The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg

Ostensibly a "cautionary" tale aimed--apparently--at rich brats who just don't know how good they have it, The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg uses a split screen to compare and contrast the "reality" and "fantasy" life of a bored upper crust kid who daydreams about a life full of action and danger, only to eventually take berth on a rather famous ship that tragically rendezvoused with a big block of ice. While the animation is fine and the scenarios often clever, I'm somewhat at a loss to conjure up the audience for this, though I suspect it must be either proletarian kids harboring revenge fantasies over Little Lord Fauntleroy types or rather mean-spirited adults. Either way, this attention-splitting downer is not a necessary purchase. Aud: P. (R. Pitman)