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Alakazam the Great

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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 10/29/2019
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. Go to Full Review
Brian Costello Common Sense Media 08/27/2013
4/5
Early Japanese animation teaches positive lessons on virtue. Go to Full Review
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10/24/2021 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! See more 03/21/2021 Funny and original!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more 02/02/2021 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. See more 01/06/2019 English-dubbed adaptation of a Japanese animated feature; cute for kids. See more 11/25/2016 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. See more 05/03/2015 I really like it a very good movie See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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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