Synopsis
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.
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Cast
- Edgar BergenHimself / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd
- Dinah ShoreNarrator (voice)
- Luana PattenHerself
- Walt DisneyMickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- Anita GordonSinging Harp (voice)
- Cliff EdwardsJiminy Cricket (voice)
- Clarence NashDonald Duck / Cat (voice)
- Pinto ColvigGoofy (voice) (uncredited)
- James MacDonaldLumpjaw (voice) (uncredited)
- Billy GilbertWillie the Giant (voice)
Recommendations
- 75
TV Guide Magazine
A relatively minor work in the Disney oeuvre, but it's still quite entertaining, and it also marks the last time that Walt Disney himself would provide the voice of Mickey Mouse. - 75
The A.V. Club
Fun And Fancy Free is a mixed bag with more than enough interesting material to make it worth seeing, even if it falls short of Disney's shameless self-praise. - 75
Chicago Tribune
What makes this video really interesting and superb entertainment for viewers 5 and older is that it blends animation with live action and carries two separate, full animated features with separate human narrators. [07 Aug 1997, p.9B] - 67
IndieWire
A modest, nicely executed diversion, with a slim, not especially memorable story. - 63
USA Today
It's only a mild Disney package, despite a dose of Donald Duck dyspepsia. [18 July 1997, p.3D] - 50
Time
Once Mickey & friends get involved with Willie, the whole picture peters out and becomes as oddly off-balance and inconsequential as its title.
