THE STORY OF THE TORTOISE & THE HARE (2002) ** Aw, what coulda been. Ray Harryhausen gives us a glimpse of the potential of stop motion animation to enrich children's tales. Fifty years in the making and twelve minutes in the viewing, the film can clearly identify with the tortoise. It's not just cool looking, though, Ray's Manichean rendering gives us a hare that's not only lazy but perhaps some sort of jackass hybrid. The gentle tortoise is cool, but doesn't really work stop motion's potential to endow anything with a sense of the ominous. On the other hand I'm really glad that he didn't give us super-scary hares and toirtoises hopping around with swords coming out of their teeth and ears and growing hydra heads out of their butts.
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