Il signor Rossi al mare

This is quite a good little animation. It has very high quality too, it is quite surprising when you think about it as it feels a lot more modern. One does not think of 1964 when they see an animation of this high calibre.

Mr Rossi goes to get some rest and relaxation on the beach. The only problem is that loads and loads of other people have had the same idea. It is quite funny and has to be seen to be believed. Great for all audiences.

The only problem I found here is that I felt it ends in a good place where it could have easily carried on without losing interest.

A few short films of Mr Rossi of this nature were made before they finally made a few feature length films of this character. The feature length films contained spoken dialogue whereas these shorts did not.

The title of this short is shown at the start in four languages, Italian, English, French and German. There is no shadow of a doubt that these shorts where designed for international enjoyment. With no spoken dialogue, there is of course, no need to worry about translations (be in in the form of subtitles or dubbing).

I personally feel this one was as good as Mr Rossi buys a Car but in different ways. The plots are totally different which is good because you get more variety.

These shorts are also the same sort of humour and style as The Pink Pather ones used to be, only a little more rational, Meaning that things COULD really happen in the Mr Rossi cartoons, although such chances are quite rare.

I can't help but feel that Mr Rossi has been left to be forgotten about because these cartoons are Italian and not British or American.

While such material has been released on DVD for German and Italian markets, I'm very sorry to say that such material does seem quite scarce for other country's markets. I do know a few VHS tapes were released in the USA, but these are long deleted.

I wouldn't mind recommending the feature films but they are just not as good as the shorts. They also go a bit deeper into the world of the absurd.

I would recommend the whole Mr Rossi shorts to everyone. No bad material just nice clean innocent fun, just like when we were much younger.