The Butter Battle Book

1989
7.5| 0h24m| en
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The Zooks and the Yooks are at war over the butter and bread - on which side should one spread?

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Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Edgar Allan Pooh . . . Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin began fingering his sock puppet Don Juan Rump toward America's once-respectable White House in 1989. Dr. Seuss nailed this emerging threat to America at this time (that is, 28 years ago) by including ALL of the most deranged elements of Putin's Deplorable Rump Administration within the 24 minutes spanned by BUTTER BATTLE BOOK. As most American Media Outlets predict the END of Life as We Knew It will occur Tomorrow (that is, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017) because Rump and his counterpart madman in North Korea BOTH have their itchy trigger fingers hovering over their respective Nuclear Missile Launch Buttons, this moment is perfectly captured by BUTTER's Yook and Zook leaders on the brink of Mutually Assured Destruction from their own "Itsy Bitsy Big Boy Boom-Er-Roo" weapons as this animated short concludes on an ambiguous note. The entire cartoon takes place at or near the Great Wall of Rump, and Dr. Seuss is surely quoting Rump at some future date when the Yook Grandpa boasts "with my Triple Sling Jigger, I sure felt bigger!" Putin's Secretary for U.S. Miseducation, Billionairess Betsy "Amway Calling" DeVos, even makes a cameo appearance here at 2:45, as she leads the tykes of Yook in a brainwashing song at one of her for-profit Charter Bamboozling Shacks.
Stompgal_87 I first saw this short upon purchasing a 4-DVD pack containing 'The Best of Dr Seuss,' 'Laura's Star,' 'Quest for Camelot' and 'The Powerpuff Girls Movie.' While it's not the best of 'The Best of Dr Seuss,' it still had rhyming narrative, Dr Seuss-illustration-type characters and a storyline that reminded me of that from the 'My Little Pony ' episode 'Ice Cream Wars.'The animation style is sketchy, is not as smooth as that in 'Daisy-Head Mayzie' or 'Horton Hatches the Egg' and has a few lip-syncing flaws but the colours are bold. A lot of the musical score was military and although there were a few moments with no music at all, I liked the harmonious vocals of a group of female characters.. While a lot of the story was hard to follow, I liked the concept of one community spreading their bread butter-side down and the other butter-side up. The pace dragged on in the middle and while I found the ending abrupt, it was something of a cliffhanger as well.Overall this is the weakest addition to 'The Best of Dr. Seuss' DVD but its most positive assets are the narration, the colours, the music and the nostalgic appeal it brings to a certain extent by reminding me of one of my favourite episodes of one of my favourite childhood cartoons. 7/10.
ctando I did not care for this at all. I wish Dr. Seuss would've stayed away from all political/social commentaries because it gets old very fast. This cartoon has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and is also about as funny.It's still Dr. Seuss so there is some whimsy, so in the end I gave it 5 out of 10.
Alexis (griffin84) This was one of my favorite adaptations of a Dr. Suess story. On one side of a stone wall, there's the Yooks, the "proper" race that butters their bread "butter side up". On the other side live the Zooks, which (gasp!) butter their bread "butter side down". The two groups, whom appear to be the exact same with the exception of this one characteristic, have waged war with each other for countless years. The Butter Battle Book shows the story of an old man who was once patrolled the wall, protecting the Yooks from the terror of the Zooks. With the help of his advisor, things get worse and worse until he and Zooks' protector both bring out a device that will destroy both sides of the wall forever. Who's going to drop it first? We may never know...I saw this when I was a child, and it left a lasting impression on me. These two races are fight over something as simple as this, and it shows what happens if we don't learn to get along and accept one another as each other. In a way, this story is the summary of every war that has happened: the fighting gets worse, and if we don't learn to get along, things are only going to get worse until both sides will destroy one another. Even though the story is very humorous, the moral is an important one. I'm hoping that one day I can share this story with my children and my grandchildren.