#carface

would transition have saved her? ⏱️

or, i can't keep saying stuff like this without following through:

Note: There might be some spoilers in this. If you haven’t seen this movie, I suggest you do before reading this. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

Hello everybody and welcome to another tasty edition of Appetite Wednesday!! Once again, I’m taking a look at another Don Bluth movie. Next to “The Land Before Time” and “An American Tail”, “All Dogs Go to Heaven” was the other Bluth movie I watched a lot of as a child. At the time I didn’t really consider the deeper themes and messages that were being presented in the film. I simply liked it for its songs and fun animal characters. Looking back at it now, it’s interesting to see how dark Bluth and his crew went in order to tell a rather grownup story about morality and redemption.

But I digress. This movie does have its dark moments, but it also has a lot of light hearted scenes to balance out the tone. And wouldn’t you know it, it involves food! Teehee!!! One of the movies most cutest moments involves the main character, Charlie B. Barkin, teaching a group of puppies how to share a slice of pizza. Now if you’ve been following my page for a long time, you know that I LOVE pizza! There’s nothing more delicious than this cheesy delight. And I think it’s adorable that this movie takes the time to introduce these cute puppies, and have them go crazy over pizza. It’s a perfect combination. Puppy + pizza = BRILLIANT!!!

The pizza scene is also a musical number. Now in all honesty, as much as I love pizza and puppies, it does seem like a waste to have a song that does nothing to move the plot. I mean, the song is all about learning to share. Even as a kid I remember being kind of bored by this song. Perhaps the only thing this song does is make Charlie a slightly more likable character. His interaction with the puppies show that he has a soft side for kids, he just needs to let it out more. This makes sense, because immediately after the song, we see him and Anne-Marie get into an argument that seems to genuinely upset him. So if anything, it helps us as viewers to prepare ourselves for Charlie’s change from a unredeemable character, to a hero of some sorts.

Another scene that is lighthearted and incorporates food is when Anne-Marie goes to see a friendly couple. After Charlie steals a wallet from them, she decides to return it. The couple is so taken aback by Anne-Marie’s sweet nature, they let her in to have breakfast. They make her homemade waffles and give her orange juice. The couple, named Kate and Harold, are meant to reflect the life Anne-Marie really wants. Being an orphan, she wants nothing more to have a family. Kate and Harold represent the parents she dreams about having. Of course, they do end up adopting her in the end. But this scene helps us to imagine the life Anne-Marie could and eventually will have once she has found that perfect home.

Also those waffles look absolutely delicious. I love it when animation is able to make food so desirable, even when you know it’s not real. The way how the waffles are toasted up, and the way Anne-Marie digs into them, makes my mouth water up all the time. And whenever I eat waffles, I think of this scene.