CommentsXp Best movie ever!

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Eric Stevenson I believe this to be the oldest movie that the Nostalgia Critic ever reviewed, not counting films featured on his show. It's amazing how the DVD costs about 300 dollars and yet you can see it for free on YouTube! Anyway, this is pretty much the standard story of Jack And The Beanstalk. The biggest addition is this princess who is being forced to marry the giant. Honestly, all the characters here are pretty likeable. It seems clichéd at times but it actually does get pretty subversive at the end.It's fascinating to see an anime film from 1974. It doesn't look like anime at all. In fact, it's more like an American animated movie! I admit it is pretty quirky but it actually does have nice looking animation and I learned to associate with the characters and the like. Yeah, they never do explain how the dog can talk in just that one scene. A pity there's so much controversy with Channel Awesome nowadays. ***

AugustGorman Grew up watching this cartoon from the age of around 4-5. I am now 27 years old and still love it as much as I did when I was younger.I still have a copy of the tape my parents made for me with this cartoon on it. I am holding onto it as I want my kids to watch it as I did.How creepy is the bearded fortune-teller? And I don't think I've seen a more terrifying cartoon witch! Tulip is both funny and scary and Crosby provides some great moments.Quite simply, the greatest feature-length cartoon ever. The characters, the songs, the sinister/eerie moments, the sadness and happiness - it's all here.

SethKill it's strange when you find that you have the same story as so many other people. especially when something is so rare like this movie. but yes i must admit that i too got the chance to view an old recorded copy of this film when i was much younger, years and years ago. this was actually in a daycare i went to. and as i eventually left, so did my chance at viewing the movie. that is until like 10 years later when i searched and searched and managed to get my hands on an old rental copy. id never been happier.this movie is insane. by insane i mean the presence it gives off when you watch it. the animation is brilliant and has a definite japanimation feel, yet is something unique. the characters and series of events are probably the most creative in any adaption of anything I've seen. and id forgotten how entrancing the music is until i finally watched it again after all those years. its strange when something actually sticks into your mind so firmly when you are so young. things usually just pass by and your attention isn't as focused. but there is just something about this movie really penetrates the mind. even when you're older. this movie honestly wipes the floor with Disney.

barbarat-2 I have had this movie on an old VHS taped from the Disney Channel in the early 80s, and have loved it since I was a kid. Yesterday I found my old copy of it and tried to play it, I managed to get it to play but the picture is messed up, and the VCR tries to eat the tape. The tape is just too old. Of all the versions of Jack and the Beanstalk available, this is likely the most rare and definitely the best I have ever seen. This movie is mature and interesting beyond what anyone would expect of an animated retelling of Jack and the beanstalk.I have so many questions on this movie. The most important being, who wrote the music for it? I love all the music in this movie... I know the song "No one's happier than I" gets commented on a lot, and yes it is a good song. But even the background music is memorable and interesting. I love the trippy guitar-and-bass jam when Jack and Cosby initially climb the beanstalk... the bass-guitar jam that sounds almost suspiciously like porno music when Jack and Cosby are sneaking across the hall of the castle. The "bad guy" music that first appears when Jack looks at the portrait of Tulip, and later when he is at the dining room table looking around at all the gargoyles, and finally this forbidding music comes to life in the wedding song, one of the best and most memorable scenes/songs of the movie. Even the tamer songs at the beginning and end have memorable tunes and words: "Who'd want an elephant without a trunk/ Don't imagine you would. Without a tail to swing then who'd want a monkey/ Not a single zoo would. This is a law that seems to rule us all/ Don't you try to break it. Though you may think you're riding handsome and tall/ You're due for a fall." "See the morning sun shine down on the fields/ meadow grass is wet with due/ All the birds wake up to the same old song/ But they see every morning fresh and new." This movie has a maturity and artistic intelligence that challenges the flashy, super-realistic animation of today. Two of the most intense scenes are the wedding scene and the final confrontation with Madame Hecuba, which are both excellent. Another scene which is often not mentioned is the scene where Madame Hecuba applies "makeup" to Margaret's face and eyes (it is not said, but implied that the makeup is the spell she is putting on Margaret to keep her in love with the giant. This scene has some pretty strong lesbian undertones in my opinion.) I have no idea who owns the rights to this movie, but someone should do something to ensure that it has a future. Right now, it is nearly impossible to find any copies except every now and then on E-bay, and they are usually not new copies. This movie is too good to disappear forever and I hope that it is re-released someday, perhaps by one of the handful of fans that remembers how great this movie was as a child and how good it still is even today.