs, etc

[@lurksnitchtongue3958]

ChakatBlackstar well it seems it did it's job

[@edselo9264]

Screw You something a feminazi would say

[@nomadmalachi]

I think I would like to see an entire video of him doing just the "1920's announcer" voice.

[@crimsondynamo615]

nomadmalachi make one of those over the top propaganda psas and just have him doing the voice

[@bigbuddhaiswatching...101]

A ramble is a British term for a walk in the woods.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I wouldn't doubt given where this story originated from (despite the casting of the kids being American).

[@sweetbunnybun]

if you won't listen to my... walk in the woods?

[@maxbites23]

"Ramble on"

[@justarandomclonetrooperwit8119]

Wot,dis movie was made by bri-ish?!?!?

[@Shoe0nHead]

i used to love this movie hahahaha

[@TheDerpyderpyderp]

Shoe you do other things🙊

[@queensectonia8984]

Hey, Shoe0neHead watches the Nostalgia Critic

[@albertschoise8091]

Shoe0nHead me to- AHH! ITS THE SHOE *bows* worship the shoe

[@intergalactichumanempire9759]

Legend has it you respond to those who reply to your old comments.

[@Tachyon836]

Me too!

[@whatdoyousuppose]

3:44 I freakin lost it right there with the Phantom's tirade from I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It 😂😂😂

[@moviemaniac2159]

I wanted to know what that song was called. Thanks!

[@spookylad1367]

I laughter my bum off during that

[@mousetrap773]

I remember this movie...it traumatized me for years after watching it. I was afraid that anything I did would accidentally kill hundreds of animals

[@randomdude1361]

Wow, your comment just killed thousands of animals...

[@dallymoo7816]

Lol now I am vegan 😧😅

[@robreich6881]

So you’re saying the movie had its intended effect.

[@soldout7275]

me too man. i loved this movie but haven't watched it in a minute so i don't remember how good it is now. it always made me cry when i watched it but i loved it.

[@caesar7734]

@@dallymoo7816 Vegans still litter

[@TennantJunkie1993]

OH THE IRONY A BOOK ON GRAVITY FELL AND CRUSHED IT!

[@YMangaka]

You do NOT realise the gravity of the situation

[@randalgraves6979]

😐 gravity falls.

[@snapclub8751]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@binkyboy448]

18:16 Props to Doug for fooling everyone who watched this review into thinking that this was an actual line in the movie.

[@katysikkema]

For the longest time I actually thought that was a line 😂 Doug did a great job.

[@TheSmolBrit]

My Grandma has this on VHS at her house and used to play it every time we drove to visit her during the holidays. She seemed so disappointed one year when I'd started to get a bit older that I didn't want to watch it, so we all sat down together to give it another watch.

[@charlottecorday8494]

Awww, that broke my heart reading. I hate how insensitive we are as we leave childhood.

[@JillLulamoon]

I admit of all those 90s environmental animated films I have a soft spot for this one. The designs for the protagonists are decently cute, and I'll give it some credit for how relatively grounded it is. There's no evil cloud singing about pollution, it's just an accident that spreads the gas through the forest, and the ending shows humans making an effort to clean up the mess and a random guy saving the hedgehog from a cage. Also not dancing around death gets a bit of my respect.

[@Netizpossible]

Once Upon a Forest? More like Once Upon a Forrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrest.

[@i40329]

That's trrrrrrrrrrrrue

[@maxbites23]

His rolls are so on point, he should be an honorary Spaniard

[@monicaaboites5053]

Like phantom of the operrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrra

[@carryondrawing]

Did anyone realise that the old badger was wearing the exact same clothes as Stanford Pines in Gravity Falls? Just me? Ok...

[@tannerprice2018]

ElasticKitten13 OMIGOSH! It does look like it!

[@cjwrench07]

A turtleneck skirt and overcoat? I must have missed that episode.

[@Angelicwings1]

And yet… it came first

[@bengilhooly3616]

@@cjwrench07 I think he means the real Stanford. The one voiced by jk Simmons

[@Rosey0928]

YOUR RIGHT OMYWORD😱

[@Ospyro3em]

Although I love this film (for reasons I can't really explain- I think it's because it's one of the movies my Grandparents used to play for me and my sisters when we were really young) this review is great and makes me laugh every time! I know deep down this movie is mediocre at best, but I can't bring myself not to like it. I even bought myself the DVD years later (after finally remembering the name of it!) and still watch it often as a guilty pleasure!

[@madnessguy010101]

Ospyro3em As Adam from YMS once wisely said, it's ok to like a flawed movie so long as you don't call it flawless

[@damnbastard8794]

Furfag! Furfag over here!

[@PandaJohn71]

I grew up with this movie as well. I still enjoy it too. Though everyone else I know irl goes "What movie?" when I mention it.

[@twizsilver]

Ospyro3em yes the daycare I was at played this movie almost daily for us, and at one point, I knew almost every part and word of this movie. So yea I'll always have love for this movie regardless lol

[@ExhumedFromBed]

Same for me.

[@meavor]

For some reason I hear the Tim curry song as "Green women be, crawling out my ass". I wish that was the actual line.

[@ragemutt5372]

It makes me uncomforatable how good Doug's impression of Tim Curry is in this.

[@jozefkeresturi2139]

Rheumatisam!

[@shadowbunny7892]

Jozef Keresturi I think you mean Rrrrrrrrrrheumatisam.

[@phousefilms]

Rheumatism, yes.

[@BirdRaiserE]

Jozef Keresturi 3:24 Grrrravity is a bitch!

[@nightmareeclipse8383]

No no, u must say it like this. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreumatism

[@whyareyoureadingmynickname8158]

I noticed that this movie's plot didn't even need that poison gas. They could have just said that little badger is ill and have her friends go and find cure for her. Simply said, all "save the environment" stuff in this movie were kinda pointless, movie would have worked just as fine without it.

[@albertschoise8091]

Why are you reading my nickname? Yes and yes but how did she get sick? Why dont her parents help? Etc etc

[@cjwrench07]

Alberts Choise that’s exactly the problem. We don’t have enough an emotional investment in her, to justify risking 3 other kids lives; without the tragic backstory.

[@proclarushtaonasat]

Why did they wedge sauron and the orcs in Lord of the rings? The book could just have been About them trying to throw the ring in the only recyclebin for magical artefacts. Or why did the Matrix Focus so much on the Evil agents? The movies could just have been About online addiction, without any Evil machines and Programms.

[@crimsondynamo615]

It’s almost like at the last minute they decided to make the movie have an environmental message

[@maverickdarkrath4780]

Actually it has a sub plot where the humans are actually trying to fix the problem and help nature, effectively fixing there mistake in other words, an environmental film where humans aren't the main antagonist

[@marksalmoneussorcerersupreme]

I love the "Toxic Gas" song 7:17

[@Bogwedgle]

Pandas aren't endangered any more. Environmental movies have ruined your joke about environmental movies.

[@IsThereAnEkkoInHere]

Bogwedgle This is an old review

[@Bogwedgle]

Yes...I know...

[@chinococoa6743]

We have more pandas now? Yippee.

[@wjzav1971]

Wait! They aren't endangered anymore? For real?

[@steely3506]

Well, as far as actual numbers go. But as far as being a functioning species filling a niche in an actual ecosystem? Yeah, pandas aren't really in that position.

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Nostalgia Critic: This one has Michael Crawford! Me: The PHAAAANtom of the opera IS HERE! Insiiiide my miiiiiiiiind!

[@PocketDeerBoy]

The movie looks like a fucking anti-human propaganda piece

[@Blueninja825]

I think it is

[@kyleraccoon6195]

I'm Pro-Furry

[@berpipo]

hey, at least this one shows that some humans are good. which is a lot more then most pro-environmental movies.

[@ironmaster6496]

Olivier Baudert not really since it actually showed humans like...well HUMANS and not murderous killing machines that hate Nature and like to build parking lots (for some reason) like every green movie ever. its still a bad flick tough

[@damnbastard8794]

They want to mutate humans into furries!

[@DrakoDragonis]

04:46 Ramble: verb - Walk for pleasurrrre in the countrrrryside :P

[@99lodewijk]

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreumatism

[@mr.classified6167]

12:40 Meanwhile, we see Don Bluth's version of 'Roots' taking place

[@octodaddy877]

"I lived far away, in a place called Willowbrook" My God, he lived in New Jersey? I guess that does explain where the poison gas came from.

[@JangoFox]

3:23 Do you believe in gravity?

[@Mr_Original]

Frick yeah! XD

[@emmarose4234]

In a young girl’s heart?

[@jonathanwallis3300]

@2:45, Michael Crawford during quarantine.

[@mariacortez9754]

Am I the only one that laughed when the plane/boat thing got destroyed by a book about gravity?

[@MidnightVCoco]

i cant roll my R's

[@chinococoa6743]

Same here.

[@TeruteruBozusama]

Midnight Darkwolf it's needed for some Norwegian words and I can't do it at all...

[@sindrevangenrobberstad2889]

+TeruteruBozusama Norway has a lot, and I mean a buttload of dialects. Though the Oslo dialect is the most iconic (being the capital dialect), there are a lot of dialects that don't involve rolling your Rs. For example, the one I speak (Bergen), involves pronouncing Rs kinda like how the French pronounce them, with a burr.

[@TeruteruBozusama]

Sunniva Vangen Robberstad I got the Oslo dialect thankfully..! I'd love seeing Doug make some videos based on some of the movies made by some certain producers...

[@sindrevangenrobberstad2889]

+TeruteruBozusama What producers?

[@oHmega14]

7:17 I. LOST it!!!! I don't think I can ever watch this again without crying at that part! XD

[@klimmr]

I remember 4-5 years ago when I use to stay up to 2 am working on my final projects for my architecture classes, I always use to watch old episodes of Nostalgia Critic just like this one on my phone.

[@EthanSchmethan]

*RHEUMATISM*

[@onyxsky2304]

Ethan you did it wrong its rrrrheumatism

[@lexy5430]

rheumatism, yes

[@midmichiganpracticalarts7468]

As soon as I saw Slappy this got 10 times better.

[@melissajackson79]

No, willow bark is a mild pain killer with (if I remember correctly) aspersin in it, it helps with mild aches like headaches, and stuff like that, it can be used for mild arthritis and is a blood thinner as well.

[@user-hy2qo6lj2q]

Ramble in the context used in the movie means going for walk not speaking nonsensically. Cornelius wants the children to behave and pay attention to his lesson.

[@Enter_the_Toshiverse_1996]

One thing Cornealus didn't explain is what happened to his little sister? Did she die too? Did she move to another forest and grew up? And if she survived, why didn't she stay with her brother? At this point in time, she'd be an adult; so wouldn't it make sense for her to accompany the kids to find the special herbs as oppose to sending them off on their own. That's the only question I have throughout all this: where is this badger's younger sister?

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I sorta thought she was Michelle's mother who succumbed to the poisonous gas in the film (if she was Cornelius' only sister).

[@cartooncritique6625]

This film may not have been anything special overall, but it was one of my favorite films growing up so it still retains a special place in my cold cynical adult heart. 3:08 Well, kids is also technically the term for young goats, and in a movie about anthropomorphic animals that does have the potential to get a little confusing.

[@zahnisylvester-stewart9804]

I ❤ Doug so much. Channel Awesome keep it up

[@anonymousidea9119]

Rheumatisim. The answer to LITERALLY EVERYTHING, even more than 42 is.

[@regiman222]

6:08 I agree, this is a pain

[@wiibrockster]

I Remember watching this movie years ago! I remember getting bored about 15 minutes in and Started thinking about Dragon Ball Z

[@TennantJunkie1993]

He's the only one who knows how to take care of her. He can keep her as comfortable as possible and they have to go on their own to brave the environments to save her so he can make the cure he needs those ingredients for.

[@omegayeet993]

This movie is the reason why people in government believe climate change is a conspiracy. They want to put an end to Fern Gully/Environmental movies.

[@magicamadeye]

Michael crawford and whimsy...you must have missed him in alice in wonderland

[@sirmugman]

can we get just a gif of the critic saying rematisauim? huh what we did back in 2011 when this first came out BUT WE NEED ONE IN HD!!

[@decepticonne]

rheumatism ?

[@zfrometa8316]

Is That Badger related to the Deamon Sisters from Panty and Stocking?

[@alanzapreservationtheythem2861]

I wouldn’t say so Haru Okumura, the Demon Sisters are funny

[@JuneShepardN7]

I lost it at the "Stranger than you dreamt it" part 😂😂😂

[@stacymaydenny6645]

I remember renting this VHS from the library as a kid. Talk about nostalgia!

[@ryangallagher9723]

Calling them "furlings" is like calling human children "flesh-spawn".

[@AdrianMarinMarinoES]

I guess you could say the bird song was a “Big-Lipped Alligator Moment”

[@thecinematicmind]

Ummmmm? Pop Tarts? IT'S NOT POP TARTS!!!!

[@mr.freakoid8139]

How does a single broken bottle cause that much damage against a tire at 7:00? From what I know, glass does not completely shred a tire.

[@mr.freakoid8139]

I also just noticed that the truck carrying a chemical so hazardous that it is literally labeled "poison gas," does not have a hazmat diamond. Now that I think about it, this truck was probably working for or being driven by a criminal or super villain due to it not meeting regulations, but then why would it label itself as carrying poison gas and not something inconspicuous like "milk?" Wait, why am I over analyzing how a truck is depicted in an old environmental film?

[@supermariof0521]

FUN FACT: The animation studio that made this movie is Hannah Barbara. As in the same studio that made "Tom & Jerry", "Scooby Doo", "The Flinstones", "The Jetsons", "Johnny Bravo", and several other iconic cartoons.

[@thehunter7016]

It took me years and years to realize that the big bird that was hunting Abigail and Russell and Edgar was a barn owl. I always thought it was a falcon

[@Smurfman256]

2:44 2020 in a nutshell

[@irnaho7733]

I love it when he does that black and white bit about man. So awesome

[@mattwolf7698]

I'm surprised that Hanna Barbera made this, the anination is rather high quality compared to most of their stuff.

[@nsheldrake5518]

well to be fair Cornelius is Michele's only living relative and if he died she wouldn't have any family left

[@iamsaztak]

I really like Crawford's voice personally. But I can see why others wouldn't lol

[@JosephScarbrough]

In all seriousness, Doug's Michael Crawford impression is frighteningly spot-on . . . just close your eyes, you'd swear Michael Crawford snuck in the back door during this review just to troll NC. But the *real* strange thing about this movie? It's actually a Hanna-Barbera production! Amazing to see what they can do when they actually have a budget!

[@bolicob]

I remember seeing this movie as a kid and being rather disappointed with the ending.

[@ГеоргийТусин]

Huh

[@walkingcorpse1224]

It's "Great Honk", which is an early 1980's expression that didn't catch on that meant great dismay towards a surprise or confrontation.

[@Pearlycutest]

"FurrlinGs"1!-1 (also 14:02 is me)

[@SweetRoseWanderer]

I wish I could roll my "R"s as good as he can.

[@YMangaka]

You only could if you had *RRRRheumatism* Xp

[@mattjoyce389]

All I hear is the dancing in the rain

[@SailorMaxie]

Same.

[@NashmanNash]

As a german,i have a natural talent to roll the R...you know,...

[@Lupinemancer87]

I don't know why some people are struggling with that, it's pretty easy.

[@AB-bg7os]

Lol that machine thing was destroyed by a book about gravity XD

[@tannerprice2018]

So...Gravity Falls? ....oh god, I hope the show's not connected to this movie.

[@outathisworld2130]

Lol yes

[@Mr_Original]

Even as a kid, I laughed my ass off at the irony. XD

[@zoltanz288]

Synth Curie its not funny.

[@Enter_the_Toshiverse_1996]

I put on the closed captions to see what he said, but even it doesn't know what he's saying

[@123Yellowberry123]

The truck only tipped over because of the bottle on the road; the forest being in danger was a complete accident. The real moral of the story is, "Don't drink and ride."

[@YMangaka]

Yeaaa? And the asshole MAN who was drinking and driving threw his bottle out instead of in a trash becauuuuse.. ?? a_á

[@vincenthawthorne9360]

Are you sure that Dale Gribble didn’t set it up just for a huge payday?

[@robreich6881]

Don’t throw bottles out of the car window, lol

[@whitediamond000]

Damn, the parental deaths are quite heavy in this film...You know...For kids!

[@40GamesAG]

A FAMILY Picture!

[@hexaciousjinx6923]

That's why I love it. Kid films now don't have grief or death, 90's really didn't give a rats ass .

[@brendis16851]

Even parents from non-Disney movies can die

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

*For Ferlings

[@aaronsuever2532]

@@hexaciousjinx6923 Yes, Hello, Frozen called, they said they have two dead parents for you.

[@HunterSlayer2727]

Great Honk! Great Honk? Great Hulk! Great Hulk?! Great Hawk! Great HAWK?! Great Hog! GREAT HOG?! "You're a Furling Harry."

[@albertschoise8091]

Elle Calladine i think hawk

[@JoeRossProductions]

Great Scott

[@JoeRossProductions]

Great Scott!

[@hansvonschreiber3902]

GREAT POGS

[@alexjewett7455]

Great hjonk

[@Mask0fFate]

Hey, this is the first NC video I ever saw! Aw, the Nostalgia for the Nostalgia Critic.

[@RDSk0]

Hellooooo, Im the Nostalgia Nostalgia Critic, I reupload it so you don't have to!

[@AirQuotes]

Samuel Johnson I don't remember my 1st video sadly

[@thedontworrybehappychannel1761]

KinRedysko How the Fuck did i Even found this Channel?

[@thedontworrybehappychannel1761]

mriee actually,How the Fuck did i Even found this Channel?

[@cherylolsen7619]

my first NC video was his sonic the hedgehog review

[@pixelman6193]

can we all agree that ferngully had one of the best voiced villains ever

[@Angelicwings1]

Ummm yeah

[@TheQuashingoftheTub]

Sliiiiime beneath me. Sliiiiiiiiiiiime up aboooove Dayum that songs fuckin' great

[@charlottecorday8494]

No, no we can't.

[@superstarultra28]

TO... TO... TOXIC LOVE!!!!!

[@opalyasu7159]

It was Tim Curry. Anything he says makes all women in a 5-mile radius turn straight and start orgasming. It sounds like a really weird stand ability: 『TOXIC LOVE』

[@elizabethashley42]

Doug's Michael Crawford impression is shockingly spot-on.

[@MelancoliaI]

He's the only one to come close to matching Crawford's...secret...hot sauce

[@JTPMalavet]

This cracked me up!

[@GP-rc3pt]

Want an environmental film that's actually good? Watch some Ghibli films

[@Listener11111]

"Respect nature, or giant insects will demolish your houses and spread toxic plants"

[@langfordjeremy100]

Hey this is a good one, don't hate! And yes I'm a huge Ghibli fan

[@JakNekon]

"Respect nature or giant talking animals will wage war on you and turn into worm covered demons when you kill them."

[@Poever]

Hanna-Barbera of all studios helped produced this, they ain’t got shit on Ghibli.

[@ChildOfChaos07]

Nah. He'd complain about the environmental messages in those too.

[@heyobeo]

*Aggressively rolls Rs*

[@TheElcorSpectre]

I remember when I was a Shia Labeouf many years ago.

[@RileyA.]

XD

[@accidentalalicorn5323]

Good times huh?

[@michaelb9537]

Me too

[@schattentaenzerin]

It feels so long ago, I guess Rrrrrrheumatism will come soon

[@megamarsonic]

"It's okay! It turns out she just needs some aspirin! How are you?" Well there goes my drink. Turned me into a human lemonade sprinkler with that joke. XD

[@katysikkema]

Oh my gosh! 😂

[@soberossack6610]

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrheumatism!!!!

[@randalgraves6979]

Sober Сossack Bat Crrrrrrrredit Carrrrrrd.

[@inky5574]

R to the H to the E to the U-M-A-tism. Rrrrheumatism!

[@inky5574]

R to the H to the E to the U-M-A-tism. Rrrrheumatism!

[@RileyA.]

Yee. :D

[@Max-iq8hi]

IKR He really is a dickhole, who uses this word as an excuse! He's so selfish!

[@lapzidorus1786]

A hedgehog name Russell...so this is where he lived before the Littlest Pet Shop.

[@Nephalem2002]

Lapzidorus No this is the future

[@supermariof0521]

And apparently went through a radioactive transformation that turned him into a tiny orange naked ball?

[@tearoses9940]

I forgot Littlest Pet Shop had a show, and at first I thought you meant that you had a LPS hedgehog that you named Russell as a kid

[@danielnewman9680]

3:23 in the words of Sheldon Cooper "Oh gravity thou art a heartless bitch"

[@juhaniaho6698]

Just A random Fox In A Hat Ba. Zin. Ga.

[@tannerprice2018]

Bazinga

[@snapclub8751]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@epicrapfan73]

"I won the lottery!" "Yes, but COVID-19 still happened."

[@TheGreatDrAsian]

I think this review might be the pinnacle of the Old Nostalgia Critic style. I wish he'd still do some reviews like this along side his new style. The old style feels less like Doug is trying to show off his writing and acting abilities, and more like he's actually applying them.. I'm always impressed by Doug's abilities, whether he's trying his best or just goofing around, but personally I enjoy him a little more when he's just not giving too much of a fuck and is making a video to be silly and not to store in his professional resumé, so to say.

[@albertschoise8091]

TheGreatDrAsian yes but the thing is that while i agree he is quite funny i find the new ones to be much better. More of a reason to watch, more laughs, looks better and while the old ones where good i simply enjoy the new ones more. Sorry for voicing my opinion

[@awall1439]

May not be forget rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrheumatism!

[@Kugawattan]

I have to give credit to the movie for the design of Abigail, she's female but there aren't any obvious "girl in a cartoon" tropes applied to her. It's kinda refreshing.

[@supermariof0521]

Also in the trailers, they kept saying "From the creator of "An American Tail", even though neither Stephen Spielberg nor Don Bluth had ANYTHING to do with this movie. Though it does make me imagine what would happen if Abigail and her Dad (Does she also have a Mom?) traveled to New York and did a crossover with Fievel?

[@vestonbruno2795]

@@supermariof0521 Actually the trailers were referring to David Kirschner who produced An American Tail, this film, and Child's Play.

[@supermariof0521]

@@vestonbruno2795 Wow. That dude went from a mouse version of "Finding Nemo" to a doll with a blood lust........impressive range.

[@vestonbruno2795]

@@supermariof0521 It was. And another thing, An American Tail was WAY before Finding Nemo was a thing.

[@supermariof0521]

@@vestonbruno2795 I know it came out before "Finding Nemo", and it to me was "Finding Nemo" BEFORE "Finding Nemo" in terms of its plot. The difference is that whereas "FN" was told primarily from the father's perspective, "AAT" was told from the child's perspective. Also "FN's" sequel "Finding Dory", while not quote as good as the first film, still had the same heart and soul as the first film.................too bad I can't say the same for the insanely overrated "Fievel Goes West".

[@thecinematicmind]

Damn you! You little flying pandora. You little demon! Now you can't not ever be free! Damn you! CURSE YOOOOUUU! Ah Michael Crawford. But not as good as rrrrrRHEUMATISM!

[@MrElectricmayhem88]

OH! so THAT WASN'T a Big Lipped Alligator Moment!?!?

[@Seryeth]

well, the birds actually give them directions for savings the little bird, granted, it comes out of nowhere, like the lion, but, as pointless as it was, the characters did interact with them, and they help the plot to move on, after wasting time of course

[@emma_thedj]

Fun fact: ramble is actually another word for walk, i think that's what he meant

[@Kirkklan]

Once Upon a Forest: The Legend of the Rolling "R"'s (Seriously though, I think that joke gets a bit old...)

[@supermariof0521]

Would be a great running gag for the sequel, "Once Upon A City". XD

[@joyfulleader5075]

I thought it was funny

[@viewtifulmorannp6185]

Pom Poko, Princess Mononoke and Nausicaâ of the Valley of the Wind are still the best envoirmental films ever made.

[@brendis16851]

Bambi and Wall-E are awesome, too

[@gageperuti5519]

The reasons being the environmental messages in those movies aren't forced down your throats, unlike this, Ferngully, or Avatar (the James Cameron film).

[@summerjonz]

They don't verbally tell you@@gageperuti5519

[@XxFluffyxX]

The Phantom of the Opera reference made my day! It was the London version too. Noiceee

[@katysikkema]

Phantom just closed recently after 35 years of Broadway 🥲💙

[@blacksun3884]

This movie was a guilty pleasure for me and I love it even when it has is flaws.

[@supermariof0521]

I actually had all the plushies of the characters from this movie. I think their in storage.

[@awall1439]

Yeah it sure was actually doing my favourite movies part of my childhood actually!

[@vestonbruno2795]

Now despite what he said, I love this film. And to give credit, you really can't blame Hanna-Barbera for this. At least they were trying!

[@jay-white]

Hanna Barbera had something to do with this?

[@briansivley2001]

​@@jay-whitethey were the main studio who animated this movie.

[@Nick-ty9us]

Hanna Barbera produced the movie The animation looks way too good to be Hanna-Barbera because if you know about them, you know that used limited animation for years.

[@anthemward2877]

best joke ever toxic gas Tim Curry

[@Onsvaltti]

god I wish it was acted by Tim Curry.

[@lilybond1124]

Ferngully's toxic love by Tim Curry is one the best villians' song!

[@Lady_Ginnie]

Am I the only one wondering if the guy who crashed that truck is okay? I mean, he was alone when he went off the road and was driving a truck full of hazardous material. He could be dead!

[@sodapopred417]

MegaShinyObject more importantly, who the he'll ordered a truckload of poison gas

[@rinaldomoon9068]

Well as far as this movie cares, he probably died from 12 heart attacks and a seizure because screw the human race.

[@XxSilverTheHedgehog1]

MegaShinyObject he did make it out okay. He was he one who got help to clean up the forest

[@Ospyro3em]

He was fine- in the actual film it shows him getting out the truck and exclaiming that he needed to get help after realising that gas was escaping.

[@zoltanz288]

MegaShinyObject he died on the spot and the animals ate him.

[@raethomas108]

Honestly all this did was made me want to watch this movie a lot. It's still one of my favs.

[@edmundthefox3656]

Remember! RRRhhhhhhheuuuuuuumatism!!!!!

[@danieltreshner4955]

If it took them a day to get to the owl, free the bird stuck in the mud at around dawn, reach the second meadow around noon, build the flying machine in 2-3 hours, get the cliff-plant-thing less than an hour after building the flying machine, and get back to the dying badger kid at night. How exactly did they fly a day's and a half worth of walking in 3-4 hours?

[@lookbehindyou1419]

Daniel Treshner Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrheumatism

[@morgangobin6550]

Daniel Treshner Lord of the Rings logic. Or rather, the logic Lord of the Rings SHOULD have used (they could have saved so much time by flying on those golden eagles!)

[@azadalamiq]

flying is faster then walking. It took me 12 hrs to fly from MA to LA. try to walk that. :)

[@eowynbates9376]

+Morgan Gobin Except the fact that the eagles are easy to spot and easy to shoot down. Sauron would have seen them coming long before they were even close to Mordor, and would've gotten picked off like they were mallards in Duck Hunt. On the ground they could at least hide and dodge effectively.