Samson & Sally

I feel truly blessed to be in possession of an uncut copy of this film in English (UK distribution with parkfield publishing). This seems to be a rare thing to still exist, which is a shame.

I found it among other tapes in my roof space and today watched for the time in maybe 20 years. It did NOT disappoint.

This film makes you smile, it make you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you shout "no" at the screen. It is an emotional story with plenty of humour between. True, compared to modern children's films, it is a bit dark and between whalers, oil slicks, radioactive waste,an underwater war arms dump and the fact that New York is now under water... it comes with LOTS of hard hitting environmental commentary. But back then, a lot of kids films had dark and scary parts, think Watership Down, The Black Cauldron etc, even in the Lion King it gets dark at times. It makes you feel empathy and compassion in a way that happy clappy films just don't.

I highly recommend you to let your children watch this if you ar every lucky enough to get your hands on it.