1h 18min | Animation, Comedy, Family | 5 December 1941
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Shamus Culhane (uncredited)
Stars: Kenny Gardner, Gwen Williams, Jack Mercer
Watched online, decent print; also on AmazonPrime as Bugville, the dvd release name.
It's a kid's story, and not done so well that an adult enjoys it. Too slow, both in story pace and physical movement speed. These are the same folks who brought us Gulliver's Travels, and I had the same complaint there.
Yeah, it's a musical. Songs are sung. Not much that would satisfy my definition of dancing.
Just to quell any FOMO, the ending, where the bugs go live on the rooftop garden (and somehow the bad bugs are caught behind bars), has one bug looking over the edge of the building and commenting that the people below look just like bugs. Ugh.
Fleischer Studios, distr. Paramount, dir. Fleischer; 5
