Hoppity Goes to Town
1941, NR, 78 min.
Directed by Dave Flesicher, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Stan Freed, Kenny Gardner, Gwen Williams, Jack Mercer.

The second – and last – animated feature from Max and Dave Fleischer’s animation studio is this look at a community of insects whose city garden home, Bugville, is threatened by urban developers, and how a plucky grasshopper named Hoppity saves the day and wins the heart of a bee named Honey. When this film first played theatres, it was a dismal box-office disaster, largely because of its release date: December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor Day.

This article appears in April 19 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.