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If you like your animation over-the-top and the jokes at a breakneck pace, then this one's for you. Nathan Lane does a great job as Spot the dog who wants to be a boy, along with fellow voices Kelsey Grammar, Paul Ruebens and Jerry Stiller.The animation is unusual (imagine the drawings on the board game Cranium coming to life), but a nice break from the perfect Pixar flicks. The songs leave something to be desired, but most are brief and then its back to the jokes.A nice alternative to the standard Disney output: 7 out of 10.

An anarchic version of Pinocchio, with Cranium-esque animation, set within a Rocko's-Modern-Life-style universe, in which a disembodied Nathan Lane hams it up so thoroughly he renders any other character completely invisible. A movie this weird shouldn't be so forgotten. Not that it's great, or even that good, but the fact that Disney released such an odd musical comedy cartoon seems like enough reason for it to be at least somewhat in the zeitgeist.

The wackiness can be overwhelming but I love how surreal the movie gets. The colour palette is stunning, the drawings are great and the style is wonderfully cartoony. Nathan Lane belts it out and it is glorious to listen to. The parodies of famous paintings bring George Condo to mind. This film isn't for everyone, but cartoonists won't be disappointed.