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But, by any other standards than those of the juvenile audience, the film is so far beneath the level of Mr. Disney's famous fantasy that, out of charity, we wish we did not have to make the comparisons demanded by professional responsibility. If it were only possible to soften the blow by suggesting that the second feature cartoon automatically loses the novelty-value of the first, we should be cushioning our typewriter with the excuse right now. But it is far more than novelty that "Gulliver" lacks: it is the wit, the freshness, the gayety and sparkle, the subtlety, the characterization and, for that matter, the good drawing that are the trademarks of the Disney factory.
Pointedly enough, the best parts of the Fleischer show are those which are most reminiscent of Disney: the comet-like course of the lamp-bearing town crier of Lilliput when the first sight of Gulliver sends him rocketing through the city to spread the alarm, the Lilliputian methods of repairing the human giant's wardrobe, the music-box effect of the harmonic snores of King Little and other members of his court. And pointedly, too, the worst parts of it were Disney stumbling blocks also: inability to make a little Prince and Princess anything but expressionless dolls, to crease a natural human face into a smile or frown without the lines and shadows performing a square dance.
For comic cartoon purposes they have used only the roughest outline of the Jonathan Swift satire about Lemuel Gulliver, the shipwrecked sailor who came ashore in Lilliput, where the folk were only thumb-high but just as cantankerous and warlike as full-grown members of the race facetiously known as human. That is the beginning and virtually the end of the synopsissince animators have material aplenty just in the notion of a working crew of Lilliputians trying to capture a man seventy times their sizebut, for good measure, they have tossed in the Prince of Blefuscu and the Princess of Lilliput whose wedding is called off, and war declared, because King Little insists that his anthem, "Faithful," be sung at the wedding and King Bombo is adamant about the singing of his anthem, "Forever."
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