Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977)

Directed by Richard Williams
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, CBS Video)

The set up is similar to Toy Story: whenever a live-action little girl leaves her playroom her toys come to life in animation. They find a box one day which contains a French doll as a birthday present. A Captain who lives in a bowl falls in love and kidnaps her. Raggedy Ann and her brother Andy pursue them in the "outside world". They have a series of strange adventures along with new friend the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees, a sad, abandoned toy who has visions of caravans calling him away. They fall into a taffy pit inhabited by the gooey monster The Greedy, then end up in Loonie Land ruled by the evil King Koo Koo. It's an odd mixture of Broadway style songs and acid-trip visuals, which probably would have been better to choose one over the other and run with it. In desperate need of restoration, the full frame VHS tape is cramped and obviously missing information on the sides.

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