Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Diagonaldi Very well executed

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

MartinHafer I am not exactly sure why I watched this short film, but I do recommend you see it just because it's so incredibly creepy and strange. It's currently on YouTube and it's worth wasting 15 of your life watching it.The film is a very moralistic tale about bicycle safety that was marketed towards kids. But it's very different for several reasons. While it's cheaply made, they somehow got Edward Everett Horton to narrate the thing and, as usual, he's excellent. Also, instead of showing children, they made grotesque and creepy monkey masks and tails for them to wear. It's hellishly creepy, believe me.As the narrator tells the story about a group of kids riding to a picnic on their bicycles, each of the monkey kids illustrate how NOT to ride your bike. Several seem about to die or be mangled but in each case they down (thankfully) show the collision. At the end, you do see one in a hospital bed...covered in bandages and casts. I'm not going to give this one a numerical score. It's because I don't think this was intended as anything more than a film they showed kids in school to scare them into being good. Plus, the print is scratchy and ugly and not exactly fun unless you have a weird sense of humor like I do.

Hitchcoc I'm rating this a 9 because it is so hilarious, so out of the norm, that it actually works. In 1963 there were these weird public service announcements that were designed to scare the crap out of little kids. A group of monkey/kids (actual children with monkey tails and monkey masks) each do something wrong with their bikes, leading to death or mutilation. Each has a bag lunch with his or her name on it, and as they are destroyed, there is a close-up of their lunch bag. Edward Everett Horton, one of the most famous voice over guys of his time (remember "Fractured Fairy Tales) narrates in his kind of happy way as the bikers are being annihilated. This is truly a representation of adult scare tactics. Yet, as an historical piece, it is really interesting.

Michael_Elliott One Got Fat (1963) *** (out of 4) A rather hilarious bicycle-safety film has ten kids going to the park for a picnic but they don't follow the safety rules so one by one they are hit by cars. Yes, a film showing kids being hit by cars so you know it has to be one of those now legendary safety films that contain enough unintentional laughs for ten films. The funniest thing is that the kids have monkey masks on as well as long rat tails so seeing them is funny enough. We then get fifteen straight minutes of one kid after another making a mistake and being ran over. One poor sap gets it from a steam roller. None of the actual crashes are seen as we instead get silly cutaways and sound effects. You really can't judge films like this for acting or directing but instead you just rate them on their entertainment level and this one here is pretty high. The entire thing is full of campy moments and it's creepy enough to make you not want to turn your eyes away.

durrant4145@rogers.com ONE GOT FAT is a short film narrated by Edward Everett Horton - who portrayed Fred Astaire's sidekick in THE GAY Divorcée - and probably written by my favourite childhood author, Richard Scarry. It features a group of ten friends who go out one day to a park for a picnic. Each of the monkeys rides dangerously and gets knocked out of the picture one by one, breaking the law of the time (as a boy, I never had to register either of my bicycles). Only one of the ten friends makes it to the picnic site; the short is based on the childhood game "Ten Little Monkeys/Ten Little Indians." And he turns out not to be a monkey at all, but a normal human boy. Despite the low budget, the masks are astounding and the sound effects accurate. The bicycle safety tips are still accurate, except for one - the idea of licensing your bike. In none of the bicycle safety films I have seen as a child was this issue discussed, and it did not appear in either of the books I have read on the subject(perhaps because a bike was not considered to be a motor vehicle); this movie loses two points for being dated.