![]() Listen to the Milkshakes and Mimosas episode we guested on about Don Bluth’s Filmation Years. So grab your favorite Cairn Terrier, click your heels together, and watch out for that Tornado, because we’re all on a wonderfully unexpected “Journey Back to Oz!” Yup, that’s it! That’s all the justification we need to make an entire Oz-themed episode for our unsuspecting listeners. Why? Because Don Bluth was, in fact, a layout artist on this movie back in 1972. We were gone for months, but never mind that, it’s us again on this April Foolsy day to bring you an episode that no one asked for, but everyone will enjoy (hopefully anyway)! Today, we’re joined by fellow friend and cat-enthusiast, Andrew Roebuck, to talk about an obscure Filmation animated feature film sequel to The Wizard of Oz starring Liza Minnelli as Dorothy. Where? Somewhere over the rainbow, I think. Music from Charlotte's Web by The Sherman Brothers (songs) and Irwin Kostal (score).Īudio clips are (sort of mostly) from Charlotte's Web by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Mystery Skulls (Seriously, watch these!):Ĭheck out Dax’s other pod, on FB/Twitter/IG So please ready yourselves, “Humble” listeners, for an extremely on-brand, two and a half hours long discussion on everyone’s favorite vegan inspiring childhood classic, Charlotte’s Web!Ĭheck out Andrew’s podcast, Milkshakes and Mimosas! In any event, we have a “Terrific” Non-Bluth episode for you on the world’s most “Radiant” pig, Wilbur! (as well as every other pig we can think of) Join us and returning guest Andrew Roebuck as we talk on the nature of death and how one little spider helped some of our younger selves understand its complicated, but simple place in our lives. Oh wow, that’s actually a very unsatisfying reason. He……just didn’t get around to editing it until now. Oh my god, it’s already been a whole year since our last upload!!! Don’t worry, Dax has a very good reason as to why. The viewer wonders just what his girlfriend, the more vivid (and believably feline) Miss Kitty (Amy Irving), sees in him.“Some Pig,” amiright?! Some…year, actually. The new crew reworked and improved the designs of most of the characters, but the obese, jiggling Tiger still doesn’t look like a cat-or any other animal on this planet. The most effective work in the film involves tricky point-of-view shots, such as inside a rolling tumbleweed. Depicting these characters as ‘30s Hollywood-style Indians who wear feather bonnets and do woo-woo war whoops seems a poor choice, and especially at a time when American Indian activists are protesting the film “Black Robe.”Īlthough the animation is generally fluid, the characters don’t really do much acting: Their expressions and movements don’t communicate nuances of thought and emotion. ![]() An even more dubious sequence involves Tiger’s capture by a tribe of Indian mice (or are they prairie dogs?). Burp lives up to his moniker, and there are lots of belching gags with clouds of green gas. “Fievel Goes West” is obviously aimed at children, but parents may be troubled by some scenes of questionable taste. Viewers don’t get a chance to catch their breath until the mawkish conclusion, when Burp pontificates, “One man’s sunset is another man’s dawn.” Waul’s gang-fail to please because every other scene is pitched at the same frenetic speed. Sequences that would otherwise be fun-a Spielberg-esque roller-coaster ride through the sewers of New York a catchy saloon production number, “The Girl You Left Behind,” and the climactic confrontation that pits Wylie, Tiger and Fievel (as slingshot-slingers) against Cat R. Why? So he can use her as the lure in a giant mousetrap.īut the film’s biggest problem is its unrelenting, breakneck pace. Once the Mousekewitz family decides to move West, the story devolves into a series of convenient contrivances: Tanya is supposed to be such an awful singer that the neighbors throw vegetables at her, but Cat R. The new film isn’t really about anything. ![]() The earlier “American Tail” attempted to retell the epic story of the 19th-Century immigrants who came to America seeking religious freedom. Naturally, Fievel manages to foil this scheme with the help of Tiger (Dom DeLuise), his vegetarian cat friend, and the over-the-hill canine marshal Wylie Burp (James Stewart, in a kind of self-parodying “Destry Hobbles Again”). Waul (John Cleese, essentially reprising the incongruous British sheriff he played in “Silverado”), who plans to lure all the urban mice to a remote, desolate town, put them to work building a saloon for him and then eat them. Their decision puts them at the mercy of the unscrupulous Cat R. ![]()
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