A Very Merry Cricket (1973) (A Very Merry Cricket)

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"When you put the holiday of "Christmas" together with the name of legendary animator Chuck Jones, the first thing that comes to anybody's mind is How The Grinch Stole Christmas. And while I love that holiday classic, I also have much love for a much lesser known Jones illustrated special called A Very Merry Cricket. It's the sequel to a cartoon short called A Cricket In Times Square (which to be honest, I've never heard of until I saw Merry Cricket and have yet to watch if I can ever find it...)"

A Very Merry Cricket

“Picking up right where The Cricket in Times Square ends, A Very Merry Cricket reunites us with Tucker the Mouse and Harry the Cat on a story that’s part road trip and part lukewarm variation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. New York City, introduced through a nightmare hallucination of location zooms and disembodied voices, is filled with anxiety and anger about the Christmas season, and these two think Chester’s magical musical abilities are just the remedy the city needs.   Subtle in its emotional manipulations this is not, taking the same morale as The Grinch but delivering with chainsaw-through-Jell-O nuance. A Very Merry Cricket is far more fun when it’s plotting is shaggy, and we simply hangout with Harry and Tucker in their misadventures. Jones’ humor shines in some of ” read more