Current Events > Just learned of this film called ''Sir Billi'' (Sean Connery's final film).

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Horrible Animated Films

Sir Billi is Scotland's first CGI feature film it was originally promoted as the first animated film from Scotland, period, but ended up stuck in Development Hell for so long that The Illusionist managed to steal that title from it and stars Sir Sean Connery as the titular character, an elderly, Totally Radical veterinarian who enjoys skateboarding in his spare time. It has bad animation, despite being worked on for seven years, an uninteresting story about the title character saving Scotland's last beaver, and plenty of unnecessary violent and sexual innuendos despite being marketed for children. This led to a pathetic 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the combination of terrible animation, inappropriate humor, Troubled Production and horrific reception has had more than a few label it the Scottish version of Foodfight!. On top of all that, this was Connery's final film before his retirement from acting (or more precisely, he agreed to temporarily come out of the retirement he went into following The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as a favor to the producers, and judging by how inconsistent his acting and even the strength of his voice are, was probably called back several times to re-record his lines), hardly a good note to end on. Notably, the directors were angry that the Scottish National Party promoted the American Brave instead of their movie.

Troubled Production: Animated Films

According to the animators who worked on it, Sir Billi suffered from a hellish production, to the point where many have called it the Scottish counterpart of Foodfight. Originally promoted as the first animated film from Scotland though by the time it was actually released it had lost that honour to The Illusionist, forcing them to instead market it as the country's first computer-animated film which boasted a rapidly-growing animation industry thanks to investment from both the UK national and Scottish regional governments, the project was able to attract a lot of high-profile talents including Sean Connery, Alan Cumming, and one-time Harry Potter composer Patrick Doyle. Things rapidly fell apart in production, however, as director Sascha Hartmann rapidly proved to be a Prima Donna Director who demanded that the animators use his unappealing character designs with no alterations, constantly made changes to scenes which required them to be hastily re-animated (causing the quality to suffer), and also repeatedly called back the cast to re-record their dialogue, which is noticeable in that Connery's voice is very inconsistent, either from poor health, disillusionment with the project, or both. On top of that, Hartmann not only fired any animator who protested the film's inappropriately adult humour or his approach to managing the project in general, but even reportedly fired anyone who was actually managing to produce stand-out work, as he considered them a threat to his authority as director. By the end of production everything was being churned out hastily by a group of inexperienced animators, which ended up being evident in the less-than-stellar animation used in the finished product.

The character designs: http://www.toonbarn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Glasgow-Animation-finishing-up-Sir-Billi.jpg

Yikes.
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