I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

An excellent silent cartoon from the Fleischer Brothers' studio: weren't they all good? This one shows a hand drawing various images of children, who then grow up to be..... not the sort of adult you might expect until the shapes change, like an illustration in classic morphology and topology. After a while, however, it becomes repetitious.However, the whole things ends on a very strong note as the hand ceases to wield a pen and handles a knife, which cuts out the silhouette of the House That Jack Built..... then further cuts out all the characters in the rhyme, with no bits left over.Apparently two others in the Inklings series were produced, but this was the only one that seems to have survived.