Kooky

     Kooky was interesting. I think I've seen movies before that used puppets in a real environment, you know, real trees and all that, but I think they used puppet animals, too. So when I saw the real squirrels in Kooky, I was like, "They're REAL!" Then there was the real fox, and the real hogs, and the real birds. Some people were awed at the trained birds, but I was more awed about the fox. These little toy cars and puppets come rushing by him, and he just stands there and watches them.
     The storyline was one of those where you couldn't tell whether the kid was imagining his toy's adventure, or whether the toy was actually having the adventure and the kid just knew what was happening because he loved his toy so much. It was interesting to see that what happened to the toy also happened to the kid, like when the kid was getting sick and Kooky had lost his fluff.
     The puppets brought up an idea that I think more people might consider. The puppets who lived in the woods were gods of the woods; they took care of nature. When the plastic puppets showed up, they claimed that they could take Kooky away because he wasn't "natural". Well, the other puppets said, if Kooky could be taken away, why couldn't the god of the woods who was made of wires be taken away? Wires aren't natural, are they? But the wires come from nature, the god defended himself. Lots of people complain about processed food, but doesn't all that food come from nature? It's not like we just invented processed food out of nothing; it's natural stuff, just chopped up and pulled apart and boiled down and melted together again. Does that make it less healthy? 
     One more thing: I loved the Captain's glasses. Haha. He gets jammed into a plastic bottle, and Ta-da! he gets his much-needed glasses!