"Scrooge McDuck and Money" is a 15-minute documentary mix of live action and cartoon animation from 1967, so this one has its 50th anniversary this year. Director Hamilton Luske is actually an Oscar winner while writer while writer Bill Berg worked on some of the Disney classics. Of course, with the name Scrooge in the title, you knew immediately without me telling you that this is a Disney production, even if good old Walt had already died sadly when this one came out. Content-wise it is Scrooge telling the three nephews about money from different perspective. One of them is history. And who should know better than Scrooge with all the money he possesses. The scenes with the Ducks were certainly the highlight of the film and better than the sequences about money focusing on what Scrooge has to say. But even the ducks dancing and singing did not manage to take the dryness out of the subject for me. Pity. Maybe you need to have at least a bit of an interest in economy to appreciate this one. Scrooge may be telling the boys, but I doubt that young audiences would care at all about this one. I give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
Review of Scrooge McDuck and Money
