TheVAFan That quote right there, that quote easily tells you right there that Felix The Cat is a downright insane person that would look fine at a local Asylum.Come to think of it, so does this film too. It constantly strangles itself like a crappy Poundland Bart Simpson knockoff and shoves so much weird and trippy imagery down our eyelids and our throats that there is literally, and I mean LITERALLY, no room to breathe for an actual story.Or actual characters too.Felix The Cat: The Movie is an 82 minute hellhole, hold on, what am I even saying lads, this is not a film, this is an exercise in constant unbearableness. An exercise even someone like Winnie The Pooh would give up after 4 seconds.I, one of the few poor unfortunate souls (Disney reverencing aside) actually had this sucker on DVD. And even as a young lad I thought, watching Superman watching The Three Stooges watching Laurel and Hardy watching paint dry would have been more enjoyable than this.Literally right at the start, the film throws you out of your comfy sofa with noise. "Oh the noise! Noise! Noise!" The Grinch basically summed the film up there.The film never once SHUTS UP, once one character's talked, then another talks and random sound effects are put here and there. It's as if everyone part of the production thought "Oh no! The film's gonna be crap if it's quiet! Oh my! The kiddie winks will get bored if we don't give em noise!" and they ran around the studio shouting and yelling and thought "Yeah, that would make a good film." No, it didn't lads. No, it bladdy well didn't.Also I think this must be the first animated film where you'll want everyone dead within under 4 seconds...The incredibly irritating and rather psychopathic Felix who could make even Hannibal Lecter cry in his sleep.The two random guys who want his bag.The unbelievably retarded princess who actually withdrew her army at the start despite the fact she KNOWS she needed them. (What a dumbarse.) There is literally not one single human being or animal to root for here, you'll want to literally blow up the dreaded place.Oh yes and what about the abysmal animation that looks rushed, unfinished and probably has tons of errors? To those saying it looks like a Saturday morning cartoon, trust me, it wouldn't even look good as a Saturday morning cartoon. Even those choppy 70's cartoons look better than this.Voice acting is unbelievably grating. I actually came out with a massive headache shortly afterwards. (I'll take all those bad things I said about you back Scaredy Squirrel, you ain't as grating as these miserable lot here.) There's not even a famous person(unless you count Alice Playten from Ridley Scott's Legend and the Disney version of Doug). Not to mention it hardly even matches the chuffin lip synch and in some parts it's so bloody loud you can't even understand what they're saying. Christ el mundo, was all this sound editing done by a one year old? Even then they would have done better.Felix The Cat: The Movie is an unbearable psychedelic trip that not only hurts the eyes but blows up the ears as if it's some crappy Michael Bay film. Even as a drug it still wouldn't be fun in the slightest.Everything grates on your nerves within 1 second and it completely spits on the legacy of this beloved character.Easily one of the worst animated films ever made and a horrible experience I never want to revisit again.Now run away children, run as fast as you can and never look back at this damn thing.AAAAARRGGGH!

lemon_magic I think I see where the creators were trying to go with this weird melange of mixed story elements and bland artistic choices. But for me, it didn't work at all. First, the story itself. I don't remember much of Felix from my younger days, but I have half-remembered images of an irrepressibly cheerful kitty who pulled amazing things out of his "Bag Of Tricks" and tickled my younger self with his magical "anything can happen" existence. And it's obvious that's what the film makers are trying to do here. But to me,now, it feels forced and phony and annoying. I found some of the original Felix cartoons on YouTube to see if my adult tastes and sensibilities were to blame...nope, those old cartoons are still weird and goofy and incredibly creative. But you know what else they were? They're SHORT. And there's the problem. Felix is a character meant to show up, do something outrageous and tricky, and LEAVE. If you keep him around for 90 minutes plus, you have to try to flesh him out, and add to his backstory...and the creators just don't have the ability to do this convincingly. Now Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett (from this generation) or Theodore Sturgeon, or even R.A. Lafferty...THOSE guys could have come up with a way to fill things out and come up with a story that justified this much time with the character without exhausting our patience. I might have been able to live with a poor story if the actual animation quality had been better, but to me, that's where the film really falls down. You'd expect this level of animation for a weekly kids cartoon on TV, not a feature release. The character designs were generic and undistinguished, and the animation was pure hack work. I understand that good animation is hard, hard work; it takes time, talent, money, and inspiration. "Felix" was completely lacking in inspiration and talent. Or else the talent didn't have any time or money. Once every 3-4 minutes, there would be a nice flash of something decent, but if you blinked, you'd miss it. Also, the sound was mixed and synched so badly that half the time I couldn't make out what the characters were saying. The voice acting appeared to be the stuff from the first couple of takes from actors who spoke English as a second language. And there were musical numbers that were neither funny or charming. A kid might like this. A LITTLE kid, who hadn't grown up with Warner Brothers, Ralph Bakshi, Disney, Don Bluth, and Pixar and didn't have any taste for "the good stuff". Or an adult who saw this as a kid and has fond memories of it. I wasn't expecting much, and I got even less. File this one with "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" and "The Magic Voyage": animated bologna that does nothing to make you believe in the power of animation to tell stories that live action can't.

kylehaines96 Felix the cat is a cartoon from the 1920's. It was very good and pretty funny. But some Idiot in Hollywood thought that this would transfer well into film. That person should have their brain examined.The film is about Felix the cat who travels to the land of Oriana to help Princess Oriana to fight off her evil uncle after a science experiment and wants to rule the land of Oriana. There is also a sub-plot about how Felix's Magic bag keeps getting stolen by this mad scientist.This is a loud and obnoxious film filled with bad characters, stupid story and the sound mixing with characters is awful. Sometimes you cannot understand what the characters are saying. Felix is very dull and kind of sick at times because he sees corpses and starts laughing. Stay away from this awful film and stick to the classic cartoon.Rated G.1hr 22min/82min.BOMB/****

new_concept_ This movie, ever since i was a kid, was strange to me. I never really understood this film, but i loved it anyway. I liked the way they ACTUALLY put an interesting villain (Duke of Zill) and good yet simple enemies (the Cubes and Cylinders). And last summer i found the VHS tape for a few dollars, so i bought it and watched it again. This time i understood the story, a princess in danger i knew that, i just didn't know why or how Felix ended up in Oriana, but now that i understand the story more, i give the story a solid 8 out of 10. Just a few small adjustments and fix up the script a little, but thats about it. This is my only favourite cartoon movie that i can watch over and over again because of the characters, originality, use of effects and animation (The Cylinder and Cube lights) and i like the way they put their own music in. Songs like the one you hear at the circus "Who is The Boss" by the Duke of Zill? Ya, that always made me want to watch it. A reason why the Duke of Zill is a good villain is that the movie actually explained and told you about his history, that he is the princess's uncle and why he became a robot, doesn't leave the audience hanging. And so, i give this movie a perfect 10/10.