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Post #257359

Author
Esn
Parent topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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Date created
18-Nov-2006, 6:38 AM
Good heavens. The soundtrack of the Miramax version (which I'm seeing for the first time now) is giving me a headache... Yeeaghch...

The Folk score is actually pretty good in some parts when allowed to stand on its own (the first scene with the thief being a prime example), but here it's delegated to background music - instead, we have that horrible narration by Tack and the thief. Both of their voices are very irritating. There might as well be elevator music in the background because it's so quiet compared to the voices. There are unnecessary voices everywhere - I guess the producers thought that any scene is improved by the addition of a voice. Hence, when Tack and Princess YumYum first meet in the throne room, they couldn't just have them tilt their heads in silence. No, when Tack tilts his head he has to say "hmm", then the princess tilts her head and says "hmm" and so on. It makes the entire scene completely ridiculous.

The outsourced animation is really horrible. Definitely Saturday-morning-cartoon quality.

I wish I didn't have to watch this monstrosity, but someone has to look after that wikipedia page, so I might as well.