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455,045 | 11,228,318 | 32,716 | 2 | Little Lambkin was a way below average Max Fleischer Color Classic cartoon | Just watched this rare Max Fleischer Color Classic on YouTube . The title character is a toddler boy who-when his parents are temporarily away-loves to play with animal friends , a raccoon and a squirrel . Together they eat a whole watermelon . But this day , the boy has to move to the city where he has to deal with el... |
453,920 | 11,228,318 | 141,034 | 2 | Felix Minds the Kid is uninspiring | Felix Minds the Kid starts with the cat coming to the fish market trying to get some food . The fish manager throws him out saying , " I'll give you the devil if you come back here ! " Felix goes to a nearby barrel that says " fresh today " . He uses his tail to get whatever is in the barrel and gets bitten by a crab !... |
454,012 | 11,228,318 | 70,654 | 2 | Scream Bloody Murder is low-level garbage that may provide some amusing moments | Having just watched this on YouTube and read several of the comments here , I've concluded that while Scream Bloody Murder has some effective scenes , some partially good performances from the two leads , and an interesting early bit from Angus Scrimm ( Phantasm ) , this is just mostly junk that has inconsistent charac... |
454,313 | 11,228,318 | 80,014 | 2 | There Goes the Bride and my $1 . 00 purchase . . . | There Goes the Bride is a very witless fantasy-comedy that is even more disappointing when you consider the cast : Tom Smothers , Twiggy , Martin Balsam , Broderick Crawford , Hermione Baddeley , Jim Backus , Phil Silvers , and Graham Stark . All have had better roles in better pictures or TV shows . None can save the ... |
454,995 | 11,228,318 | 146,965 | 2 | Kisser Plant is a weird and boring Terrytoons short | Kisser Plant is a Terrytoons short starring Oscar , a human , and Astro Nut , a space creature . The title character is a gift from Astro Nut after Oscar tells him about wanting something for his garden . Problem is , the plant grows as big as a bean stalk and loves to kiss constantly including policemen and soldiers !... |
454,546 | 11,228,318 | 25,701 | 2 | The Rasslin ' Match is one of two cartoons adapted from the " Amos ' n ' Andy " radio show | The Rasslin ' Match was the first of two Van Beuren cartoons based on the " Amos ' n ' Andy " radio series using that show's stars Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll . In this one , the Kingfish has Andy fighting the wrestling champ for money . On seeing this on YouTube , the print was not good , in fact it seemed part... |
453,808 | 11,228,318 | 148,091 | 2 | Dumb Like a Fox is just plain dumb | In this Columbia cartoon short , a father hound refuses to take his son fox hunting until he gets older . Since the son has never seen a fox , a fox convinces the little hound to get one that's near in the forest . What the son sees is a beaver slicing a chopped tree trunk like a whole lunchenmeat and spitting the piec... |
454,653 | 11,228,318 | 148,418 | 2 | Lo , the Poor Buffalo is one of the lamest of ' 40s animation shorts | Well , if I never thought I'd see an animated cartoon short from the ' 40s that would qualify as bland and boring , that may be because I'd never seen anything from the latter Columbia / Screen Gems animation output until now with this : Lo , the Poor Buffalo . From the title character who talks and sings like Elmer Fu... |
455,186 | 11,228,318 | 20,248 | 2 | Felix disappoints with Outdoor Indore | Outdoor Indore is yet another disappointment from Felix's late era at the Pat Sullivan Studio . Felix tries to join the circus . He goes to the fire department and gets a hose , attachés it to the fire hydrant , and presents it to the ringmaster ( Why , I don't know ! ) . An angry fireman turns on the apparently stolen... |
454,273 | 11,228,318 | 25,188 | 2 | Going ' to Heaven on a Mule is worse than nearly all the Warner " Censored 11 " cartoons | Just discovered on the Misce-Looney-ous site linked to YouTube this rare Warner Bros . cartoon short directed by Friz Freling that's NOT on the " Censored 11 " list . Based on the final number in the Al Jolson picture Wonder Bar , this cartoon is awash in offensive stereotypes of African-Americans like having one take ... |
453,766 | 11,228,318 | 152,901 | 2 | Tangled Travels is one very lame cartoon from the so-called Golden Age | This was a spoof of travelogue shorts shown in theatres in the ' 30s and ' 40s as filler before the double feature . You hear some stereotypical Swedish voice narrating while we're looking at some animated figures moving over some live-action backgrounds . There are mostly literal jokes ( babbling brook with a bunch of... |
454,321 | 11,228,318 | 443,744 | 2 | Greddy Gabby Gator is the last in series of him pursuing Woody Woodpecker | This cartoon marked the last time Gabby Gator appeared in a Woody Woodpecker cartoon and the only time he was directed by Sid Marcus , Gator being a creation of the departed Jack Hannah . It's basically another of Gabby's useless pursuits of Woody for food . Seeing Woody getting sick and viewing a 3-D image of Gabby's ... |
454,079 | 11,228,318 | 148,492 | 2 | Mother Hubba-Hubba-Hubbard is another one of those mediocre Columbia cartoons | I just discovered on Thad's Animation Blog in his series of " Your Saturday Morning Bowl of WTF " . WTF is right as , like other cartoons made by Columbia Pictures in the ' 40s , this cartoon makes absolutely no sense even with the simple story of a dog trying to find his bone with his suspects being the title characte... |
454,746 | 11,228,318 | 151,010 | 2 | I Want My Mummy is a mediocre effort of a Jose Jimenez cartoon | I Want My Mummy is the first time I've encountered the character of Jose Jimenez , created by comedian Bill Dana . Jose goes to a restaurant and is told by the waiter that an all-you-can-eat buffet is $5 . Jose only has a penny which he uses to get three peanuts from a candy machine . A bird comes by and eats them all ... |
454,829 | 11,228,318 | 233,371 | 3 | The version I saw of Boys Will Be Joys was abridged to one reel | This Hal Roach comedy short , Boys Will Be Joys , is the forty-second in the " Our Gang / Little Rascals " series . The version I saw was on Goodtimes ' VHS of " Our Gang Comedy Festival II " . It was a shortened one-reel version of an originally two-reel film . And since this version was handled by a company other tha... |
454,573 | 11,228,318 | 152,019 | 3 | Polly Wants a Doctor is another illogical ' 40s cartoon from Columbia | Polly the Parrot is tired of crackers , so she goes out and sees a goat eat scrap metal or " roughage " as the goat calls it . Polly decides she wants some of that so the goat obliges . After she eats slices of a record player , the goat takes Polly's head and makes a request to someone inside the parrot's body for an ... |
454,319 | 11,228,318 | 26,150 | 3 | Buddy of the Legion is another bland effort of a cartoon starring Buddy | Here's another cartoon starring Warner's blandest character : Buddy . In this one , Buddy gets hired to take care of a bookstore while the heavyset female boss leaves temporarily . When he looks at a book about the Foreign Legion , Buddy dreams he's there . . . Despite some good animation provided by Bob Clampett and C... |
453,767 | 11,228,318 | 63,073 | 3 | Hocus Pocus Powwow was an underwhelming late Warner Bros . cartoon for me | This is one of those late ' 60s Warner Bros . theatrical cartoons that uses new characters instead of the classic Bugs , Daffy , Porky , etc . The star here is Merlin the Magic Mouse whose W . C . Fields-inspired voice is done by Larry Storch of TV's " F Troop " fame . He does all the other voices here like that of Sec... |
454,120 | 11,228,318 | 141,057 | 3 | Felix the Cat Ducks His Duty is short on genuine laughs | Felix reads the newspaper with the headline that says mice are declaring war on cats . Despite this , Felix doesn't want to join but is forced to by a uniformed guard . When he arrives , it looks like Felix is the only feline there among very few others . When the mice first have smelly old cheese cannoned to Felix , t... |
453,750 | 11,228,318 | 654,739 | 3 | My Little Margie : Miss Whoozis is too silly to recommended | Margie is a model whose photographer keeps forgetting her name . The modeling agency she works for has her father , Vern , and his boss , Honeywell , as investors though she doesn't know that nor does her father know his daughter's whereabouts . The designer wants all his models signed to exclusive contracts but Margie... |
454,534 | 11,228,318 | 68,595 | 3 | Flesh Gordon is not very sexy nor funny , in fact , you may get bored . . . | For years , I've read of this soft-porn parody of Flash Gordon since it was advertised as one of several midnight movies listed as being at the ( now defunct ) Cinema 8 at the ( also folded ) Bon Marche Mall . While I've had it on tape for years , I've only now gotten to seeing it . The verdict : While there were some ... |
454,078 | 11,228,318 | 30,300 | 3 | Jungle Jitters was another of the " Censored 11 " I recently discovered | This is another of the " Censored 11 " Warner Bros . cartoons that I found on Thad's Animation Blog . Thad thinks most of the gags are stupid but since Friz Freling directed this , there are at least a few clever ones like the Looney Tunes Theme - " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down " - being depicted with these cannibals ... |
455,001 | 11,228,318 | 150,119 | 3 | Stereotypical Chinese abound in Terrytoons ' Chop Suey | Just saw on YouTube an early talkie Terrytoons short called Chop Suey . It seems to be mostly a stereotypical depiction of the Chinese-here portrayed as rats-and the way they run their laundry . Most of what happens here doesn't really make sense though there are some amusing gags like the way some things are flattened... |
454,549 | 11,228,318 | 801,157 | 3 | Sycamore Lodge was a rare episode of Calvin and the Colonel I managed to see | Having just discovered a site called From the Archives , I checked the section called Net Nights and found an animated program called " Calvin and the Colonel " on it . It would be the last time " Amos ' n ' Andy " creators and players Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll would collaborate together . Gosden would play th... |
454,706 | 11,228,318 | 152,347 | 3 | Search for Misery was a somewhat interesting animated serial spoof from Terrytoons | Just watched this last Terrytoons one-shot cartoon on Cartoon Brew as linked from YouTube . It's a spoof of radio soap operas complete with organ scoring and droning narration . The main character is Pitiful Penelope whose husband , Roland Stone , temporarily leaves her and the quintuplets by themselves . When Penelope... |
454,119 | 11,228,318 | 152,434 | 3 | Sick , Sick , Sidney was interesting but that's all | Just watched this cartoon on ThadBlog . This Thad is an admirer of animator Jim Tyler and he considers this one of Tyler's best stint at Terrytoons when Gene Deitch took over creative control at the studio . The title character is a neurotic elephant who hates living in the jungle because of all the noise . Then when h... |
454,772 | 11,228,318 | 2,663 | 3 | Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life is mostly blah but interesting to see once | Having recently discovered the films of Mabel Normand and seen some of her great slapstick scenes with Roscoe " Fatty " Arbuckle , Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life was a big disappointment for me since Ms . Normand spends most of the short film tied onto railroad tracks because villain Ford Sterling didn't accept Mabe... |
455,184 | 11,228,318 | 779,176 | 3 | Meet Corliss Archer : The Vase That Came for Dinner is only slightly amusing | Mrs . Archer buys a vase that her husband is not too crazy about but he tolerates it . Next door neighbor teen Dexter suggests to Mr . Archer to use a plant to make vase less noticeable . Mr . Archer breaks vase . Dexter uses glue to hold vase together . He accidentally pours glue on duck Mr . Archer is cooking for din... |
454,381 | 11,228,318 | 33,324 | 3 | All This and Rabbit Stew is one " Censored 11 " cartoon that deserves it's fate | This is another of the Warner Bros . " Censored 11 " cartoons that aren't shown on commercial television anymore and the only one with their star character , Bugs Bunny . In this one , the hunter is not Elmer Fudd but a caricatured black man with the big white lips and the slow drawl that's a carbon copy of the Stepin ... |
455,152 | 11,228,318 | 146,518 | 3 | Krazy Kat , Bugologist is an interesting curio of the silent animation era | I agree with the previous reviewer that nothing really happens in this cartoon ( Krazy and Ignaz finds bee , thinks its dead , bee comes alive . Then elephant comes and is scared by Ignaz . The end . ) though its animation is pretty interesting for the era it occurred . The animator's name is Frank Moser who later was ... |
453,951 | 11,228,318 | 467,110 | 3 | Live-action Underdog may be more entertaining for kids than adults | When I saw the trailer for Underdog with my friend , he thought it would be good while I thought it would be just mediocre . With the actual movie those were the thoughts each of us had of it since he laughed at most of it while I just sat there only occasionally chuckling . With Disney's name on it , I pretty much exp... |
454,610 | 11,228,318 | 139,986 | 3 | Paul Terry's Dinner Time should provide interest for anyone into early sound cartoons | Just saw this on Cartoon Brew in the first of a series of " Brew Vault " sites . With commentary by Brew regular Jerry Beck and Mark Kausler , Dinner Time is noted as the first sound cartoon short made after Warner Bros . ' success with The Jazz Singer and produced even before Walt Disney's first sound cartoon , Steamb... |
453,946 | 11,228,318 | 22,961 | 3 | Three Broadway Girls had some witty lines but the situations confused me | I bought a $1 DVD that had two movies about a year ago . The movies were Happy Go Lovely and this one , Three Broadway Girls . This tale of three lady friends who try to one-up each other in attracting rich men has some witticisms about them and the leads of Joan Blondell , Ina Claire , and Madge Evans are pretty good ... |
455,187 | 11,228,318 | 141,833 | 3 | Skulls and Sculls is a disappointing Felix entry | Skulls and Sculls starts with two eyes in the dark going back and forth . When the lights come on we find Felix crying in front of a lot of people in sheets . He is in a fraternity initiation . Felix gets blindfolded and then a goat comes for Felix to ride on . The goat bumps Felix up and down before going down a fligh... |
455,003 | 11,228,318 | 150,678 | 3 | Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy is a bland early effort of Ralph Bakshi | In Leonard Maltin's book on movie animation studios , Of Mice and Magic , in the Terrytoons chapter , he mentioned Ralph Bakshi's Sad Cat as " perhaps the dreariest character in the studio's history " . With the cat's mostly lethargic demeanor being the characterization here , Maltin has a point . This short is a rewor... |
455,106 | 11,228,318 | 148,497 | 3 | Mouse Trek was a slightly amusing Paramount cartoon from Ralph Bakshi | This was one of the last of the Famous / Paramount cartoons . It was directed by Ralph Bakshi just after his Terrytoons period and before his adult animation period that started with Fritz the Cat the following year . In this one , a uniformed cat is sent to a planet to get rid of a giant mouse . With each failure to c... |
454,087 | 11,228,318 | 63,135 | 4 | Inspector Clouseau is the " odd one " of the Pink Panther series | After Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers turned down The Mirisch Company's offer to make a third movie starring the French inspector ( instead they made The Party for them ) , the film unit offered Clouseau to just established comic actor Alan Arkin who accepted . Bud Yorkin , who is usually partnered with Norman Lear , b... |
455,125 | 11,228,318 | 388,419 | 4 | Christmas is a slightly enjoyable holiday movie | Christmas with the Kranks is a slightly amusing , slightly heartwarming slapstick comedy starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curits as the title couple who initially want to skip the holidays because their only offspring , a daughter , is leaving the country to join the Peace Corps . In fact , Luther Krank is planning to ... |
454,350 | 11,228,318 | 23,853 | 4 | Buddy's Show Boat is another Looney Tunes-time filler pre-Porky | This is another Leon Schlesinger-Looney Tune-Buddy cartoon I recently discovered on YouTube . With the leading character being such a bland creation , the animators must have simply thought of weird material to keep themselves awake while making these boring time fillers . Buddy's Show Boat is so obviously pre-Code whe... |
454,083 | 11,228,318 | 23,852 | 4 | Buddy's Day Out marks the start of a series of cartoons starring a forgotten Warner Bros . character | I just watched on DailyMotion this cartoon short from Leon Schlesinger Productions whose product was distributed by Warner Bros . It marked the first appearance of a character named Buddy . Who ? You ask . Well , when Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising left to go to M-G-M , they took Bosko with them . So Schlesinger raided t... |
454,316 | 11,228,318 | 26,155 | 4 | Buddy's Theatre was just a slightly amusing cartoon starring the always bland Buddy | Buddy runs a movie theatre . The feature stars his crush Cookie . Before that , there's " Passe News " , a preview trailer , and " Rejected Short Subjects " . In the feature , Cookie performs on a piano and sings until a gorilla comes through her window . Buddy sees this and vows to " save " Cookie . Now that I told yo... |
453,845 | 11,228,318 | 26,148 | 4 | Buddy Steps Out was an early start for animators Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett | This being my first viewing of a Buddy cartoon from Leon Schlesinger after losing Harmon-Ising's Bosko to M-G-M , I have to say it's a good thing Tex Avery arrived a year later so animators Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones didn't get stuck with such bland material such as what is done here . While Buddy and Cookie go out ,... |
454,320 | 11,228,318 | 26,151 | 4 | Buddy the Gee Man was another partially amusing cartoon starring perhaps Warner's blandest leading man | This was another cartoon starring perhaps the blandest character created for Warner Bros . - Buddy . In this one , he's a detective who's hired to spy on the goings-on at a prison . He finds out the warden is cruel to all his prisoners so Buddy makes sure he's fired ! Then Buddy takes over and gives them all treats ! I... |
455,160 | 11,228,318 | 292,673 | 4 | I'm just commenting on the Groucho Marx-Carole Landis segment I saw on VHS tape . . . | I'm not reviewing the entire content of Screen Snapshots : Hollywood's Greatest Comedians , just one segment-that of Groucho Marx and Carole Landis singing " Song of the West " . This silly song makes whimsical fun of country western music in front of an appreciative audience of either soldiers or sailors as they take ... |
454,796 | 11,228,318 | 30,520 | 4 | Where are Hans and Franz in The Captain and the Kids ' Old Smokey ? | This short mainly concerns the Captain switching the old horse-drawn fire engine with the new gas-powered one . Then Mama calls and says her house is on fire . The Captain rushes over in the new vehicle but gets stuck hanging on his coat at the top of the ladder . The horse who was just on his way to the retirement fie... |
454,017 | 11,228,318 | 184 | 4 | The brief Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene is at least worth a look as supposedly the first film western | This was another very brief Edison film that I discovered on the Internet Archive site . Supposedly the first movie western , Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene has no horses , no guns , and no fistfights . What it does have is the bar setting , three men playing cards , a drunk that's lying around , a barmaid , and another ... |
454,187 | 11,228,318 | 141,015 | 4 | Felix Dopes It Out was my first not-so-impressive exposure to the famous cat | In Felix Dopes It Out , a man with a red nose gets a cigarette lit on it by the man next to him , has one fly say to the other on his head to stay from that nose , and gets rejected by a pretty woman for marriage because of it as Felix laughs at it all . When the man pulls a gun to his head , however , Felix promises t... |
454,816 | 11,228,318 | 1,031,331 | 4 | Paradise Lost was a step down for " Bionic Woman " compared to pilot | In this one , we find out Jamie's boyfriend Will died ( perhaps following that shot he got on the shoulder in the pilot episode ) . She then decides to have sex in the public restroom with a guy named Steve ( perhaps named after Steve Austin of " The Six Million Dollar Man " ) . Miguel Ferrer's character walks in at th... |
454,216 | 11,228,318 | 431,381 | 4 | This Screen Snapshots Series episode was an interesting curio for Three Stooges fans | Just saw this rare Hollywood newsreel from Columbia Pictures on YouTube . It concerns various movie stars and the horses they own and watch in a derby . Among those are The Three Stooges in comedy inserts and their attempts to get Curly on their horse via a ladder and other uses to amusing results . The version I saw h... |
454,912 | 11,228,318 | 120,768 | 4 | The Negotiator starts interestingly but goes downhill quickly | Having just seen an , I'm sure , edited ( mainly for profanity ) version of The Negotiator on My Network TV , I don't think this is my definitive review of this movie but I want to comment on it anyway . I liked the interesting set-up of Samuel L . Jackson's way of dealing with hostage situations at the beginning and t... |
454,015 | 11,228,318 | 63,365 | 4 | Norman Normal is an interesting , if disappointing , unique Warner Bros . cartoon entry | Just watched this extremely rare Warner Bros . cartoon on the Misce-Looney-ous Blog . With a story , voices , and title song sung by Noel Paul Stookey of Peter , Paul , and Mary , the title character of Norman Normal ( voice of Paul Dixon ) is a young ad executive who's told by his boss to get his latest client drunk i... |
454,482 | 11,228,318 | 30,380 | 4 | Little ol ' Bosko in Bagdad is awash in some stereotypes | I had previously reviewed The Old Mill Pond which , in my mind , caricatured many African-American musicians in a mostly flattering light . In this cartoon , Bosko ( who's here redrawn as a realistic-looking black kid instead of the monkey-looking one from Warner Bros . ) is tempted in a dream by a Louis Armstrong-like... |
453,807 | 11,228,318 | 147,841 | 4 | Animal Cracker Circus is only slightly amusing | I saw a slightly altered version on YouTube when the toddler was singing different words than the ones in " Animal Crackers in My Soup " with different music ( though in the later " Animal Cracker Circus " sequence , an instrumental version of that is playing ) . He refuses to eat his spinach and had fed some of it to ... |
454,310 | 11,228,318 | 6,145 | 4 | That Little Band of Gold is a little blah | While there are some funny scenes at an opera concerning Ford Sterling , with his crude pantomime demonstration of what he thinks of the woman sitting next to him , and Fatty Arbuckle , who is sitting with wife Mabel Normand and her mother in a row of seats across from Sterling and his two women , as well as some after... |
454,358 | 11,228,318 | 146,959 | 4 | Kickapoo Juice was the final entry in Columbia's " Li'l Abner " animated series | Kickapoo Juice is the fifth and final entry in Columbia's attempt to make Al Capp's " Li'l Abner " comic strip into a cartoon shorts series . This one has Abner making a giant statue of his bachelor idols-Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat-to the consternation of Daisy Mae and his mother , Mammy Yokum . Yokum tries to f... |
454,586 | 11,228,318 | 151,608 | 4 | Molly Moo-Cow and Robinson Crusoe is pretty ordinary | Molly Moo-Cow lands on an island that also has Robinson Crusoe on . Crusoe sings how he likes to be alone . He sees footprints that his thinks is some kind of trouble so he chases the tracks before he and Molly bump into each other . Molly licks his face indicating she likes him but Robinson will have none of it and ch... |
454,508 | 11,228,318 | 1,092,396 | 4 | This early Japanese animation is mainly interesting filler about monkey vs . octopus battles | This very brief cartoon from Japan whose title translated means " The Monkey Fleet " and runs little more than a minute has the Asian monkeys battling octopuses as they both go underwater with the simian animals riding in submarines shooting their torpedo bullets at the sea creatures . The battle scenes are pretty fasc... |
454,553 | 11,228,318 | 41,604 | 4 | Groucho briefly shines with Marilyn Monroe in his brothers ' Love Happy | This day being the one Groucho Marx died 30 years ago , 3 days after Elvis , I decided to watch some of his movies that I either have on tape or just checked at the library . Love Happy , I taped 12 years ago from AMC . This movie came 20 years after Groucho and his brothers ' talkie debut in The Cocoanuts . His partic... |
454,550 | 11,228,318 | 22,464 | 4 | Jack Benny fans may want to check out his early short Taxi Tangle | Jack Benny is stuck in traffic in his cab besides a woman in another cab whom he identifies from his black book as Helen Hunt from Palm Springs ( though she claims to have never been there ) . From just a few lines of dialogue , they propose ( with a justice of the peace conveniently found nearby ) , argue about financ... |
454,677 | 11,228,318 | 1,055,415 | 4 | Fifth episode of " Back to You " was only slightly amusing | Well , this episode of " Back to You " seemed to go everywhere without hitting any payoff . In a nutshell : A carpool system has developed with Kelly going with Montana and Gary with Marsh who is a rotten driver . Chuck agrees to take Ryan to dinner to prove to Kelly he's not " rude " while Kelly agrees to spend the ni... |
454,699 | 11,228,318 | 197,675 | 4 | Mean Mother doesn't always live up to title | After seeing Grindhouse last weekend , I wanted to see something that came from the real grindhouse or drive-in of the ' 70s . A movie with the title Mean Mother looked like something up my alley . It seemed to have started that way with Our Hero Beauregard Jones making a drug deal with his contact that goes sour and h... |
454,535 | 11,228,318 | 609,391 | 4 | I Married Joan : Opera is a slightly amusing episode | Joan gets picked chairman of the entertainment committee . She invites an opera singer to perform for the function . Husband Bradly gets in opera singer's way during rehearsal and gets sent out of own house ! Later Joan defends husband's honor and singer eventually quits before showtime . Joan goes in her place while l... |
454,767 | 11,228,318 | 2,659 | 4 | Bangville Police is supposedly the first Keystone Kops short with Mabel Normand providing the charms . . . | Bangville Police supposedly marked the debut of the Keystone Kops , named after the studio they worked for . In this one , however , they don't dress in the silly cop costumes or drive the fast-paced car that's their trademark . Anyway , Mabel Normand is a farm girl here who's begged her dad for a calf . She later sees... |
454,563 | 11,228,318 | 24,509 | 4 | Despite stereotypes , Rufus Jones for President is worthy for Waters and a very young Davis | Well , if it weren't for Ethel Waters and a 7-year-old Sammy Davis , Jr . ( here billed without the Jr . ) , Rufus Jones for President would be one of the worst representations of African-American stereotypes I've seen from the early talkie era and wouldn't have been worth seeing because of that . Ms . Waters is excell... |
454,897 | 11,228,318 | 60,446 | 4 | This Gamera vs . Barugon comment is about the KTMA version on " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " | All right , since there's no " MST3K " entry listed on IMDb for Gamera vs . Barugon in the first season section , I'll review this rare KTMA episode that's available on YouTube here . After the theme song , Joel just fields a recorded call that complements his show and describes the movie before hitting " movie sign " ... |
455,154 | 11,228,318 | 152,219 | 4 | Rodeo Dough is an early Mintz Krazy Kat for Columbia | This was a Krazy Kat cartoon made for Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia . While the studio originally based the character on the comic strip created by George Herriman , by 1931 he was changed in design and personality to be more like Walt Disney's popular Mickey Mouse ( whose cartoons , ironically , were also ... |
454,733 | 11,228,318 | 146,448 | 4 | Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the Circus doesn't really live up to title | Once again , I'm in agreement with the previous reviewer so I'm not sure what I can add except to say while this short is primitive , it does have some charm to me . I liked seeing a close-up of the cat's tail from behind with the mouse looking up as the tail swings back and forth as well as spin around once in awhile ... |
453,970 | 11,228,318 | 28,055 | 4 | The Old House contains stereotypes but also some good animation and humor | While this short mainly depicts two black kids screaming and running for their life in a haunted house-thereby reaffirming the " blacks scared of spook " stereotype-there are some good animation and nice humorous touches that redeems this short , The Old House , somewhat . This is the MGM Bosko and not the Warner Bros ... |
455,242 | 11,228,318 | 29,708 | 4 | While Uncle Tom's Bungalow provides some moments , it's too politically incorrect for today | This cartoon short , Uncle Tom's Bungalow , is the fourth ( chronologically ) of the " Censored 11 " Warner Bros . films that doesn't show on commercial TV anymore . Directed by Tex Avery , this cartoon gets some points for the beginning frames bouncing up and down to the music score , some nice visual touches with an ... |
453,806 | 11,228,318 | 148,630 | 4 | Poor Little Butterfly is interesting if a bit offensive | Poor Little Butterfly depicts two Japanese sister butterflies waiting for the arrival of their boyfriends , a bug and a ( I think ) lizard with Goofy's voice ( probably Pinto Colvig ) . Goofy lizard gets the buck-tooth one . The more beautiful sister gets a ring from the bug . Goofy lizard and buck-tooth butterfly enjo... |
454,389 | 11,228,318 | 438,865 | 4 | Hataw tatay hataw is slight Filipino fluff | Being of Filipino descent , I took a chance and watched with my parents this Filipino comedy from 1994 called Hataw tatay hataw . It basically tells the story of a middle-aged bellboy whose long-lost daughter returns from the U . S . to visit her father who disguises himself as the hotel owner to impress her . Along fo... |
455,241 | 11,228,318 | 445,946 | 4 | The Contract is below average for the talents of Morgan Freeman and John Cusack | When my dad suggested we watch this movie starring-for the first time-Morgan Freeman and John Cusack , I wondered why the title , The Contact , seemed so unfamiliar to me . Having just checked the IMDb entry , I found out it was a direct-to-DVD entry here in the U . S . Watching this I can see why with director Bruce B... |
454,581 | 11,228,318 | 109,770 | 4 | Roger Corman's low-budget Fantastic Four is at least worth a look once | When I saw the 2005 Fantastic Four , I remember liking almost everything in it . The only real disappointment to me was the too-short battle with Dr . Doom . Now after just seeing two World War II Superman cartoons and a year ending episode of Heroes , I'm watching on YouTube the first , unreleased , Roger Corman-produ... |
454,003 | 11,228,318 | 852,713 | 5 | The House Bunny is a pleasant enough movie for anyone not looking for anything that makes you think too much . . . | Well , I've now seen The House Bunny and all I've got to say is it's what I expected judging from the previews and reviews and that means that it was pleasant and uneven and shallow and perhaps a little smart but it was enjoyable so that's a mostly good thing . The girls are good eye candy but they can act and Anna Far... |
454,492 | 11,228,318 | 26,257 | 5 | Dancing on the Moon was an interesting Max Fleischer Color Classic | Just watched this Max Fleischer Color Classics cartoon on the Classic Cartoons blog . Like many of Fleischer's Technicolor cartoons of this era , this one has backgrounds of models done on a tabletop that achieves that 3-D effect of an animated character appearing in live-action . Here , those backgrounds are of moon c... |
455,114 | 11,228,318 | 26,153 | 5 | Buddy's Lost World was an okay cartoon starring the forgotten Buddy | In this Leon Schlesinger / Looney Tunes cartoon short , Buddy and his dog Bozo are sailing to the Lost World , you know , that world inhabited by cavemen and dinosaurs as first depicted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his novel of the same name . The animation is good and the cartoon moves at a brisk pace though after a w... |
455,255 | 11,228,318 | 19,701 | 5 | Duke Ellington and Fredi Washington make Black and Tan an interesting curio | Having just seen Bessie Smith's only film appearance in the short St . Louis Blues , I'm startled by some of the same people from that one involved here as well : director Dudley Murphy , Alec Lovejoy in a bit part ( as one of the piano movers ) , and the Hall Johnson Choir . Also appearing is Fredi Washington , sister... |
453,736 | 11,228,318 | 832,072 | 5 | The Algebra Problem is interesting , if repetitive , episode of Meet Corliss Archer | Corliss asks her dad to figure out an algebra problem . He manages to get his wife into it . When Dexter comes and finds Corliss doing her homework , he tries to help her . Dexter's father comes and tries to help Mr . Archer to solve the algebra problem . Corliss's mother then goes to Dexter's mother's house and they c... |
453,776 | 11,228,318 | 151,919 | 5 | I might have seen a shortened version of Patriotic Popeye | I saw this pretty amusing Popeye cartoon after Vengeance Valley , the Burt Lancaster western that aired on Family Theater on FamilyNet . Since a commercial was inserted in the middle of this cartoon , I don't know if I saw the whole thing since Popeye didn't have too much trouble handling his two nephews as they try to... |
455,078 | 11,228,318 | 60,984 | 5 | Six Figures Getting Sick is pure David Lynch territory | I just saw Six Figures Getting Sick-David Lynch's first foray into film-on YouTube when I typed David Lynch . The title is basically the short's description as repetitiously we see six heads vomiting red into their hearts while the word " sick " flashes on the screen . Then a different image of the same thing happens a... |
454,220 | 11,228,318 | 1,039,339 | 5 | High School Musical was just an average episode of " Miss Guided " | Student Lauren ( Gina DeVivo ) tells Becky she's tired of " one-line " parts which reminds Becky of her high school days when she only played maids in musicals even when they didn't call for one like in " Jesus Chirst Superstar " . With the regular drama teacher out , Becky gets Principal Huffy to hire her to direct " ... |
453,805 | 11,228,318 | 141,108 | 5 | The Frog Pond is an entertaining if partly bland cartoon | In Ub Iwerks ' The Frog Pond , many frogs are singing and having a good time until a big bully frog takes some food and basically orders a house built on his lily pond . They oblige with the most glamorous house anyone ever had with good food service ( like grasshopper and some flies ) . Then this bully invites everyon... |
453,836 | 11,228,318 | 32,897 | 5 | Pedagogical Institution should provide some amusements in this Max Fleischer cartoon | This was one in a series of Stone Age Cartoons from Max Fleischer . A young man is trying to get a job but he has to go to college first which isn't easy since during registration , the big thermometer goes all the way down from Genius to Kluck with the line , " Add Oil " ! During class , this student gets all the math... |
454,770 | 11,228,318 | 4,284 | 5 | Mabel's Strange Predicament should satisfy some fans of early Chaplin | Mabel's Strange Predicament is the second film in which Charlie Chaplin dresses in costume as The Little Tramp ( the first being Kid Auto Races in Venice ) . In here , he's just a drunk who's infatuated with the title character played by Ms . Normand . She's a lady who has a dog that she takes with her to the hotel roo... |
454,734 | 11,228,318 | 146,968 | 5 | Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing has a kind of primitive charm | Since the previous reviewer summed up what happens in this 2-minute cartoon , I'll just mention that Krazy also has some kind of flying contraption which he uses to fly to where he mistakenly thinks is Ignatz ' house and he takes a guitar where you see visual notes whenever he plays some music . And in many of the word... |
454,062 | 11,228,318 | 147,715 | 5 | Window Washers is another silent Farmer Al Falfa cartoon from Paul Terry | This is another Paul Terry silent cartoon . A cat and mouse are riding in a car that keeps slipping off its wheels so the mouse positions the car parallel to the wheels as they keep moving . A policeman dog gives chase after spying on them through a birdhouse which he climbed , spider-like , through . Cut to a separate... |
453,995 | 11,228,318 | 1,032,928 | 5 | Das Sandbad is an early Austrian " nudie " I discovered on the internet | Just watched this primitive silent short by Austrian Johann Schwarzer on the Europa Film Treasures blog . It's basically a depiction of a clothed man with his naked lady friend , who's wearing just a towel , coming to a sandy place with the woman lying there nude with all her parts to see just before the man comes back... |
453,872 | 11,228,318 | 151,609 | 5 | Molly Moo-Cow and the Indians is palatable but ordinary | Since the summary tells the whole story , I'll just mention some gags . When the Indian hunter takes the ducks away , the ducks each take an arrow from his backpack which forms a trail . As Molly is grabbing the hunter , she kicks him in the head with her hind legs ! And as the hunter escapes on a rowboat from the woma... |
455,080 | 11,228,318 | 338,216 | 5 | Lucky You is an uneven drama about poker | Spider-Man 3 was sold out so my friend and I chose to see Lucky You . The main story was between Eric Bana and Robert Duvall who plays Bana's father . They're both card playing gamblers who have an intense rivalry both inside and out of the poker table . Theirs are the most interesting scenes . Drew Barrymore as Bana's... |
455,210 | 11,228,318 | 546 | 5 | Porter's Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend is interesting take on McCay comic | I saw two versions of this live-action version of Winsor McCay's comic strip Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend . The Google Video version had music suitable for the era and film . The YouTube version ( which Google now links to as well ) used Carl Stalling's music for Warner Bros . cartoon shorts along with Treg Brown's sound ... |
454,104 | 11,228,318 | 837,381 | 5 | Meet Corliss Archer : Janet Goes to College is fitfully amusing | Corliss reads about an 84-year-old woman who just graduated college . She suggests to her mom Janet about attending herself . Janet's husband Harry also thinks it may be a good idea since she has " only two hours of housework " a day . That infuriates Janet so she and Mary , Corliss ' boyfriend Dexter's mother , decide... |
454,107 | 11,228,318 | 449,088 | 5 | At World's End was a pretty enjoyable POTC film despite having missed the first two | Having just seen Knocked Up and Waitress in another theatre earlier in the day , a friend called me up about 15 minutes later at home and proposed seeing one with him . We went back and forth over some titles when he reluctantly picked Knocked Up ( he thought I was at work earlier and I didn't tell him I watched some m... |
454,459 | 11,228,318 | 988,595 | 5 | 27 Dresses was a pleasant enough viewing for Valentine's Day | I have to confess , I wasn't intending to go see a movie on Valentine's Day since " Lost " and " Survivor " were on TV tonight and I only picked 27 Dresses because the other movies on the list for the theatre we were attending were either ones I wasn't interested in or they only had one showing in the afternoon . The m... |
455,011 | 11,228,318 | 419,946 | 5 | The Marine is action packed but also cartoonishly dumb | I have a friend who's a fan of the WWE so it's because of him that I agreed to see The Marine . The only actor I noticed was Robert Patrick from Terminator 2 and I liked the line that referenced that movie . There was also a black character that seemed to have wandered from Tarantino territory with references to how he... |
455,008 | 11,228,318 | 410,297 | 5 | You have to be in the right mood to enjoy The Lake House | I just saw The Lake House with my mother and father . My dad left early on believing the movie was lousy . My mom and I stayed and while I understood most of what was going on , Mom kept getting confused until nearly the end . I think the ending was a little confusing for both Mom and me and it wasn't until I read many... |
453,839 | 11,228,318 | 53,231 | 5 | The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film was an interesting early work of director Richard Lester | Just watched this early Richard Lester short starring Peter Sellers on YouTube . It's basically a silent one with a music score and speeded-up images done for humorous effect . Sellers is both a photographer and a hunter here . I also noticed Graham Stark-who I've seen in the Pink Panther movies with Sellers-in this fi... |
455,002 | 11,228,318 | 152,344 | 5 | Scuba Duba Do is a slight improvement over a previous Ralph Bakshi Sad Cat cartoon | As the second Sad Cat cartoon directed by Ralph Bakshi that I've seen on YouTube , Scuba Duba Do is a slight improvement on Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy . The cat's been assigned by brothers Fenimore and Latimore to clean the chimney . There , Sad finds a treasure map . When his brothers find out , they make thei... |
454,343 | 11,228,318 | 152,346 | 5 | The Seapreme Court was a slightly amusing Little Audrey cartoon short | This being a Famous Studios ( though the version I saw had the Harvey Films logo which means this particular print had been struck after Paramount sold many of their pre-1960 films and characters to that comic book company ) cartoon short starring Little Audrey , The Seapreme Court is another in the let's - teach - thi... |
454,685 | 11,228,318 | 319,142 | 5 | Winter Carousel is last animated short of Ladislaw Starewicz | Winter Carousel is the last short by the pioneering stop-motion puppet animator Ladislaw Starewicz . It mainly concerns a group of forest animals cavorting in the snow , skating , riding on tree branches , and sledding . While you may get some amusing touches here and there , this short does seem a little on the bland ... |
453,837 | 11,228,318 | 64,726 | 5 | Night of Bloody Horror was an okay regional suspense movie I watched on YouTube | This was another of those cheap low-budget horror movies I remember seeing in newspaper ads or television commercials on late night as a child in the ' 70s and wondering what they would be like . The version I watched on YouTube was a little faded and washed out but I saw clearly enough to understand what was going on ... |
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