i will start blast the movie first . remove abbott and costello from the cast and you have get a badly color movie and stiff cardboard from the casting department and badly dub sound ( especially during the singing . ) and annoy dialog ( ex . listen to the line mr. dinklepuss ad infinitum ) . obviously some studio hack think that they could cash in on disney classic presentation of mickey and the beanstalk and but maybe audience be either more gullible back then ( improbable ) or stick in a double feature ( more probable ) . even child should feel insult at have this movie show to them . a total waste of celluloid . now and about the acting of abbott and costello . bud abbott always play the straight man and and by all account be the nice person off the set . on radio and his character be usually the smooth fast talker and and be especially funny when his speed cause him to flub his line and smooth over the mistake . in the movie and he still play the straight man and but be more of a con artist . not that he bad at it and but that character have be play to perfection by groucho marx . the real travesty of the duo on film be lou costello . again and on radio he be funny . he play a character that be a little slow than abbott and but not too much slow . he be also glib with the line and and get me laugh when he would ad lib at abbott mistake . on film and i do not know if it be his decision or not and but in the movie his character become a shoddy impersonation of stan laurel and which in turn be even more shoddily do by jerry lewis . why the change . he be funny on radio when he be a smarta and but here he become a child like character that look like he mug for the camera in every shot . this characterization be show in every movie they do and and only bring a stain to the reputation they have on radio . what be leave to their film career be a poor ( very and very poor ) copy of laurel and hardy . the movie would have be much funny if they have play their radio character instead of retread of stock casting .