Villian Defeats:Warren T

[@kornmasterdan]

That roar sells it completely. I don't know what sound effect they used, but it sure does the damn job. Even now at 30, its still has that slightly unsettling feel to it.

[@NoirRaven]

Sounds like a mix of elephant, bear and whale. Blue or Humpback to be precise. :D

[@ladisneyprincesse]

Did they use that roar for the Old King Kong ride?

[@kornmasterdan]

never been on it so, not sure.

[@SunBunz]

So awesome. I think the reason the Mouse of Minsk was so unsettling and scary-looking was not only it's monstrous appearance, but how it moved! It looks gargantuan the way it moves slowly, yet with such fluidity, it looks eerily realistic. At first, I thought it was an old version of CG...but it's actually rotoscoped! No wonder! (They filmed live models of it, then overlapped it with animation) Once you realize how DIFFICULT and time-consuming it is to animate like that, you appreciate this epic scene even more. :D

[@krystalmorrison6679]

Whoa

[@Servellion]

Apparently the model for rotoscoping was the size of a damn motor cycle. Fuck that!

[@MDthornton83]

30 years later, this movie still holds up.

[@mysteryman3854]

Yeah and the sequels are still crap it needs a Illumination/Amblin Entertainment direct sequel with the Fievel as a 21-year-old.

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

3 decades later and that Giant Mouse is still nightmare fuel!!! 😱😱😱

[@jerrythecartoonist]

This thing scared the hell outta me as a kid. I had nightmares for weeks! ...Ah, memories. :)

[@hunterspride18]

Thumbs up if you think "The Giant Mouse of Minsk" is seriously one of the most awesome animated creations ever conceived.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

well I'm sure they knew it wasn't a monster, but they didn't wanna get run over/blown up by it either. XD

[@joehumpston7937]

Rotoscoping! What an amazing form of Animation!

[@joehumpston7937]

***** Yep! Him and Steven Spielberg! This was the first animated film he ever produced, and he was amazed at just how time-consuming it turned out to be, but it was clearly worth it.

[@joehumpston7937]

***** Yep! Spielberg clearly knew a good thing when he had it; two years later, he and Bluth came out with the Land Before Time.

[@joehumpston7937]

***** Yep! Essentially Bambi, but with dinosaurs! Fun fact: Jurassic Park came just five years after the first was released!

[@metrozeegle4985]

This movie had a TON of scary characters (cossack cats, creepy Poseidon, market's cats, etc...) but this... This is the final boss of this movie !

[@ryanmorley8211]

Metroz Eegle yeah that Posiedon monster was kinda freaky too.

[@ryanmorley8211]

God they sure don't make kids movies like this anymore.... our Generation had some great flicks to grow up with. Always proud to be a 80's-90's kid.

[@matthewcass3773]

don bluth: I need you to make a terrifying mechanical high octane fuel mechanical murder mouse to freak everyone out m'kay? *leaves* animator:...............*blink*........................................................................................*blink*.................................................................GOD I love my job

[@airistal]

LOL

[@adam985185]

I remember The Giant Mouse of Minsk looked a lot freakier when I was younger.

[@NoirRaven]

That's because it was. The original had a lot more black to its design because it was rotoscoped. They cleaned it up for the diigital/dvd releases. :/

[@piggyoinkoink6352]

Now it just looks like Deadmau5 😂😂😂

[@ryanmorley8211]

Yeah it was scary as hell!

[@Tsumefan2]

well scientifically speaking anything that looks freaky to a younger mind is scary to that younger mind

[@ryanmorley8211]

Yeah NoirRaven I know what you mean, I had the old video cassette. The darker tones made it more... menacing.

[@joekaput747]

anybody else get nightmares from this for a while as a kid?

[@airistal]

Didn't then but just might now. I think this is where my sympathy for monsters came from, what an entrance.

[@joehumpston7937]

Well, good to know I'm not the only person who was mentally scarred by it in their youth!

[@unibrowmonsterattack5527]

That's so weird. I was super impressionable as a kid and I got plenty of nightmares from movies, but I feel exactly the opposite here--I always thought the Mouse of Minsk reveal was an overwhelmingly triumphant, "take that!" moment, like when George McFly punches Biff. To me, this is 100% distilled victory, and I remember for a long time I couldn't watch it without tearing up a little.

[@HenryvKeiper]

Unibrow, I was the same way when I saw this in theaters as a kid. With the build up to this moment, I saw it as the final victory come at last. The only thought on my mind was, "Ha! Take that, cats!" However, I can see why some people would be freaked out by this. Don Bluth animated the Giant Mouse of Minsk the same way he animated the tractor in "Secret of NIMH": by tinting live-action objects and putting it in a 2D animated movie. It gives a weird kind of uncommon valley vibe.

[@ladisneyprincesse]

Yeah and I thought he roared like King Kong from the old ride!

[@Reeseington]

I remember this scaring the crap out of me as a kid

[@GeneralOlde]

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear.

[@Chukkz2]

+Ocelot The Shagohod!

[@stef96ify]

+GeneralOlde Exactly, just make it five or six times bigger XD

[@goatprince1]

Daily reminder that the Giant Mouse of Minsk was rotoscoped and an actual model of this thing that looked exactly like it does in the movie actually existed at one point.

[@BardicLiving]

+THE MAN The rotoscoping is part of what makes it look so freaky.

[@Servellion]

@@C--kr8bk And it was the size of a motor bike.

[@RogueT-Rex8468]

Some say…. It still exists.

[@JackCaliber]

Dear God, this scene is amazing! The fury of mice from every corner of the world, denied their American dream, embodied in a terrifying monster with one message; "We crossed the globe to get away from your shit! Now GTFO!"

[@Fullmetalminos]

Fortunately I've never seen that kind of er...mouse-dragon hybrid, but that rotoscoping was great! Seriously, something like 30 cats get terrorized by a 25 ft mechanical monster based on a fable character. Which spits "fire" (rockets) and has a scorpion-like tail. Not bad, Don Bluth!

[@airistal]

25 ft.? That thing is only 7 to 9 ft. tall and 12 to 15 ft. long. That is a typical size door there.

[@James-Ram]

I wasn't really scared of this when I was a kid, I thought this was pretty cool. The rotoscope design, the roar it makes, fireworks shooting from it is great, but I also love the reaction from the cats. Warren T and the rest are scared out of there minds and the way that Digit screams at 1:12 and 1:16.

[@mahlahflutterthepegasus859]

Digit screaming was funny lol but he died cockroaches can't survive in water lol

[@mahlahflutterthepegasus859]

I just realized digit and Petrie's voices are played by the same actor (will Ryan) but their voices lol Petrie has a low voice, while digit has a high-pitched voice lol but digit's voice is more funny though

[@matthewcass3773]

mouse of minsk: THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!

[@stef96ify]

+Matthew cass Final form: GMM REBORN!!! Maximum artillery! Engage!

[@matthewcass3773]

XD No, that's his THIRD form Frieza: THIS is my final form

[@stef96ify]

+Matthew cass XD yeah

[@matthewcass3773]

Fifel:..... What have we unleashed

[@DarkKnight-mf8ub]

I love the way he says “get aload of that” haha

[@AlexFeltcha.k.a.SonicAL]

So do I! Lol

[@DarthWill3]

"Now shall you deal with me, o cats, and all the powers of HELL!!!"

[@ShadicBroB]

I'm literally not gonna lie. When I was 6 years old and whan I saw this part of the movie, I literally always had nightmares about that damn giant mouse of minsk. That thing still freaks me out to this day. >:(

[@deathstar001]

I just realized that there must've been some subtle Chinese cat eating joke implied here.

[@felipesalgado6347]

Death Star same here just realized it 😂😂

[@levvy3006]

Yeah, it's kinda fucked up. And kinda funny.

[@trueblue6201]

I am pretty sure you are mistaken.

[@benrobson3442]

Heavy: 'I fear no mouse. but that.. thing, it scares me'

[@MDthornton83]

When you hear the roaring at 0:05 you know there's a monster behind that door. Truly nightmarish even for a kid's movie.

[@09maximous]

When I was a kid and that big mouse came a roaring and fireworks it gave me goosebumps and still does today

[@fruitiful]

This scared the shit out of me when I was younger. Now I just look at it as a cool piece of art. This movie is so good

[@zirconviper]

Digit's scream at 1:12. He has five heads!! Funniest damn scream by Will Ryan!

[@Hakkai87]

Literally had a flashback to this the other night. Damn you Don Bluth, why were you bent on traumatizing me as a kid?!

[@TeamRocket2010]

I'm glad Tiger's not with those other cats anymore.

[@AlexFeltcha.k.a.SonicAL]

Same here! He was too good, sweet & a big friendly, gentle giant of a Cat to join The Mott Street Maulers! & besides, like he said, he's a vegetarian! There's no way he'll ever eat mice! Not even in a million years! 😀😉😁 I'd never ever wanna be a member of The Mott Street Maulers! Would any of you fans of the very 1st "An American Tail" (1985)?

[@sweetbriernr]

Don Bluth knew kids could handle this!

[@CK2012]

+Brie no.20 yeah this was one of my favorite parts

[@guitarfan01]

+Brie no.20 At age two, I sure couldn't. Screaming the theater down at this scene is my earliest memory. :D

[@sweetbriernr]

The One Galen Not hard to se why. Don Bluth's cats in that movie had given me some nightmares for a while as a small child. 😁

[@gageperuti5519]

Brie no.20 Well, his philosophy always was you can show kids anything as long as there's a happy ending. That's why his first four movies- Secret of NIMH, this, Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven- are so dark, mature, scary and even violent. Even some of his later films pushed the limits of what you can put in a kid's movie. How Titan AE was his only PG rated film is beyond me.

[@creativeobsin]

That thing is still kinda scary O.O

[@dieselpower1133]

Kinda? Geeeez, you mean tremendously !!!!

[@creativeobsin]

ye :O

[@alaskanspartan89]

when I was a kid I hated this part because its was scary

[@guitarfan01]

This scared me so much when I saw it in the theater at the age of two that the fear is my earliest memory.

[@larrythestoner415]

this used to make me almost cry from horror when I was a kid

[@onithesamurai3059]

I thought it was so cool

[@rhett8-u1n]

I was never scared by this as a kid, though it had every right TO be. A big reason for that was that this wasn't the last monster, but our heroes' finest moment.

[@aaronlimbaugh3698]

1:44 Now, there are no cats in America We can do just as we please Oh, there are no cats in America So set your mind at ease

[@jesse5215]

OH god erin in game grumps was right , this is terrifying

[@TheTristar3]

lol The Last Guardian playthough i take it? ha i thought i was the only one who actually went back and saw it again

[@KeybladeSoulLord]

From which playthrough he mentioned it?

[@batofdestiny]

riddleman65 They mentioned it again

[@TheKenttt]

He mentioned this 3 years ago?? I'm here from TTYD lol

[@calebjackson3895]

I fucking LOVE this scene! The Giant Mouse of Minsk is such a terrifyingly sublime manifestation of the fury of oppressed mice from all over the world, united in one voice, saying, "We left are homes to get away from this shit! Now GTFO!"

[@Zlarel]

One of my earliest memories is a nightmare following watching this movie, where the Giant Mouse burst through the backdoor of our house and crept toward me trapped in a corner. Took me over a decade to work up the courage to watch it again.

[@shinkahn2350]

I think we had the same nightmare lol

[@Reach1335]

I wouldn't want to be the dock master there at 5:00am in the morning trying to figure out what the fuck just happened. Was that a festival float from Chinatown in storage or something...? xD

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Brandon Matthew lol

[@1987AnimeBoy]

It happened at 6:00 a.m.

[@jakedp100]

Warren T Rat is one of the notorious classic 80's villains of them all.

[@donandkaren1119]

One of my favorite old animated films that I loved more Han Disney. I love how in this film and others with the same artist behind them, they didn’t hold back as much with the darkness. For those parents who want to raise their kids in a peaceful way but still want them to be aware of true darkness and what it feels like . These are the movies for u.

[@nunyabusyness4998]

I loved this part as a kid. That giant evil wave in the beginning of the movie though? Yikes.

[@ryanmorley8211]

Yeah that posiedon monster was freaky too! Menacing...

[@marcuscheng9398]

Same

[@steveforprez03]

Itchy liked this video Scratchy disliked this video

[@jw8395]

No, I think Itchy disliked it because the cats didn't die. And for once, I'd agree. I really wish the villains had died instead of be put in a situation that could make life better for them.

[@airistal]

They eat cats in China.

[@retrofan4963]

@@jw8395 If Itchy realize people eat cats in China, he'll like the video lol

[@timesnewlogan2032]

This was one of the few times I got chills as a child, but not out of fear; this was out of excitement and awe. Because for once, the big, scary monster/machine wasn't coming for me or the heroes. This time, it was the bad guys who were running scared, and it was one of the single most awesome moments I had ever seen in film.

[@GrantDaily]

Am I the only one here who thinks this giant mouse is kinda cool? :D

[@mahlahflutterthepegasus859]

Yea lol

[@MadameTeqi]

This sent me into a full blown panic attack when I saw this at like age nineteen. I guess I'd blocked it out from my brain from my childhood, parents had to give away the tape, but ended up watching it on a livestream with a friend. That night ended in tears and hallucinations.

[@Hakkai87]

I TOTALLY GET YOU!!!!!! YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!!!!

[@MadameTeqi]

Anastasia Alexandra That's actually a bigger relief to me than you know.

[@matthewcass3773]

+Lassie Sandiego I know it seems to be REALLY scared of this thing but to ME, it wasn't scary, it was REALLY BADASS

[@jessiebeck8891]

At least 17 of the dislikes came from Warren T. Cat and his minions.

[@connorclemmons8698]

While The Giant Mouse of Minsk looks utterly terrifying here, I think a lot of credit has to go to the animators for giving the face (as well as the body) of The Giant Mouse of Minsk a sort of 3D look to it despite being clear back from 1986 when hand animation was still a widely used method of animation.

[@mushroomhead3619]

German mouse: Welease the Secwet Weapon! Someone teach her to pronounce her rrrrrrs...

[@Maser209]

I love how it makes you think all the cats drowned, but show them all saved on the anchor at the end.

[@filastyle84]

There was a certain freight train that would pass by the neighborhood I grew up in. I remember the sound of the horn sounded similar to the roar in this scene! Each time I heard it off in the distance, I thought the Mouse of Minsk was coming to terrorize us! 😅

[@MegaBobo234]

I just thought about this scene while listening to Splinter by TheFatRat. What a great AMV it make.

[@AlexFeltcha.k.a.SonicAL]

0:54-0:56 Yeah! Light em' up Tony, brother! 😄

[@lejdcool1]

Watching this as a kid was scary as hell, watching it now it's cool as hell. Something about using a giant robot to defeat your enemies

[@jjbfour]

I'm 30, and I still can't handle scary scenes from Don Bluth movies.

[@PetrieExe4267]

The giant mouse of minsk let's you know you're alive!

[@pauljones506]

Aaaaaaahhh!!! Like it's like a cross between Freddy Krueger, Godzilla and Alien!

[@soloragoldsun2163]

I had this thing as a kid. No matter how scary something looked, if it was on the good guys' side, I was fine. So, the Mouse of Minsk never scared me, nor did the suits of armor in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. If this thing had been a villain, on the other hand... Nightmare fuel!

[@sonicsmiley]

it's the weirdest thing going back seeing this giant mouse that was the source of many nightmares for me as a kid. Even as an adult I'm creeped out lol I love this movie

[@donandkaren1119]

I love this scene so much. The cats were so scared. Like they saw the devil coming for them.

[@JaydenJaguarKingOfTheJungle]

I think the cats would prefer fish than mice

[@lucasmouraquaresma]

The all mice defeats Warren T. Rat and his gang with a secret weapon, a Giank Mouse of Minsk. Looks like Wreck-It Ralph punches a secret weapon to destroy the cy-bugs and Turbo, the diet cola lava!

[@umbreongirl9144]

Just imagine this scene on the big screen with 3D effects like what they did when the original lion king came out. That would be so cool. It will give everyone goosebumps lol

[@Tsumefan2]

little did they know that it was their brother's idea to make the giant mouse of minsk

[@bananatiergod]

Oh my God, that scene terrified me as a child. Some bad memories... >_

[@AuroraRoseWinters1995]

Ah yes...the beast of many a nightmare for me. Even at my current age of 22 years this scene still freaks me out.

[@tiberiusvirus9342]

Giant mouse of Minsk with deep voice:I am you biggest nightmare 😈

[@MasterofVirology]

This scene freaked me out as a kid

[@gageperuti5519]

Major animation error: Tiger is clearly visible among the cats both when the Mouse of Minsk attacks and on the anchor. Yet later, he's with Tony, Bridget, Gussie and Fievel's family as they look for him. Oops.

[@TylerCharlesFisher]

"It's the Giant Mouse of Minsk! You can tell because it says so right on the side! ...Wait, what?"

[@nisha7572]

It's the mouse's lack of pupils that freaks me out!

[@bernicetam2740]

Even the sound is terrifying

[@BDNeon]

I used to be terrified of that thing as a little kid. Now as a 30 year old adult I can look at this and say Yup, still fucking terrifying.

[@doobiesmoke15]

I love that sound it makes

[@Necro8605]

If Arnold saw it in the forest, he would say "your one ugly motherf***er!"

[@jessiebeck8891]

Later, in Hong Kong... Warren T.: Well, we're here, guys. Hong Kong.

[@AlexFeltcha.k.a.SonicAL]

Lol! Oh Jessie ur way too funny! I LOVE the sound of what you just said on that 1! 😂

[@bigbadseed7665]

Those cats are going to China? Oh no...

[@marcuscheng9398]

China is one of the few countries to eat cats

[@mahlahflutterthepegasus859]

@@marcuscheng9398 do they eat cockroaches?! Lol! Cuz digit...

[@retrofan4963]

@@mahlahflutterthepegasus859 That implies that Warren T., Digit, and the rest of Mott Street Maulers cat gang died on the way in Hong Kong, which knowing Don Bluth, it's canon that happened.

[@PixarShark]

I don't think I remember siding with whether or not this really scared me as a kid. XD Half of me would've said YES, certainly, but the other half of me was like "IT'S SO COOOOL!!!"

[@bellathesmolneko9159]

*THAT MOUSE IS SCARY AS HELL*

[@stef96ify]

The scariest thing for me about this is that up until now in the movie it is almost never shown entirely, not even during the building process O.o

[@kurtmarable7430]

Lucky Dearly’s Nightmare In 0:01

[@ChizuMcCheems]

I always thought the Mouse of Minsk looked cool but it was the roar that scared me when I was little.

[@greenredblue]

It's very funny that they ADRed in "I can't swim!" at 1:31. Any kid watching this already knows the villain is defeated and doesn't care about anything beyond that, but the filmmaker, on a personal level, _needed_ us to know he was gonna die.

[@krystalharwood909]

i had a dream about this thing when I was a kid!! It was made of wood and chased me down my bedroom stairs!!!

[@G0REGF_]

The giant mouse of minsk fucked up my childhood! That shit was scary af!

[@BreezePleeze]

dude, even the noises it makes are scary as heck

[@lizafootfor5471]

I was freaked out of the Mouse of Misk when I was six. It still looks freaky.

[@manictiger]

And this is why you don't mess with the rats of nickel metal hydride.

[@user-mz5jn2uj3j]

*This is pure nightmare fuel...*

[@norakbubbles]

Warren T. Cat is hot. I'm just going to say that. This scene also made me kind of freak out when I was a kid.

[@alexisoppenheim9609]

More then Tigerclaw from Warriors, what’s scary an tyrant like Tigerstar or an psychopath cat like Warren T. Cat.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

haven't seen that for an age, was the little bug the same guy who voiced petrie?

[@AlexFeltcha.k.a.SonicAL]

That's right! Will Ryan who played Petrie The Flyer also voiced Diget The Cockroach! 😃😉

[@reubenguttenberg7405]

​@@AlexFeltcha.k.a.SonicAL Willie the Giant

[@00WhiteBlade]

Nightmare fuel for my 4 year old self.

[@dreamquesttv]

"I wonder how you saw 'trust me' in Chinese?" LOL! S/O to the late John Finnegan (the voice of Warren T.), one of the quintessential New York actors.

[@JoeManza]

相信我 (Xiāngxìn wǒ) is how to say “trust me” in Chinese.

[@Xanatos21]

Warren T. Cat was a total prick and I always loved watching him get what he deserved here, but at the same time, that giant mouse also scared the bejesus outta me when I was a kid! Granted, the scene is epic, but the way the monster is designed here is definitely what nightmares are made of! Ever see the movie "Event Horizon"? Imagine if Mickey Mouse died and went to Hell and then came back. Chances are, he be would be a gigantic mouse demon that looks EXACTLY like that huge abomination!

[@abelmantor2449]

The sound it makes though

[@TheMisterJ]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this yet, but cat meat is delicacy in China. You draw your own conclusions...

[@marccamp6376]

I was looking for a comment about that, haha...

[@iancassidy661]

I like this part of the movie and I like it.

[@GyroCoder]

I wanted to be a mad scientist when I was a kid so while this was scary it was mainly just awesome. Anyway apparently Arin mentioned this on Game Grumps - as a fan of both things, what episode was that?

[@AlexFeltcha.k.a.SonicAL]

Sonic AL (Me): 0:16 - You're screwed now Warren T. & friends! Lol! 😆

[@jordanvex4846]

Can you imagine what the people on the boat thought of this spectacle?