This film recalls a more innocent time, when casual racism was the order of the world, and inter species romance was perfectly acceptable in a kid flick. What is impressive here, and in the older canon of Disney, is the fact that each frame was hand drawn, resonant not only in the dramatic escape from Monstro the Whale, but also in gentler "blink and you miss it" scenes. There is little I found funny, a lot I found nauseatingly cute, and the writers wasted no time in establishing the moral tone and re-iterating it. The Pleasure Island boys-turning-into-donkeys scene is still as terrifying as I remember it though.
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