Awesome / Jetsons: The Movie

• George has his two greatest moments ever. First:
  • George: No! SIR! Mr. Spacely!
  • And immediately afterwards, he risks death and dismemberment by entering the machinery to shut down the drill that is killing the Grungies.
  • The speech he hits Spacely with immediately after he shuts down the drill is a work of art, as well.
• In what combines as this and a Tear Jerker in real life, two of the voice actors from the original series reprised their roles for the film despite being terminally ill (some of their lines had to be recorded by Jeff Bergman, who was already on the payroll for supporting roles).
  • George O'Hanlon, then greatly impaired due to partial blindness and short-term memory loss from a stroke, struggled on to play the role of George, managing to finish his final line just before suffering a second and fatal stroke in the recording studio. Hanna-Barbera alum Iwao Takamoto related the moment in the book My Life with a Thousand Characters.
  • Mel Blanc voiced his role as Mr. Spacely more or less on his death bed. This wasn't his only voice role at the time either.
• The CGI. Of course, the effects are dated nowadays, but back in 1990, these computer animated scenes were amazing, especially the way they interpret some of the show's more traditionally "flat" graphics into appealing 3D.
• The entire opening, from the Mickey Mousing Hanna-Barbera vanity plate to John Debney's (his first score for a major Hollywood production, no less) awesome re-arrangement of the theme song.
• The Disney Acid Sequence partway through is one of the highlights of the film.

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