Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Aubrey Hackett
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Haven Kaycee
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
Mel J
A firm favourite of mine during my nursery school years, 'Button Moon' had a large following of fans in those who were tots in the early Eighties. It was a very low-budget show with the characters were put together using wooden spoons and tin cans but it worked when complimented with simple story-telling and a solid musical score.There was something very surreal about 'Button Moon' that I loved as a child (although I could see why people now link it to a drugs' trip!) but it was a show that proves you don't need high-quality CGI to keep small children (and adults!) entertained. Upon viewing it recently, after a friend bought the DVD, it certainly brought back memories and would no doubt be equally as popular with today's toddlers as it was with kids in the Eighties.
uknumbergb
Yes this was a great TV show back from the 1980s, shame it hasn't been on TV for almost 17 years now. It was broadcast on the ITV network (would have been Thames for me as I lived In London back then and that was the company that ran ITV for that region of the UK) & every show ran for 10 minutes. Kids today would probably love this Button Moon show much as we did back then. A great show ! Button Moon in it's "Blanket Sky". I remember the classic song that opened and ended the show and sang along with it on every show when I was a kid. "We're off to Button Moon, Follow Mr. Spoon, Button Moon, Button Moon. We're off to Button Moon, Follow Mr. Spoon, Button Moon, Button Moon. Button Mo-----------------on. Button Moon, Be Back Soon, Button Moon." Ah, memories!
Jackson Booth-Millard
In my childhood days of course, this used to be one of my favourite kids shows that I'd ever seen. In a distant galaxy or something, there was a planet with a moon circling around it. This moon was Button Moon. Basically everything around the planet was similar to normal everyday little things, like a button, making the scenery and characters. For example, there was Mr Spoon with spoons for arms, and there was also broom sticks for trees. On this planet or on Button Moon itself these characters had many weird so called adventures or short stories. One of my favourite episodes that I remember was the talent show. This was a quality show. It was number 86 on The 100 Greatest Kids' TV Shows. Very good!
d1senior
Yet another programme from my wasted youth, 'Button Moon' maintains a weird power all these years later. As with all the best kids' shows, 'Button Moon' was dedicated to helping its young audience's imaginations sprout from the normalities of everyday life. All the world was a potential playground. Thus, kitchen utensils become the restless Mr Spoon and his family, baked bean tins become spaceships, cardboard boxes become houses. All good staples of a healthy child's imaginative development.However, this same approach helped give the show a very weird, very trippy atmosphere, ensuring it cult TV status years later. It looks as if it were literally filmed in a dustbin. Bananas fly through the sky with green bean wings; party dresses suffer from depression; umbrellas play golf. In one particularly inspired sequence, Mr Spoon, trapped on top of a squealing Royal Jelly, is rescued by a small army of gingerbread men wielding a ladder constructed from chocolate finger biscuits.Ineffably English - check out the thinly disguised Heinz logo on the baked-bean tin spaceship, for instance, or the cockney troll in the 'Little Goats Gruff' episode - it features terrific narration by Robin Parkinson, and a theme tune that will haunt you till your dying day. 'Button Moon' is surely the pinnacle of early 1980s English children's psychedelic sci-fi puppetry weirdness.
