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I read the MODERN MONSTERS article as a kid, drooling over the few images, reading over and over again the details given about the production, but as was mentioned above I never got to see this until I was an adult.
Sorry, but by then it was too late for me. Much as I like Danforth's work in other places (and I've met him briefly twice as well as having a best friend who worked with him; he is indeed a very good and talented fellow), I think the animation as well as the puppets in JACK is very sub-standard.

Haryhausen's animation just has more personality to it than anyone else's, even Danforth's. Now I know some probably don't like the slight "cartooniness" that he puts into characters, but I think they need that bit of larger than life pathos and hammyness to put them across. Danforth's work in WHEN DINOSAURS is top notch, but for me somehow lacks a spark that GWANGI has. Harryhausen was a unique artist with a style all his own, and I love it. And the animation in many of JACK's scenes is just plain sloppy, awkward poses and poor follow through and sense of gravity. It was made by a committee and is a deliberate imitation, not a singular personal vision.

So JACK can't begin to compare to 7th for me - and yes, I'd think preferring JACK's score to 7th's would be a very minority opinion. I can watch 7th VOYAGE almost endlessly, but find Jack hard to get through (I think the shipboard fight with the demons or whatever is the best scene).
Still, I have the DVD - as an animation geek I love it all to some degree.

SAM33