The Puppetoon Movie
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Movie Reviews of The Puppetoon Movie
Movie Review: Puppetoons
Summary: 4 Stars
After viewing this movie, I realized why Puppetoons were not popular in the USA. Even tho they are cute and charming and cutting edge for their time, these were really just commercials!!!! Phillips Radios, Horlicks Malted Milk...
The figures are adorable and the stop motion animation is almost flawless but these were commercials for radios, etc.
Still, its a good DVD. Entertaining
Movie Review: Puppetoon Review
Summary: 4 Stars
George Pal's Puppetoons are great. I remember watching them 45 years ago whilst growing up. I was hopeing for a few more toons with The Screw Ball Army in them but one is better than none. Well worth the little money I paid.Movie Review: Good Sense Reins
Summary: 4 Stars
Look I Cant imagine someone having any kind if complaint about about jasper in the series, After all i didnt hear to many MAMMY'SThis Is Wonderful
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Movie Review: Cute, but....
Summary: 3 Stars
It could have been more satisfying! There, of course, is the requisite "Tubby the Tuba", but just ONE piece featuring the Screwball Army! There were NUMEROUS Pal Puppetoon productions featuring these comical takes on fascism! Where's the Dr. Seuss "Mulberry Street" short? The short with the clarinet playing woodchopper? The other "Punchy & Judys"? (I wonder if the creators of "Little Lulu" ever commented on those!) And why so many from the thirties?? Most of Pal's best output of these little gems was in the forties and fifties....
Pal's Puppetoon work had a singular artistry to it. The figures moved unlike most other stop-action animated units, most of which generally just try to put across the tableau as plainly as possible. Pal's creations REACTED like cartoon characters...wild takes, feature distortion, ambient movement...all very idiosyncratic. The only other animation to be that generous with detailed movement were the Warner's Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies made between 1940 and 1955.
Most of them were funny, charming and quirky and embraced the art deco aesthetic like nothing else I've ever seen in animated art. What Pal's people could wring out of simple geometric shapes was amazing, and you'll notice, that's about all that they used...no weird freehand polygons are visible in the animation work...just spheroids, cones, rods and other distinct geometric solids. The only exception to this seems to be the "Punchy & Judy" bits.
His animation team must have suffered from gawrsh-awful cases of carpal tunnel syndrome and writer's cramp, because this was all incrementally implemented BY HAND to give the illusion of fluid movement. They just don't make them like that anymore...and this DVD should have featured fewer of the movie house adverts for Philips radios and Horlock's malteds and more of our old afternoon cartoon show favorites!