1)The animation is bad, especially by Chuck Jones' standards. If you've seen any amount of his work with Bugs Bunny or Tom & Jerry then you will see why. Things suddenly have or change color, some things skip a few frames of animation, and at some points it looks like a 2nd grade class animated it with markers.
2)There is no story, or at least none that I could find. It's basically one long experimental movie mixing live action with animation. There are very little live action scenes in the beginning to establish anything such as - where are Milo's parents? The kid doesn't live by himself does he? It's as if Chuck wanted to get to the animation as fast as possible.
3) When we get to this animated world, it's very mundane and not very imaginative, ESPECIALLY the opening scenes involving the doldrums.
Do we really need to see the main character yawning while other snot-like creates yawn too? This is movie-making rule #1: Don't have too much yawning in your movie or else the audience will be yawning right along with it! The part with the doldrums was torture.
3) It's hard to make out a lot of the dialogue because of the sound effects and what they tried to do with the voices.
It looks like crap and sounds like crap.
I take it that this was supposed to be a sort of Alice in Wonderland experience, but it's not very fun or imaginative. I mean the police officer with one long leg that's a wheel(?) should tell you how lacking this movie is.
When I saw this on TCM the other day Robert Osbourne said that this was made in 1968 but released in 1970, mostly due to MGM having a constant change of guard and because they didn't know how to sell this movie. I believe it! No one beyond the age of 1 should watch this.
Actually, I can't imagine audiences going to see this in a movie theater. I barely was able to pay attention at home- and I didn't for a long stretch, deciding to do something else while it was on.
Something more fun.
2)There is no story, or at least none that I could find. It's basically one long experimental movie mixing live action with animation. There are very little live action scenes in the beginning to establish anything such as - where are Milo's parents? The kid doesn't live by himself does he? It's as if Chuck wanted to get to the animation as fast as possible.
3) When we get to this animated world, it's very mundane and not very imaginative, ESPECIALLY the opening scenes involving the doldrums.
Do we really need to see the main character yawning while other snot-like creates yawn too? This is movie-making rule #1: Don't have too much yawning in your movie or else the audience will be yawning right along with it! The part with the doldrums was torture.
3) It's hard to make out a lot of the dialogue because of the sound effects and what they tried to do with the voices.
It looks like crap and sounds like crap.
I take it that this was supposed to be a sort of Alice in Wonderland experience, but it's not very fun or imaginative. I mean the police officer with one long leg that's a wheel(?) should tell you how lacking this movie is.
When I saw this on TCM the other day Robert Osbourne said that this was made in 1968 but released in 1970, mostly due to MGM having a constant change of guard and because they didn't know how to sell this movie. I believe it! No one beyond the age of 1 should watch this.
Actually, I can't imagine audiences going to see this in a movie theater. I barely was able to pay attention at home- and I didn't for a long stretch, deciding to do something else while it was on.
Something more fun.