. . . it wants to be a film or a book. There are at least 34 separate interruptions of the animation to picture literal book pages. These literary interludes last anywhere from a few seconds to nearly a minute. When a viewer considers that this flick is less than 74 minutes in duration, devoting so much time to merely showing pages in a book in such a disruptive fashion calls the sanity of the alleged film producer into serious question. There used to be a television program called CAPTAIN KANGAROO. If you watch old episodes on Today's version of TV Land, you'll see the Captain reading ACTUAL books as the camera pans and scans the ACTUAL book pages. I saw the episode where Mr. Kangaroo reads Mulligan's Steam Shovel in such fashion. It was far more efficient and riveting than what Dizzy does with Pooh.
