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579,892 | 583,640 | 77,898 | 7 | Okay movie , but only one segment works very well | This movie has three storylines brought together by a framing device . The framing device works better than two of the three stories . Only the John Byner segment really works , and that's due to Harold Gould and Nanette Fabray . The Gary Burghoff segment had it's moments , but drowns in an implausible , syrupy ending ... |
579,025 | 583,640 | 149,860 | 7 | A most unusual " cheater " , indeed ! | Cheaters , cartoons that use stock footage and clips from previous cartoons to form the bulk of a " new " cartoon , usually with new footage as a framing device to incorporate the re-used clips , are not all that unusual . What makes this one of the strangest compilation cartoons is the fact that Paramount Famous Stu... |
579,506 | 583,640 | 63,432 | 7 | A sometimes funny one-joke short redeemed by a great ending . | This is an okay short which starts out interestingly , gets a bit tedious towards the middle and finishes off with a bang . Without the marvelous ending , it would have sunk without a trace . As I intend to discuss some details , this is a spoiler warning : The Pink Panther finds a quarter and sets out to buy something... |
579,099 | 583,640 | 147,939 | 7 | Some very nice visual gags in what could have been a very good short . | That a short can have no less than four very good visual gags and be largely drab and average for all that is testament ( perhaps even epitaph ) to the problems with all too much of the Flip the Frog series : the Iwerks studios did phenomenal work technically and some of the visuals still hold up well some seventy year... |
579,215 | 583,640 | 32,854 | 7 | Decent , if terribly derivative-been there , done that . | There's nothing awful about this one , just nothing really remarkable , save for Pinto Colvig ( the voice of Goofy ) as Bluto . I've seen it all in other ( better ) Popeye shorts . Fleischer almost always did visually fantastic cartoons and this one isn't bad . But I see signs of burnout here . They seem to have lost a... |
579,844 | 583,640 | 63,474 | 7 | I feel for the motorcycle cop in this one | This short is reasonably good , with some decent gags , though it gets a bit predictable in spots . I want to discuss this in some detail , so here there be spoilers : The Pink Panther wants to build and ride a motorcycle ( there's a recipe for disaster right there ) , but has trouble getting it out of reverse , which ... |
578,844 | 583,640 | 35,064 | 7 | Notable for the number of characters more than anything else | This short is aptly titled : it is a birthday party for Mickey . Disney released much more interesting and engaging shorts than this , but it is quite a collection of the majority of significant characters in Disney shorts and is at least worth seeing on that score . The animation , as is typical , is excellent . Worth... |
579,211 | 583,640 | 32,887 | 7 | Marginal short with a great title ! | The Bears were a relatively brief ( thankfully ) series of shorts that featured an irritable ( and irritating ) Papa , a Mama that would have driven Carrie Nation to the Demon Rum for refuge and an obnoxious Baby . Not to be confused with the more enjoyable series that Warner Brothers did somewhat later , this MGM seri... |
579,196 | 583,640 | 21,660 | 7 | Good Bosko short , with Bosko in law enforcement and apprehension ( with a side of piano ) . | Bosko shorts are very uneven in quality . This one is particularly good , all the more so because it was fairly early on in the series . There are a few gags I want to touch on , so there are spoilers ahead : Something I noticed in watching this and quite a few other Boskos in a brief period of time is that gags are of... |
579,505 | 583,640 | 63,248 | 7 | A decent , if somewhat predictable , short with several nice gags | Pink Panther shorts are almost all a bit predictable , in that the character is rather one-dimensional and they usually establish a basic premise and then bounce gags off that premise for most of the short . How enjoyable any given cartoon is largely depends on the execution of the individual sight gags . While this is... |
579,301 | 583,640 | 37,285 | 7 | A remake of Scalp Trouble , but not too bad in its own right | This cartoon could be considered a " cheater " because it uses quite a bit of footage from Scalp Trouble , presumably because of material shortages during wartime and because the animators were also doing war-related projects and it saved time . Though Scalp Trouble is better , Slightly Daffy is good enough to see for ... |
579,349 | 583,640 | 83,791 | 7 | Good movie , but as flawed as the Dark Crystal itself and should have been so much better . | This is I guess something which comes with the territory : the movie you want so much to like but that's flawed to the point that you wish it could be so much better . I compounded the problem by watching this again right after watching Labyrinth , which is everything I think Jim Henson wanted this to be , but that Dar... |
579,310 | 583,640 | 30,250 | 7 | First of a series , this is cute but bland . | This short is visually impressive in spots ( a hallmark of the studio ) , but the characters aren't that interesting and , for all that this was nominated for an Academy Award , it points up the problems with the Color Classics series in general : they tried to be something Fliescher Studios was not , namely Disney Stu... |
579,750 | 583,640 | 47,969 | 7 | OK , but Funny Face is a much better film | This movie is worth seeing for the music and for Astaire and Caron , but the plot is about as believable as a politician's promise and most of the rest of the cast looks disinterested in the whole project . OK , but not great . |
579,596 | 583,640 | 30,280 | 7 | The first Tex Avery travelogue spoof and Egghead too ! | This short is the first of several spoofs of the travelogue shorts popular at the time that showcased exotic locales for movie audiences . While a good cartoon , not on a par with later ones such as Detouring America or Crazy Cruise . Avery was still finding his range on the material . Still some good stuff here anyway... |
578,993 | 583,640 | 150,003 | 7 | Enjoyable , if not terribly creative or surprising . | UPA was beginning to hit the wall with Magoo shorts toward the end . The problem with the Magoo series was the inherent limitations of the basic premise . The jokes can be rather predictable and thus the quality of the material has to be extremely good or it doesn't work as well . When they were on , the shorts were gr... |
579,305 | 583,640 | 30,289 | 7 | Egghead as a romantic lead . I must have missed something . | This is an excellent cartoon , with the incongruous premise that Egghead is a romantic leading man . I can see it now-first , there was Valentino and John Gilbert , then Gable and now Egghead . Oh , well , he's a Tex Avery leading man ! This is a typical Avery short-sight gags come so fast and furious that they almost ... |
578,889 | 583,640 | 21,524 | 7 | The title says it all here . | The plot here in this early Flip the Frog-Flip opens a barber shop . The rest is sight gags , some very funny , but little else and the pacing is a bit slow . The cartoon is made , however , by an especially good sight gag right at the beginning and by the strangest barber shop quartet in cinematic history , that I've ... |
578,885 | 583,640 | 47,927 | 7 | An OK cartoon , for Tex Avery | This cartoon is just average for Tex Avery , which means that it's still as good as the best work of some cartoon directors . Virtually all sight gags , many of the gags are familiar from other shorts and most often worked only moderately well here . Still worh watching ( I've never seen a BAD Tex Avery ) even if it's ... |
579,402 | 583,640 | 50,236 | 7 | One of two unusual " cheater " cartoons to re-use Tex Avery shorts long after he'd left MGM | This is an unusual cartoon , in that it's an example of a " cheater " ( a cartoon which incorporates animation from earlier cartoons , in order to save time and money while still meeting the required running time and schedule for animated shorts ) taken to the extreme . Because I want to discuss the short a bit , this ... |
578,930 | 583,640 | 151,678 | 7 | Interesting cartoon with some nice scenes , but other studios have done similar shorts and did them better | This short has some interesting plot ideas that more or less work here , but the ideas have been used by other cartoon studios in different combinations and used more effectively . I want to talk about the short a bit , so this is a spoiler warning : This short has a dog who is quite content with his life , until a str... |
579,849 | 583,640 | 35,750 | 7 | Porky is upstaged by a bloodhound and a lynx | This short is one of the milder propaganda shorts done by Warner Brothers during World War II . I intend to discuss specifics , so consider this a spoiler warning : Porky is barely in this short-a fairly long introduction is composed of first a series of sight gags and then the awakening of a bloodhound . Porky is esse... |
579,055 | 583,640 | 554 | 7 | Fascinating early animation | From the vantage point of 96 years later , this is , comparatively speaking , rather simplistic and quite limited in contrast to work done today . But , also comparatively speaking , so would a certain single engine airplane seen at Kitty Hawk 99 years ago in contrast to a Lear Jet . There's more wit and imagination in... |
579,925 | 583,640 | 32,000 | 7 | Personally , I was cheering for the fish . | This short was nominated for an Oscar . It's principal point of interest today is its narrator , one Ronald Wilson Reagan . There are some nice archery shots and the sword fish scores a moral victory of sorts , but it's only average or slightly above average . Turner Classic Movies runs this as filler and your best bet... |
579,081 | 583,640 | 47,284 | 7 | A short weakened by a running gag which is wildly uneven in effectiveness , with a great beginning and a cute cameo | This short , which I must confess has two characters I find very unappealing , starts out marvelously for about the first 90 seconds , but the action quickly turns almost entirely to a series of setups for a running gag which is repeated ( to varying degrees of effectiveness ) so often that it starts to get tedious . T... |
579,147 | 583,640 | 62,716 | 7 | Man versus nature with nature winning | In this cartoon , Clouseau goes hunting and , given his innate ineptitude , does it badly . He keeps hitting the wrong target , primarily a bear trying to hibernate through winter . One's sympathies lie almost entirely with the bear , who , not unreasonably , just wants to be left alone . Things become increasingly pai... |
579,401 | 583,640 | 51,098 | 7 | This is Love That Pup , version 1 . 1 | This cartoon is an extreme example of a " cheater " , which is a cartoon made by using clips from other , earlier , cartoons , so as to save time and cost in order to make schedule and budget requirements on the contract to provide shorts for the studio and its distribution arrangements with theaters . Because I want t... |
579,209 | 583,640 | 51,086 | 7 | Okay Tom and Jerry with a few entertaining moments . | This one , though no rousing barn-burner , won't put you to sleep either . It has a few good moments here and there . Tom's cousin speaks and though the voicework is uncredited and I don't know with anything even remotely approaching certainty who does it here , it does sound like the same voice that did Droopy , Bill ... |
579,177 | 583,640 | 142,399 | 7 | This is an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit which spins its own version of Jack and the Beanstalk | When I saw the title of this short , I thought it might be a play on the Alice in Wonderland story . Strangely enough , it's actually a re-telling of the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale , a fairly interesting one at that . As I want to discuss the short , this is a spoiler warning : This short opens with Oswald singi... |
579,132 | 583,640 | 33,715 | 7 | Not the best Bugs Bunny ever , but well worth watching | This short , nominated for an Oscar , is a good , not great , cartoon . It does introduce a bit of Longfellow and any Bugs Bunny is a good cartoon and worth watching . There just isn't anything terribly funny or special about this particular cartoon besides the poem sections read at the beginning and end . But it is wo... |
579,883 | 583,640 | 41,434 | 7 | Bugs checks out the dog races . | An enjoyable short , though not one of the best Bugs Bunny shorts . It has more than a few moments and an entertaining ending . Because i want to discuss some details , this is a spoiler warning : Bugs winds up at a dog racetrack and decides to check out the dogs . He goes over to where they're being fed and pokes and ... |
579,306 | 583,640 | 29,993 | 7 | Tex Avery's take on Cinderella , with Egghead as a most un-Princely Charming fellow ! | Anyone who has seen an Egghead cartoon will find the idea of his being Prince Charming quite humorous . If you've seen much by Tex Avery , you know that when he's done , this won't much resemble the fairy tale as you hear it when you were younger . This is not your grandmother's Cinderella ! The sight gags are great , ... |
579,065 | 583,640 | 39,429 | 7 | One of the Sing-a-Long series of shorts done by Famous Studios and a fairly generic short with a few high points | The Sing-a-Long series which Paramount's Famous Studios did in the 1940s and early 1950s was directly patterned after the old Fleischer Studios series with the same basic idea-animation paired with a sing along which had a pointer or a " bouncing ball " moving in time to the lyrics , so that the audience could sing the... |
579,569 | 583,640 | 147,998 | 7 | The bits are greater than the whole . | This is a very funny cartoon , but from a plotting standpoint , it's a mess . The individual gags just happen more or less by happenstance . Ub Iwerks was interested in technique more than content . He was an idea man only when it came to the mechanics of things . A master at what he did and one of the finest animators... |
579,700 | 583,640 | 22,385 | 7 | They were still trying to make Bimbo the star and they still don't really seem to know what they wanted to do with Betty yet . | Very early entry in the series . Betty Boop is still formative in this one ( dog ears are still present ) and they still seem to be feeling their way here . Bimbo is here and a focus of the short is a plot the Fleischers employ to much greater effectiveness later in the Popeye series-a run-in with a magician . They see... |
579,935 | 583,640 | 45,270 | 7 | Cute , if not terribly memorable , Goofy short | This short features Goofy going up against Peg Leg Pete . It's cute enough , but thoroughly predictable and not all that memorable . It is well-animated , though . The concept really doesn't work as well as it should with the personality of Goofy for some reason . Worth watching at least once , but nothing terribly not... |
579,334 | 583,640 | 53,211 | 7 | Nice idea , but the sum is less than its parts . | This is an enjoyable enough short , but with the idea they start with , narration by June Foray and this being a Pepe Le Pew , somehow this one sort of stumbles and lurches along . It may just be me , but the jokes aren't that funny and the dialogue is lame for some reason . The base idea is very inventive , but the st... |
579,985 | 583,640 | 65,746 | 7 | Decent cartoon , with a very good bit concerning a bear | This is one of 17 shorts done in the Ant and the Aardvark series . Since the basic premise of this series was rather limited , the general story lines were somewhat predictable . The enjoyment comes from the dialog ( voiced by John Byner ) and some fairly funny ( if usually painful-for the Aardvark ) sight gags . Who k... |
578,838 | 583,640 | 30,034 | 7 | Two early appearances of well-known characters | This short features a very early version of Daffy Duck ( call it Daffy 1 . 0 ) and also Egghead , who would evolve into Elmer Fudd a bit later on . This features one of the zaniest duels of all time ! The turtle almost steals the show here ! Typical Tex Avery sight gags . A bit more talky than the aerage Avery short , ... |
579,663 | 583,640 | 24,155 | 7 | One of the " covers come to life " type of cartoon . | There were quite a few cartoons built around the premise of covers coming to life on books / magazines at a bookstore / newsstand . They generally had caricatures of stars of the period and / or fictional characters , as is the case here . There's usually a villan , which allows for good guys and chase scenes and a son... |
579,579 | 583,640 | 31,803 | 7 | Mickey and Pluto go hunting | This short is memorable only for the fact that it somehow got nominated for an Oscar in 1939 . It is by no means a bad cartoon-the animation is nice , the backgrounds quite detailed and technically , it is up to Disney standards-it just isn't all that memorable or interesting . Just a good , competent , workman-like sh... |
579,176 | 583,640 | 161,863 | 7 | Entertaining short in the Farmer Al Falfa series | This short is largely a re-telling of the Noah's Ark story , with modifications , in the style of Terrytoons . Farmer Al Falfa is basically Noah here . I will discuss some details , so there are mild spoilers below : This starts out with Farmer Al Falfa sitting around and enjoying the day . Then the rain starts and the... |
579,989 | 583,640 | 24,167 | 7 | A collection of caricatures , sight gags and a bit of music | This short doesn't really have a plot to speak of , but is instead a series of sight gags , celebrity caricatures and a version of the song which provides the title . Consider this a spoiler warning : The cartoon is a bunch of gags loosely connected by radios . The viewer is bounced around the world from one radio to t... |
579,267 | 583,640 | 50,875 | 7 | This has got to be Bugs's worst nightmare ! | This short has a few laughs , though it really drags in spots , which , when you consider that the short is about seven minutes long , is a dubious accomplishment . Because I want to discuss some of the details , this is a spoiler warning : Elmer Fudd receives a crate ( from his uncle ( Judd Fudd ) containing a female ... |
579,984 | 583,640 | 58,582 | 7 | Interesting , though average , short produced under the WB studios just before it was shut down the first time | This short was the last short produced by the Warner Brothers animation department . The studio shut down the animation department , only to farm out the production of cartoons to the Depatie-Freleng Studio , which also produced the Pink Panther shorts . I'm going to talk a bit about the short , so there will be mild s... |
579,360 | 583,640 | 58,597 | 7 | A trifle cute in spots , particularly the end , but has its moments nonetheless . | The Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry cartoons were quite uneven . He and his crew could never quite seem to make up their minds as to whether the pair were adversaries or pals . Here , they start out enemies and become best buddies . But there are some good visual bits and a stunning lack of planning and foresight on Tom's pa... |
579,448 | 583,640 | 92,105 | 7 | Not their best teaming , but Lancaster and Douglas work well together | This is a rather light comedy , not an exceptional film , but entertaining enough . While Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster turn in engaging performances , the movie is stolen by Eli Wallach , whose character is nothing if not persistent ! There are some very funny bits here . If you're looking for something light , funn... |
579,758 | 583,640 | 31,811 | 7 | Decent short with a few good moments , but only average | This short is one of the earlier Porky Pig shorts and falls into the " Porky as a kid " category , which was a fairly frequent gimmick in the first few years . There may be spoilers in my remarks below : In a few Porky shorts featuring Porky as a child , the plot device of " Porky is given money by his dad , with stric... |
579,166 | 583,640 | 146,668 | 7 | Well made but terminally cute Oswald the Rabbit cartoon . | This is enjoyable , but overwhelmingly cute . Well animated and quite well done in all other respects , but my tastes run more towards Tex Avery and Bambi Meets Godzilla . It is , however , an Oswald short and Oswald is one of the classic old time characters , one sadly neglected today because the Lantz material is lar... |
579,837 | 583,640 | 115,736 | 7 | Watch this for Gershon and Pantoliano | Gina Gershon can act , Showgirls notwithstanding . This movie proves that . While Jennifer Tilly , bless her , earnestly tries to prove ( unsuccessfully ) to prove that Meg didn't get all the acting ability . Joe Pantoliano does a marvelous job playing a character so repellent that you don't care that he's being set up... |
579,845 | 583,640 | 62,817 | 7 | This short has a similar theme in common with an Eastern European short entitled Ersatz | This short reminds me strongly of a short which won an Oscar a number of years before-it was an Eastern European short , Ersatz is its title in English , Surogat is its original title . While Ersatz is a more effective short , this has its own charms as well . I will be discussing details , so consider this a spoiler w... |
579,570 | 583,640 | 22,057 | 7 | If you dread going to the dentist , Flip's " skills " will only reinforce your current attitude ! | This is a fairly nice cartoon visually , with some very funny sight gags , but Flip's talents do not extend themselves to the science of dentistry . While he doesn't come close to the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors ( either version ) , Flip is about as effective here as he is in most of his other endeavors . Not ter... |
579,787 | 583,640 | 150,501 | 7 | I found this one a bit too cute without anything special about it to offset the cuteness . | The animation here is good , but not special , the story and script I found too cute by half and I was a bit disappointed by this one . Part of this can be attributed to the fact that I saw Ballet-Oop first , which is far superior and shows how this kind of thing should be done . I saw this a second time and just watch... |
579,513 | 583,640 | 52,885 | 7 | Very cute Speedy Gonzales short , pitting him against Sylvester once again | Speedy's adversary in this short is Sylvester , which makes a great deal of sense , given that he's a cat and Speedy's a mouse . The basic plot is even quite reasonable , which isn't always the case with Speedy cartoons . I want to discuss some details from this short in my comments , so this is a spoiler warning : The... |
579,538 | 583,640 | 148,673 | 7 | A cartoon which answers a question that has puzzled mankind for eons : which one is Heckle and which one is Jeckle ? | A largely run-of-the-mill short that has one very notable point of significance-it essentially makes it possible to know which magpie is Heckle and which one is Jeckle . In order to explain this , spoilers are necessary , so be warned : This is a fairly typical " friends become romantic rivals " cartoon with some enjoy... |
579,934 | 583,640 | 37,958 | 7 | Well-animated , but Tex Avery did this sort of short first and better . | This short is well-executed technically ( what else would Disney do in this time period ? ) , but this short is only average . Tex Avery had already made this kind of short regularly and did them so much better . One character is supposed to have some task or is protecting something against antagonists and the remainde... |
578,890 | 583,640 | 20,880 | 7 | The first cartoon released from the Ub Iwerks studio , as well as the introduction of Flip the Frog | This is the first cartoon produced by the studio Ub Iwerks started after he departed Disney . This short also features Flip the Frog , who would " star " in roughly half of the theatrical releases done under the Iwerks imprint in its lifetime as an independent studio ( there was at least one short produced that was nev... |
578,856 | 583,640 | 150,603 | 7 | A turtle wants to fly and gets his wish-sort of . | This is a cute little uncomplicated cartoon about a turtle who wants to fly more than anything . Because I want to talk about a few details , this is a spoiler warning : Herman the Turtle dreams of flying , reads books on the subject and is teased about it by birds , including a bald eagle . He even tries taking flying... |
579,472 | 583,640 | 31,610 | 7 | Why are the most interesting characters in Der Captain and the Kids cartoons generally animals ? | This is an average cartoon in a decidedly mixed series based on a comic strip . The primary focus and source of most of the laughs and all the best gags is a horse less than pleased to have his most prized fashion accessory " creatively acquired " by Hans and Fritz . The rest of the cartoon basically lays there in a st... |
579,752 | 583,640 | 20,983 | 7 | Early Bosko , very musically-oriented and with a very bizarre segment ! | This is a fairly typical early Bosko and is reasonably amusing . There are one or two points I want to discuss in some detail , some " Here there be spoilers " : This short is musically-oriented and lots of things become musical instruments in the hands of Bosko , his work crew ( a bunch of small , strangely familiar m... |
579,085 | 583,640 | 62,124 | 7 | My sympathies are largely with the dog | This short ( like most of the Pink Panther shorts ) is primarily composed of sight gags , given a singular lack of dialog . The humor in this short most often arises from the interaction between the little man who is the frequent foil for the Pink Panther and his dog , rather than much that the star of the series does ... |
578,801 | 583,640 | 141,912 | 7 | Rather fascinating animated sing-along which more or less fits the animated story to the song | This short actually has a story in the animated portion which more or less leads into the song itself . Because I want to discuss the short , there will be spoilers below : The short opens with an animated sequence featuring a dog-like creature in uniform stopping by to see a girl . There are some nice musically-orient... |
579,755 | 583,640 | 46,739 | 7 | Average short with some hilarious moments | In order to discuss this short , I have to give some details , so there will be spoilers below : This time out , Bugs goes toe-to-toe with a " baby " with a five o'clock shadow and tattoos . Ant-Hill Harry , alias " Baby-faced Finster " , has lost the proceeds of his latest heist down a rabbit-hole . Enter our hero , w... |
579,536 | 583,640 | 146,300 | 7 | This is technically the first Heckle and Jeckle short-sort of . | This is the short that basically launched the Heckle and Jeckle series-more or less . There will be spoilers : This is basically a formative Heckle and Jeckle short , even though the two magpies are a couple and one is female . The basic style of the shorts is first seen here , the dog in this one is one of the regular... |
579,878 | 583,640 | 22,922 | 7 | Flip the Frog gets a face-lift . | Warning : Here Thyre Be Spoilers ( Said Ye Olde Cartographer ) . Flip is trying to impress a young lady , who does not want our young stalwart , not because he has the charm and personality of a day-old bagel , but because he has the face of a frog . She wants a cute , if equally vapid , guy she knows . Flip decides on... |
579,042 | 583,640 | 117,642 | 7 | An enjoyable little cartoon | I've seen this cartoon a few times . It's cute and worth watching . Nothing too terribly special here , but any cartoon where the hunchbacked assistant is named Trevor deserves some comment ! This is a National Film Board of Canada animation , which virtually guarantees it's worth watching . |
579,399 | 583,640 | 150,728 | 7 | With friends like these , who needs enemies ? | This is one of the shorts in David Hand's Animaland series , which centered around a squirrel named Ginger Nutt and his animal friends ( including his girlfriend , another squirrel named Hazel . There will be spoilers below : Ginger Nutt is doing what most males do from time to time-swearing to the love of his life tha... |
579,647 | 583,640 | 86,855 | 7 | Not bad , just not a great deal here . | This is a short from Pixar , their first , I believe . It looks it , too . The animation is good , but there's not much here to speak of and it looks more like test footage than a full , coherent cartoon-a dry run , if you will . They did much better work with later efforts . Not bad , but nothing special here either .... |
579,410 | 583,640 | 62,010 | 7 | Rarely do I feel sympathy for Daffy , but I do in this one ! | Daffy is rarely what I would call a sympathetic character , but here , to a large degree , he is a most sympathetic character indeed . Just looking for peace and quiet and bothering no one , he is bombarded at all turns by possibly the most insipid tune ever heard in cartoons and certainly ever heard in a Warner Brothe... |
579,571 | 583,640 | 148,499 | 7 | Not terribly memorable save for a good Chaplin impersonation and an almost Keystone Kop feeling in spots . | This is an early , almost plotless ( even for a Flip the Frog short ) that goes over almost the same ground as Felix in Hollywood , but not nearly as well . Visually grea with a magnificent imitation of Charlie Chaplin and a few good sight gags ( mostly chases ) , but largely pedestrian plotting make it average at best... |
579,208 | 583,640 | 58,086 | 7 | Good later Warner Brothers short | Though there are fans who dislike the Warner Brothers output from 1964 or thereabouts to 1969 , I don't think it was all that bad . It certainly doesn't match the best of the heyday , but a lot of it was entertaining . This one was enjoyable , if not a true classic , but then , there were less than extraordinary shorts... |
579,770 | 583,640 | 29,384 | 7 | Cute and amusing at times , but nothing special . | This is a short that looks at the perils of being overly curious . Several penguins , even after stern warning , get themselves into a predicament , with colorful ( if somewhat predictable ) results . While this has some nice sight gags and is visually nice to look at , it really an average , rather run-of-the-mill car... |
579,179 | 583,640 | 150,880 | 7 | Given Willie's glancing acquaintance with the truth , this is his tallest tale . | This cartoon exists only in fragmentary form and is on one of the Cartoons That Time Forgot DVDs . The fragments are reasonably good , though I'm not , truth be told , a fan of the Willie Whopper series . Having seen this , I would very much like to see Hell's Bells , a short Ub Iwerks directed some years earlier when ... |
578,934 | 583,640 | 150,887 | 7 | A fair cartoon which has its moments , with the ending being the best part . | This is an average short-nothing remarkable here , but nothing terrible either . It's a competent and cute little cartoon . I'm going to discuss a few details , so a minor spoiler alert is in order : Herman the mouse is in this short , voiced by Arnold Stang . I'm not absolutely positive , but the voice of the rooster ... |
579,761 | 583,640 | 20,666 | 7 | Formative Bimbo that has a few moments | Not officially released as a Betty Boop short , but that's Betty and the early Bimbo . Bimbo stayed a canine throughout , while Betty became human . Bimbo comes across as a less than likable sort here , but then neither was Barnacle Bill the sailor ( pay attention to the lyrics of the sea chantey ) . Bimbo was a more o... |
578,936 | 583,640 | 150,876 | 7 | Nice little cartoon , though a bit too predictable in spots | This is a cute little cartoon , not exceptional , but entertaining enough and quite well suited for kids . I'll be discussing it in a little detail , so this is a slight spoiler warning : Hector is a dog . Hector apparently makes a lot of messes in the house and is threatened with expulsion from the house , into a very... |
579,114 | 583,640 | 42,512 | 7 | Only pairing , as far as I know , of Daffy and Rocky the gangster | This short is the only one I can recall that has Daffy matching " wits " with Rocky . Bugs worked best with Rocky . Daffy just isn't as sympathetic a character as Bugs and doesn't really mesh well here . Decent enough , but not terribly special . Worth watching . |
579,882 | 583,640 | 29,429 | 7 | Good , though not great , Frank Tashlin Porky cartoon | This cartoon is another " my old ( fill in the blank ) can beat your new ( fill in the blank ) " plot , in the vein of John Henry versus the mechanical drill . Because I want to discuss some of the details of this short , this is a spoiler warning : This is an interesting little short , though there's very little that'... |
579,539 | 583,640 | 77,269 | 7 | Great cast , would have been better with an equally good script | This movie is entertaining enough and the plot ( once you get past the main premise ) is actually interesting , but in spite of an excellent cast , the script could have been much better than it was . All too often , it becomes cliched melodrama . I do have to admit that the ending is actually inspired and bordering on... |
579,440 | 583,640 | 31,253 | 7 | Dated and melodramatic , it makes its ' point nonetheless | This short , nominated for an Oscar , has a dated feeling to it and the melodramatic tne common to the CRime Does Not Pay series of shorts , but for all that does have a point and makes it : the operation of heavy machinery while drunk is most unwise and can prove to be very costly . This runs on Turner Classic Movies ... |
578,901 | 583,640 | 42,575 | 7 | Average short from Disney featuring Donald versus a lion and his cub over some fish | This short takes a basic premise used often by Disney and others-someone has something another character wants and the rest of the short consists of comical attempts to take away and / or keep said possession . In the hands of Tex Avery , this simple plot can produce The Legend of Rockabye Point , which is a masterpiec... |
579,034 | 583,640 | 73,402 | 7 | A most unusual piece of work | This is one of the oddest and most unusual shorts that I've ever seen and I'm still not entirely certain what the point was ( or even if there was one to start with ) in this particular case . Produced by the National Film Board of Canada , this was nominated for an Academy Award and uses a type of stop-motion animatio... |
578,971 | 583,640 | 22,713 | 7 | Starts well and ends well , though it drags in the middle | This is a reasonably decent short , not the best of the series , but funny in spots . There will be minor spoilers : This short begins with Bosko cooking an egg over an open fire , while singing . He regularly flips the egg into the air , drawing it to the attention of a squirrel , which then eats Bosko's meal . Bosko ... |
578,976 | 583,640 | 22,709 | 7 | Occasionally interesting and it has some nice visual effects | This short isn't the best Bosko short , but it isn't the worst one either . It's a trip to the zoo by Bosko and Honey . There will be some spoilers : Bosko and Honey go to the zoo and it doesn't take long before Bosko starts interacting with the animals in an irritating and unwise fashion . His hat gets eaten by an ost... |
578,970 | 583,640 | 22,708 | 7 | Truly . anything can happen in a cartoon ! | This is a fairly good example ( good and bad ) of the Bosko series . I intend to discuss some details , so let this be a spoiler warning : This short opens with Bosko selling hot dogs ( again-this bit was used in an earlier short , as were many other bits throughout the series ) and there are some cute gags with the ve... |
579,723 | 583,640 | 20,488 | 7 | Notable principally for Norma Shearer | The movie has a somewhat overheated , strained quality to it , much like a soap opera and is primarily of interest for Norma Shearer's performance , which received a nomination for Best Actress for the 1929-30 Academy Awards , which she lost to herself , winning instead for her performance in The Divorcee , a better ro... |
578,975 | 583,640 | 22,657 | 7 | Decent early Bosko short with Bosko as an over-matched boxer | This short has some good moments and some rather interesting animation in spots , though there's a fair amount of repetition here . I want to cover some of the action , so here is a spoiler warning : The short starts with a rather nice visual bit ( possibly the best one in the short ) tied to Bosko working a speed bag ... |
579,152 | 583,640 | 29,204 | 7 | Decent but quite fanciful adaptation of the Hale novella | This short , nominated for an Oscar , is reasonably good , but quite loose and more than a bit fanciful in its treatment of the source material . Ironically , the changes make the short weaker and LESS memorable than the original novella by Edward Everett Hale . By all means , catch the short if possible , but the orig... |
579,060 | 583,640 | 142,106 | 7 | Reasonably good short , ostensibly starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit , though he's not in it very much | This is a black and white short done by the Lantz Studios , part of a series featuring a character named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit . I will be discussing some detail , so this is a spoiler warning : The short opens with a group of ducks-Papa , Mama and five baby ducks-four white and one black-strolling onto the beach . T... |
579,547 | 583,640 | 75,232 | 7 | Good , but not great , musical version of Cinderella | This is a good movie with a good score , a cast full of recognizabe faces , nice costumes and beautiful sets . While certainly not a wonderful film , it is more than worth seeing . The principal problem here is that the movie drags a bit in spots . A bit of judicious editing to shorten it about ten minutes would probab... |
578,782 | 583,640 | 60,053 | 7 | Basically a remake of Broomstick Bunny . | This cartoon is really nothing more than a reworking of Broomstick Bunny with Daffy replacing Bugs and Speedy Gonzales worked into things as well . There's a great visual gag lifted from Duck Amuck as well that fits perfectly and is the best thing about this one , which isn't terribly original , save for how they use S... |
579,672 | 583,640 | 26,709 | 7 | I doubt this is something The Mouse will release uncut anytime soon | This sort , which is okay , not great , is apart of Disney's past they probably try to ignore . The sight of your franchise being chased by cannibals would not make the suits comfortable , if they can't even acknowledge Song of the South or won't release Runaway Brain . I still can't figure that one out . Or not releas... |
578,964 | 583,640 | 141,559 | 7 | A fairly decent cartoon that holds up well . | This is actually a pretty fair short , for all that it's all but inescapable to compare and contrast with Disney's The Wise Little Hen , given that they have the same fable as a starting point . The Iwerks version is actually as good or better in some respects , but Iwerks was really better off avoiding direct comparis... |
579,046 | 583,640 | 75,294 | 7 | Enjoyable farce | The reviewer of this film in Leonard Maltin's Guide called this a bomb . While it is not the greatest movie of all time , there are definitely enough moments that make the movie worth watching . It's probably Beau Bridges ' best work , Avery Schrieber is wonderful , Geoffrey Holder is stupendous and to top it off , Jam... |
579,414 | 583,640 | 53,922 | 7 | Cute , but nothing very novel here . | This is a cute cartoon , but the gags aren't especially new or inventive here , as many of them are taken from other Warner Brothers shorts , some as bits and pieces and other lifted whole . Still entertaining enough in its own right and worth watching . Recommended . |
579,836 | 583,640 | 133,794 | 7 | More conventional than Richard Condie cartoons generally are and less interesting too | Richard Condie is a master of the odd and unusual in animation . This cartoon is more conventional . I'd have enjoyed it more had I seen it before I saw a few of his other , more bizarre efforts . Slow in spots and essentially one-joke . Tex Avery did one-jokes first and better . Still worth watching . |
579,665 | 583,640 | 23,364 | 7 | This is one of only a few cartoons made with a character called Goopy Gear | In the early days for animation at Warner Brothers , like most studios , you had attempts to develop continuing characters . Some , like Bosko and Buddy , had fairly long runs . Others were tried out in a handful of shorts and for one reason or another didn't last long . Foxy is an example of this and this short contai... |
579,400 | 583,640 | 145,794 | 7 | Parrot tries to sneak into show , gets in using a weasel's ticket , causes a disaster | Rather cute and somewhat charming short featuring a continuing cast of animal characters , part of David Hand's Animaland series . Ginger Nutt is a squirrel with a girlfriend named Hazel . There will be spoilers below : Ginger Nutt and the other animals are putting on a show for which they've sold tickets . A parrot tr... |
579,390 | 583,640 | 66,580 | 7 | Watch it for the music but everything else is wildly uneven | The musical performances-especially Jimi Hendrix-make this a keeper . But the other material is of decidedly variable value . Wavy Gravy works for a while , then becomes tedious as hell and most of the concert-goers aren't terribly interesting . I do hope the one young lady who lost her sister in the crowd was successf... |
579,286 | 583,640 | 34,594 | 7 | Very cute one-shot with some engaging moments . | This is a one-shot cartoon , which MGM did with some frequency , featuring a cat with a voice somewhat reminiscent of John Byner's " duck " voice . While I don't imagine a cat sounding quite like this , it's still quite engaging at times , with a tender moment or two mixed in with the general mayhem . Good animation he... |
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