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Animal Soccer World

Original title: Das unglaubliche Fussballspiel der Tiere
  • Video
  • 1998
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
2.3/10
84
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Animal Soccer World (1998)
AdventureAnimationShort

In a city inhabited by animals, because nothing exciting is happening, the animals start a soccer match. The two teams who shall compete are named "The Wild Dogs" and "The Jungle Kings". It'... Read allIn a city inhabited by animals, because nothing exciting is happening, the animals start a soccer match. The two teams who shall compete are named "The Wild Dogs" and "The Jungle Kings". It's based on Bedknobs and Broomsticks.In a city inhabited by animals, because nothing exciting is happening, the animals start a soccer match. The two teams who shall compete are named "The Wild Dogs" and "The Jungle Kings". It's based on Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

  • Director
    • Roswitha Haas
  • Writer
    • Roswitha Haas
  • Stars
    • Armin Drogat
    • Simone Greiss
    • Bernd Moehrle
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  • IMDb RATING
    2.3/10
    84
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    • Director
      • Roswitha Haas
    • Writer
      • Roswitha Haas
    • Stars
      • Armin Drogat
      • Simone Greiss
      • Bernd Moehrle
    • 3User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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      • Roswitha Haas
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      • Roswitha Haas
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    1kkithc

    This is one of the worst, THINGS, that i've ever watched.

    Ah, Dingo Pictures, one of those "mockbuster" companies. You know, the companies that ride the coattails of better companies for a quick buck. The animation is a GIANT red flag for those who don't figure it out or don't know before hand. Seriously, i've seen cartoons from the 1930s that look better than this! The character and background designs are so abysmal that even a 5 year old could do better. The lip syncing is NON-EXISTENT at best, the colors strain the eyes, and it just looks like the artists and animators didn't care while making this. Not to mention, it is so slow and boring. Of course, there is voice acting, and OH DEAR MERCY! It just sounds like a single person did every single voice, and even then, it sounds like he could only speak in broken English when it came to saying his lines for this. Plus, the voice volume is so low that you have to try and listen closely just to hear it. Not just that, but the story is pretty much just focused around a soccer (football if you're outside of the United States) game. There is no humor, although that isn't really a necessary thing to have in your movie (a lot of the time). Don't watch it, just don't. This fails on EVERY SINGLE LEVEL, and there are better reviews on it (for example, DXFan619's Phoenix Games review on YouTube).
    1TheLittleSongbird

    One animal soccer game you'd want to miss

    Dingo Pictures is very like, well actually almost exactly the same as, their computer animated counterpart Video Brinquedo. In that pretty much all of their output is insultingly inept, blatantly derivative and "to be seen to be believed to see how awful animation can be" rubbish. Even their least bad animations, such as 'Lord of the Jungle' and 'Legend of Atlantis', are very poorly done. Not a single good animation in the bunch and this is coming from somebody who doesn't like being over-critical.

    'Animal Soccer World' is one of Dingo Pictures' most notorious efforts for very good reason, very easy to see why. Not only is it one of their worst but it is also an all time low. As aforementioned in my previous Dingo Pictures reviews, it is hard to know where to start when there are no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and even for a studio with next to nothing worthwhile 'Animal Soccer World' is one of their worst. Am taking no pleasure in saying all of this, but anybody that says that this is bad is one hundred percent right and too generous even.

    The animation is appalling, even for low-budget animation, the flat colours, very simplistic backgrounds and lack of detail and derivative, recycled and creepy character animation, and characters randomly falling into random and silent laughter for no reason at all. As well as a style, a very cheap mix between MS Paint and water colour paintings, that makes art of primary school children who draw and paint in half an hour or less seem more accomplished.

    Furthermore, the inappropriately jaunty and heavily dissonant music always sounds misplaced and never fitting with what's going on, not to mention that it very rarely stops, actually sounding like it was composed and recorded on loop. The script is incredibly repetitive, awkward-sounding (none of it flows naturally) and juvenile that it will insult any adult is bad enough but even young children will feel dumber after hearing some of the dialogue here.

    Regarding the story, that "takes inspiration" from numerous Disney films and blatantly ripping them off, feels stretched and narratively thin as paper, with incredibly plodding pacing, and is very disjointed and goes nowhere a lot of the time. The sequences with the soccer have nothing on the sheer fun and intensity of the one soccer match in Disney's 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks'.

    Characters are excruciatingly irritating, not a likable or interesting character among them, while the sound effects are bizarre and randomly placed and the voice acting is amateurish and cheap even by low-budget animation standards, often being annoying, poorly recorded, creepy-sounding and incomprehensible and even ill-fitting.

    In conclusion, an all time low in Dingo Pictures' very dubious output. 1/10.

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      During the football match, the announcer reports on the ball missing the goal several seconds before it actually happens.
    • Connections
      Featured in Animal Soccer World (2005)

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    • Release date
      • 1998 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Animal Football Match
    • Production company
      • Dingo Pictures
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    • Runtime
      30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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