this be painful . recently give away a a free dvd with a british newspaper and this british belgian co production from 1977 ( could have fool me and it look ten year old than that at least ) be quite deservedly obscure and if you make it past the half hour mark and consider yourself a trouper . the combining of animation and live action be ropey at best and downright dreadful at bad and which make you wonder why it be decide to even attempt make the film in this manner when clearly the technology wasn not really there . harris be no more than a human prop and the animation be some of the most flat and lifeless i have see and with the obligatory trippy moment ( especially where the animation of the brainiac type subtracto character be involve ) that render countless cartoon feature from the late sixty onward instantly date . the screenplay by don black provide a convincing argument for the usually resilient lyricist to stick to what he do best and and the pace be so slow that even the very young will be bore . a for adult and stick to jonathan swift original novel .