Production problems?

I thought this was a fun little film. It's kind of odd, but the cast was pretty likable. One thing which really stood out though was an apparent disconnect between the audio and the visuals. And I don't mean that the dubbing was bad or anything like that. I mean that there were times in which a character would clearly be talking, but we couldn't hear them on account of singing, times in which we couldn't hear the songs for the spoken dialog of others, and times in which the narration would talk over the top of either one.

Take Chanticleer's fight with the owl at the beginning of the film. The two of are clearly talking to one another, but all we hear is Patou's voice narrating the events instead of them being allowed to unfold on their own. And because it's reduced to mere highlights, scene which looks like it would have lasted anywhere from two to four minutes is wrapped up in under a minute.

And later, Patou and Edmund talk over the top of Kiss 'n Coo to a point at which we don't we don't even get to hear the line that the song is named for until the fade out. Did they think that it was too silly or too mushy to give a rooster and a pheasant a duet? Did they run out of time to provide animation for the song? We get to see Edmund's conversation with Patou and Kiss 'n' Coo becomes nothing more than a background melody?

And speaking of running out of time for animation, or possibly running over budget, the song Tyin' Your Shoes was clearly written as an on-screen number in which Patou would have triumphantly celebrated his learning how to tie his shoes, but instead it's relegated to playing during the credits and without visuals to back it up.