Animated Musical: It's the main genre of the film, emphasis on the musical.And I Must Scream: The robotic denizens of Looney Land used to be regular human beings (or perhaps toys) tasked with making King Koo Koo laugh, but when they stopped amusing him, they were reduced to giggling, mindless contraptions that now can do nothing but cackle.Amazing Technicolor Population: Looney Land has a purple knight and a salmon-pink king.Affably Evil: The Greedy literally wants to eat Ann's heart, but he is polite to the heroes and bears them no ill will - at least at first.Action Girl: Babette is very much a Damsel in Distress in the earlier parts of the story but by the climax has taken over the pirate ship and is wielding a whip!.

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure provides examples of: You can read the the WordPress review of it here. Ann and Andy decide to go rescue her, and on their journey, they meet a depressed blue camel doll (The Camel with the Wrinkled Knees), a lake of sentient taffy that keeps eating itself (The Greedy), an insane knight who plays practical jokes (Sir Leonard Loony), and a diminutive king who inflates when he laughs (King Koo Koo) until a final confrontation on the pirate's ship.Ī book about the making of the film, The Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy by John Canemaker, can be read here as well. A pirate captain in a snowglobe is immediately stunned by her and decides to elope with her to make her his bride. The day of her birthday, Marcella gets a Jumeau doll, Babette, who is quite vain. Raggedy Ann and her brother, Andy, are dolls who live together in little Marcella's room with other friendly toys. The plot is based on the book Raggedy Ann & Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees, by Johnny and Marcella Gruelle. Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure is a 1977 animated film (with a few live-action segments) directed by Richard Williams, based on the doll characters created by Johnny Gruelle, and best known for being really freaking weird.

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