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If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I have always loved films (animated and live action) and theatrical shorts based on books. This is one of my favorite literary shorts from my childhood, because I've watched it a bunch of times as a kid; I've even read the book too.This short has a great cast featuring Sterling Holloway as Amos Mouse/Narrator, Charles Ruggles as Benjamin Franklin; Hans Conried as Thomas Jefferson, I love the talents of Hans. I also love why they joined paintings and the animated characters in the backgrounds - excellent work! I recommended this short those who literary shorts and films like me.

I remember see this cute movie long time ago at the Underground Museum in Franklin Court in Philadelphia. It took a light heart look at Ben Franklin's life told by Amos the Mouse. The film is enjoyable to watch with the whole family. I wish they will release this on video and DVD.

This marvelous film, while occasionally being run in the wee hours on the Disney Channel, has been otherwise shoved to the back of the vault and for being woefully neglected, has suffered a much better fate than much of Disney's output in the 1940's and 1950's. Disney regularly put out one and two-reel shorts and documentaries back then and the majority probably haven't been seen in decades. Ben and Me is a case in point-not in print and rarely shown, while we get the umpteenth replay of Cosmic Capers-a good short, but with so much material available, why not air some less-seen stuff? This film, for example, a funny take on Ben Franklin and why he accomplished so much. One wonders what Edison must have consulted with. Most recommended.

Amos is as poor as a church mouse, if fact he is a church mouse. He leaves home to seek his fortune is 18th century Philadelphia, finding employment with a news publisher, Benjamin Franklin. Amos rides about in the brim of Ben's tri-cornered hat; and you thought those hats were only for style. Amos, it turns out is the real source of many of Franklin's inventions. Possibly a spoiler if you ever get a chance to see this film: Eventually Franklin sends Amos on a kite ride, ostensibly to gain a new perspective on news gathering. When Amos learns the "shocking" truth he's led to drastic measures. Franklin is reading Amos' declaration as Thomas Jefferson is fretting over how to word his own Declaration...The rest is history. I wish Disney studios would someday release this little gem to tape.