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This Saturday morning, Joseph and Chris watched Anastasia, from 1997. This was suggested to us by Sarah Lee 008! Thanks, Sarah!
The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.
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After a string of four bad movies, I was glad Don Bluth was able to bounce back with this movie, even if it did involve him basically copying the Disney format, something he always resisted. After this he would go on to do Titan A.E., which is my favorite movie of his, but then he never made another movie after that.
I’m glad you guys got to watch this so soon after seeing All Dogs Go To Heaven, and I’m glad you guys got to watch it around this time. Despite not being a holiday movie, this always felt like a holiday movie to me. Maybe it’s all the snow or maybe it has to do with the fact that it was released around Thanksgiving.
While I wouldn’t say this is up there with some of the best Disney movies at the time, like Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, I think this movie could be lumped in the same league as the movies of that time. Hell, I’d say that it’s leagues better than something like Pocahontas.
I never thought about how Dimitri got into the hedge maze with Rasputin and Anastasia, but you guys made a great point about him just suddenly showing up there. At least he wasn’t the one to beat Rasputin, like Joseph, said, which was actually their original plan.
If I may add a criticism, I feel like this movie doesn’t know what to do with several of its characters. For example, there is too long of a period where Rasputin is just absent from the story while they’re preparing to present Anastasia to her grandma. Also, Vlad just completely disappears from the story in the third act.
I know they did a Broadway play based on this movie, similar to what they did with Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. I’ve never seen it but I have no interest in seeing it since I heard they cut Rasputin out of it completely.
One last thing I’ll mention is that while All Dogs Go to Heaven was a success, it wasn’t a success until it was released in VHS. It was a huge box office bomb in the theaters since it opened up the same weekend as The Little Mermaid (though funny enough, All Dogs Go To Heaven actually opened up in more theaters than The Little Mermaid).