The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on October 13, 2017

Seven credited writers on Sleeping Beauty and none of them could figure out any dialogue to give the prince. Though, notwithstanding some cute banter between the three fairies, there’s not much good dialogue in Sleeping Beauty anyway. Villain Maleficent doesn’t even get any. Eleanor Audley’s great   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on July 15, 2012

Bill Peet, who came up with the story for Susie the Little Blue Coupe and co-wrote the final script, must have thought American kids didn’t have enough depressing classic Russian literature in their lives. It’s a seriously disturbed, if fantastic, cartoon. Susie tells the story of a hap   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on May 19, 2012

The Story of Anyburg U.S.A. is an odd one. A small town decides to sue cars–personified here as cute, the windshields as big eyes–for all the auto accidents. Sadly, Anyburg opens with a lot more energy–the narrator goes on and on about homicides on the highway and such and it...   read more