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Alakazam the Great

Play trailer Poster for Alakazam the Great Released Jul 14, 1961 1h 28m Kids & Family Fantasy Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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A very smart monkey who is studying to be a magician overestimates himself and comes to learn humility.
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Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine Probably just the thing for juvenile TV-watchers whose mothers want to get them out of the house for a while...the style of drawing and animation is early Disney, but less skillful than the original. Oct 29, 2019 Full Review Brian Costello Common Sense Media Early Japanese animation teaches positive lessons on virtue. Rated: 4/5 Aug 27, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I hated this movie. Hated the characters, the animation, the writing, the musical numbers, the action sequences, I hated it all. This movie even gave me a headache. Alakazam the Great? More like Alakazam the awful! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Funny and original!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member I first saw this in Japan when I was 4 or 5. And I spoke Japanese at that time and it may have been in Japanese. So, I remember loving it then. Very good story with a moral and lessons that don't whack you over the head with them. Can't wait to watch it with grandchildren. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member English-dubbed adaptation of a Japanese animated feature; cute for kids. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Oddball animated musical auto of Japan that was released in the US by American International Pictures and re dubbed by the likes of Sterling Holloway, Jonathan Winters, E.G. Marshall, and Frankie Avalon. The film is a retelling of the Chinese folktale about a trickster character, Alakazam The Monkey King. Peter Fernandez (who re dubbed everything from Godzilla films to Ultraman to Speed Racer to Starblazers to Courage the Cowardly Dog) did the voice of Alakazam, so that's kind of fun. However, compared to Disney releases of the time, the animation seems crude, but at time is nicely imaginative. Overall the film is best watched as a so-bad-it's-good period piece. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I really like it a very good movie Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A very smart monkey who is studying to be a magician overestimates himself and comes to learn humility.
Director
Lee Kresel, Osamu Tezuka, Daisaku Shirakawa, Taiji Yabushita
Producer
Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson, Lou Rusoff, Hiroshi Okawa
Screenwriter
Lee Kresel, Osamu Tezuka, Keinosuke Uegusa, Goro Kontaibo, Lou Rusoff, Hideyuki Takahashi, Ch'eng-En Wu
Distributor
American International Pictures, Toei Co. Ltd., Home Box Office Home Video
Production Co
Toei Animation Company
Genre
Kids & Family, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 14, 1961, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 1, 2016
Runtime
1h 28m
Sound Mix
Mono
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