What the HELL is Furby Island? (The TERRIBLE Furby Movie)

this is the worst the 90s were full of wacky toy trends he got beanie babies pogs Tamagotchis but one of the strangest ones to me were Furbys I hated these things and let me tell you why imagine this you're 10 years old and sound asleep in bed you're enjoying a peaceful slumber but then you hear it you wake up startled what what was that you hear the shrill voice again your heart starts pounding faster you'll hear it once more and to your dread you see it lifeless eyes in the corner of your room staring back at you and you feel its glaze piercing the very essence of your soul yep these little monsters as a kid I hated these things both of my sisters got one of their own back in the day and I was immediately creeped out they looked like ripoffs of gizmo from gremlins but nowhere near as cute they had these big of freakish eyes and a weird beak and the worst part of all they spoke like some kind of demon-possessed robot needless to say I did not care for them many years later I discovered that there was in fact a Furby movie and it was bad this film was a glorified commercial plain and simple it exists for the sole reason of pushing products to its viewers it's pretty rare to find a toy line that also has a cartoon series of substance too many toy companies it doesn't matter if the show is good or not as long as it advertises their products now there are exceptions but the majority of these shows are simply phoning it in and that's very much so the case with Furby Island are you a Furby this is such a bad movie none of the characters are likable their designs are terrible and their movement cycles are trashed seriously it looks like they all just [ __ ] their pants so I did some research about this movie and discovered a few interesting things first of all this movie was a failed attempt of achieving a Furby cartoon show according to my sources the movie aired on Nickelodeon back in 2005 and actually did quite well in the ratings the executives at neck even grin led the show for development though it never came to fruition there was apparently a change of command at Nick in 2006 and the new president through the show's production off track so much so that it never recovered also according to a source Frederator Studios was the one charged with making the series wait a second for those who don't know Frederator is my youtube network so this is kind of funny to me I actually reached out to my contacts from the network to ask them about the show but none of them knew anything about it so maybe it's true maybe it's not who knows all we can confirm is that it never happened and I'm quite certain that Hasbro hates that the studio behind the movie itself was DR TV productions I checked out their filmography and they barely have anything also look at this [ __ ] 7.2 an IMDB yeah that's a load of crap more like a 3.2 did out of a thousand there aren't really any people worth mentioning who worked or starred in this movie so I'll leave them out of this they have already suffered enough but our suffering is just about to begin let's talk about the movie and by the way this is the best version I could find so I apologize about the quality so the film starts off with a plane soaring through the sky as we get our intro credits we then find ourselves inside the plane as we're introduced to our main character Maddie Wow dr. conquest is truly amazing did you hear that ty what I hate her design like a lot she has these massive cheeks but a very small mouth that looks somewhat sunken in and her body is even crazier she's got these long arms and legs and a torso that's constantly bending at bizarre angles it looks like the poor girl has scoliosis and look at her joints woody called he wants his arms back so Maddie is a nerd who believes in the supernatural she likes to indulge herself in this fantasy by chatting with like-minded people online and watching her favorite hero Clayton from Tarzan I'm sorry I meant dr. conquest her brother ty Finch is an idiot he's right not that quack again why don't you get some real friends and watch a real show boom roasted we then learn that Maddie and her brother are the children of nature explorers that's why they're on the plane to begin with kind of a Wild Thornberrys thing going on here though I do want to point out how unsecure this plane is like we got books and shelves and the couches and computers and none of it strapped down and when you see the plan in the opening credits going straight into the sky well the cargo should be going everywhere [Music] [Music] so the family arrives onto the island Maddie's parents go off to look for a plant also Maddie's mom has a very strange face like it sticks out and looks like the camera is using a fisheye lens what but we are Maddie one of the worst things about this movie are the walk cycles I mean Maddie's long legs look like they're alien and they got tiny stubby legs I can barely keep up what is it anyway you probably wouldn't know what it was if you fell over it so Maddie and I set off to explore and find merchandise they then stumble across the temple from dinosaur island and decide to go in I'm telling you Maddie mom and dad are gonna be so bad so they're in the temple and while they're there they discover ancient drawings of people playing with Furbys which begs the question where are those people the funny thing is and I watched the entire movie by this point is that we never see a tribe of people on the island so what happened to them oh my god the furbies Adam so the temple begins to fall apart and Maddie just straight up leaves her brother behind Maddie don't you dare leave me here so her brother's trapped and Maddie takes off to go find help we then get this wonderful sequence where Maddie just runs all over the forest in random directions [Music] fascist [ __ ] Bowie I must have gone in the wrong direction where mom and dad where's the plane where's ty where's ty he's trapped in the temple that's the entire reason why you ran off to go find help god you're stupid so at this point Matty is completely lost and then they show up real talk if that was me I would scream and punch that thing in the face this is where things get really weird apparently the Furbies have magical powers and can read your mind and emotions kind of invasive if you ask me [Music] so yeah there's a village of fur bees and there are two in particular who are main characters they've got names but I can't remember them so that one's pee poo and honkers you should really watch for you're going so the furbies take Maddie back to the temple and Ty somehow got out on his own and here's the best part the movie doesn't even tell us how like even Matty is curious and ty is like wouldn't you like to know [Music] you left me in that dark day but how did you get wouldn't you like to know yeah I would concur and I for whatever reason have some kind of a standoff and Burke back and forth to each other then we're somehow instantly back at the furby camp where we give this weird-ass song as the furby sing in their native tongue [Music] so peep who in Chong Kerr oh my god their names I don't know why I called them this so pipo and Chong Kerr go back to the plane with the kids Maddie then has a brilliant idea of revealing the existence of Furbies and posting online where they live cuz some didn't find the tour desert but something much more interesting small furry beings never seen anything like the fur bees then start to watch television and begin quoting random [ __ ] and I mean really random also some of the faces from the scene are terrifying [Music] we think at this wonderful scene where Maddie's parents come back with a plant but can't get it through the door but to me it sounds like something else here I'm gonna blur this out and you tell me I know it's sharp and somehow the Furbys gets stuck in a jar and start to freak out and then Maddie gets a headache I guess Mady and pee poo have a I'm 30 years old why am i laughing at pee pee I suppose Mady and pee poo have some kind of psychic link for one another huh maybe it's like the aliens from Independence Day so it's the next day and Mady and I head back to the Furby village they play with pepo and chunker's for a bet but then chunker's goes missing they set out to look for him but stumble across the most terrifying creature on earth no wait so it turns out that dr. conquest got Maddy's message about the Furbies cuz she's a [ __ ] idiot you can actually mark the moment where Mady realizes that she screwed up fairies aren't man-eating they're wonderful I let's talk about dr. conquest so unlike ty and Matty who have small mouths mr. conquest here has a massive mouth it is huge he's constantly showing his teeth and gums it is very strange and why the hell is the camera so close to his face young conquering hero time's a-wastin so people who telepathically tells Maddie that dr. conquest is evil and Maddie starts to take back everything she said about the furbies I think there's been a mistake what kind of mistake oh well you know that thing I emailed you about you know that thing I thought was a Furby it wasn't go to hell but it's too late conquest already trapped honkers anti freaks out there are definitely furbies on this harlan mates I like to imagine that conquest is just an obsessed white collector who wants all the furby merchandise folks I think we found ourselves a new meme it's like the opposite of monkey Moses no we then get this lovely sequence where all of the characters are running and each and every one of them look like they just [ __ ] their pants [Music] so taya Mattie arrived at the furby village and try to get the fur bees attention but they won't shut up but the Furby elder screams like an as goal and gets everybody's attention so dr. conquest finds the Furby village and starts to capture them all [Music] [Applause] oh my god this is Furby just failed immediately I'm gonna save the day womp I don't think dr. conquest even made eye contact he just knew it was gonna be there oh my moon day you become a nuisance Shayla he's a touching story once upon a time you died and I lived happily ever after the end so tie gets caught in a trap and then Maddie gets surrounded by the villains they all jump at her at once miss and somehow crush people I like how dr. conquest just throws around the lifeless body like it's a beanbag so Maddie gets caught in a trap as the villains get away she can't get out cuz she's an idiot I swear her noodle body could easily fit between those cracks but instead she breaks out by swinging the cage yeah yeah I had a sharp leave that cuts open the cage okay [Music] hi I'm coming that's what she said so Maddie and I who somehow freed himself to go to the rescue and try to help the fur bees why does this sound like he's about to cry and once again he moves like he's [ __ ] his pants come back here Maddie then tricks dr. conquest into following her into the temple so maddie activates a trap card and dr. conquest is stuck in a pet and Maddie straight up leaves him to die so walk and dig your grave so it turns out that dr. conquest and his goons get arrested instead Peep who comes back to life and then Maddie's parents are told about the fur bees which they take the news very well our family just I know we think get this stupid message about family values cuz it's Hasbro they got to do that and then the family decides to take the furbies with them not sure why the furbies have a village on the island but whatever [Music] we then get a final bonus scene as pee poo tells Matty that Furbys live across the globe and that Maddie's family needs to go out and find them and collect them and start a cartoon series and continue the adventure and guess what it never happened thank God oh just bagged the world's fattest mine alright it's time to go over my five points first the story barely anything happens it's like a boring version of The Wild Thornberrys most of the time the characters just stand or sit around doing nothing except play with fur bees-cheese I wonder why the movie did that also the characters are very unlikable they whine they cry they complain none of them have any redeeming values and our main character is just an obsessed girl that destroys everything she touches little brother she gets him stuck in a temple the furby village she post online where they live and people find them dr. conquest well she puts him in a pit seriously stay away from this chick she's bad luck itself she just touched your arm quick have your tape next editing there are scenes that go on for far too long the song in particular was hard to watch it's just mindless blabber has characters dance around I was looking at my watch and wondering when it was going to end [Music] after that there's the voice-acting it's rough to say the least I don't think the kids who voice Maddie or Thai were experienced voice actors the way they showed emotions was hilarious the scene in particular where Thai freaks out over his Furby cracks me up he screams out like he lost a game of fortnight [Music] then there's the dialogue the character dialogue was very clunky Mady and I had that sibling rivalry going on but none of it sounded natural it felt more like a sitcom don't do that gotcha [Music] [Applause] and finally the animation I truly cannot stand the designs of the characters the Furbies are based on the toys so well I'm okay with ignoring that despite their weird prehensile ears the humans on the other hand are god-awful I've seen a lot of bad character designs but maddy is one of the worst why they make her so long and lanky she looks like that one weird alien from Close Encounters of the Third Kind [Music] and when her lengthy body moves it looks ridiculous there are also moments where her torso bends over at impossible angles and looks very uncanny but that's a common problem with this movie uncanny movements uncanny bodies and very uncanny faces waters wrong with your face so now we get to a new segment of my videos how to improve the movie I realized a few months ago that I just rip on stuff without offering constructive criticism so this segment should hopefully fix that the first thing I would do is overhaul the story you can keep the traveling family premise that's all right it's a good way to open up possibilities but please change the family dynamic give mom and dad more personality than just being the boring parental figures they barely do anything in the movie except fly the plane for tie make him more likeable instead of being the younger brother who is constantly berating his sister make a Maggie who wants nothing to do with nature that way when he finally befriends a Furby he can come around and see things from his sister's perspective for Mattie I would make her the younger sister someone who is wide-eyed and optimistic about the world and what could be in it when it's an older person it's easier to dismiss their wonder as immature but for a little girl it's more acceptable and cute it also makes it more believable for people to ignore her findings she could be like mom dad I found a magical village of creatures called furbies and they'd be all like oh that's nice dear brush your teeth and essentially ignore her after trials and tribulations the family would eventually come around and believe her maybe even come to her rescue with some other furbies I think that would be a better story argh it also makes more sense with the family values and be more together and for the villain just to get rid of them instead put in a monster that preys on furbies that would fit much better with a fantasy theme of the island and for the character designs just burn the originals start completely over I hate the way they look do something more cartoony instead maybe in 2d or something the 3d computer animation is not doing this film any favors and puts the characters in uncanny valley with their stupid movement and facial expressions where did you hear the name Furby then I read about it I on your website Riley so yeah that's Furby Island a failed attempt at making a cheap boring cartoon to promote a toy line now I have no problem with companies trying to make show is about their products but at least put some effort into it friendship is magic and TMNT were able to do that and it makes it more enjoyable for everybody also folks will be more likely to support your product that way too don't do this don't ever do this oh that is going to haunt my dreams [Music]

Channel: Saberspark

Views: 1,055,480

Rating: 4.960732 out of 5

Keywords: what the hell, what the hell is, what the hell is furby island, furby island, furby movie, furby, animated, saber, saberspark, review, animation, bad movie, bad animation, terrible

Id: DKCL0fudTMA

Length: 24min 48sec (1488 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 25 2019

Reddit Comments

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YAaayy Or should i say Yesss!

[u/Saberspark]

This one was interesting to say the least. Let me know what you all thought about the video!

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u/Saberspark Can you please do "What the HELL is Chop Socky Chooks"?

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This will clearly spawn nightmares tonight

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