'Pickwick Papers' is better than those two, but to me it is one of the weaker Burbank Dickens adaptations and somewhere around middle of the road as far as their overall output goes. 'David Copperfield' and 'A Christmas Carol' were good, while 'A Tale of Two Cities' and especially 'The Old Curiosity Shop' (another lesser Burbank) disappointed. Like Burbank's overall output, their animated adaptations of Dickens have met with mixed success. Among the classics adapted are many of Charles Dickens' books, with a some understandable exceptions as 'Bleak House', 'Little Dorrit' and 'Our Mutual Friend' are particularly long and complicated and would have taken a lot of trouble to condense and not leant themselves well to animation while it would have been equally difficult trying to get something interesting made out of 'Barnaby Rudge'. They are variable but mostly they range from average to good, mixed with very good ones like 'The Wind in the Willows', 'Peter Pan' and 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' and weak ones too like 'Don Quixote', 'The Odyssey' and 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. Burbank Film Australia's numerous animated adaptations of literary classics (mostly under an hour but some are also around 75 minutes) make for interesting viewing.
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