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Magic Journey to Africa is the most bonkers banana-pants, down-right baffling movies I have ever seen, and the fact that this was produced for children only makes it more confusing. This 49-minute movie, which was originally presented in “Giant Screen Theaters,” takes a young white girl Jana (Eva Gerretsen) from her home and parents, and she is transported to Africa with her magical flying unicorn. She is searching for a mysterious African boy who she saw trying to pickpocket patrons at a restaurant. She believes he has gone back to Africa, and she keeps having visions of him riding his bike across the African savanna. Where did she go in Africa? It is never indicated, perhaps because the writer thought Africa was all one big country with one culture and lots of poor people. From that point, the story becomes an incoherent string of events involving spirit gods, evil crows,...