The Butcher, the Baker and the Ice Cream Maker (film #5 on Sell Sell Sell DVD (A/V Geeks)). [Category: Industrial]

The butcher and the baker have been abandoned by the candlestick maker, who would rather make more candles than sing at the Mother Goose Festival (workaholism, anybody?). So they travel around Mother Goose Land until they find a friendly ice cream maker who is willing to join their trio, after giving them a tour of his ice cream factory and expounding on the virtues of square cartons for ice cream. All of this is animated with rhyming dialogue, but for once, children are not the expected audience for this torture, but other ice cream makers, in order to sell them square ice cream cartons. I’m not sure who thought this was an effective way to sell to these customers, but it does leave us with a film with a fair amount of camp value, especially the song about the helicopter they use to toodle around Mother Goose Land, which contains lyrics that tell us all about how high they are, and when they get high enough, they gently come down. Maybe ice cream is an improvement for these two. Of course, since I am an ice cream fanatic, I enjoyed this film from beginning to end.

Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ****. Weirdness: ****. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ****.