Animation Greats!

Rating:
Summary: Great Animation, poor transfer
Review: The animations on this disk can be had on the "super jewelcase" version of this disk. The video transfer on this particular disk is awful. Buy the DVD with the guy in the red spiral on the cover, the animations are the same, but the video transfer is far superior.

Rating:
Summary: Great Animation, poor transfer
Review: The animations on this disk can be had on the "super jewelcase" version of this disk. The video transfer on this particular disk is awful. Buy the DVD with the guy in the red spiral on the cover, the animations are the same, but the video transfer is far superior.

Rating:
Summary: Great Animation, poor transfer
Review: The animations on this disk can be had on the "super jewelcase" version of this disk. The video transfer on this particular disk is awful. Buy the DVD with the guy in the red spiral on the cover, the animations are the same, but the video transfer is far superior.

Rating:
Summary: The Cat Came Back and others...
Review: This disk has eight wonderful little tales from the Canadian Film Board. Many styles of animation are used and there is some good music (The Cat Came Back, Blackfly, Get a Job). The stories included are as follows:

The Cat Came Back - An elderly man finds a cut kitten with a destructive nature. He spends the film trying to get rid of the cat. Great song.

The Big Snit - A bizarre husband and wife begin to feud with one another but even global nuclear war cannot stop their love from shining through.

The Lump - A very short man becomes popular when he grows a lump on top of his head that looks like a handsome head. Then he learns that popularity is not all it's cracked up to be.

Getting Started - A pianist spends the afternoon procrastinating practicing a piece.

Juke Bar - Live action and claymation tell of a diner owner's unique solution to a roach infestation.

Get A Job - Two stories on one as the main story is mirrored on a soap opera. The trials of job hunting.

Blackfly - A wonderful animation of Wade Hemsworth's song about working on the Little Abitibi in Ontario and the local pest.

Special Delivery - A really bizarre sequence of events that happen when a husband refuses to clean the snow and ice from his front steps.

While these stories were not originally intended for little children there is no sex or nudity in these films. The little violence that does exist is similar to a Warner Brothers Looney Tune.

I saw no indication of the poor print quality mentioned by an earlier reviewer.

Rating:
Summary: The Cat Came Back and others...
Review: This disk has eight wonderful little tales from the Canadian Film Board. Many styles of animation are used and there is some good music (The Cat Came Back, Blackfly, Get a Job). The stories included are as follows:

The Cat Came Back - An elderly man finds a cut kitten with a destructive nature. He spends the film trying to get rid of the cat. Great song.

The Big Snit - A bizarre husband and wife begin to feud with one another but even global nuclear war cannot stop their love from shining through.

The Lump - A very short man becomes popular when he grows a lump on top of his head that looks like a handsome head. Then he learns that popularity is not all it's cracked up to be.

Getting Started - A pianist spends the afternoon procrastinating practicing a piece.

Juke Bar - Live action and claymation tell of a diner owner's unique solution to a roach infestation.

Get A Job - Two stories on one as the main story is mirrored on a soap opera. The trials of job hunting.

Blackfly - A wonderful animation of Wade Hemsworth's song about working on the Little Abitibi in Ontario and the local pest.

Special Delivery - A really bizarre sequence of events that happen when a husband refuses to clean the snow and ice from his front steps.

While these stories were not originally intended for little children there is no sex or nudity in these films. The little violence that does exist is similar to a Warner Brothers Looney Tune.

I saw no indication of the poor print quality mentioned by an earlier reviewer.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Canadian Humor which comes in an 8-pack
Review: This is one of the funniest and most creative animation compilations I have ever seen. The music and scripting, how ever suttle or obvious, is craftily executed. If you are sick of Disney childish sing-a-long movies which break in to song every other word, THIS is for you. My complements to the Canadian Film Board for these Award Winners.