The Umbrelly

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Reviewed by: Martin Gray

Cartoon dancing girls deliver a safer sex message in a film that's Broadway Melody of 1933 meets a packet of Durex.

It's all a bit odd, as refugees from the Ziegfeld Follies dance around umbrellas to Tuxedo Junction while a voice reads out a poem with a rather twisted safe sex message:

You insert the umbrelly through the head of the penis. Make sure you don't miss. Be precise. And push it into the scrotum with a plunger-like device.

Er, right.

The poem is witty and the animation inventive - there's a bit of a Bob Godfrey vibe - but The Umbrelly is a bit clever-clever for my tastes, and really, showgirls would never dance to a Big Band tune.

Reviewed on: 04 Jul 2003
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Cartoon dancing girls deliver safer sex message.

Director: Carol Stevenson

Writer: Carol Stevenson

Starring: Edward Blackburn (Voice)

Year: 2002

Runtime: 2 minutes

Country: UK

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