Tiki Tiki

Canadian filmmaker Gerald Potterton utilizes extensive footage from the Soviet adventure film Dr Abolit in his Tiki Tiki Abolit boards a rocket with two monkeys and blasts off into space bent on rescuing a group of monkey kids from extraterrestrial bandits Framing the liveaction storyline are a few animated cartoon sequences involving the efforts of a producer to sell his concept to an apelike movie mogul This device works as effectively here as it did thirty years earlier in WC Fields Never Give a Sucker an Even Break As a payoff the studio boss is revealed to be King Kong who sees a lot of potential in a story about heroic simians allmoviecom