French Disney Excellent bright, colorful French cartoon.
I personally happened to see him as a child in the era of the conditional cable TV, which was born at the end of the Soviet era and at the dawn of a new state called the Russian Federation.
The plot is essentially entirely set out in the column "description of the film". A boy named Jeanneau (although where I watched the cartoon personally, the hero was transferred as Johnny) falls into captivity with his comrades to a giant cannibal who can change the size of living creatures with the help of some cunning thing. For example, for fun, the cannibal in one of the scenes reduces the lion and incites its smaller version on Jeanneau. In general, the guy in a reduced to the size of Thumbelina is washed away from the castle of the inhospitable owner and gets into the world of insects.
That's actually it - the world of insects - drawing me at the time and amazed me. Beautiful leaves, beautiful trees and, of course, healthy and brightly depicted inhabitants of the forest: caterpillars, beetles, dragonflies and giant spiders (giant, of course, in comparison with little Jeanneau). Especially I fell into the soul of mushroom houses, in which the bulk of the forest inhabitants live.
But pretty walking in the forest, the main character is in the center of the beehive, where he is on the right side during the suppression of the rebellion against the queen of bees. Again, a pleasant impression left duels on swords between numerous drones and the boy. And of course, an abundance of severed legs, wings and bee heads. Not even a little childish. And then the triumphant return of the guy to the castle of the giant and the inevitable retribution to the antagonist, in the best traditions of folk tales or legends. And all this against the background of well-drawn interiors and saturated colors (and after all, the cartoon of 1950).
In short, a completely unjustly forgotten masterpiece of animation. If it were not French, but American, it would be in line with their classics à la Dumbo or Bambi. But... European origins have “swelled”, and the French are not as able to popularize their culture as their overseas competitors. Sorry.
10 out of 10