6/10
OK, but would have been better not as a musical
2 July 2007
I've never read the book "The Phantom Tollbooth". The movie version has some fascinating visuals, but the singing doesn't add anything. I understand that Chuck Jones and Mel Blanc had to find something to do now that they were no longer creating Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons, but a musical doesn't seem like the right thing. Still, I should affirm that the movie portrays some neat things happening (especially when Milo first drives through the tollbooth).

So, it's the sort of movie that you watch if there's nothing else. I now notice that Milo was played by Eddie Munster himself, Butch Patrick. Also featuring the voices of Daws Butler, Candy Candido, June Foray (best known as Rocky the Squirrel) and Hans Conried.
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