Fresh
While the emphasis is more on the first part than on the second part of that compound, it's okay.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fun and Fancy Free
It’s Got That DISNEY MAGIC!
1947 · 1h 13m · APPROVED
Animation, Music
Directed by
Jack Kinney
,
Hamilton Luske
Overview
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.
Director and cast
- Jack Kinney Director
- Hamilton Luske Director
- Edgar Bergen as Himself
- Dinah Shore as Narrator
- Charlie McCarthy as Himself
- Mortimer Snerd as Himself
- Luana Patten as Herself
- Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse
- Anita Gordon as Singing Harp
- Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket
- Clarence Nash as Donald Duck / Cat
- The King's Men Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Fun And Fancy Free is a mixed bag with more than enough interesting material to make it worth seeing, even if it falls short of Disney's shameless self-praise.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
Rotten
The whole picture peters out and becomes as oddly off-balance and inconsequential as its title.
TIME Magazine
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