Pufnstuf
by Hollingsworth Morse
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Actor: Billie Hayes, Billy Barty, Jack Wild, Mama Cass, Martha RayeDirector: Hollingsworth Morse
Brand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-19
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Product features:
- Actors: Billie Hayes, Mama Cass, Jack Wild, Martha Raye, Billy Barty.
- Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen.
- Language: English.
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
- Run Time: 93 minutes. Rated G.
Movie Reviews of Pufnstuf
Movie Review: "Alive and Well and Living Here on Living Island.."
Summary: 5 Stars
Look! A talking hippie tree in a colorful land where everything talks! Must be the land where Jimmy's talking flute came from! The amazing thing about Pufnstuf the movie is how quickly things can go from sunny and happy, to dark and menacing. Even 30 something years after I saw it the first time, that witchie poo is still one scary lady! Even more so when you contrast her to the happy and hapless, dim yet good-hearted Pufnstuf! And when the wind starts to howl and once-inanimate objects suddenly take on a life of their own and come after you - you know you're in Pufnstuf land! Now granted I don't think it's gonna give me nightmares this time, but it did the first time, and I still remember them to this day! I may not have even finished the movie the first time I saw it. Perhaps my parents took me out of the theatre. The witch and her ghouls roastin Pufnstuf on a spit over a fire at night is an image I'd remember even decades later, after seeing this movie first time as a 3 or 4-year-old. So may want to avoid showing this to very small childen. The older ones ought to survive - if it can even keep their interest.
A note on the production. Pretty solid I thought. I found the picture bright and clear. It didn't seem cropped to me but I don't have the original to compare with. It's presented in wide-screen. The voices seemed to sync up fine as well. Maybe I wasn't paying attention. Finally, there ARE English subtitles (YES!), something sorely missed in the original DVD edition of Land of the Lost.
It's interesting to revisit this movie. Sid and Marty Krofft productions were low budget affairs - but what they lacked in cash and special effects, they surely made up for in atmospheric and imaginative stories. With elaborately colorful sets, bizarre (and hokey) costumes, plus occasional touches of psychedelia and the complete over-the-topness of Witchiepoo and friends, the world they create is freakish and odd. This is technically a musical, and the songs and dialogue reflect the times - love, peace, harmony and psychotic witches - dig? At one point she changes herself into Betsy Bugaloo, a sexy swinging blond dancer (who still looks psychotic), in order to get into Pufnstuf's cave and steal Jimmy's talking flute. She can only get in Pufnstuf's house if he invites her. She pretends to offer dance lessons and is soon inside the house swinging and groovin, first with Pufnstuf, then with Jimmy and finally Freddy the Flute. Amidst Jimmy telling his flute to relax and "let it all hang out", Witchiepoo as Betsy Bugaloo swings her way right out of Pufnstuf's cave with Freddy the flute in hand! It's some horrific stuff.
Witchiepoo's full name incidentally is Wilhelmina W. Witchiepoo, and the "W" stands for "whack". And seriously, I can't think of a more sinister villain in any children's fantasy tale - she's loud and obnoxious. She puts Dorothy's Wicked Witch of the East to shame and makes her look like a nanny.. well, that may be a stretch.. but Wilhemina is surely whack, as is this whole movie. Get it and be impressed, or exorcise old demons. But don't show it to the babies, or they'll have nightmares they won't forget any time soon! For adults it may be only too much nonsense, unless you're 're-visiting'.
"Hey bub, is this the witches castle?"
"It ain't Disneyland."
* * *
"This looks yummy.. Bat Wings Au Gratin."
"Oh no, Witchiepoo, not me. I'd make a rotten au gratin!"
* * *
"Is this the way you greet your queen, you freaked out frump?"
"I tripped - have mercy on me, oh queen!"
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"The End? That's what they think. I'll get 'em yet! Ah, go home and have a nightmare! Ah, ha ha ha ha ha!!!!"
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"THIS MOTION PICTURE HAS BEEN RATED "G": GENERAL AUDIENCES" - good one!
Summary of Pufnstuf
From Land of the Lost producers, Sid & Marty Krofft, comes a family comedy filled with mirth, magic and music. After a bad day at school, Jimmy runs to the shore to play his flute, but he can?t believe his eyes when his ordinary flute comes to life! When a magical talking boat appears, he boards the ship only to discover that it has been sent by an evil witch named Witchiepoo to keep him prisoner and take his flute. It?s up to the fantastic dragon H.R. Pufnstuf and his comical companions, Cling and Clang, to come to the rescue in an adventure beyond anyone?s wildest imagination.Similar DVD Movies
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