The Legend of the Titanic (, ) is a 1999 animated fantasy film directed by Orlando Corradi and Kim J. Ok. The film is a very loose adaptation of the RMS Titanic sinking and featured several fantasy elements such as anthropomorphic animals.
The Legend of the Titanic was followed by a 2004 sequel titled Tentacolino and a 2011 television series, Fantasy Island (not to be confused with the popular 1977–1984 fantasy drama of the same name).
Plot
In New York City, an old mouse named Connors tells his grandchildren the supposedly "true" story of the RMS Titanic, after discouraging one of his grandchildren from playing with a shark whistle.
In April 1912, Connors was a young sailor mouse on the Titanics maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. He is in charge of taking account for the mice who are making the trip through various maritime protocols. A young mouse named Ronny, who enjoys playing soccer, befriends Connors.
A jail attire-wearing shark named Mr. Ice, is asked to arrange the destruction of the ship.
Mr. Ice and his gang of sharks prepares to sink the Titanic. Geoffreys asks the radio man to send an urgent wire from Maltravers to his whaling ships by telegraph, but the mice chew apart the wires to stop it from being sent.
Ice and his gang of sharks fools a giant octopus named Tentacles into heaving an iceberg to the surface of the ocean. The Titanic crashes into the iceberg, during which Maltravers and his entourage flee the ship in a lifeboat. In order to fix the telegraph wires, the mice enlist the help of a French mouse named Camembert, who insist they tie the wires to his moustache, electrocuting him to death.
Suddenly, several whales and dolphins arrive to help with the rescue, while a guilt-ridden but determined Tentacles tries to hold the bow and the stern together as they are splitting apart, and keep the ship on the surface for as long as possible. Everyone jumps off the Titanic into the sea and are saved by a whale. Once everyone on the ship has been saved, the Titanic finally sinks, taking Tentacles with it and seemingly crushing him. In the morning, the passengers are taken aboard the RMS Carpathia. The said ship arrives in New York and disembarks the passengers.
Back in modern-day New York old Connors tells his grandchildren that whales are still hunted, and that they must do whatever they can to stop the whaling scheme at all costs.
Cast
Original version
Emanuela Rossi – Elizabeth
Vittorio Guerrieri – Don Juan
Stefano Crescentini – Top Connors
Maria Teresa Cella – Ronnie
Luca Ward – Barone Van Der Tilt
Ferruccio Amendola – Denti di Ghiaccio
Oliviero Dinelli – Tentacolino
English dub
Gregory Snegoff – Maltravers / Smiley / Mr. Ice / Mouse Captain / Additional Mice Francis Pardeilhan – Don Juan Jane Alexander – Elizabeth Camden / Tentacles / Grandchildren Anna Mazzotti – Ronnie / Stella / Dolphins / Additional Mice Sean Patrick Lovett – Top Connors / Camembert / Geoffreys / Don Juan's Friend / Orcy Teresa Pascarelli – Rachel / Dolphins Frank von Kuegelgen – Captain Edward J. Smith (uncredited) John Stone – Mr. Krey (uncredited)
Production
The Legend of the Titanic was an international effort between North Korea's state owned SEK for animation, and Spanish ITB and American Hollywood Gang as producers, as well as an Italian writing team and composer.
Reception
Tim Brayton of Alternate Ending gave the movie a 0.5/5, stating "A giddy, so-bad-it's-the-most-essential-movie-I've-ever-seen disaster of tasteless incompetence."