This a charming movie. The animation is simple, but nice. It feels like picking up a children's book and reading it, which is also what bookends the whole story. The character design is mostly quite nice, and some of the characters are visually great fun. The same goes to some of the sequences, especially the imagery during the songs. While it's not ground breaking in any way, the look is sweet enough that the movie would probably appeal to fans of animation.A big draw is Ringo Starr, who is the narrator/dad in the home media release of this movie. He does a good job, as does Harry Nilsson singing the soundtrack. But I do kind of wish that the same person would have done both.The story itself is simple, but nice. It drags a bit at times. And while it mostly works, it might be a bit of a stretch to base a 60+ minutes story around a single pun. But the moral of the story is safe and probably understandable to the young target audience.

the way in forest. the questions who becomes answers. the voices of Ringo Starr and ... , entire atmosphere - thin border between fairy tale and parable. more than beautiful/successful animation or wise lesson about yourself and the other, it is a splendid film about basic things who gives sense to life. and the manner to told the story of different boy and his dog, the meetings and dialogs does not only a good impression and, for many, food for nice memories , but, in same measure, a fresh and powerful warning. not the tolerance is the subject but the science to build it. so, a necessary film. for the seductive emotions. for the lovely atmosphere. and for a clear image of everyday universe.

This is a fun cartoon, great for kids...etc. More important, though, is the music. Nilsson wrote "One" (is the loneliest number..") and "Lime in the Coconut". He even did the definitive version of "Without You" which really blows any American Idol out of the water... but this is his creative peak. Before the drinking and the blown vocal chords, this man's voice alone changed things. His song writing and instrumentation (oh..the clavinet!!) changed the ways a lot of people think about music, and this album changed how a lot of people think about making albums. Superb. Best concept album ever? Probably so. Sick of singing "spongebob squarepants" with your kids? Why not rear them on the good stuff? What a gift to give children, cartoons with the kinds of songs they will love for ever. Check out Me and My Arrow, Think About Your Troubles, Is There Anybody Else Here, and Are You Sleeping. Who wouldn't want their kids watching animations of those songs?

The Point is one of those films that crawl inside you and never lets you go. I saw this film as a small child but could never remember the name of it. As an adult I asked other people if they had heard of it, and the faces of every single one of them lit up from the memory and they recalled how it had effected them as a child. But no one could remember the name of this film.It wasn't until it came out on video that I finally discovered the name. I was particularly excited to learn that the voice of Oblio's father, the Pointed Man's Right Head, and The King was none other than Paul Frees - the spooky Ghost Host of Disneyland's and Walt Disney World's famous Haunted Mansion attraction, as well as the voice of several pirates in The Pirates of The Caribbean attraction.This film ranks at the top with other childhood favorites, such as the Rankin-Bass stop motion animated Christmas specials "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".