Fun and Fancy Free.

 

                                              Fun and Fancy Free.

If your a Disney animation fan like me you will love this movie. The 

stories are amazing and the animation is really well done. This movie has 

it all, Micky mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and other amazing Disney 

characters we all fell in love with over the years. Fun and Fancy Free is 

one of the best movies that Disney has ever done and it will forever be 

an American movie classic that will live on for generations to come. If 

you haven't seen this one you should buy it or rent it online and watch it 

with the whole family cause everyone will enjoy the story. So, with that, 

lets get to the story shall we:

Bongo

Jiminy Cricket first appears inside a large plant in a large house, 

exploring and singing "I'm a Happy-go-Lucky Fellow", until he happens 

to stumble upon a doll, a teddy bear, and a record player with some 

records, one of which is Bongo, a musical romance story narrated by 

actress Dinah Shore. Jiminy decides to set up the record player to play 

the story of Bongo.

The story follows the adventures of a circus bear named Bongo who 

longs for freedom in the wild. Bongo is raised in captivity and is praised 

for his performances, but is poorly treated once he is off stage. As such, 

while traveling on a circus train, his natural instincts the call of the wild 

urge him to break free. As soon as he escapes and enters a forest, a day 

passes before his idealistic assessment of his new living situation has been emotionally shattered, and he experiences some hard conditions.

The next morning, however, he meets a female bear named Lulubelle. 

The two bears immediately fall in love, until Bongo soon faces a romantic 

rival in the brutish, enormously-shaped bear named Lumpjaw. Bongo 

fails to interpret Lulubelle slapping him as a sign of affection, and when 

she accidentally slaps Lumpjaw, he claims her for himself, forcing all 

other bears into a celebration for the "happy" new couple. Bongo comes 

to understand the meaning of slapping one another among wild bears 

and returns to challenge Lumpjaw. He manages to outwit Lumpjaw for 

much of their fight until the two fall into a river and go over a waterfall. 

While Lumpjaw is presumably swept away by the river and never seen 

again, Bongo's hat saves him from falling down, and he finally claims 

Lulubelle as his mate.

Mickey and the Beanstalk

This segment is narrated by Edgar Bergen in live-action sequences, who, 

with the help of his ventriloquist dummies Charlie 

McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, tells the tale to child actress Luana 

Patten at her birthday party, with Jiminy listening in after having read an 

invitation shortly after the previous story ended.

A jovial countryside land called Happy Valley, kept alive at all times by a 

singing harp, is suddenly plagued by a severe drought and falls into 

turmoil and depression after the harp is stolen from the castle by a 

mysterious assailant and also nicknamed "Gruesome Gulch". The 

residents are driven into poverty and have no choice but to leave in 

order to avoid death by starvation. Eventually, only three residents are 

left: Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. The trio have but just one loaf of bread 

and a single solitary bean to eat. During this time, Mickey has no choice 

but to cut the bread into paper-thin slices for the three friends to eat. 

Driven insane by his hunger, Donald goes into a rage, complaining that 

he cannot stand it anymore. He makes a sandwich out of plates and 

silverware, but Mickey and Goofy stop him and manage to calm him 

down. He then sees an axe and attempts to kill their pet cow for beef 

with said axe, but Mickey and Goofy manage to stop him again. Mickey 

then decides to sell the cow for money to buy food.

Goofy and Donald are excited about eating again and begin to sing about 

delicious dishes to the tune of Funiculi Funicula until Mickey comes back 

and reveals that he sold the cow in exchange for a container of beans 

that are said to be magical. An enraged Donald, thinking that Mickey had 

been tricked, furiously throws the beans down the floor, and they fall 

through a hole. However, it turns out that the beans are truly magical 

after all as later that night, the light of a full moon causes a beanstalk to 

sprout from under the house and lift it far up into the sky.

The next morning, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find themselves at the top 

of the gigantic beanstalk and in a magical kingdom of enormous scope, 

where they appear to be tiny creatures compared to their surroundings. 

They eventually make their way to a huge castle, where they help 

themselves to a sumptuous feast. There, they stumble across the harp 

locked inside a small box, and she explains that she was kidnapped by a 

"wicked giant". Immediately after, a giant named Willie emerges from 

the shadows, grunting angrily while simultaneously breaking into a 

happy song "Fe Fi Fo Fum" and bouncing a ball about while 

demonstrating his powers of flight, invisibility, and shapeshifting.

As Willie prepares to eat lunch, he catches Mickey hiding in his sandwich 

after Mickey sneezes when Willie pours pepper onto the sandwich. 

Mickey tries to run away, but Willie catches him. Mickey then plays palm 

reader and gains the childish giant's trust. Willie offers to show off his 

powers, and Mickey, spotting a nearby fly-swatter, requests that he 

change himself into a fly. However, Willie suggests turning into a pink 

bunny instead, and as he does he sees Mickey, Donald, and Goofy with 

the fly-swatter. Angry, Willie captures Mickey, Donald, and Goofy and 

locks them in the harp's chest so as to keep them from pulling any more 

tricks.

In order to escape, Mickey must find the key and rescue his friends. He 

does so with the help of the singing golden harp, who begins singing 

Willie to sleep. Mickey almost alerts Willie to his presence by sneezing 

after falling into a box of snuff powder in Willie's pocket, but the same 

powder makes Willie sneeze and he loses sight of Mickey. Mickey frees 

his friends and they make a break for it with the harp. However, Willie 

wakes up from his sleep and spots them, giving chase all the way to the 

beanstalk. Mickey stalls him long enough for Donald and Goofy to reach 

the bottom as they begin to saw down the beanstalk. Mickey arrives just 

in time to finish the job of sawing down the beanstalk, and Willie, who 

was climbing down, falls to his apparent death.

Back at Edgar Bergen's home, he finishes his story, saying that with the 

return of the harp, Happy Valley returned to prosperity. He then cheers 

up Mortimer Snerd who was crying about Willie's death, saying that 

Willie was a nice giant who did not deserve to die. Just as Edgar says 

that Willie is a fictional character and not real, Willie himself appears, 

alive and well, tearing the roof off his house. Willie inquires about 

Mickey's whereabouts, but Edgar faints in shock while Mortimer tells 

Willie goodnight. The scene closes with Jiminy leaving the house into the 

night and Willie noticing the Brown Derby restaurant and putting it on 

like a hat before stomping off to find Mickey, with the HOLLYWOOD 

lights blinking in the background.