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Director: John Hubley
Release date: 1974
Rating: ★★½
Review:
In ‘Voyage to Next’ mother Earth (voiced by Maureen Stapleton) and father Time (voiced by Dizzy Gillespie, who also provides the jazzy score) discuss humankind, and how its only hope is collaboration and sharing.
‘Voyage to Next’ is directed by John Hubley, but the pleasant designs of the two gods display the huge influence of Faith Hubley, who produced the film. The dialogue is improvised, and to be frank, rather rambling and disjointed, hampering the message. In fact, between an early conclusion that mankind is going nowhere and the final one that only collaboration will help little is happening in between.
‘Voyage to Next’ is very nice to look at, but little else, and one wishes the Hubleys for once would abandon their improvisational style for something more cohesive.
Watch ‘Voyage to Next’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘Voyage to Next’ was released on the DVD ‘Art and Jazz in Animation’, which has been long out of print
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