The entire film is sort of an example of wasted potential. There are a ton of flaws to it (bad lip-synching, weird facial expressions, a bizarre and incomprehensible plot) but there's a lot of cool and innovative things as well (Like the way the demon was animated)
I think if this movie had been more successful Nelvana could have gone on to make some really good shit instead of developing nothing but a string of mediocre children's cartoons.
Anthropomorphic character designs are fine (see "Pixar"); but slapping animal-heads on human bodies and having the characters act like humans seems kind of pointless.
Don't get me wrong, I got nothing against cartoon characters that happen to be animals that walk upright. What I don't get is the weird flesh toned animals with nothing distinguishing them as animals save for ears and strange noses. It all just ends up making them look like freakish humans.
Furry. There. I said what was on the tip of everyone's tongue.
*I think* the female is the catalyst of why this style decision comes off strange. Where they sort of pick and choose between stylized human and animal anatomy to follow with the others, they definitely went 95% stylized human with her (I think her ears and nose are the only animal parts of her design). All good, because I mean, she needs to be somewhat attractive.
...also if this were Japanese, that demon would have totally raped her...and then been defeated by her sexual powers...
A lotta rotoscoping, unless I'm mistaken. The bizarre texture in some of the initial demon shots are calf brains shot under glass, according to wikipedia.
AND needs Debbie Harry tag.
I saw this one night at an animation buff's house after a party. Everyone was talking and there I was entranced like a complete fool watching this movie.