. . . "pan and scan" children's picture book screen adaptations, in which a camera person simply photographs the pages of the titular volume as a narrator reads it, with actual animation. The theme of THE WIZARD recycles Popeye's basic premise from half a century earlier: "I yam what I yam." The mouse who's off to see the wizard realizes that no other guise will suit his personality better than being a rodent scuttling underfoot and contaminating food stuffs. Soon the rest of the villagers come to the same realization that you cannot make a Cary Grant from an Archibald Leach: THAT would be as implausible as a Mickey Mouse Club glorifying ravaging vermin.
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