Is this the MOST BORING DISNEY MOVIE??? -- FUN and FANCY FREE (1947) Movie Reaction

First time watching the 9th Disney Animated Classic- Fun and Fancy Free (1947). From Mickey Mouse to Bongo the Bear, Jiminy Cricket to a live action ventriloquist- Fun and Fancy Free has it all.... but is it any good or will Ediz fall asleep again? We hope you like fun facts!
Join Disney superfan Ben as he shows his best friend Ediz every Disney Animated Classic ever from the very beginning, We continue our movie reaction journey with Fun and Fancy Free and lets just say... we can't wait to get out of the package movie era!!
What was your reaction to Fun and Fancy Free?
Did you prefer Mickey and the Beanstalk or Bongo the Bear?
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Wiki:
Fun and Fancy Free is a 1947 American animated musical fantasy package film produced by Walt Disney and released on September 27, 1947 by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the ninth Disney animated feature film and the fourth of the package films that the studio produced in the 1940s to save money during World War II. The Disney package films of the late 1940s helped finance Cinderella (1950) and subsequent others such as Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953).
The film is a compilation of two stories: Bongo, narrated by Dinah Shore and is loosely based on the short story "Little Bear Bongo" by Sinclair Lewis, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, narrated by Edgar Bergen and based on the "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale. Though the film is primarily animated, it also uses live-action segments to join its two stories.
Plot (IMDB):
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.

[@philiphamel8504]

I remember watching the crap out of this as a kid. I remember basically ruining the tape with how often I watched this movie. Also, I sometimes catch myself humming songs from Mickey in the Beanstalk.

[@MathieuLeblanc1991]

The reason Jiminy is in this was because his actor went into gambling debt and hung around the studio hoping to get work. The animators would treat him to lunch, things got worse in the 1950s which was why he was in records, the shows and such. For the rest of his life, Disney secretly paid his medical bills to help him out

[@MathieuLeblanc1991]

31:48 It was also his smoking habit that affected his voice

[@DelGuy03]

Wow, I don't think I knew any of that. It does help explain why Cliff Edwards kept turning up on The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s. A sad comedown for a onetime star of the legitimate stage (he introduced the song "Fascinating Rhythm" in a Gershwin musical).

[@MathieuLeblanc1991]

@@DelGuy03 Yes and when he died, his body was unclaimed and donated to a university for science purposes. When Disney found out , they bought the body and arranged him to be buried. They were going to pay for the tombstone but another company did it first

[@redshot5403]

@@MathieuLeblanc1991is that true? What kind of society would bring that body if a famous actor for science? He deserves to be buried

[@MathieuLeblanc1991]

@@redshot5403 He died penniless and no one claimed his body so it was given to the school for medical purposes. Disney found out through an employee who was there and bought the body

[@Vuusteri]

This has really become one my favorite reaction channel. Even though I'm a Disney fan, Ben has clearly done his research better than I. He's so knowledgeable. That is what make these videos so entertaining. Are you planning to do Disney live action films as well, like Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug or Davy Crockett? Obviously there are too many of them, but maybe a selected few?

[@EdizAndBen]

Hey!! Thanks @vuusteri!! We feel very privileged to have the title as one of your favourite channels... Tell us what we got to do though to be THE favourite youtube channel 😅 Yeah right now that is not on our list of things ... but we have both never seen bedknobs so... maybe :)

[@Vuusteri]

​@@EdizAndBen Like I said, some reaction channels are quite shallow, but you have very in-depth videos, like watching behind-the-scenes documentary. Educational even, you could say. Bedknobs and Broomsticks is almost like Mary Poppins sequel, with stellar roles by Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson and so many memorable songs by The Sherman Brothers.

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

I know it was because they barely had any food to eat, but the scene where Mickey Mouse cuts the bread really thin was always very satisfying to me when I was a child.

[@EdizAndBen]

Hahahaha it's crazy how thin he cuts it ... pretty impressive actually!!

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

2:18 Fun fact: there was actually a _Pinocchio_ cover album back in the day, featuring Cliff Edwards, the voice of Jiminy Cricket, and it includes songs that were cut from the film, including the “happy go lucky fella” song.

[@HawkThePhoenix]

Can we talk about how this little girl was invited to a "party" across the street where a creepy old man and his dolls are the only other people present? Where are her parents? How is this not stranger danger?

[@stephaniefrost4910]

9:24 the way I also got excited and said “Chip & Dale!” LOL I’m not even a huge Disney fan…I’m just an Ediz and Ben fan 😊

[@stephaniefrost4910]

That Bongo short was actually kinda cute 🥰 😂 & it was slapstick violence so I doubt ppl cared as much back then!

[@jarrodcook6513]

I thought Bongo was cute but I agree with you on the whole slapping thing. Mickey and the beanstalk is fun enough. Really like the reused tree animation you pointed out. I never noticed that 😂

[@Dtoons]

The first time I saw Mickey and the Beanstalk was on VHS with Ludwig von Drake narrating as a kid. It’s actually better than watch this movie!

[@redshot5403]

Agreed, I grew up with the Von Drake one too

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

I grew up withThe VHS of Mickey and The BeanStalk too. But I prefer Fun And Fancy Free because The VHS copies edit out some scenes I've been watching Fun And Fancy Free since it became available on streaming I prefer Edgar Bergen Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd over Ludwic Von Drake

[@ruthiehenshallfan99]

This is one I grew up with on VHS, and even got to see it on TV once! I do like a number of the songs (Dinah Shore has such a timeless voice!) and I think there are some solid animation moments, but I definitely need to rewatch this to finalize my thoughts on it. If I'm right, this is also one of the first projects that Jimmy MacDonald would voice Mickey. He'd replace Walt from this point on. Unfortunately, he sounds more like an impression of Walt rather than making Mickey his own character.

[@syedalihasan8923]

Can't wait to hear your thoughts on this one! I'm intrigued-I personally didnt mind the Mickey and the Beanstalk section because I thought it was good fun, and liked how it was based on Jack and the Beanstalk (part of me wishes Gigantic wasn't cancelled :( ) but the other half of the film really bored me :( Literally, the Bongo the Bear half was just Bears slapping each other 😅 I liked how they incorporated Jiminy Cricket!

[@mikechicago6200]

Never knew bears show affection by slapping.....fun fact and Dinah Shore has a pretty voice but man those puppets weird me out even though he was a famous puppeteer!

[@mikechicago6200]

Love Bongo and man his short was nice and man the last time Walt will voice Mickey and a nice way to end his role!

[@idkany293]

Actually he last voiced mickey in 1962 during one showing of Disneyland U.S.A.

[@hurmuskenan8075]

Mate the references lol 😆 I'm so glad I don't have to watch them... thanks for the service boys! Saves me alot of time 😉

[@philippeterson1953]

I love your interactions. You.guys crack me up. Thank you for all the background information. I've learned things about Disney I never knew.

[@raymondmcginley5676]

I find it so interesting that the only reason this film exists is bc originally Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk were supposed to be full length movies but again Disney didn't have enough money to produce single narrative stories so they paired these two up together despite having nothing to do with one another and how this is the only package film to do so considering Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros were centered around Latin American culture while Make Mine Music and Melody Time were music based films and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad was mostly halloween themed (The Wind in the Willows isn't really a Halloween story but it has a darker tone so it fits well with Sleepy Hollow). 12:33 I also forgot to mention that what was count down from the original version was some other characters like originally, Bongo had a chimpanze assistant named Chimpy and they had to watch over two mischievous country bear cubs. twins

[@spindalis79]

Interesting fact: Victor Bergen is the father of Candice Bergen who had a show in the late 80s and early 90s called "Murphy Brown."

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

His name is Edgar Bergen

[@DelGuy03]

I'm always delighted to see you guys react to another vintage Disney classic, even if this one is less than classic (for me the high point is the opening musical sequence -- the title song and then Jiminy's song, which add up to one very extended song composition). I'm old enough to remember when Edgar Bergen and his marionettes would turn up on TV; they were very big stars and I could never figure out why, they didn't amuse me at all. The shifting history of the word "gay" is a book in itself. For a long time it was an underground code word -- in the 19th century it was used among female prostitutes in London to let each other know they were in the same business. Then in the US it acquired its modern meaning early in the century but in a very insidery just-among-us sort of way. It didn't get into public consciousness until the 1960s, and then very gradually.

[@DelGuy03]

Oh -- and English idiom is full of phrases that say the same thing twice: not just "happy and gay," but "ways and means," "unless and until," "why or wherefore," and lots more. It's always been done, it seems.

[@laotasurfs1110]

"Gay" had it's own connotation at the time. Less of just an emotion, they would use it for the sort of carefree, unflappable mindset people admired. Happy was a mood, gay was an attitude. PS, the "wet sponge" thing in Bongo isn't random. Back then, stunt divers would outdo each other for fame and attention, not only diving from higher and higher heights, but by diving into smaller and smaller water tanks. The smallest one you could do before you're just hitting dry ground would probably be a wet sponge, lol.

[@fae206]

I just signed up to you guys on ko-fi after binging a number of videos in one day

[@jamesmoyner7499]

Even growing up I always enjoyed the latter half of the film- Mickey and the Beanstalk with Edgar Bergen over the Bongo story. I feel this should have been one of the exceptions to the package film era and only been the one story.

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

I really enjoy The Story of Bongo. Bongo needs a friend

[@KaminoKatie]

Well Mickey and the Beanstalk was at one point considering to be a feature-length project, but WWII happened and you know the rest

[@jamesmoyner7499]

@ Yep.

[@DisneyDiva93]

I don’t know why but this was a comfort movie for my sister and I while we were growing up….I think it was because we discovered the VHS at my grandma’s house when we came to visit her and watched it every time we came over. We still reference it today and sing some of the songs at random. Bongo, I believe, takes place in Northern California. I think the reason for the darker male animals and lighter female animals in all these movies is because for the longest time in history, young single ladies wore feminine pastels and lighter colors while young single men wore darker and bold colors that were more masculine. Can’t wait for Melody Time! Johnny Appleseed was my favorite part!

[@caseymurray1994]

I like the Bongo the bear short.....couldn't get into the Mickey and the Beanstalk, mainly because and I'm being honest here, Willie the giant was one of four Disney characters who bugged the crap out of me when I was a kid besides Gus the Goose, Pecos Bill (Disney Version) and Jiminy Cricket. P.S. Lulubelle is the cutest Disney bear in the world.🐻🌸

[@stephaniefrost4910]

28:41 that part made me think of snake charmers!

[@davidstrawn9272]

I love Bongo! I laughed at the part where Lumpjaw roared at Bongo with his jaw opened VERY BIG! Bongo and Lulubelle remains my Eighth favorite couple of my Top Ten favorites! The Slapping is maybe a domestic violence, but it's what bears do when they're in love, and in the Lion King Deleted scene "Madness in Scar", Nala made a big mistake slapping Scar with her claws, because instead of getting angry or threaten to attack her, the slap makes Scar in love, When Carnivores are in love, they always say with a slap! Lol 😂😂😂😂

[@arnequis]

There was yet another narration for Mickey and the Beanstalk when a truncated version was aired on an episode of "The Mouse Factory" back in the 70's. This time it was Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop, reprising the roles of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Willie's voice was even re-recorded at the end, having him say "What's the matter with her?"

[@ariusrainer9345]

Delectable!!! That's the hardest I've laughed with you two, yet. Ben, my good Sir, that eyebrow wiggle slayed me on the "Happy and Gay" and yes, you are quite the attraction. 🤩 You two are my favorite package of all time. 🥰 Poor Ediz and the one that got away. If his listening skills with her were anything like what he demonstrated in this film, it's no wonder. 🤣 Awe, he's so pretty. 😆 ❤ you two much!

[@m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

I get that this is not to the level of other films in the canon, but I've always loved Mickey and the Beanstalk, and Dinah Shore's narration and singing are so warm in Bongo that they cover a lot of sins.

[@quintindemarsico9838]

To answer your guys’ question about where Bongo takes place, it appears to be set somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, most likely in Colorado or northern Utah.

[@ivanelugo]

so if he sell the cow to honest john, he wasnt lying that the beans were magic

[@thatninjaguy1607]

3:10 just googled it. Around the 60s aparently

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

3:46 I guess it’s similar to how Stan’s dad used “funny” as a euphemism for gay in that one _South Park_ episode.

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

I have personally watched Fun And Fancy Free a million times since it was available to stream. I've seen Mickey And The BeanStalk on VHS a billion times. I prefer Fun And Fancy Free mostly because they edit some scenes out of The VHS releases. My only criticism with Bongo is that with The Bear Love Song it kind of feels like the story hits a brick wall. But the song is for Bongo's benefit. I do like the song where Bongo and LuluBelle meet for the first time The Teddy Bear Cupids are ADORABLE When it comes to who narrates The Mickey And BeanStalk segment I prefer Edgar Bergen and his puppets Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd over Ludvic Von Drake and and Herman in The VHS release

[@gugurupurasudaikirai7620]

Edgar Bergen definitely dates this movie, but not as much when you realize he was Candace Bergen's dad. Actually, that might date it more now.

[@JJdaPK]

Actually, the fact that you guys are going over the obscure package films is part of what makes your channel stand out! I don't like the package films - with the exception of Ichabod and Mr. Toad - but I find the history behind them to be interesting. When I was a child I loved the Mickey and the Beanstalk portion of Fun and Fancy Free, and was mildly entertained by the rest. As an adult, I find Bongo boring and the live action puppet sections to be downright creepy.

[@jenniferdestito770]

Can you guys please do Disney’s Melody Time next 😊😁

[@idkany293]

It's quite obvious

[@philippeterson1953]

I had Mickey and the Beanstock on record growing up (1970's). I loved it then and enjoy it now.

[@thefouranimationproduction]

I'm not sure i watch it on vhs because my mom used to bought different disney movies in vhs but I still kinda remember little bit of the movie

[@williamhanekom9882]

17:12 That smash bros edit is perfection XD

[@EdizAndBen]

You're perfection 🙃

[@tracyturner310]

You know it's been a long time since Mickey Donald and Goofy have been movies since 2004s the three musketeers it be cool to see them movies again what do you think

[@niamhingarfield-clarke2529]

I also learnt how to spin plates as a kid😂

[@coatbismuth]

Just giving you a idea what if you do the nickelodeon all-star brawl 2 roster but with disney characters.

[@jamesmoyner7499]

Incorrect the very very last time anyone would hear Walt do the voice of Mickey was for this short called Disneyland U.S.A. Goes to Radio City Music Hall: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHvRaX18gKprgNkfeature=shared

[@WJC981]

gotta be honest, I'm just here for Mickey and the Beanstalk :) P.S. Shari Lewis was a much better ventriloquist

[@jrr6947]

You guys could not have seemed more disinterested in the puppets talking while I was laughing my ass off at every dumb joke they made!

[@marknelson2-ih6sq]

It just might be ... Bongo was ok but too slight to run that long

[@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat]

2:35 It's Cleo. 3:13 Gay Meaning Happy is Biblical, Then Generation X came in, and The Boomers thought it should mean something else. Jiminy Cricket is using Gay as to say Outgoing. 16:25 Ben Loves The Mic. It's a good Mic, It picks up every word. 20:03 Edgar Bergan wasn't very good at his Job, I can see his lips move.

[@secondbestjojo1300]

Okay so I haven't completed the video so I won't know you're guys opinion but I think this movie is kinda underrated yes the bongo short is kinda forgettable.... And bad but the mickey mouse short and mortimat snerd stuff is so weird and bizzare that it loops around and becomes kinda fun also the mickey shirt is just good to begin with but now I'll start watching the video and see you guy's reaction to this

[@glsweeney721]

I feel like the issue with this movie was that the two shorts (which were supposed to be feature length films) don't go together. Plus the first one is kinda blah.

[@theaterbear]

I grew up on the Sterling Holloway version so when I actually saw F&FF in full I was miserable during this entire segment.

[@theaterbear]

Oh also I fully agree about wishing these songs were available somewhere.

[@daisukidatotoro]

I have fond memories of Mickey and the Beanstalk from playing it on the toy record player with TV/projector in the 80s. I hadn't seen the movie it came from. I showed this movie to my 3 year old, thinking it was going to be a sort of vignette with the Mickey and the Beanstalk I was used to as part of it, but not was I wrong. That weird birthday party and unfunny puppets talking over the whole thing ruined it.

[@ivanelugo]

so his sneese its like seth rogen laugh

[@erainmartinez8175]

I like Willie The Giant

[@GenAqua]

I love this movie.

[@RedHall]

Truthfully, I prefer the version of Mickey and the Beanstalk narrated by Ludwig von Drake.

[@Fever._Dream]

I watched this all the time ❤❤❤❤

[@deltasceptile7805]

The Ludwig von Drake version of Mickey and the Beanstalk is the best version of that short. So much funnier than this version.

[@EChacon]

I disagree with you and I never understood why everyone enjoys the Ludwig Von Drake version of _Mickey and the Beanstalk_ over the Edgar Bergen version. I mean yes I can agree that Edgar Bergen and the puppets (Charlie and Mortimer) ad-libbing lines interrupt the story and talk over certain parts during the story, but the Ludwig Von Drake version just cut out certain scenes from _Mickey and the Beanstalk_ such as the Dragonfly scene.

[@userPeterSteves]

I love when you guys facts, ngl.

[@crocoshark4097]

14:48 I don't know what is attempting to be said. What?

[@Marbles471]

The movie overall is dull, which is odd to me because it adds up to a lot less than the sum of several of its parts, which I actually like a lot. I'm neutral on Bongo --- it's just okay --- but I like the rest of it. Jiminy is a lot of fun here --- he's just a carefree drifter who likes to invite himself wherever he sees a good time, and mooches off other people's parties while somehow not being a dick about it (curious behavior for an "Official Conscience", no?). And I find the Edgar Bergen scenes with Charlie and Mortimer genuinely funny (what can I say --- taste is taste). My favorite part of the whole thing is when we first encounter Mickey, Donald and Goofy in that faux-dramatic scene of starvation and madness. And Bergen's droll narration is great there. ("IS he okay, though? I wonder. He's suffered too much...") But yes, it is a very fair question to ask "Where are her parents?" 🤣

[@cesarerizzato6300]

29:14 Oh, sweet baby jesus 😐

[@nicholasrudolph2589]

I have seen this movie

[@l.l.4045]

I love several of the package films. Especially The Three Caballeros and Melody Time. But honestly, Fun and Fancy Free is one of my least favorite of all the Disney films. Profoundly meh.

[@BigDave21000]

My dad knows about Edgar Bergen, I'll admit, I found out about him a few years ago watching it on Disney+, and I can say I found him and his puppets stupid. You mention this is the most boring Disney movie, this movie is still a piece of shit, and the package films I'll say once again are the worst Disney movies. 4 of them got a 1.5/10, and I gave this one a 3.5/10, and that's still a pretty low score. Ichabod and Mr. Toad was the only package film that got @ least a 6/10, and that one got a bad but not terrible. But the other ones are complete garbage.

[@artloveranimation]

melody time has good stuff

[@tracyndiyob162]

no(mickey mouse in the 2000's outside a few things was the most boring disney got.) & half the films in the 2010's are tbh mostly that exist as i like fun & fancy free it just showed the problem of the package films being split from their potential(don't thinks it's as bad as saludos amigos.)

[@Kurtklub2.0]

Bout Time Lol

[@KAYRAY13]

Hi

[@Thetoontalkermaster]

Chip n dale fiesta apperd Un the private pluto will cartoon short and they look like real chipmunks,the came back for an Oscar nominated mickey mouse short squatters rights and they look similar to the fun and fancy free design they later came back for the Oscar nominated donald duck short chip an dale(1947) but on the title card dale has a red nose but in the actually cartoon he has a black nose,dale would not get his red nose until 1948s three for breakfast,they were voiced by jimmy Macdonald and dessie Flynn

[@Herofan42]

First

[@SuperMarioBrosfan199Jeffrey]

Do for super smash brothers

[@Disney65Fan]

I think I saw this film and hated it. Package Disney is so bad. Fun fact Enchanted actually showed this film at the Grand Duke Hostel scene with Prince Edward(James Marsden) watching the film.

[@secondbestjojo1300]

The package era wasn't all bad it had good movies like saludos amigos and the three caballeros and also the great movie the adventures of ichabod and mr toad

[@MrWhatdafuBOOM]

Your most L take so far.

[@EdizAndBen]

Lol which bit??