{"id":9190,"date":"2010-05-11T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T04:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2010-05-11T21:37:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T05:37:43","slug":"the-incredible-mr-limpet-arthur-lubin-1964-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9190","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Mr. Limpet (Arthur Lubin, 1964): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=49\">Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/images\/news_img\/13540\/13540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/>\u00a0\u00a0In 1964 Warner Bros.\u00a0released a ridiculously fun family movie about Henry Limpet (Don Knotts), a nerdy bookkeeper who falls off a pier at Coney\u00a0Island and\u00a0emerges\u00a0as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058230\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Incredible Mr. Limpet<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Just prior to the attack at Pearl Harbor Henry Limpet is eager to enlist, but\u00a0rejected and rated a 4F\u00a0by the U. S. \u00a0Navy.\u00a0 His favorite pastime is gazing into his fish tank, while\u00a0neglecting his wife Bessie (Carole Cook).<\/p>\n<p>Henry can&#8217;t swim, but agrees to go with Bessie and their\u00a0navy friend George (Jack Weston), for a picnic at the Coney Island pier.\u00a0 Henry falls in the water, and although George makes several attempts to rescue him, everyone assumes he has drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Henry&#8217;s world becomes animated as he\u00a0is suddenly transformed into a talking tilefish.\u00a0 Gifted with an especially disturbing thrum sound, Henry is able to distract underwater sonar\u00a0instruments.\u00a0 When he stumbles upon a Nazi U-boat, he realizes his calling and enlists the help of his friend George, who amazingly convinces the Navy of Henry&#8217;s existence.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u00a0adjusts\u00a0auspiciously from live-action in George&#8217;s world, intermittently with animation in Henry&#8217;s world.\u00a0 And before the advent of CGI Performance Capture,\u00a0Warner&#8217;s Animation Dept. very effectively produced a tilefish that resembled Don Knotts&#8217; bulging eyes, fish lips, and buck teeth.\u00a0 The story is light-hearted entertainment, but the animation is great.<\/p>\n<p>This live-action\/animated\u00a0film, which is based on a novel by Theodore Pratt (<em>Mr. Winkle Goes to War<\/em>), was one of many successful films of its kind, produced by the various studios as far back as the early stages of film.\u00a0 Disney mastered this technique with <em>Mary Poppins<\/em> (1964), <em>Bedknobs and Broomsticks<\/em>(1971), and especially, the wonderful yet enigmatical <em>Song of the South<\/em> (1946).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed on Netflix. \u00a0\u00a0In 1964 Warner Bros.\u00a0released a ridiculously fun family movie about Henry Limpet (Don Knotts), a nerdy bookkeeper who falls off a pier at Coney\u00a0Island and\u00a0emerges\u00a0as The Incredible Mr. Limpet. Just prior to the attack at Pearl Harbor Henry Limpet is eager to enlist, but\u00a0rejected and rated a 4F\u00a0by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,67,3,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-dvd","category-films","category-online-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}