There really was a "Cloverleaf Industries", you know....

Rating: 9/10 (21 September 1999)

This is a terrifically entertaining film, a landmark of its type. For one, it actually features Disney and Warners cartoon characters in the same scenes. For another, it never misses a beat; as the audience of all ages is thrilled by the live action/animation sequences, WFRR slips out of fantasy and into
barely-disguised historical fact to tell an allegorized story of the real-life destruction of southern California's Pacific Electric streetcar and interurban railway system by shadowy special interests. (The reality of what happened is seen in the POV television documentary "Taken For A Ride". The corrupt "Cloverleaf Industries" really did exist in Los Angeles and dozens of other cities as National City Lines.) Yet though that story is told in parable, the story does move quickly, to its happy ending....unlike what really happened.