The Magic Voyage (1992)
Germans animated take on the Christopher Columbus story and a sentient talking woodworm with two arms and two legs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpk9pVrI_A
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103609/combined
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TB Tabby commented
-This movie is a laundry list of all the tired myths about Christopher Columbus that I'm sure we all know are BS by now. Everyone thinking the world is flat, Queen Isabella pawning the royal jewels to finance the voyage, the crew trying to hang Columbus until they spot land. They should have given Washington Irving a writing credit.
-But they don't just follow the tired myths. Oh-ho-ho no. They made up some NEW ******** that's even DUMBER. The woodworm mentioned above is the one who gives Columbus the idea that the world is round, with no explanation as to how he found that out. And his love interest is a fairy princess who gets kidnapped by the Swarm Lord, a swarm of bugs with a hive mind, and taken to his lair in America. And it's revealed that the gold brought back by Columbus came from the Swarm Lord's hoard, and Columbus DIDN'T enslave and butcher the indigenous people to force them to mine gold for him. UGH.
-The dubbing is horrendous. They made the classic mistake of filling every scene with dialogue and noise, never giving the audience a chance to breathe, because they think all kids have the attention span of a goldfish. Even with talented actors like Dom DeLuise, Corey Feldman and Dan Haggerty, it's excruciating to sit through.