I never heard of or saw that movie as a kid, and I'm now wondering if there's something in that movie that gave Internet artists (especially ones that also happen to be theater kids) some special kind of brain rot. Lauren Faust even worked on it.
That might be the biggest reason why it's entered public Internet conscious over the years next to furries crushing on Sawyer hard, on top of it being a big(?) example of how much WB Animation fucked over their movies in the '90s. I first saw it as an adult, and I think it's fine for a kids' movie. There's some neat moments even though the animation is its biggest highlight because holy cow it's so fluid even for Warner Bros., it's a nice way to honor and criticize the golden age of Hollywood, Darla Dipple is an underrated villain whose voice-actress (and singing VA)
killed it at her age, and it was Mark Dindal's first feature-length movie before he got hired to direct
Emperor's New Groove. I'll have to watch it again with that knowledge to see how much of his visual humor made it in, I know Max's teleportation is one example.
Other than that, I honestly don't get why people praise it as an unsung classic when yeah, it's an unsung animated movie and has become a cult classic, but it's not an ambitious film. But if it was an honest inspiration for Viv because she was one of the lucky few who saw it as a child, then I'm not going to fault her for it. I might actually be a
bit more concerned if she said, for example,
The Chipmunk Adventure was an inspiration even though that's another underrated animated film that's gained cult classic status over the years.
Oh boy oh boy, gotta dust off my editor's cap for this.
EDIT: OH GOD IT'S JUST A WALL OF TEXT OH GOD-FUCKING-DAMMIT
EDIT 2: Walls of text-aside, I've definitely read way worse. She really is just mid across the board and it's the most boring, obviously safe sex scene ever for a resident of Hell, like just go all out on depravity or something. And nothing about how Alastar's voice gets affected? You'd think there'd be some creativity in how his magic or just his radio voice changes in mood and such.
Yawn.