Review of Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988) by Gregory T — 09 Aug 2007

You think you know great kid's movies? Well if you don't know La Fete and the Tales for All series, you don't know any damn thing at all. Tommy Tricker stands atop the stack (Bach and Broccoli, Peanut Butter Solution, Young Magician, Great Land of Small, et al), and even above Michael Rubbo's other masterpeice, The Peanut Butter Solution.

The great thing about TTatST is that Rubbo casts kids as real kids-- goofy, excitable, werid-- and then pretends that kids in Canada are as obsessed with stamps as he probably is. There's something really sweet and strange about all this, but there's also something unmistakably real.

Note: look out for a really young Rufus Wainwright rocking out!