The Point

Ringo Starr version. Acid trip, relaxing songs, pointless (ugh) message. "I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's no point to it.'" Fav scene: hiding inside the log and then the killer bees roll them downhill.

Very early 1970s. Buried beneath the typical Beatlesque songs and "what were they on" sequences is a nice little story about a boy finding his own point.

Stupid animated musical about a round headed kid in a land full of people with pointy heads. He doesn't have a point, get it? The movie takes 70 minutes to get that concept across. The kid gets banished and has wacky adventures and learns he has a point after all. Sigh. I remember this being cool when I was a kid, but this is just dribbly hippy garbage spouted like it's Shakespeare. The story is dumb, the animation sucks and Harry Nilssen's songs are crap.

“The Point” could be a good 5 to 6-minute short film, but stretching it to over an hour was too much. The art was simple, and the pacing was very slow, making it painful to watch.

Pointstoview+evenhisdoginvoluntaryconspiracylol+ilikedthefatherandsonloldidntgoaroundinterpretingetc

Not exceptionally deep story, but great music told in a dreamy fashion (Appropriate for a bed time story).

... I think I missed the point.

Poorly written, dull, and charmless

Note that different versions of this film are available, featuring different narrators, including Dustin Hoffman (1st telecast), Alan Barzman (2nd telecast), Alan Thicke (3rd telecast), and Ringo Starr (home video release). I saw the Hoffman version many decades ago. Seems to have disappeared.

Really charming animated film, with an exceptional soundtrack by Harry Nilsson. Ringo is also perfect as the narrator. Wonderful for kids and it's still superb as an adult.