
The King and the Mockingbird
1980, Kids and family/Animation, 1h 25m
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L'oiseau
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Le roi
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Le chef de la police
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La bergère
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Le ramoneur
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Le sentencieux
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Critic Reviews for The King and the Mockingbird
All Critics (22) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (22)
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"The King and the Mockingbird" just might be the best animated film of the year.
December 18, 2014 | Full Review… -
On a basic level, The King and the Mockingbird is a fun fantasy. But to the two poets who first imagined it, it must have felt like a repository for all the madness of a still-smoldering world.
December 4, 2014 | Full Review… -
The film is suffused with a subversive attitude toward the rich and clueless, epitomized by a king at war with a talking bird.
November 26, 2014 | Rating: A- | Full Review… -
It's recognizably the work of an idiosyncratic artist dealing in bizarre caricature, and exploring weird ideas.
November 24, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
What a tortured path "The King and the Mockingbird" has taken to reach theaters in the United States, and what a treat it is for us to be able to experience it now.
November 21, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
A catalog of the movie's pleasures barely does justice to this lost-and-found delight.
November 20, 2014 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The King and the Mockingbird
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Dec 13, 2014Did you know that one of the more tedious duties of being a king is having your portrait painted over and over again? That is no less true for King Charles XVI of Tachycardia. But it is even worse for him when his portrait takes over his life, and then obsesses over a shepherdess from a painting who is in love with a chimney sweep. Luckily for them, a mockingbird is able to save them from the king, the bird being a veteran of several skirmishes, both verbal and violent, with the real king. "The King and the Mockingbird" is an entertaining old-fashioned animated film that is equal parts surreal and political. In other words, it clears up the mystery of why the king's city is so underpopulated while ending on a very final Marxist note. So, while the movie specializes in some very memorable imagery, at other times, the movie's primitive level of animation makes this seem like a lost extended episode of "Heckle and Jeckle." And yes that's what I get for settling for the dubbed version.Walter M Super Reviewer
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