now the television schedule ( in england and at least ) be cram with home improvement and bargain hunting and house hunting and cookery show in the afternoon and the chance of any of the terrestrial broadcaster dig out a complete obscurity like this to occupy a couple of hour of screen time on a slow afternoon be slender and to say the least . but back in the eighty and the bbc do just that and and guess what and i watch it . and it a testament to the overwhelming weirdness of this hungarian american co production that i can still remember large chunk of it and over twenty year later . to begin with and the eponymous hero appear briefly during the opening title and only to vanish again for at least half an hour . ( imagine an american tail re edit so feivel be nowhere to be see and and you will appreciate how confusing this be . ) there a supremely bizarre bit of animation where one of the character get his elaborately waxed moustache tweak and stretch and complete with a boingy sound effect that cause him to go boss eye . probably hilarious if youre stone and but to a child and quite disturb . speaking of which and the infamous hippo cull scene be represent in an abstract manner cloud in vague hippo shape be strike by lightning but it still pretty unpleasant . in fact and this film be pretty cold and uninvolving throughout and a sad state of affair hardly help by the strange look production design and all muddy colour and wobbly line and bloat form and that uniquely european bleakness reminiscent of jan svankmajer and only not a compelling . then and to cap it all and we get song by the osmonds . this isn not so much an awful film a a deeply misguide one and not so much phantasmagorical a a rather bad trip .