The Fearless Four (film)
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"The Fearless Four" UK VHS cover
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| Die furchtlosen Vier | |
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| Produced by | Eberhard Junkersdorf |
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Town Musicians of Bremen by Brothers Grimm |
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| Music by | Péter Wolf |
| Edited by | Uli Schön |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Family Entertainment |
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87 minutes (German dubbed/ original release) 81 minutes (English dubbed version/International releases) |
| Country | Germany |
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The Fearless Four (German: Die furchtlosen Vier) is a 1997 animated film about four funny animals that all have one thing in common: they want to sing, but can't for various reasons. Production began in March 1995 when the studio was founded. It combined traditional animation with computer animation. The film was produced by Munich Animation and released by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment. The film won a Bavarian Film Award for outstanding achievement in Germany.
The film was set in the near future and base lightly on the fairy tale of the Town Musicians of Bremen.
The film follows the carefree lives of the easygoing bloodhound Buster, the woeful donkey Fred, the graceful Siamese cat Gwendolyn and the self-assured rooster Tortellini.
The film first begins with Buster, who likes to sing and dance instead of doing his job to hunt foxes. His owners notice this and make a deal with one of the workers for the food factory, Mix Max, stands for Mix and Match owned to kill and stuff him, which they agree to it. Buster starts to worry, and tries to escape from being stuffed, which makes the worker chase him pull his tail. This makes Buster angry; he attacks them and then escapes.
Fred, an aged, fragile, donkey worked as a slave for his newly-replaced owner and sings about his life. His owner is angry that Fred is singing instead of working, sells him to Mix Max, and replaces him with a robot centaur named PowerTool, due to him being not helpful to work. A female bee helps Fred escape by leading other bees to swarm at a driver in a truck with Fred hostage. When Fred is freed, signs for the direction to Bremen and Paris on the road have been switched/turned around. Fred falls onto a tree, and meets a napping Buster. They have a conversation about wanting to be famous, singing animals and decide to travel to either one of the two cities and also choose where to go to become famous singers by spinning a bone, to see if it stops on Bremen or Paris. It stops on Paris (which is actually Bremen), and they start going there.
Gwendolyn, a Siamese cat, is sad after her owner, Aunt Wanda died. The people who inherited her estate only care about finding two gems and not taking care of her cat. They are upset that Aunt Wanda did not tell them where they are located in her farewell address and thinks that Gwendolyn knows where they are, and keeps them secret. They try to kill her with milk with a drop of poison, but fail with their attempt. They hire a worker for Mix Max to kill her. Also, the kid thats belongs to the two inhertiers (Difficult to say exactly) tries to kill her, but they all fail, and she traps them in the basement. After her escape, she meets up with Buster and Fred, who have heard her sing, and agree to let her join them on the journey.
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