Willy le moineau

Hungarian cartoonist are word famous, but the excellent Hungarian cartoons are unfortunately little known abroad. Whereas there are many good short and long cartoons (Gusztav, Mezga Geza, Dr. Bubo, Ludas Matyi, Hugo, the hyppo etc.)

Vili, a veréb (Will, the sparrow) is one of the best, if not the best, among these. Vili, a ten years old "bad" boy is shooting to sparrows with airgun. A good fairy penalize him by metamorphosing him to a sparrow. He have many funny adventures with sparrows (eg. to learn flying). By the end of film he will be a good, animal loving kid.

Allow me to explain the premise to this 1989 animated movie. Willy is a little boy who is staying home from school because he's still sick with a flu. Feeling bored, Willy decides to use his imagination. He takes a toy gun and, pretending he's a cowboy, "shoots" at some sparrows. By "shoot" I mean he says "Bang, bang!". But Willy chose the wrong day to pretend to shoot at birds, because sitting on that bench happened to be...the Sparrow Guardian.

She is judge, jury and executioner for her own brand of sparrow justice, and she finds Willy to be guilty. She then breaks into the little boy's house and turns the boy into a sparrow. That is what you get for pretending to shoot at birds.

This movie is full of insane story beats like that, including: Drunk rats trying to sell beer as wisdom elixir. Birds fighting for leadership. The sparrow guardian meowing at a cat in a public park. A bird being turned into a man and forming a romance with the sparrow guardian. If this sounds like your kind of insanity, give this movie a watch...or else the sparrow guardian will come for you.

This movie harms young boys by presenting the premise that it is okay for your ten year old girl to throw a cat in the dryer risking actual harm to the animal. However, the idea that an imaginative similarly aged boy who makes bang bang sounds at sparrows should be met with home invasion, high CFC spay, transfiguration, and the potential for extreme bodily harm is problematic.

I would also like to point out that this new character limit of six hundred characters per post is superfluous, supercilious, superfluent, and otherwise restrictive.

In the spirit of the above sentence here is the fourth longest word in the english language; Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Love the movie. It was my son's favorite movie. He watched with his siblings. Sadly it was vhs and dvd only. I subscribed to a company that only sold movies that taught about morals. There was always a lesson to be learned. Today that is something that's lacking in today's society. My son watch many of these movies by Willy the sparrow was his favorite. He's 20 and he's house sitting right now and was wondering what could he do to pass the time. I said you could watch Willy the Sparrow. He said OMG mom I haven't seen that movie in years. That's a great idea. So years later it's still one of his favorite movies.

My son was lent this in first grade. (We can buy it for $10.) There is a part where the older wiser sparrow goes to a bar and gets drunk on alcohol with two (normally drunk in credits) rats, thinking it's the elixir of knowledge. I was greatly surprised at this. But the spraying part is bad too, now that I think about it.

With 23 kids in his class at $10 each they spent $230 for this (not very good anyway) movie! And, used of for homework in place of regular homework! I just bought a wonderful geography book (Rand McNally beginners) for this grade (and older) for about $7 because I know they don't teach much at all in school! If they have money for this junk, why can't they spend it on education material!?

75 minutes felt a lot longer even to my son. It won't teach respect kindness or desire for knowledge if the person doesn't already have it. By the way; the older wiser characters talk way too fast. Joanne