Original: Dan Jardine criticized the songs and the “Saturday morning cartoon quality” of the animation, but also says that Hamner “retains just enough of White’s elegant prose in the dialogue and narration to keep the film from being simply a painfully well-intended experiment.
Simplified: Dan Jardine criticized the songs and the “Saturday morning cartoon quality” of the animation], but also says that Hamner kept just enough of White’s prose to keep the movie from being simply a painfully well-intended experiment.