Jack and the Beanstalk

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Mike P @RT09890132 05/20/2025 Normally I love Japanese Animation, but Sugii delivers us an incomprehensibly strange variation on the tail; a hodgepodge; with some of the worst movie musical tunage since At Long Last Love or the musical version of Jack the Giant Killer...I mean this is bad. And the skeleton of the story is there; but director Sugii goes off in so many crazy directions it really doesn't resemble the original fable at all. See more Frisby 2 @RT32046461 05/18/2023 One of the THE weirdest animated film's I've ever watched, and that's not a negative, because this is so specifically odd that it'll keep you interested the whole way. It can't even keep a consistent tone, but again, that's not a bad thing. Even the musical numbers in it are weird, and catchy too (especially the wedding song, THE weirdest scene in the whole movie). So yeah, weird describes the whole movie, but it's entertaining and visually it will never disappoint. See more 03/30/2019 Pretty much anyone I have discussed movies with has never seen this movie. But being kids in upstate NY in the 70's my brothers and I remember seeing it quite a few times and enjoying it. Yes it was strange, but movies/cartoons and the music accompanied with them was strange back in those days. I found it on DVD and had to buy it. My brothers and I got a kick out of watching it as adults. We remembered a lot more than we thought we would. If you are into strange cartoon movies from the 70ï¿ 1/2(TM)s, you need to check this out. I am so glad I found it...lolï¿ 1/2Another few strange, cool and creepy movies we remember so well were ï¿ 1/2The Water babies, Dot and the Red Kangaroo, The Watership down and the Watcher in the woods(1980-with Betty Davis), Not a Cartoon, but pretty creepy for a Disney movie.ï¿ 1/2Â? See more 02/15/2018 Seems like a good family movie to enjoy See more 01/13/2018 This movie creeped me out as a kid. I re-watched it out of curiosity to see if it was just me, but NO this movie is really dark for a kid's fairytale. I'm wondering if the filmmakers intended for it to be creepy or it just turned out that way...mind you it was the 70s! There was some slow parts, but overall the movie was very entertaining, with some beautiful melodies. Very nostaligic. A must see! See more 05/20/2017 Similarly to what I did with *shudder* Foodfight, I had Channel Awesome watch the movie for me...although I did eventually go see bits and pieces of the actual film after finding it on YouTube. Too lazy to buy the DVD and anyway it's very expensive as anyone who saw the Nostalgia Critic's review suggests. The film is indeed a very weird adaptation of a universally known fairy tale. Some fine animation...for the 1970's, a few good ideas and the amusement of seeing a giant wind up a toy version of his mother - wait, what? - so that she can insult him. However, there's also a lack of consistency, weird musical numbers and shifts in tone going from a creepy haunted house movie to a Looney Tunes cartoon. Other things that make the film weird include: a confusing plot twist that'll leave kids AND adults stumped, the titular character's dog having a crappy musical number although he never spoke before and doesn't speak after and twists and turns so unexpected they'll make you go "I wh- I don't...I just...what?". And let's not forget the scene with suddenly trippy animation, paper people and a priest that is all like "ARE YOU HAPPYYYYYYY?". Some amusement but ultimately too weird for its own good. The kids can wait up until they learn about Channel Awesome's existence and watch Doug Walker's videos on the channel. See more Read all reviews

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