Rikki Tikki Tavi/Yankee Doodle Cricket
by Chuck Jones
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Actor: June Foray, Les Tremayne, Mel BlancDirector: Chuck Jones
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: Chuck Jones
Writer: Chuck Jones
Producer: John Allen
Producer: Joseph Aidlin
Writer: George Selden
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 26 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Rikki Tikki Tavi/Yankee Doodle Cricket
DVD Review: Typically fine and faithful Jones adaptation of a classic
Summary: 4 Stars
This was one of my favorite stories when I was a kid. I had always heard of the existence of this film, and was never able to see it until the release of this DVD. Judging from those of Jones' kid-lit adaptations I had seen (the wonderfully witty "Dot and The Line" of 1965; the glorious "Grinch" of 1966; "Horton Hears A Who" [1970]; and the lovely "Cricket In Times Square" of 1976) I was expecting great things, and was largely satisfied. The music and the writing ("oh Rikki-Tikki,
you ARE brave and beautiful!") tend to be a tad cloying. But these are minor cavils: the tone is, by and large, splendidly consistent. A good deal of the Kipling text is used, and Orson Welles reads it with terrific brio. The voice characterizations,
particularly those of June Foray, are as note-perfect as one could wish. The 4:3 transfer is decent, the mono sound perfectly adequate. The color is not as brilliant as it might be, but I suspect the source material and transfer are not to blame for this. It must be said, finally, that the production staff Jones had at his studio in 1975 were not as capable
of sustained flights of visual fancy as the staff Jones had at MGM only ten years earlier. Many of those artists were veterans
of the great Warner Bros. period, and were thus linked to a great tradition. The visual scheme in the "Rikki Tikki" film is pleasant enough, but one misses, for example, the almost manic inspiration of Gerry Chiniquy or Maurice Noble. In short: this is a terrific film by anyone else's standards, but alongside Jones' best work it must be judged a mixed bag. Still, it contains some of the finest character and action animation in any Jones film, and no animation afficionado should miss it for this reason, as well as the pleasure of seeing a great story told very well indeed.
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