Freddie as F.R.O.7 (1992)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Jon Acevski

Writers:

Jon Acevski (writer)
David Ashton (writer)

Release Date:

28 August 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Fantasy | Musical

Plot:

The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt...

Plot Keywords:

Frog | British | British Intelligence | Shrinking | Secret Agent

Cast

Jenny Agutter	...	Daffers (voice)
Brian Blessed	...	El Supremo (voice)
Nigel Hawthorne	...	Brigadier G (voice)
Michael Hordern	...	King (voice)
James Earl Jones	...	Narrator - American Version (voice)
Ben Kingsley	...	Freddie (voice)
Edmund Kingsley	...	Young Freddie
Phyllis Logan	...	Nessie (voice)
Victor Maddern	...	Old Gentleman Raven
Jonathan Pryce	...	Trilby (voice)
Prunella Scales	...	Queen / Various Voices (voice)
John Sessions	...	Scotty / Various Characters (voice)
Billie Whitelaw	...	Messina (voice)

Also Known As:

Freddie the Frog (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

Spain:91 min | USA:90 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:G

Company:

Hollywood Road Films

Trivia:

The title character, FR07, is a spoof of the code number 007, the number for agent 007 James Bond who was originally created by Ian Fleming. Also, the letter "G", which would go at the end of the word "FROG", is the 7th letter of the alphabet.

Quotes:

Narrator - American Version: So Freddie grew, and grew, and grew, and grew, and grew, and grew until he reached his adulthood. And then he knew, he knew, he knew, he knew, he knew, he knew. He was not...
Freddie: I am not. I AM NOT!
Frog Chorus/Friends: A frog! He is not a log!

Toadally awful film

forgive the pun, i watched this movie about a week or two back for the fun of it since i was trying hard to remember it after not seeing it since childhood, let me tell you, the film seemed a hell of a lot better when i was a child.

i gave it a 2 because of the good animation but other than that this is a pretty pointless and awful movie.

the dubbing was the worst part of this movie to me, but the characters never had any worth remembering lines anyway so it doesn't matter.

there were two songs in this movie that i really didn't see the point of, the queen of evilmania and nessie's song, both of them had absolutely terrible lyrics not even fit for an episode of postman pat and both seemed utterly pointless and wasted time, they were probably only put in to fill gaps.

do we even find out at all during this movie who this insanely evil and pudgy dictator is, i don't think i hear his name once or even why he's involved with the movie.

i don't get why freddie decided to go back to France to stop crooks, i don't understand why he drives this weird green car and i don't get how he managed to turn from a 6 inch frog to a 5 foot man during one scene or how exactly the other frogs managed to find him clothes, the fact that it's a kids animation is not a plausible excuse.

the only other good bit i thought was the British man who always tripped over his own phone chord and got tangled up in it more than once in the film and each time more ridiculously, this to me was a pretty original and funny joke but they didn't execute it perfectly enough to make it funny.

there's a Scottish character in it, and guess what his name is, that's right, Scottie, very very typical.

my real question is, why exactly could all of britains monuments be used to power up a crystal which puts people to sleep, if you cant answer that question then there really is no reason for the second half of this movie.

so anyway, my verdict, the film was too short, made no sense, was a work of nonsense and was poorly casted vocally.