Ceticultsot
Beautiful, moving film.
Seraherrera
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Delight
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Brooklynn
There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
tavm
This was an animated short from the Gene Deitch (who, like me, is a Chicago native) era of Terrytoons that I just discovered on YouTube. The title character is a short man who does various things that make people like him. That is until he runs into a big man named Rudolph who hits him on the head when he is offered anything. After this happens for a while, Flebus goes to a psychiatrist who tells him he's neurotic when Flebus asks why this man doesn't like him. The doctor tells Rudolph the same thing when he asks why he doesn't like Flebus. When they meet again, Rudolph and Flebus becomes friends because they now have something in common! This short is more smile than laugh inducing but it's very interesting artistically with the limited designs from director Ernie Pintoff. He couldn't finish it though so Deitch completed it and made one of the most abstractedly made shorts ever associated with the usually conventional animated studio Terrytoons. The era proved to be short-lived, however, since the real boss, executive producer Bill Weiss, wanted to go back to the old characters like Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle and soon let Gene and many of his animators go. Some wonderful cartoons were made though of which Flebus was one of them.
Robert Reynolds
This short was done by Ernest Pintoff for Terrytoons studios and is an example of how good the medium can be even on the cheap, which is the only way Paul Terry did anything-as cheaply as possible. Pintoff did excellent work with animation early in his career and Flebus is one of his best. The main character is a terminally nice guy who likes everyone and it's hilarious! Well worth watching. Recommended.
