I definitely love discovering treasures I once had in the past. The memories this movie incites are definitely treasures for me. Mickey plus movie equals love….
Today’s animated cartoons are very sophisticated and technically superior to older fair like you might find on YouTube from… let’s say… 1977. As an artist and writer dedicated to didactic surrealism (yes, I know you probably have no earthly idea what those two words even mean, but that’s a review post for another day), I should probably look down my long critic’s nose at the story of A Mouse and His Child, from Sanrio Studios. I saw this bit of artwork in motion at the College-Town Theater in Ames, Iowa while attending Iowa State University. It is a dopey pre-Toy-Story story about a pair of wind-up toy mice who are designed to dance in circle and can do nothing more than that at the beginning of the movie. They are told at the outset that they can only do in life what they were designed to do… and…
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