The most satisfying post-revel feeling is in the realization that there are still those who care not only about fantasy and adventure but also about courage and ingenuity and, even more important, literacy and imagination.

The youthful viewer and his parents should overlook Phantom Tollbooth's flaws and concentrate on the film's underlying moral.

It's not one that I'll probably ever watch again... [but] It was a fun one to finally explore.

More would have been acheived without the inclusion of the sappy pop songs, but the film still has infinitely more savvy than most of the Disney cartoons of the period.