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ALLEGRO NON TROPPO Directed by Bruno Bozzetto Screenplay by Bruno Bozzetto, Guide Manuli and Maurizio Nichetti...
Setting their work to well-known pieces of classical music, in the manner of Fantasia, Bozzetto and his talented team have created half a dozen imaginative sequences in which their characters-and characterizations-take wing. Using a cheerfully baroque style, free flowing and strong in color and design, the Italians have matched the richness that Disney's animators developed in their great, early years, before their boss forced them into the slick, highly conventionalized mode that has dulled his studio's work ever since Fantasia's early commercial failure. (In rerelease, of course, the movie has been...
...hand, Bozzetto's animators have shown none of the wretched excesses and artistic ineptitude of Ralph Bakshi, he of the X-rated films. At the same time, the Italians have avoided the sterile abstractions and moral sentimentality that afflict so much contemporary European animation. The underlying cheekiness of Bozzetto's work rescues it from the pretentiousness that has flawed so many well-meant efforts to demonstrate the range and capabilities of animation...
...Bozzetto's work will be welcomed by the already converted-as it should be-but whether the skeptical will also respond to the film in sizable numbers remains, alas, problematical. Allegro Non Troppo is worth a try-what ever your lingering feelings about Porky Pig.%#151;Richard Schickel
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