The Animal Movie

. . . is a cartoon appropriate for impressionable youngsters. Generally speaking, it is not safe for THE ANIMAL MOVIE to be viewed by anyone who has not attained a ripe age of at least 75-years-old. Just last week a couple of 74-year-old's were busted by marine park managers for harassing and trying to ride wild dolphins in Hawaii, which is a main preoccupation of the protagonist here. I cannot find out how many of THE ANIMAL MOVIE's cast and crew were jailed after its release, but since the Canadian "government" once again allowed itself to be bamboozled into supporting such utter claptrap, surely the answer is "not nearly enough of them."

This film shows a little boy as he watches various animals move. In each case, the animal is master at a certain kind of movement and the point seems to be that although animals can outperform humans in many of these tasks, because of our intelligence and ingenuity, we can use tools and machines to out-perform them. Take that, stupid animals! Heck, and if we can't out-perform them, we can always create a weapon to kill them (though this point was NOT made, thankfully, in the cartoon).

All this is done through relatively simple animation that still manages to please because the animals and particularly the child are illustrated in such a cute manner. While this is not a film you'd probably want to see again and again, it's a nice educational piece funded by the National Film Board of Canada.