Directors: Chuck Jones & Abe Levitow
Release date: December 29, 1962
Rating: ★★★
Review:
‘Martian Through Georgia’ is narrated by Ed Prentiss and tells about a Martian (typically designed as a little green man, if a rather frog-like one).
This Martian is so bored by his own society, his psychiatrist advices him to travel. So the Martian sets out for Earth, where things are very different, indeed. Nevertheless, the Martian finds little happiness on our planet, and in the end goes back home, with renewed love for his home planet (or at least one of its female inhabitants).
‘Martian Through Georgia’ knows a very lame and disappointing ending and is far from funny, but the film’s character designs and animation are of a high quality. Yet, the film’s main attraction are its avant-garde layouts by Maurice Noble and background art by Philip DeGuard. Noble goes completely wild, so the artwork becomes a marvel from start to end. So even if the story fails to inspire, the film’s looks remain entertaining throughout.
Watch excerpts from ‘Martian Through Georgia’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘Martian Through Georgia’ is available on the DVD-set ‘Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Six’
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January 29, 2025 at 23:18
Tony Perodeau
Martian Through Georgia is dangerously close to suffocatingly arty but stays just on the right side of the line. Perhaps the overwhelming backgrounds (which are certainly antithetical to the underwhelming backgrounds seen in scads of cartoons from the 1960s) were done at the behest of Abe Levitow, who was known for his well nigh obsessive attention to detail at times as an animator and junior director in the 1950s. Chuck Jones was starting to get overly mannered and “clever” but his skill is still evident here.
A nephew saw this while in his mid-teens (and ready to reject overly arty stuff); though he and his friend didn’t laugh much they found it satisfying. The most winning moment for them involved the animation of the female — beauty mark and all.
Two directors were not better than one. Even so, Jones and Levitow got their job done well enough to craft an above-average cartoon.