Jack and the Beanstalk

ジャックと豆の木

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Type

Movie

Status

Finished Airing

Aired

Jul 20, 1974

Fantasy

Synopsis

An old fairy tale gets some new wrinkles in this fanciful animated adaptation. After young Jack is conned into trading his family's prize cow for a handful of beans, he plants them and discovers they produce a magical vine that rises through the clouds. Climbing the beanstalk, Jack encounters a strange and remarkable world ruled by the magical Princess Margaret. The princess is in love with Prince Tulip despite his unattractive features and harsh personality, but as it turns out, this is the work of Madam Noir, an evil witch who has cast a spell on the princess so she will marry Tulip, her only son. Can Jack help the princess avoid this awful fate? Directed by Japanese animator Gisaburo Sugii, this free adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk has won a cult following for its fanciful story and wildly colorful design.

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Aimeelouux

Mixed Feelings

This is one of the weirdest, funniest, scariest movies I have ever watched. I first watched it as a kid, watching it every time I went to my grandparents. I haven't watched it since then, and was recently reminded of it, so I watched it again and wondered what the hell the people were on when they made this!!! Apart from the epic backing music, the storyline is crazy and sometimes you're left watching the screen blankly. I unexpectically still love this movie. It's quite worrying at times but I suggest you watch this seeing as you'll never watch anything else like it!

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matthigh

Mixed Feelings

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A feature-length re-telling of the classic fairy tale. But in order to pad it out to a full ninety minutes, this version adds in a few extra characters and an extra sub-plot storyline involving the giant's evil mother, his magically-enchanted betrothed, Jack's dog and a whole bevy of mice. Overall, it's a fair-to-middlin' movie, with a story and animation that is aimed squarely at the pre-teen audience. Even though this is billed as an 'anime' movie, most movies that were created in this time period still had a very heavy Disney influence and did not contain many (ifany) of the normal anime tropes and quirks we are used to from today's anime offerings. Also, even though this is billed as a "musical", it's actually a bit light on the musical numbers. And nothing really memorable, either.