The film is more or less unwatchable, a collage of laughably third rate animation interspersed with scenes of remarkable beauty, leftovers from the original cut. lt is the same film formerly released theatrically as Arabian Knight, a work of such startling bad taste that it discredits all who were involved in its completion. The version released on video by Miramax, described as "a musically-charged animated epic created by Richard Williams, the Oscar winning animator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit," is a degraded version of Williams' masterpiece, hardly worthy of the name it bears. Based on the art of the Middle East, and in particular on the miniatures produced in Safavid Persia circa 1500, the film was at least 30 Years in the making, and became a legend in the animation industry. The Thief and the Cobbler was to have been the greatest animated film ever made, the culmination of the a lifetime's work by master animator Richard Williams. While Animation World Magazine usually does not like to review films in their video version after they have been shown theatrically, we thought it would be interesting to have Richard Williams' son Alex take a gander at this version, which he had not seen before, and give us his reactions. Nevertheless, many in the animation community started to realize that this was no ordinary film, but rather a film assembled from the ruins of Richard Williams' magnum opus, The Thief and the Cobbler, which has now been released to the home video under its original title.
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Editor's Note: In August 1995, a film titledĪrabian Knights briefly appeared in American movie houses, hardly making a dent in the box office.
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