***WARNING! PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD!*** (Consider them your life saver)
Straight from the start of the movie, you get the ending thrust into your face as if to tell you "This is how the movie ends. Seriously, it's that bad, we want you to know what's gonna happen." But nope, the director wasn't so considerate. Instead he decided to just show a few glimpses of the Titanic sinking while the rest would focus on a few pointless characters and one main character. Maybe more of a "My animation rocks, see it. SEE IT!" Well it doesn't. The animation is crude and lazy. Of course the movie is just getting started. If you haven't planned on turning the TV off yet, do it now to save yourself. We now jump into a flashback by the main female character! Gee, that sounds like an original way to tell the whole story! *COUGHJAMESCAMERONCOUGH* We are shown that the main female character, Angellica, is the servant girl of an evil stepmother and her two ugly step sisters. Once again, completely thought up by the director's own imagination! *COUGHDISNEYCOUGH* As if the voice acting was bad enough, the animation and lip syncing is just out of line and completely inexcusably lazy. Okay, ending there before I start explaining the entire movie, let's continue. While all we see at first are humans boarding the Titanic, we must remember this is an animated musical. And of course what is an animated musical without animals? That's why in THIS version of the Titanic, we are introduced to some -minor- animal characters subtly boarding the ship through a porthole via a plank of wood. Wasn't the crew prepared for the possibility of rodent infestation? This movie is for kids but do parents really want their children growing up while believing the Titanic compromised of men, women, children and talking animals? Remember, this movie's -supposed- to be historically accurate.
Next up, the subplots. While a movie's supposed to have a main plot and sometimes a couple of subplots, at least one or two, this movie has perhaps 4 or 5! And the bigger problem is no one can tell just WHICH is the main! Each one is just so poorly developed, you think they're supposed to interlink somewhere in the movie! But really they just spread further away from each other per scene! And yes, I said they are poorly developed plots. That's because the scenes are poorly developed too. I'm serious. The scenes change so quickly and fast forward from one moment to another so instantly that you think the movie was burned onto the CD with a few scenes accidentally left out before the film was released to stores. No, that's exactly how the director chose for it to be. And this isn't the only scene they fast forward through, oh no! The entire freaking MOVIE is chock-o-blocked with these "on the move" scenes. I'm surprised this wasn't just a 30 minute movie! There is just so much I want to get out about just how poorly directed this film was but I just can't fit them in. I shall cover in my honest opinion the worst blasphemy this movie had the guts to perform. The historical inaccuracy, the very thing the movie boasted about NOT doing! Let's see, we've already covered the rapping dog and other walking talking animals. Let's move onto what can't be excused for because it's a children's movie. After the crew realised the ship would most definitely sink, the Third Class passengers were locked away down below with no hope of escaping while the higher classes would make it to safety first. However, according to this movie, the Third Class passengers managed to break free with ease as if the gates were built with plastic. This ship was state-of-the-art at the time, hello! Next comes the aftermath. The moment after the Titanic plunged under the water, it is shown William, the main male character, had saved a boy while they were on board the back of the ship as it plunged. A mere literal SECOND after the second half had disappeared, a lifeboat comes from nowhere and saves the child! And to butcher this inaccuracy to its fullest, William is shown barely holding above the surface while his foot is found to be tangled to the bars of the half of the ship that went down last! A large piece of the ship that apparently stayed just 7 feet underwater long enough for William to stay above the surface with a child to pass him up to the lifeboat and then 3 seconds later FINALLY decided to sink! Moving onto the last inaccuracy I'll cover (trust me, there are plenty more but I just can't bring myself to explain them) we see the animal cast on some type of home-made raft. Somehow animals from the cargo hold survived the sinking of the ship! As if that wasn't stupid enough, we get to see dolphins happily appear from nowhere and bring the animals to safety!
If you think this hasn't explained enough of the movie to give you an idea of just how good *cough* or bad it is, seriously, don't bring yourself to watch it. It was terribly made and mercilessly ripped off many other adult and children favourite movies. This movie makes the disaster look like an inconvenience and still had time for a few happy funny moments. The disaster was heart breaking and terrifying. This movie is an heretic and insults the families who lost both lives and innocence.
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