When a young female mouse makes a deal with the devil to become a rock star and learns the price, her boyfriend has to help her avoid damnation.When a young female mouse makes a deal with the devil to become a rock star and learns the price, her boyfriend has to help her avoid damnation.When a young female mouse makes a deal with the devil to become a rock star and learns the price, her boyfriend has to help her avoid damnation.
Chris Wiggins
- B.L. Zebub
- (voice)
- …
Annabel Kershaw
- Jan Mouse
- (voice)
Martin Lavut
- Weez Weezel
- (voice)
- …
Jim Henshaw
- Daniel Mouse
- (voice)
- …
Dianne Lawrence
- Journalist
- (voice)
- …
Valerie Carter
- Jan Mouse
- (singing voice)
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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- TriviaThis special is the precursor story and inspiration for Nelvana's hidden gem, Rock & Rule (1983).
- Quotes
B.L. Zebub: Sooooo, I gave you a chance, and you beat the Devil? Well, I've learned my lesson. From now on, NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY!
- Alternate versionsThe DVD release on the 2-disc set of "Rock & Rule" is missing two and a half minutes worth of footage. Missing from this version are the following scenes:
- The title segment is trimmed down, and the first few lines of "Look Where the Music Can Take You" have been removed.
- After Jan appears on the cover of "Rolling Moss" there's a scene with her and Wease backstage. Wease tells her that she's headlining the "Roxy Meadow Marathon" as he fumbles with a bottle of champagne -- the cork flies off and pops him in the nose (which explains why he has a bandage on his nose at the Hollywood Bowl).
- When Jan falls out of the log and the Devil morphs into a fish, there's a longer sequence of him chasing her underwater.
- When Jan's hiding in the forest, Wease discovers her before the Devil morphs into a tree.
- After the Devil tells Jan that she has "24 hours to say goodbye to" her friends, Jan returns to town momentarily to seek help from the band, who are loading equipment into a van. They inform her that "the union man says" she didn't pay her dues -- a reveal of Wease implies that he is the "union man" that got them kicked out.
- During the trial, Dan claims that the Devil's contract is invalid "because she was too small," to which the Devil rebuttals, "She was big enough to sign."
- The final credit on the film is missing: "Produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation."
- ConnectionsEdited into Nelvanamation (1980)
- SoundtracksLook Where the Music Can Take You
Written by John Sebastian
Performed by John Sebastian and Valerie Carter
Featured review
Bad Adaptation of an Interesting Story
Why is this getting so many good reviews?
I'm going to start out blunt. It's not a good short film.
The characters are boring and they have no personality or dept at all. Seriously. What can I say about Jan's character other than "she sells her soul to the devil"? The answer is nothing. She's dull. They are all dull.
The animation is just awful. It moves too fast and soppy, the way the characters are designed is ugly. The Devil looks like a fat alligator. In fact worst devil I've ever seen.
The songs are just bad seventies music. Though, it's not as horrible as everything else.
The movie's plot is interesting. An unfortunate person sells their soul to the devil for a better life, eventually they realize "I'm going to hell", and they stand trial against Satan. This was a bad adaptation of that story.
I'm giving this movie 1 out 10
I'm going to start out blunt. It's not a good short film.
The characters are boring and they have no personality or dept at all. Seriously. What can I say about Jan's character other than "she sells her soul to the devil"? The answer is nothing. She's dull. They are all dull.
The animation is just awful. It moves too fast and soppy, the way the characters are designed is ugly. The Devil looks like a fat alligator. In fact worst devil I've ever seen.
The songs are just bad seventies music. Though, it's not as horrible as everything else.
The movie's plot is interesting. An unfortunate person sells their soul to the devil for a better life, eventually they realize "I'm going to hell", and they stand trial against Satan. This was a bad adaptation of that story.
I'm giving this movie 1 out 10
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- Dec 21, 2012
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