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Rudyard Kipling’s classic story comes to delightful life with this wonderful animated short combining the estimable talents of narrator Orson Welles and director Chuck Jones (the genius behind many of the best Warner Bros. cartoons). Blending action, humor, and a few (thankfully noncloying) songs, this daydream of an adventure from the author of The Jungle Book details the efforts of a frisky mongoose sworn to defend his adopted family … More >>
#1 by Jessica Colles on April 15, 2010 - 4:32 pm
I haven’t watch the video yet. I bought it for my husband for Christmas. He really likes Rikki Tikki Tavi and so do the rest of the family. I hope it is just the original. Thanks for the great service and quick shipping.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Erich A. Pfeiffer on April 15, 2010 - 4:35 pm
The tape was a present for our granddaughter and we did not watch it ourselves. My wife had seen the tape a long time ago and remembered it as being very good….
Erich Pfeiffer
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Cedric Hohnstadt on April 15, 2010 - 6:30 pm
I haven’t watched the DVD. I just wanted to post some info about the contents, taken from [...]:
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi – Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was one of several animated TV specials based on the works of Rudyard Kipling, and produced and directed by Chuck Jones. The title character is a courageous mongoose, the unofficial pet of a British family living in India. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi has appointed himself protector of the family’s young son. He proves his mettle when two vicious cobras prepare to attack the child. Narrated by Orson Welles, the half-hour Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was originally telecast January 9, 1975. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Mowgli’s Brothers – Animator Chuck Jones helmed this tale, adapted from the work of Rudyard Kipling, of a boy raised by wolves. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
The White Seal – Based on the Rudyard Kipling story, this film follows the story of a young white seal who grows up to become the savior of the local seal population when it is threatened by seal hunters. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
A Very Merry Cricket – A sequel to “A Cricket in Times Square,” in this feature a musical cricket returns to his New York City home and his friends, a cat and a mouse, to discover the meaning of Christmas. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Yankee Doodle Cricket – In this film, historical events are given a slightly different spin when it is revealed that a group of animals were responsible for writing the patriotic tune “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” assisting Thomas Jefferson with the writing of the Declaration of Independence, and helping out Paul Revere in his hour of need. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
A Cricket in Times Square – Chester, a plucky little cricket with the gift of making beautiful music leaves his country home to find fortune in the Big Apple, instead he finds himself overwhelmed by the dangerous bustle and hub-ub around him. Eventually, he teams up with a mouse, a boy and a cat to save the kindly owner of a corner newsstand from financial ruin. This Chuck Jones animated feature first appeared on television and earned a Parent’s Choice Award. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Rating: 3 / 5
#4 by Betty Burks on April 15, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Chuck Jones created the Looney Tunes characters. He says, “We understand failure much better than we do success,” and yet he achieved great success against all odds. He discribes his cruel father as a disappointed intellectual. From his vivid imagination, he shares his memories of childhood where he created his friends and foes. Everyone needs heroes; mine was Mac Arthur who had a good mother.
A lot of his drawings are of the cat. In many of his features, cats take possession. Cats are individuals. Jeff and Zach loved the “Phantom Tollbooth” as their dad was a college English professor. It was one of Chuck Jones’ major successes, this survey of the English language. The young actor who played Eddie in the Munsters TV show and was delightful –but where’d he get those blue eyes. This non-Looney Tune story is as much fun to an adult as it is to children. Chuck Jones died in 2002. Even with an unhappy background, he came up with a varied cast of characters from Bugs Bunny to the Roadrunner.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Spencer Allain on April 15, 2010 - 10:01 pm
5 stars for the product, -1 star for delivery company.
The DVD actually plays fine from what I can tell, but given that it had popped out of the holder inside of the sealed case implies it had to have been jostled pretty hard, and because of that, it picked up several scratches.
I’m not even sure what shipping agency was used because it wasn’t the US postal service and there were no discerning markings on the delivery label. We found the package lying randomly on our front lawn out close to the street, on an evening where later there were thunderstorms — very strange as we have an open front porch that is perfect for packages.
Whatever company was used for delivery should be examined closely by Amazon, because I was tempted to send the box back unopened after I heard the rattling noise inside (which turned out to be the dislodged DVD, but sounded like something broken inside).
Rating: 4 / 5