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Length: 03:05
Posted: 7/23/2009
The film takes place in a fictionalized version of Los Angeles set in 1947, where animated characters (always referred to as "Toons") are real beings who live and work alongside humans in the real world, most of them as actors in animated cartoons. watch
Send your movie questions to FlickChickI love talking about movies but Ive never been able to organize movie-night get-togethers So this is the next best thing On Tuesdays Im going to spotlight a DVD and suggest some virtual-discussion startersI cant imagine recommending a film about which I have more reservations than The Thief and the Cobbler newly released on DVD by the Weinstein Company But Im recommending it because the things that are wrong with it are the result of studio meddling Its been called The Magnificent Ambersons of animated film a butchered masterpiece And for all the strikes against it Thief and the Cobbler contains sequences of such breathtaking visual imagination that it must be seen by anyone who cares about animation Its that good The story is basic middle Eastern fairy tale stuff involving a feisty princess a lowly cobbler with a pure heart a wicked wizard and an bumbling but persistent thief determined to steal three golden spheres from tread more
