While Fun & Fancy Free wasn't terrible, I think it is the weakest of the package movies from the war time era of Disney.
It's a collection of two segments joined together by Jiminy Cricket taking us to two different locations which are a bedroom and a livingroom. The first one being the place where the story of Bongo the circus bear begins. A simple story about Bongo longing to be in the wild after serving his entire life in a circus. He doesn't know the wild so he goes through some trials to learn how to be in the wild while he finds love. I may be among the few people who put this much though into a cartoon, but the way the bears show affection was a little disturbing to me. Judge it for yourself, though.
The latter is in a livingroom where Jiminy watches this birthday party or something where the vetriloquist tells Mickey and the Beanstalk which is pretty much Jack and the Beanstalk without much change put into it. The animated part was good, but the one puppet, Charlie, gets annoying very quickly when constantly interrupts the narration to make stupid comments. Again, the animated parts are really nice in both segments, but the live action parts are kind of dated. The end is pretty funny, though, and was the part that made me laugh the most.
Fun & Fabcy Free is among the weaker Disney efforts, but can be a delight for the little ones. Not a recommendation from me, but isn't one to be left out.
It's a collection of two segments joined together by Jiminy Cricket taking us to two different locations which are a bedroom and a livingroom. The first one being the place where the story of Bongo the circus bear begins. A simple story about Bongo longing to be in the wild after serving his entire life in a circus. He doesn't know the wild so he goes through some trials to learn how to be in the wild while he finds love. I may be among the few people who put this much though into a cartoon, but the way the bears show affection was a little disturbing to me. Judge it for yourself, though.
The latter is in a livingroom where Jiminy watches this birthday party or something where the vetriloquist tells Mickey and the Beanstalk which is pretty much Jack and the Beanstalk without much change put into it. The animated part was good, but the one puppet, Charlie, gets annoying very quickly when constantly interrupts the narration to make stupid comments. Again, the animated parts are really nice in both segments, but the live action parts are kind of dated. The end is pretty funny, though, and was the part that made me laugh the most.
Fun & Fabcy Free is among the weaker Disney efforts, but can be a delight for the little ones. Not a recommendation from me, but isn't one to be left out.