EADJ Crappinema Presents The Man From Button Willow

Just because a movie is animated- a medium that often requires meticulous frame-by-frame incremental moves- doesn't mean its creators don't take huge short cuts and even rip off other sources to create a subpar product. "The Man From Button Willow" aspires to be a charming, folksy account of the fictional legend of Justin Eagle (who I hadn't heard of) and his adventures as a Senate Investigator in the 1800's. The problem is that the animators overpopulated the scene with too many unnecessary "cute" animals doing a bunch of unnecessary bullshit, ultimately bogging down the story line and making me start cutting myself again.



The following is lifted verbatim from the intro to the film:

"Hi there. I'm Dale Robertson. Some of you may remember me from "Tales of Wells Fargo." Right now I'd like to tell you a little about the picture you're going to see. Shortly after the Civil War, one of the major projects in this country was to join the east to the west with a great railroad- the greatest the world has ever known. There were many problems: the weather, the terrain, the Indians. But one of the biggest problems was a group of men who were known as land grabbers, men who would jump out ahead of the railroad and buy up all the land and attempt to charge the government fantastic prices for it. Such a man was Montgomery Blaine.


"In an effort to put a stop to this, the government sent out Senate Investigators. Such a man was Senator Freeman. And many times these Senate Investigators didn't return. So in order to protect them, the government put together a special team of men whose job was so secretive that even their own families didn't know what they did. And such a man was Justin Eagle, who was known as the Man From Button Willow. And this is his story."











































After the four minutes were up, it moved on to PART TWO with another 20 minutes of shitty cartoon. Motherfucker.





























Was "The Man From Button Willow" the worst animated movie ever? Probably not. Was it bad enough to be going for $1.99 at the cut-out bin at a random supermarket? Totally. Would you ever recommend this cartoon to anyone else? Look, I'm not an asshole, okay?

Overall grade: F