I thought this movie would be more appropriately named, "Pop Goes the Weasel". Certainly more recognizable than the use of the tune's first line, "All Around the Mulberry Bush".

Yes, but if that had been done, the obscurity of the mulberry bush, as applied to early 19th century English culture, especially that part of the culture that was centered on this shrub's fragrant offering and the human senses, would have been lost. Agree?

What are you talking about? This was, and correct me if I am wrong, just one step beyond a cartoon, right?

I don't see it that way. The child actors frolicked about holding the plant's tender limbs as a dreamweaver would induce slumbering visions. Expanding their universe, playing in their minds, if you will.

I won't!

Why? You have to see that this nursery rhyme is nothing more than a metaphor for life and our interaction with it.

No I don't.

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I think you have read more into this flick than was ever intended. I think it is time for you to leave. So, please leave.

Whaaaat?

That's right. Gather your stuff and leave. Now.

OK. OK, I'll leave. But just remember who it was that pulled your butt out of the cancellation fire with our entertaining analyses of those Godzilla movies.

Yeah. Whatever.

(beat)

And don't let the door hit you on the way out!

(beat)

Ah, Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for my former partner's odd critical point of view.

(beat)

Please be with me next time when, hopefully, I will have found a suitable new partner to discuss the thriller, "King Kong Gets a Rash".