Pufnstuf
by Hollingsworth Morse
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Actor: Billie Hayes, Billy Barty, Jack Wild, 'Mama' Cass Elliot, Martha RayeDirector: Hollingsworth Morse
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 95 minutes
Release Date: 2000-10-31
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios
VHS Movie Reviews of Pufnstuf
Movie Review: DVD release please
Summary: 5 Stars
..the last time I saw this movie I must've only been 4 years old - or younger, who knows! All I remember was seeing it in a movie theater with my parents and wow - it really scared the *&%$# out of me! Pufnstuf on a spit over the fire, and that witch! Traumatic stuff! I was hiding my head. I'm pretty sure at least one of my more memorable nightmares was inspired by that movie. I WANT IT ON DVD! Waaa! I may buy the TV show, but it's the movie I want! WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO PUT IT OUT ON DVD?Pufnstuf the movie was released the same year I was born. 5 stars is for the memories.
Summary of Pufnstuf
Rumor has it that Sid and Marty Krofft are developing a new movie based on their bizarre life-size puppet show, H.R. Pufnstuf. But will it hold up to their first feature? Looking more like an ambitious TV episode than a feature film, the endearingly low-tech Pufnstuf hit the big screen in 1970 with the gee-whiz spirit of a community theater musical. The whole cast is here: Jack Wild's lisping hero, who sings and dances with his magic talking flute; Billie Hayes' cackling Witchiepoo; the drawling dragon Pufnstuf; and the usual collection of talking trees, beavers, owls, mushrooms, and other frantic live-action cartoon characters. Martha Raye guest stars as Boss Witch and "Mama" Cass Elliot (as Witchiepoo's archrival in the "Witch of the Year" contest) sings "different is hard, different is lonely." The songs are otherwise eminently forgettable, and the story is the usual Saturday morning silliness of bumbling bad guys and resourceful heroes in slapstick square-offs--you can almost hear the laugh track. Fans of the show will appreciate its surreal weirdness (Witchiepoo as a go-go dance instructor?), but what can anyone make of the image of Pufnstuf spinning on a spit over a barbeque? It's no Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory but Billie Hayes powers the picture with her madcap energy and comic flair. And even gets her own song, "We Can Zap the World." Zap away, Witchiepoo. --Sean AxmakerKids & Family VHS Video
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