I've been hearing lots of great things about this film and have been anxious to see it. But then two names completely destroyed the film: Hanna/Barbera.
EB White was right to be upset. Something like Charlotte's Web deserved a higher quality than what we got. There is no way this could have been an animated classic from the early 1970s. it looks like a cheap cartoon from the 1950s. The humans were poorly done and the characters were hardly believable. Fern's drama queen act annoyed me. Some of the songs were just not fit for the film "Something More" and especially "I Can Talk" bothered me (like this was really meant to be a kids only film). I was shocked to learn that this is the award winning Sherman brothers, but at least they wrote "Zuckerman's Famous Pig", a classic that shall live on in my head.
I guess I set the bar too high. I was hoping for something that was brilliantly animated and welcoming to all ages. What I got what a cheap kiddie musical with bad acting and terrible animation. Reading the novel should prove more satisfying than this.
EB White was right to be upset. Something like Charlotte's Web deserved a higher quality than what we got. There is no way this could have been an animated classic from the early 1970s. it looks like a cheap cartoon from the 1950s. The humans were poorly done and the characters were hardly believable. Fern's drama queen act annoyed me. Some of the songs were just not fit for the film "Something More" and especially "I Can Talk" bothered me (like this was really meant to be a kids only film). I was shocked to learn that this is the award winning Sherman brothers, but at least they wrote "Zuckerman's Famous Pig", a classic that shall live on in my head.
I guess I set the bar too high. I was hoping for something that was brilliantly animated and welcoming to all ages. What I got what a cheap kiddie musical with bad acting and terrible animation. Reading the novel should prove more satisfying than this.