However, thanks to the Internet I managed to find a complete upload of the whole movie. To a 6 year old, however, Rock-A-Doodle was one of those animated movies that your mother picked up at Blockbuster to keep you entertained during a snow day you’d watch it maybe 3 or 4 times during the rental period, but once it was returned, you promptly forgot about it. Sadly, Rock-A-Doodle was not well-recieved by either critics or audiences, making only roughly $11.6 million dollars and leading to the bankruptcy of Sullivan Bluth Studios. According to Wikipedia, in the late 1980’s, Bluth proposed the the idea of the animated Chanticleer movie, but wanted make the movie a live action/ animation hybrid in an attempt to capitalize on the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. However, Walt Disney personally rejected the idea, and the concept was put into limbo. Originally, the idea was to create an animated movie that would crossover the fables of Chanticleer the Rooster and Reynard the Fox. The whole idea behind Rock-A-Doodle and its origins dates back to when Bluth was still working at Disney’s animation studio. This became apparent when his newest animated movie at the time, Rock-A-Doodle, was released in theaters on April 3 1992, as it signaled that not only was Bluth dethroned from his position in the 1980’s, but also that he would continue this downward spiral throughout the 90’s (despite having good success with the 1997 release of Anastasia, only to plummet back down in 2000 with the commercial failure of the now cult hit, Titan A.E.). However, during the early 90’s, Disney was back in full swing of making animated box office hits during what many people call the “Disney Renaissance”, and Bluth fell on hard times when it came to finances, movie development, and quality. Despite the protagonist reaching a happy ending at the end of the films, they arguably go through a great deal of pain and sacrifice, but become a smarter person as well. Compared to a typical Disney plot where the main character had light-hearted fun,then a conflict came, but the character resolves it and lives happily ever after, Bluth’s plot and story-lines were a lot more mature-themed as well as having a very dark and threatening atmosphere or environment threatening the protagonist. His movies differed greatly from the usual standard Disney, mainly because he didn’t stick to copying from the Disney Formula when he first started out. What can honestly be said about Don Bluth, a former animator for Disney as well as the creator of a few animated films himself? During the 1980’s after his departure from Disney’s animation studio, Bluth went on to make movies such as An American Tale, The Land Before Time, and what many consider to be his masterpiece, The Secret of NIMH, and actually prospered during a time whereas Disney was in both a financial and creative slump.
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