... is the first thing you'll see, as this melange of cartoons is framed by a story of an animator kept chained to a dungeon wall except when there's work for him to do.
The "3 Stooges" humour of the live action segments quickly becomes tiresome, as does the film's caprice of being a take-off on Fantasia. The animated segments are ingeniously thought out, but the humour is so vulgar and so Italian that foreigners probably won't relate to it.
Now I am going to turn around and tell you to rush out and watch Allegro non Troppo. There is one truly wonderful sequence - Valse Triste, aka Feline Fantasies, aka The Last Meow. The dreams and longings of this homeless pussycat are among the greatest that animation has produced (you can watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX92pHpPc-k ). Those of you who enjoy the work of Yuri Norstein or Martin Rosen would do well to check this out.
The "3 Stooges" humour of the live action segments quickly becomes tiresome, as does the film's caprice of being a take-off on Fantasia. The animated segments are ingeniously thought out, but the humour is so vulgar and so Italian that foreigners probably won't relate to it.
Now I am going to turn around and tell you to rush out and watch Allegro non Troppo. There is one truly wonderful sequence - Valse Triste, aka Feline Fantasies, aka The Last Meow. The dreams and longings of this homeless pussycat are among the greatest that animation has produced (you can watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX92pHpPc-k ). Those of you who enjoy the work of Yuri Norstein or Martin Rosen would do well to check this out.