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'Gumby Essentials' is inaccurately named DVD
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This discussion of the one-disc 15-cartoon DVD titled "Gumby Essentials" is short and sweet because that it the best way to describe these five-to-seven stop-motion short animated films. The idea of a flexible green boy and his equally flexible pony friend Pokey is clever, but the stories simply were not very interesting as a whole.
I know that Gumby is a classic, and my interest in animation does extend beyond the Hanna Barbera shows of the 1960s and 1970s (Wallace and Gromit Rule!!), but Gumby simply did not grab me.
The adventures largely followed the flat narrative of a typical sitcom of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the most interesting and imaginative one involved an evil ball of dough luring Gumby and Pokey into a sinister world behind the oven in the house where Gumby and his inter-racial parents lived. This was the only one in which it seemed that Gumby and Pokey faced much peril.
Animation historians will enjoy the arty but rather boring and dated classic early animated film "Gumbasia" by Gumby creator Art Clokey that the disc offers as an extra; this involved balls of clay moving about on their own and merging together.
The extras also included the Gumby pilot "Gumby on the Moon" that involved lackluster interaction between Gumby and small clay aliens that looked like pyramids.
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