The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
View MoreThis is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
View MoreThe plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
View MoreThere's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
View MoreThis is a color Scrappy cartoon produced by Columbia studio. There will be spoilers ahead:This short rather inexplicably was nominated for the Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons. Granted, the point is moot, because nothing else would have had any better chance of beating The Tortoise and the Hare from Disney than this short, but Poor Cinderella and A Dream Walking were done in 1934. Oh well.The premise is certainly an interesting one. Scrappy is sleeping late and in danger of missing school. The pages blow off a calendar, with five of them-New Year, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween and Easter-being walked through by Father Time, Santa, a turkey, a witch and the Easter Bunny. Father Time extols Scrappy in song to come take a look. Four of the five holidays have their own holiday-centered sequences (Halloween is omitted for some reason. The animation is decent if nothing special and the gags are occasionally nice.The ending is cute if predictable. It's a Scrappy cartoon, somewhat better than the general run, with the addition of color a novelty.This short can be seen here and there and is well worth seeking out to see. Recommended.
View MoreThis "Scrappy" cartoon from the Mintz factory is the first they produced in color. It's two-color Technicolor, since Disney had a monopoly on the three-color variety. It looks a little off, since the design was not changed. The line drawing of Scrappy with splashes of color looks weird -- but then he always did. Certainly the background work benefits from from the color and emphasizes the size of a couple of shots.As for the story, Scrappy doesn't want to get up to go to school and dreams of going to a banquet with tiny avatars of holidays. Like many of the Scrappies, it's an exercise in childhood weirdness and enjoyable. My interest in how they handled the color kept it from being too long.
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