i first caught this movie when cartoon network played it back in the 90s, and it always stuck with me. imagine a terry gilliam style cartoon with the sentimentality of george lucas and the brilliant voice work of lorenzo music (a.k.a. garfield/peter venkman from the ghostbusters cartoon) and you’ll get this amazing feature.

made entirely with cutout animation and punched up by a team of improv comics, it’s still pretty hard to find for a movie backed by the world’s most profitable filmmaker; a VHS/laserdisc release was mounted in 1991, but since, warner home video has done almost nothing with it. WB made it available on amazon.com’s “unboxed” streaming video service for a little bit, but i checked today and it’s down.

thankfully, someone put the whole thing on the internet. above’s part one of the 75 minute cult classic.