i remember watching it for the first time: it was just brilliant, the talents were fantastic, particularly Craig Charles as the cat. Also, for all your Jim Broadbent fans, he plays one of the ugly brothers. The well-animated animation has kept Babette Cole's wonderful illustrations to perfection in this well-made. A little too odd to be shown at Christmas time, but it makes another good animation to look out for at Christmas as well as the highly-recommend Hooves of Fire, which is just a funny as this extremely good film, and, of course, The Snowman, which, compared to this hilarious cartoon comedy, i would prefer Prince Cinders , because it makes me laugh a lot and brightens up my day as well! This is truly one of the funniest british animations I have ever seen!