{"id":2998,"date":"2007-04-13T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T23:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2021-02-02T00:07:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T07:07:59","slug":"hoppity-goes-to-town-mr-bug-goes-to-town-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"Hoppity Goes to Town \/ Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The fence is down, the humans come through &#8212; there&#8217;s only one thing that we can do!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hoppity-Goes-to-Town-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hoppity-Goes-to-Town-Poster-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hoppity-Goes-to-Town-Poster-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hoppity-Goes-to-Town-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hoppity-Goes-to-Town-Poster.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA group of bugs and insects &#8212; including a grasshopper named Hoppity, a bee named Mr. Bumble, and Mr. Bumble&#8217;s daughter Honey  &#8212; find their homes threatened when humans start littering and walking through their grassy neighborhood. Meanwhile, duplicitous C. Bagley Beetle enlists the help of his two henchmen &#8212; Smack the Mosquito and Swat the Fly &#8212; in convincing Honey to be his wife.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Animated Features<\/li>\n<li>Musicals<\/li>\n<li>Talking Animals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Mr. Hoppity Goes to Town<\/em> &#8212; the second and last feature animated film made by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fleischer_Studios\">Fleischer Studios<\/a> &#8212; is primarily known today as the first animated feature based on an original story. Made 60 or so years before <em>A Bug&#8217;s Life<\/em> and <em>Antz<\/em>, <em>Hoppity<\/em> is an early attempt to show life from a bug&#8217;s perspective; my favorite scene has Hoppity taking Honey out for a night on the town, down through a pothole to a bugs&#8217; nightclub. Unfortunately, however, while <em>Hoppity<\/em> remains an enjoyable tale for kids (the morals are clear and straightforward), it&#8217;s ultimately not a classic: Hoppity is an insipid hero, and the songs are instantly forgettable. Nonetheless, this is a film which should be seen once by all film fanatics, simply for its place in animation history. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> <em>Mr. Hoppity<\/em>&#8216;s animators were the victims of incredibly unlucky timing: just three days after the film was released, Pearl Harbor was invaded and <em>Hoppity<\/em> became a box office failure. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the few early animated features to compete with Disney<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hoppity-Still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hoppity-Still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hoppity-Still.jpg 448w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hoppity-Still-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hoppity-Still-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some nifty &#8220;neon&#8221; animation when Hoppity is accidentally electrified and starts dancing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, simply for its historical importance; but it will ultimately be of most interest to kids. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0033727\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fence is down, the humans come through &#8212; there&#8217;s only one thing that we can do!&#8221; Synopsis: A group of bugs and insects &#8212; including a grasshopper named Hoppity, a bee named Mr. Bumble, and Mr. Bumble&#8217;s daughter Honey &#8212; find their homes threatened when humans start littering and walking through their grassy neighborhood. Meanwhile, duplicitous C. Bagley Beetle enlists the help of his two henchmen &#8212; Smack the Mosquito and Swat the Fly &#8212; in convincing Honey to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2998\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67963,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/67963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}