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 .