Benny's Bathtub
Animation (Features)
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40m
Directed by Jannik Hastrup, Flemming Quist Møller • Animation • With Bo Jakobsen • 1971 • 41 minutes
A psychedelic Danish animated kids' film in which a young boy, bored with the dreary Adult World, follows an enchanted tadpole into his bathtub where he discovers a surreal and musical undersea world populated by singing Mermaids, a funky hepcat Octopus and whiskey-drinking Skeleton Pirates. In the vein of YELLOW SUBMARINE, Sid & Marty Krofft, Rankin / Bass and Dr. Seuss.
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