Tentacolino, or "In Search for the Titanic" tells the story of the familiar characters Juan and Elizabeth, along with their mice friends Top Connors and Ronnie and their bring-along-dog Smile. After the five end up in a submarine accident, they’re taken to the wonderful lost city of Atlantis. There they discover a rebellion of rats who want to break free from the city and take over the world.
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This movie is just...a phenomenon.There are bad movies, just think of a movie you know is bad, something the critics nor the public could like and I suspect even that movie at least showed some semblance of professionalism, they at least made sense, they gave the impression that there was some kind of quality control so a certain kind of undemanding viewer could occupy themselves briefly before they left the hotel room for dinner.But not here. This is a level of shoddiness that I never expected could even come about; no one would part with the money required for animation if they knew what this was. How Lucid were the people writing this? They must have known. This HAS to be some kind of Winter for Hitler project where they could get more if the movie failed. And it's he sequel to an almost as bad movie!But I don't hate this. I love that something like this exists since it jus defies belief. The imagery and the bizarre lines and the plot that's jus tall over the place...watch it once and then just feast on all the media that's been creating pointing every absurdity , every plot hole, every shoehorned piece of absurdity.It can get kind of dull: it drags so much in places since they struggle to progress the plot in any way but talking but wowee this will give you new respect for the continental bargain bin, American Movie rip-offs.It's in that so bad it's almost good category so my rating of 5/10 factors that in. If I couldn't laugh at its expense it would be a big 0.
This movie is absolutely horrendous!It doesn't give a damn about consistency, The characters are so bland that I have homicidal thoughts about all of them just to get me through their many many boring and uneventful scenes, The writing is mind numbingly stupid, the two songs make me want to pour corrosive acid into my ears, The plot is all over the place and makes no sense, the lines these characters come out with are either utterly useless, utterly boring or flat out ridiculous, THIS MOVIE IS Bizarre, PAINFUL AND BORING!This isn't even a film about the wreckage of the Titanic, It's a stupid, boring, horrible film about Atlantis and it's horrible inhabitants!The main protagonists are the same as they were in "The Legend of Titanic" except considerably more bland, The king of Atlantis is flat out evil, trying to keep people in his kingdom for all eternity with no way of escape, Tentacles, oh sorry, 'Audie' is only a minor character in this movie, Pingo is an annoying gay stereotype, and The evil mice group are actually the ones in the right.
You cannot watch this movie without questioning whether or not you're destined to go to Hell because you did. You'd think after the disastrous disaster that was the last Titanic film these idiots created, they'd think twice before making anything else related to the Titanic. But nope, these guys decided it would be appropriate to rub salt in the wounds and make a sequel, one that is much, much, MUCH worse. Basically, the hero and heroine with the help of the dog and mice from the first movie go down to search for the wreck of the Titanic in a submarine that won't be developed for several decades to come. But during their descent, their lifelines are cut by a gang let by a rapping shark and...No, I cannot go on writing the plot, its just too convoluted for words, so I'm going to put it in simple list so that I can end this day with what little dignity I have left:Gang led by a Rapping Shark Hero and Heroine and mice come across the Talking Octopus from the first film Random people from the lost city of Atlantis come to rescue them All animals in this can now talkThe Atlantis people offer our hero's (a term I use loosely) a drink that will allow them to breath underwater The mice somehow get caught up in a Communist Revolution of Mice led by a Pirate, a Ninja and a Rodent incarnation of Vladimir Lenin The Revolution is in cohorts with the Rapping Shark Gang - Mice from the first film work as spies to uncover their evil plot to overthrow the earth A wandering transvestite leads a battle against them The mice and sharks try to swim away whilst being chased by a dog with a machine gun The Titanic is raised and becomes the Hero's new home on a hidden island that no one can find on which the hero's must live out the rest of their days, which is in direct contradiction with the first film because the mice from the first one live in New York and have grandchildrenThe leader of the Mouse Revolution is slung in a Mouse Mental Institute They all live happily ever after...The parts in between you can probably piece together yourself into some congested mess. I myself was feeling too unclean to come up with any decent suggestion. You can see why this film is such an abomination and why the fevered mind that created this mess should be thrown in the Mental Asylum with the Revolutionary Mice Leaders. It's enough to drive people to tears and possibly suicide watching something as devastatingly awful as this horror story, and the fact that it was marketed as a Children's film makes it all the more terrible.
This is not as bad as Titanic:The Animated Movie(or The Legend Goes On), but it is worse than its predecessor Legend of the Titanic, which is also really bad. In Search of the Titanic does have a rapping shark which is even more disturbing and anachronistic than the rapping dog, and it was such an embarrassing scene in every way, but that is not the only problem the film has.The animation is sloppy with washed out colours and backgrounds, flat character designs and all-over-the-place editing, and the music is both awful and forgettable and completely took me out of the period. The dialogue is just horrid, I have actually got a headache from banging my head on the wall over 100 times, while the story is rushed(again not helped by its scant length), predictable with some insulting(to the intelligence) scenes such as everyone surviving which took away from any poignancy or accuracy. The dubbing is abysmal, the voice work is wooden once again and the characters are stereotypical and devoid of any sympathy or likability.All in all, really poor and problematic, and like its predecessor and Titanic:The Animated Movie I had my intelligence insulted again. 1/10 Bethany Cox