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The 'Happily Ever After Phenomenon'

posted 16 years ago by crunkopotomus
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So, is everyone else noticing that this movie has a huge generational following? Its as if a million children watched this ten years ago and forgot about it, and now all at once we remember and start looking for it again. I saw this a LOOOOONG time ago and I recently had a dream that reminded me of it. I found it after like two years of wondering and now im super stoked to watch it again. So i go on imdb and there are like a hundred people that went through the same thing as me! I wonder what other movies came out at just the right time to hook a generation of children and then become forgotten. Im 18 now and I am proud to say that I am about to go watch Happily Ever After again. Does anyone else know any flims that have this same phenomenon?

[–] flamingorocker 16 years ago

Same thing for me. I have had recurring dreams about this movie and I knew it was a Snow White sequel but couldn't remember the name. I finally had the sense to just type in "Snow White 2" into the IMdb search and voila! I look forward to seeing this again, I really enjoyed it as a kid. I remember renting it more than once at our local Movie Gallery.

Don't judge a book by it's movie.

[–] Clayburn 16 years ago

Fern Gully

[–] Vivacious-Virgo 16 years ago

Loved this as a kid. Still have the tape.
Like someone below me said: Ferngully
An American Tail
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Thumbelina
Cats Dont Dance
Little Nemo (No. Not Finding Nemo.)
RockaDoodle
Troll in Central Park
Pound Puppies the Movie
Journey Back to Oz (The animated one)
Balto
All Dogs Go to Heaven
The Black Cauldron (Disneys Much Covered up Mistake)
Snoopy Come Home
Wind in the Willows (Non- Disney/ Animated)
The Nutcracker (animated)
Once Upon a Forest
Secret of Nimh

To name a few. I made sure to name the ones that are more obscure so that people have a hard time remembering.

Everyone is but a homo side character in my romantic comedy!

[–] Vivacious-Virgo 16 years ago

Also:
Chipmunk Adventure
Princess and the Goblin
Pebble and the Penguin
The Thief and the Cobbler

Everyone is but a homo side character in my romantic comedy!

[–] calishreveguy 15 years ago

Like some the above poster stated and others:
An American Tail
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
The Land Before Time(the original not the crappy sequals)
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Furngully
Aladdin and The King of Thieves
The Pebble and the Penguin
G.I. Joe The Movie
The American Rabbit

Dr. Peter Venkman: NOBODY steps on a church in my town.

[–] MovieDude1893 15 years ago

Rover Dangerfield!

FYC (In all Categories): In Bruges, The Dark Knight and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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[–] lichking2007 15 years ago

yeah all those don bluth films that totally bombed and nobody saw

pebble and the penguin
Troll in central park
Thumbelina

[–] jcole1018 15 years ago

i have been lookin for this movie for like 3 years and i used to rent this every weekend as a kid my favorite!! Felix the Cat the movie and rainbow brite and the star stealer were some other movies i was obsessed with

[–] maruru_66 15 years ago

I used to LOVE this movie and watch it all the time. Then I forgot about it for a few years. One day my friends and I were at goodwill looking through the VHS and I found it again. (yay for goodwill lol)

S.P.E.R.M.

[–] le_chaton_rouge05 14 years ago

OMG last week I found H.E.A. on VHS at my local second hand store and i almost crapped my pants!

[–] metabad 14 years ago

This happened to me with "Freddie as F.R.O.7" an obscure U.K movie made in 1992, I vaguely remembered seeing it as a child, but all I could remember was that the villainess was a sorceress with a hood that looked like a cobra, that later on in the movie turned into a snake and grabbed a microphone and sang.

Later on I saw a youtube music video featuring Non-Disney animated villains and lo and behold the red snake sorceress was in it, later on I figured out that her name was Messina and she was from "Freddie as F.R.O.7" (Yeah, I remembered the main villain but not the main hero, not really sure why.)

I recently rewatched the film on youtube, it's really strange, but the characters are likable for the most part and I was entertained by it, its unusual plot gives the film a unique atmosphere in my eyes, a unique feel that I don't feel with any other movie I've seen. It's so crazy that it's great.

So while not perfect, I definitely like it and wish a sequel was made. It doesn't deserve to be this underrated...unless we're talking about the chopped up, censored American version. That one is horrible, while I understand the reason as to why some things were censored, there were just things that were cut out that never even needed to be taken out in the first place.

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