An American animated musical directed by Abe Levitow, starring Judy Garland, Red Buttons and Paul Frees.
A female cat living at a farm overhears exaggerated praise of city life in Paris and travels there. She is followed by a male with a crush on her and his sidekick. In Paris, she is taken in by a criminal and his sister in hopes of sending her to America for money. The crush male and his sidekick take a side trip to Alaska before returning to rescue the female from the criminals.
What really stood out to me about this was art history references. The late 1800s and early 1900s was a time of many "ism"s and multiple art movements. Most of these were referenced in dialogue as well as visually. The female cat was shown in paintings of the styles as the criminal talked about the artists. Most of the backgrounds had a Van Gogh look to them and there were posters in the style of that time period as well. Next point was Judy Garland's voice. I really like her singing. Other than that, it was a very standard animated musical. The animation was done in Disney style cell animation and the music would be easily mistaken for Disney material. I rate it adequate because it was fun to watch once.
An animated adventure directed by Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow and Dave Monahan.A latch-key child goes home and while he is on the phone with a friend, a package arrives in his room. He opens it to find a car and a tollbooth. When he drives through the tollbooth, he turns into a cartoon and is transported to a cartoon world which is compartmentalized like school.check out: The animation style used for the demons near the end.I have unanswered questions about the plot of this movie and there will be spoilers. The main one is: If the princesses flew out of the castle in the air so easily, why did they need this kid to rescue them? Why does the discord character sing in key? Why does the math wizard sing at all? What purpose does the humbug serve on this quest? Besides it's obvious failings in the logic department, this was alright. The animation was really well done without the use of any computers. I'm rating it as one of the better o.k.s. I really have to come up with a category between o.k. and good. I've decided that better than o.k., but not quite good is blue.
