The Puppetoon Movie

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s r @ScottR 10/19/2017 It's amazing fetes of art, but in terms of entertainment it is not up on the level of classic. See more 06/25/2014 George Pal, for those who don't know, is not only the man who directed the original version of The Time Machine and was the producer of the 1953 version of The War of the Worlds, but he was also an animator of many great stop-motion films that he affectionately called Puppetoons throughout the 1940's. Released in 1987 and directed by Arnold Leibovit, The Puppetoon Movie is an entertaining stop-motion extravaganza. It collected many of George Pal's famous shorts together for the first time with some new wraparound segments featuring many familiar faces from the stop-motion world. It was all put together as a tribute to a man who had entertained audiences the world over in a variety of different ways. By today's standards, many of George Pal's animated efforts yield some very non-PC imagery, but none of that matters. Films like this are enormously important. You can't help but admire the craftsmanship that went into the making of these shorts; and in many ways, they're likely to inspire and entertain more than offend. See more 04/22/2012 Amazing and beautiful. A forgotten classic. See more 04/22/2012 This is a beautiful film, and hopefully will someday find a following. It's too trippy to be lost forever. See more 02/20/2012 The film is a collection of George Pal short films sewn together in 1987 and book ended by Gumby and friends and the film feels like a vain attempt by Georeg Pal fans to save his work from obscurity in an ever changing world. Not that, that is a bad thing because his stop animation is ground breaking and his story telling is superb and he definetely has his own style, but some modern viewers might be puzzled by the 1930ish stereotypes employed in the film. Pal was Danish so his perspective is that of a European on Americana culture, and everyone is caracterized (even sections of suggested sexuality. 70 years beforeTeam America, puppets having sex.) 2 things I noticed was he was apparently a big fan of Harlem style Jazz (which was huge in Europe) and he did a remarkable portait of the story of John Henry and dumped the usual cartoonish sterotypes he usually employed and made a serious attempt at a heroic telling of Henry's doomed contest against mechanized Inky poo. See more 11/13/2007 This is such an amazing little film. It is a wonderful grouping of some very old claymation cartoons by George Pal. It's a really rare look at some of the cartoons enjoyed by previous generations and provides a neat perspective on how the world and its peoples were viewed years ago. Very entertaining, even for us old folks. See more Read all reviews

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