Fun & Fancy Free

I can see why this is a forgotten entry in the Disney animated movie canon. Two shorts of moderate length, one (Bongo) being a convoluted, boring mess, and the other being an amusing but rote spin on Jack and the Beanstalk, but with Mickey. MULTIPLE framing devices. The tired, dated schtick of Edgar Bergen. It's beautifully animated, sure, but nothing about this needed to be a movie. The framing devices -- especially the goofy scene with Bergen entertaining kids in the middle of the movie -- drags on forever. Bongo is a snore, and Dinah Shore's narration is woefully out of place. Only the Beanstalk story is of any amusement, and I know I've seen it outside the context of this "movie", which is how you should watch it too. Bottom line, Fun and Fancy Free is for Disney fetishists and completionists only. Anybody else, don't bother. It's forgotten for a reason.