The Butter Battle Book

Film per la TV
1989
PG
30min

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Miriam Flynn and Christopher Collins in The Butter Battle Book (1989)

Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Musical

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA cold war between two lands over a ridiculous dispute leads to a perilous arms race.A cold war between two lands over a ridiculous dispute leads to a perilous arms race.A cold war between two lands over a ridiculous dispute leads to a perilous arms race.

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Charles Durning

Grandfather
(voce)

Christopher Collins

Chief Yookeroo
(voce)
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Miriam Flynn

Yookie-Ann Sue
(voce)
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Clive Revill

Van Itch
(voce)

Joseph Cousins

Grandson
(voce)

Jim Cummings

Various Yooks
(voce)

Hal Smith

Various Yooks
(voce)

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Quiz
Dr. Seuss has credited this 1989 TV special as the most faithful adaptation of his work.

Blooper
When the Yook soldier first starts the walking machine, it has four goop-spraying attachments behind it. While he is en route to the wall, when the band is playing, there are only three attachments. When he confronts Van Itch at the wall, there are four again.

Citazioni
Grandfather: I marched to the wall with my Triple-Sling Jigger. I marched to the wall with great vim and great vigor. Right up to Van Itch with my hand on the trigger. "I'll have no more nonsense," I said with a frown, "from Zooks who eat bread with the butter side down!" Van Itch looked quite sickly. He ran off quite quickly.

Versioni alternative
Between the VHS and DVD releases there are some mild differences in the typesetting of the end credits, such as different spacing and character width from a slightly different font, a few changes between upper and lower case, etc.

Connessioni
Edited into In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994)

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A Faithful Adaptation With A Good Moral

The Butter Battle Book was a controversial children's book for its time. Written and published during the Cold War, it was a parable about the arms race, and taught a heavy lesson. The book came out in 1984, and in 1989, the book was adapted into a television special.

So, in case you never read the book (or you are one of those people who hate reading books in particular), here's the story: The Yooks and Zooks live on two opposing sides of a wall, as they are divided based on one thing: A disagreement over how to eat bread. The Yooks eat it butter-side up while the Zooks eat it butter-side down. However, it does not take long for a Zook to torment Grandpa (voiced by Charles Durning) with a slingshot, which triggers an arms race.

This TV special is praised by Dr. Seuss as the most faithful adaptation of his works, and watching it, I have to agree. The TV special follows the book closely. The voice actors do a good job voicing the characters, and the animation is vibrant. Also, the songs put in are catchy, and fit with the show. This is one I recommend showing to your kids, as it is a good lesson on how easy it is for two sides to escalate into a war, even one that could spell the end the of the human race.