The Golden Touch: Shiny, Heavy, and Kinda Sad

Is it worth your time?

If you have about ten minutes and want to see what animation looked like when people were still figuring out how to make greed look scary, then yes. It’s charming in a very old-fashioned way. If you hate moral lessons that hit you over the head with a heavy sack of coins, skip it.

Honestly, the whole thing feels like a fever dream about interior decorating gone wrong. Everything is just so yellow. It’s like the animators were paid by the gold-colored paint bucket.

There’s a moment where the King tries to eat some grapes. He touches them and they turn into cold, hard metal lumps. The sound design there—that little *clink*—is genuinely haunting. You can feel the hunger in the room.

It reminds me a bit of the weird, frantic energy in Uncensored Bosko Vol. 2, where things just happen because the story demands it, not because it makes sense. The King is just a guy with a problem, and the solution is basically "lose everything to win."

Observations from the couch:

• The dwarf is surprisingly creepy. Why is he hanging out in a castle looking like that?
• The transformation sequence is actually pretty impressive for the time. It feels heavy.
• I spent most of the runtime wondering if a gold sandwich would actually taste like anything. Probably just iron and regret.
• The ending feels a bit rushed, but who cares? The point is made.

It’s not trying to be The Little Minister with deep drama, but it gets the job done. It’s a short, shiny reminder that you can't eat gold. Sometimes the most simple movies are the ones that stick in your brain for no reason at all. 👑✨