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.A cold war between two lands over a ridiculous dispute leads to a perilous arms race.
Charles Durning
- Grandfather
- (voice)
Miriam Flynn
- Yookie-Ann Sue
- (voice)
- …
Clive Revill
- Van Itch
- (voice)
Joseph Cousins
- Grandson
- (voice)
Jim Cummings
- Various Yooks
- (voice)
Hal Smith
- Various Yooks
- (voice)
‘Snow White’ Stars Test Their Wits
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- GoofsWhen 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.
- Quotes
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.
- Alternate versionsBetween 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.
- ConnectionsEdited into In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994)
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Wow. Wow, wow. Hmmm. Do I waste the words? In the spirit of Bakshi, I'll stay human and fail by trying. I won't believe the Grandfather. Anyone who studies Bakshi feels the tides of generations, of change, of the street, of music, and art, addiction and emotion. Of the loss of soul which accompanies conviction. So those few will suck on the sour, ironic pill of these comments like they have every minute of Bakshi film, and twist their face wry, and spit it out and never forget. They illustrate alike. Let me simplify and close; from 'a brilliant, if all-too-brief, collaboration...' "Soon there are goofy attempts by a hired Grandfather Yook (voiced by Charles Durning) to take on the task of stopping the Zooks from continuing on their bottom-buttered path." And contrast. From 'Simplistic and misguided' "In any event, the cartoon is little more than simplistic propaganda which does little to explore the nuances of the ethical questions behind nuclear armament and instead tries to inculcate fear of weapons technology into children." Do I really need to summarize? Probably, but I won't. Conviction becomes reality. What acts is indestructible.
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- Dr. Seuss' The Butter Battle Book
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was The Butter Battle Book (1989) officially released in India in English?
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