When Tubby the Tuba sets out to find a melody all of his own, his journey results in this enchanting and exciting musical tale. Tubby joins the circus and striving to be part of an ...
Director: Alexander Schure
Stars: Jack Gilford, Jane Powell, Cyril Ritchard, David Wayne, Pearl Bailey, Hermione Gingold, Dick Van Dyke.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253848/
Watched online, blurry, fs.
DV's voice is too distinctive, and wrong for a character who gets called fat multiple times (Tubby the Tuba). The only other voice that jumped out at me was PB as an elephant, which was ok.
This tuba is never satisfied. We start with him being unhappy in his job in a symphony that tubas never get to play melody, hence the quest to find one for his species. But he gets discouraged and joins the circus as waterboy to the elephants, but then plays them one of his songs to which they dance. The owner makes his new act the star attraction, only to give TT an enormous ego, and he puts himself in danger (from which PB rescues him). Then he goes back to his quest.
The danger TT faces during the circus is falling from a high tightrope into a cage of hungry tigers. Among the many things I don't understand about this universe is that a tuba is edible.
Then we go to the singing village, where songs are also anthropomorphized, and dance to present themselves??? Then why do we need instruments?
When TT wants to generate tuba music, he pulls out some piping from his inner pocket, and does not connect it to anything, just blows into it. This is less piping than a trumpet has, but it generates these low loud notes. Contrast that with a trombone, which also has a bell-shaped head, but blows into a full trombone.
This universe gives me a headache, because it also seems to have people in it. I'm totally confused about what is what around here, and would hate to expose this to children, at whom it is aimed.
I was very aggravated, and anxious (not eager, but anxious) for it to be over.
distr. Embassy Pictures, dir. Schure; 4
