the audience applauded

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The acting in this movie is really good.

If it was 1963 and I were watching this I would have believed it was made fifty years earlier. But I was twelve years old that year and I don't recall watching anything as remotely goofy as this. I certainly would have been a prime candidate for the safety message here as my friends and I took our bikes everywhere, but I don't think any of us would have been able to stop laughing at the total absurdity of this flick. It might have passed muster as a message film if they dispensed with the monkey masks and spring tails, but looking like these bikers just hailed from the Planet of the Apes was just asking for trouble. If it were worth the time I'd walk through each of the potential dangers these kids faced but reviewers 'ethylester' and 'dmanyc' have already done that, so check those out if need be. The one that really baffled me was making sure your bike was licensed and registered. With who? Is that required today? I might need a refresher course on bicycle safety. Is One Got Fat any relation to Yun Fat Chow?

ONE GOT FAT is a short film narrated by Edward Everett Horton - who portrayed Fred Astaire's sidekick in THE GAY Divorcée - and probably written by my favourite childhood author, Richard Scarry. It features a group of ten friends who go out one day to a park for a picnic. Each of the monkeys rides dangerously and gets knocked out of the picture one by one, breaking the law of the time (as a boy, I never had to register either of my bicycles). Only one of the ten friends makes it to the picnic site; the short is based on the childhood game "Ten Little Monkeys/Ten Little Indians." And he turns out not to be a monkey at all, but a normal human boy. Despite the low budget, the masks are astounding and the sound effects accurate. The bicycle safety tips are still accurate, except for one - the idea of licensing your bike. In none of the bicycle safety films I have seen as a child was this issue discussed, and it did not appear in either of the books I have read on the subject(perhaps because a bike was not considered to be a motor vehicle); this movie loses two points for being dated.

YES, this film is wacko. The kids have weird names like Rooty Toot. Their ape masks look cheap, but where in the world would you find such a great looking monkey mask today without getting skin cancer? That was no ordinary mask!The title "one got fat" refers to Orv, the hero of the film who is "not a monkey" and knows all about bike safety, unlike the other children who are all killed (!), injured or left behind somehow because of their negligence. See, Orv was the boy carrying everybody's sack lunches in his bike basket to go to the park for a picnic. One all his cycle mates are... removed... he gets everyone's lunch! Hence - "one got fat". If you watch closely, before each child gets hit by a car or what have you, the mask suddenly grows giant eyeballs that bulge out of their sockets in horror.So kids, remember: 1) License your bike or you'll be afoot and your shoes will smolder from running alongside your biking friends. 2) Use reflectors and lights, especially when you ride through a highway tunnel. You are liable to get smashed head-on by oncoming traffic in the pitch black! 3) Ride on the right side of the road or you might flip yourself over a car pulling out of a parking space. 4) Keep your mind on riding and watch the traffic signs or you might miss a stop sign and smash into a semi truck that is crossing the road.5) Use your hand signals or you might get run over. 6) Don't ride on the sidewalk or you might run over a couple of housewives carrying groceries who end up in a tree. 7) Don't ride double or you'll fall down a manhole into the sewer - bike and all! 8) Tune up your bike or your brakes might fail unexpectedly and force you to be squashed by the oncoming steamroller! If you do all these things, you might also get fat though, because you will be forced to eat the lunches of all your dead or hospitalized friends.

Someone set out to make a cute, humorous little film to teach the kiddies about bike safety. What came out the other end was a bizarre and disturbing surrealist vision of a world gone mad. Kids in cheap ape masks getting run down by cars and steamrollers accompanied by cartoon explosions and "boing" effects, all narrated with relentless chipperness by the great Edward Everett Horton. It's just weird.