PorkyandDaffy
05-19-2001, 03:44 PM
Ah, my reviews are back!
All ratings are out of five stars:
THE GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY (1946)
Directed by Bob Clampett
One of Bob Clampett’s best efforts come in “The Great Piggy Bank Robbery”. While reading his favorite comic book, Daffy accidentally knocks himself unconscious and dreams he's Duck Twacy, famous detective, trying to solve the case of the missing piggy banks. Taking a streetcar to the gangsters' hideout, he meets up with such grotesque criminals as Pickle Puss, Eighty-Eight Teeth and Neon Noodle. Definitely one of Warner’s greatest cartoons, with hilarious gags and great animation (most noticable when Daffy confronts all the villains at once). Nice “cameo” also from Porky with a moustache as a train conductor. Anybody notice that when we see the shadowy figure of Duck Twacy through the door, his face actually looks like Dick Tracy when he isn’t talking? Also, pause the scene frame-by-frame where the bad guys are falling out of the closet, and you’ll see a generic man and a woman amongst the bad guys. Hmm…
Animation Mistakes: After the mailman puts the mail in Daffy’s mailbox, he places the flag on the mailbox upright, but when Daffy runs up to the mailbox, the flag is faced downward; when Daffy opens up the closet door after shooting through it, the first bad guy shown is Tin Man and he has his arms to the side, but in the next shot, he’s holding a candy cane in his arm
Rating: *****
BUCKAROO BUGS (1944)
Directed by Bob Clampett
In “Buckaroo Bugs”, the dopey Red Hot Ryder is in search of the Masked Marauder. Bugs Bunny decides to have fun with the sucker, and disguises as the Masked Marauder, and dupes RHR for the rest of the short, ending with RHR falling down a cliff. Another great cartoon by Clampett. It was strange seeing Bugs Bunny as a bad guy. Clampett always took Bugs and other characters to an extreme that other directors didn’t, which is why I admire Clampett’s work so much. For example, Bugs shooting the dog at the end of HARE RIBBIN’. None of the other directors even tried to have Bugs kill anybody. Red Hot Ryder is also a very funny, dopey character. At first when we heard his voice, I thought he would be Yosemite Sam. Is this the first Bugs Bunny Looney Tune, by the way?
Also, I love the part when Bugs robs RHR with the magnet. TWICE!
Rating: *****
DRIP ALONG DAFFY (1951)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Another Western cartoon. In “Drip Along Daffy”, Vowing to "clean up this one-horse town," Western-Type Hero Daffy, along with Comedy Relief Porky, get more than they bargained for when they come up against outlaw Nasty Canasta. A very funny cartoon, with a lot of funny scenes, the funniest being when Porky and Daffy get drunk. I don’t like the Daffy used in this cartoon much, though. This was around the time when Jones’ started relying a bit too much on the egotistical Daffy.
Also, the edit done at the end of CN’s version was very sloppy and just plain inexplicable. There’s nothing wrong with the original ending! There are other scenes in this short that CN normally would find edit-worthy (the shootings, the Indian being robbed by the cowboy, the toy soldier shooting Canasta right in the face), yet they don’t even touch it. I am forced to assume that this is the work of WB and not CN. When will they get an uncut copy of this short?
Rating: ****
Overall B&D Rating: 14/15 = A
Great cartoons today!
All ratings are out of five stars:
THE GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY (1946)
Directed by Bob Clampett
One of Bob Clampett’s best efforts come in “The Great Piggy Bank Robbery”. While reading his favorite comic book, Daffy accidentally knocks himself unconscious and dreams he's Duck Twacy, famous detective, trying to solve the case of the missing piggy banks. Taking a streetcar to the gangsters' hideout, he meets up with such grotesque criminals as Pickle Puss, Eighty-Eight Teeth and Neon Noodle. Definitely one of Warner’s greatest cartoons, with hilarious gags and great animation (most noticable when Daffy confronts all the villains at once). Nice “cameo” also from Porky with a moustache as a train conductor. Anybody notice that when we see the shadowy figure of Duck Twacy through the door, his face actually looks like Dick Tracy when he isn’t talking? Also, pause the scene frame-by-frame where the bad guys are falling out of the closet, and you’ll see a generic man and a woman amongst the bad guys. Hmm…
Animation Mistakes: After the mailman puts the mail in Daffy’s mailbox, he places the flag on the mailbox upright, but when Daffy runs up to the mailbox, the flag is faced downward; when Daffy opens up the closet door after shooting through it, the first bad guy shown is Tin Man and he has his arms to the side, but in the next shot, he’s holding a candy cane in his arm
Rating: *****
BUCKAROO BUGS (1944)
Directed by Bob Clampett
In “Buckaroo Bugs”, the dopey Red Hot Ryder is in search of the Masked Marauder. Bugs Bunny decides to have fun with the sucker, and disguises as the Masked Marauder, and dupes RHR for the rest of the short, ending with RHR falling down a cliff. Another great cartoon by Clampett. It was strange seeing Bugs Bunny as a bad guy. Clampett always took Bugs and other characters to an extreme that other directors didn’t, which is why I admire Clampett’s work so much. For example, Bugs shooting the dog at the end of HARE RIBBIN’. None of the other directors even tried to have Bugs kill anybody. Red Hot Ryder is also a very funny, dopey character. At first when we heard his voice, I thought he would be Yosemite Sam. Is this the first Bugs Bunny Looney Tune, by the way?
Also, I love the part when Bugs robs RHR with the magnet. TWICE!
Rating: *****
DRIP ALONG DAFFY (1951)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Another Western cartoon. In “Drip Along Daffy”, Vowing to "clean up this one-horse town," Western-Type Hero Daffy, along with Comedy Relief Porky, get more than they bargained for when they come up against outlaw Nasty Canasta. A very funny cartoon, with a lot of funny scenes, the funniest being when Porky and Daffy get drunk. I don’t like the Daffy used in this cartoon much, though. This was around the time when Jones’ started relying a bit too much on the egotistical Daffy.
Also, the edit done at the end of CN’s version was very sloppy and just plain inexplicable. There’s nothing wrong with the original ending! There are other scenes in this short that CN normally would find edit-worthy (the shootings, the Indian being robbed by the cowboy, the toy soldier shooting Canasta right in the face), yet they don’t even touch it. I am forced to assume that this is the work of WB and not CN. When will they get an uncut copy of this short?
Rating: ****
Overall B&D Rating: 14/15 = A
Great cartoons today!