Dr. Grob's Animation Review

Pink, Plunk, Plink

July 21, 2011 in ★★★, Pink Panther films | Tags: 1966, concert, concert cartoon, conductor, Hawley Pratt, Henry Mancini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pink Plunk Plink, the little guy, The Pink Panther | 1 comment

Director: Hawley Pratt
Release Date: May 25, 1966
Stars: The Pink Panther, The Little Guy
Rating: ★★★
Review:

In ‘Pink, Plunk, Plink’ the Pink Panther spoils a performance of Beethoven’s fifth symphony by trying to play his own theme music, much to dismay of the conductor (the little guy).

The Pink Panther finally succeeds to replace the conductor, but there appears only to be one man in the audience, Henry Mancini, composer of the Pink Panther’s theme music, himself (live action footage).

‘Pink, Plunk, Plink’ is not one of the best concert cartoons ever made, but the little guy’s frustrations are wonderfully animated.

Watch ‘Pink, Plunk, Plink’ yourself and tell me what you think:

The Pink Blue Print

July 19, 2011 in ★★★½, Pink Panther films | Tags: 1966, building site, construction worker, Hawley Pratt, the little guy, The Pink Blue Print | Leave a comment

Director: Hawley Pratt
Release Date: May 25, 1966
Stars: The Pink Panther, The Little Guy
Rating: ★★★½
Review:

The little guy from ‘The Pink Phink‘ (1964) and ‘We Give Pink Stamps’ (1965) returns and this time to stay.

Luckily so, for the little guy unwillingly helped to make better Pink Panther cartoons, being the perfect foil for the panther’s antics.

In ‘The Pink Blue Print’ the little guy is a construction worker trying to build a house. He’s hindered by the Pink Panther the same way he was in ‘The Pink Phink‘, leading to nice blackout gags.

Watch ‘The Pink Blue Print’ yourself and tell me what you think:

‘The Pink Blue Print’ is available on the DVD Box set ‘The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection’

Pink Pistons

July 17, 2011 in ★★½, Pink Panther films | Tags: 1966, cars, Hawley Pratt, Pink Pistons, race, The Pink Panther | Leave a comment

Director: Hawley Pratt
Release Date: March 16, 1966
Stars: The Pink Panther
Rating: ★★½
Review:

In ‘Pink Pistons’ the Pink Panther buys a new car with anthropomorphic features, but after a race against an old lady he turns it back in again.

This cartoon has a great opening scene of the Pink Panther trying some new models. Unfortunately, the rest of the cartoon does not maintain that level.

Watch ‘Pink Pistons’ yourself and tell me what you think:

Bully for Pink

July 15, 2011 in ★★★, Pink Panther films | Tags: 1965, bullfight, Bully for Pink, Hawley Pratt, The Pink Panther | Leave a comment

Director: Hawley Pratt
Release Date: December 14, 1965
Stars: The Pink Panther
Rating: ★★★
Review:

In ‘Bully for Pink’, the Pink Panther wants to be a bull fighter and so he steals a magical cape to use it as a red sheet.

‘Bully for Pink’ is slightly funnier than contemporary Pink Panther cartoons, but it doesn’t come near the heights of bullfight cartoons like Tex Avery’s ‘Señor Droopy’ (1949) or Chuck Jones’s ‘Bully for Bugs’ (1953).

Watch ‘Bully for Pink’ yourself and tell me what you think:

Jerry Jerry Quite Contrary

July 13, 2011 in ★★★½, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1966, Chuck Jones, Don Elliott, Jerry Jerry Quite Contrary, sleepwalking, Tom & Jerry | Leave a comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: February 17, 1966
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★½
Review:

In ‘Jerry Jerry Quite Contrary’ Jerry is a somnambulist who teases Tom in his sleep, much to his own dismay.

This is a good story idea, and it leads to a wonderful scene of Jerry trying to stay awake, but also to a weak ending of Tom migrating to a distant desert and Jerry sleepwalking after him.

Two other things are noteworthy about ‘Jerry Jerry Quite Contrary’: it reuses the wire gag from Chuck Jones own classic cartoon ‘Mouse Wreckers‘ (1949), and Don Elliott’s music is even better here than in ‘Duel Personality‘.

Watch ‘Jerry Jerry Quite Contrary’ yourself and tell me what you think:

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 145
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Duel Personality
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Jerry-Go-Round

Duel Personality

July 11, 2011 in ★★★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1966, Chuck Jones, Dean Elliott, duel, Duel Personality, Eugene Poddany, Tom & Jerry | 2 comments

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: January 20, 1966
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★★
Review:

After another chase, Jerry challenges Tom for a duel.

What follows are rather Road Runner-like blackout gags in which the two try various weaponry. In the end it’s Tom who gets weary of their misguided attempts and goes back to the original chase.

‘Duel Personality’ is an original and entertaining film, in which the titles only arrive after 1 minute and 24 seconds. It’s also the first Tom and Jerry featuring music by composer Dean Elliott. Elliott replaced Eugene Poddany and his music is jazzier than Poddany’s, and his use of recurring themes make his music more like that of classic Tom & Jerry composer Scott Bradley. All in all a great improvement for the series.

Watch ‘Duel Personality’ yourself and tell me what you think:

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 144
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: The Cat’s Me-ouch
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Jerry Jerry Quite Contrary

The Cat’s Me-ouch

July 9, 2011 in ★★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: Chuck Jones, small bulldog, The Cat's Me-ouch, Tom & Jerry | Comments closed

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: December 22, 1965
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★
Review:

Jerry orders a bulldog to help him against Tom. The bulldog turns out to be very tiny, but he’s ferocious nonetheless.

Unfortunately this nice idea leads to a slow and weak story, despite a clever gag with Tom and the little bulldog swapping doors.

The little bulldog, however, was a character to remember, and he would return in Tom & Jerry’ very last theatrical release, ‘Purr-chance to a Dream‘ (1967).

Watch an excerpt from ‘The Cat’s Me-ouch’ yourself and tell me what you think:

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 143
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: The Year of the Mouse
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Duel Personality

The Year of the Mouse

July 7, 2011 in ★★★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1965, Chuck Jones, insane, Michael Maltese, Mouse Wreckers, The Year of the Mouse, Tom & Jerry | 1 comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: June 9, 1965
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★★
Review:

Director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese reuse their story idea from their classic Warner Brothers cartoon ‘Mouse Wreckers‘ (1949), with Jerry and an anonymous mouse replacing Hubie and Bertie, and Tom replacing Claude Cat.

Like in the former cartoon, the two mice try to convince the unhappy cat he’s insane. The gags are different, though, as is the ending, for unlike Claude Cat, Tom gets his torturers and punishes them in the end.

Although ‘Mouse Wreckers‘ is much to be preferred above ‘The Year of the Mouse’, the inspired story works once again, and results in one of the better Tom & Jerry cartoons by Chuck Jones’s unit.

Watch ‘The Year of the Mouse’ yourself and tell me what you think:

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 142
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Tom Thump
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: The Cat’s Me-ouch

http://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/437/tom-jerry-the-year-of-the-mouse.html

Of Feline Bondage

July 5, 2011 in ★★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1965, Chuck Jones, fairy, invisible, Of Feline Bondage, Tom & Jerry | 1 comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: May 19, 1965
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★
Review:

In ‘Of Feline Bondage’ Jerry, whose life is made miserable by the sadistic Tom, is visited by a mouse fairy who gives him a potion that makes him invisible.

Jerry uses his invisibility to hunt Tom around the house with some scissors, cutting up Tom. However, he gets the same treatment from Tom when he gets visible again. The results are so ridiculous, the two laugh their heads off. Fade out…

‘Of Feline Bondage’ is a rather weak cartoon, despite some nice typical Chuck Jones expressions on both Tom and Jerry.

Watch ‘Of Feline Bondage’ yourself and tell me what you think:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x49xmhr

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 140
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: I’m Just Wild About Jerry
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Tom Thump

I’m Just Wild About Jerry

July 3, 2011 in ★★★½, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1965, Chuck Jones, department store, I'm Just Wild About Jerry, running gag, streetcar, Tom & Jerry | Leave a comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: April 7, 1965
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★½
Review:

‘I’m Just Wild About Jerry’ is a chase cartoon taking place in a department store. It’s Jones’ fifth Tom & Jerry chase cartoon, ending a mini-series of chase cartoons within Chuck Jones’s Tom & Jerry series.

Although not hilarious, ‘I’m Just Wild About Jerry’ is particularly inspired, and arguably the best of the five. It contains a great gag in which Tom deftly catches a falling pot, but not the bowling ball that follows after. It also contains a running gag involving a streetcar.

Watch ‘I’m Just Wild About Jerry’ yourself and tell me what you think:

http://www.izlesem.org/tom-and-jerry-i-m-just-wild-about-jerry-19651.html

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 139
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Haunted Mouse
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Of Feline Bondage

Haunted Mouse

July 1, 2011 in ★★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1965, Chuck Jones, Dr. Seuss, Haunted Mouse, magician, mandrake, Tom & Jerry | Leave a comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: March 24, 1965
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★
Review:

Not to be confused with the 1941 Tex Avery cartoon ‘The Haunted Mouse’, this cartoon interrupts the string of chase cartoons by featuring a real story: Jerry is visited by his cousin(?), a Mandrake-like magician, who easily defeats Tom.

Less funny than the remotely similar ‘Jerry’s Cousin‘ (1951), this rather slow cartoon nevertheless features a hilarious scene in which the magician mouse remains an über-cool, deadpan expression while being caught by a sardonically laughing Tom. It also features some rather Dr. Seuss-like rabbits.

Watch ‘Haunted Mouse’ yourself and tell me what you think:

http://www.220.ro/desene-animate/Tom-And-Jerry-Haunted-Mouse/f6HoGrlyGO/

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 138
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: I’m Just Wild About Jerry

The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off

June 29, 2011 in ★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1965, chase, Jim Pabian, The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off, Tom & Jerry | Leave a comment

Director: Jim Pabian
Release Date: March 3, 1965
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★
Review:

‘The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off’, its literary title notwithstanding, is Chuck Jones’ fourth Tom & Jerry chase cartoon using blackout gags, this time indoors.

This was the first of the Chuck Jones Tom & Jerries not directed by Chuck Jones himself, and it shows. The designs and the animation are worse than in other entries. Especially Jerry is badly designed here. The music is also particularly uninspired. All this results in one of the weakest entries in the series.

About its director, Jim Pabian, little is known. He co-wrote this cartoon and the next, ‘Haunted Mouse’,with Chuck Jones. ‘The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off’ is the only cartoon he ever directed.

Watch ‘The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off’ yourself and tell me what you think:

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v20008062MnN6BagS

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 137
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Bad Day at Cat Rock
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Haunted Mouse

Bad Day at Cat Rock

June 27, 2011 in ★★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1965, Bad Day at Cat Rock, building site, Chuck Jones, opening credits, Tom & Jerry | Leave a comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: February 10, 1965
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★
Review:

‘Bad Day at Cat Rock’ is a third chase cartoon with blackout gags, this time on a building site.

Although it is one of the weaker chase cartoons, this cartoon features particularly nice opening credits and a very funny Road Runner-like series of gags in which Tom tries to launch himself numerous times using a boulder. Unfortunately, it ends abruptly, when Jerry draws an end to the cartoon.

Watch ‘Bad Day at Cat Rock’ yourself and tell me what you think:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qovbm

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 136
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Tom-ic Energy
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off

Tom-ic Energy

June 25, 2011 in ★★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1965, chase, Chuck Jones, Pepe le Pew, street, Tom & Jerry, Tom-ic Energy | Leave a comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: January 27, 1965
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★
Review:‘

‘Tom-ic Energy’ is Chuck Jones’s second Tom & Jerry chase cartoon with blackout gags, this time situated in the city streets.

The short contains elements from two of Chuck Jones’ earlier series: Road Runner and Pepe Le Pew. It’s fast, it’s well-animated, its music (by Eugene Poddany) is not bad, and yet, it never becomes really funny. It’s difficult to tell why not.

Watch ‘Tom-ic Energy’ yourself and tell me what you think:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ofgp7?GK_FACEBOOK_OG_HTML5=1

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 135
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Ah, Sweet Mouse Story of Life
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Bad Day at Cat Rock

Ah, Sweet Mouse Story of Life

June 23, 2011 in ★★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1965, Ah Sweet Mouse Story of Life, chase cartoon, Chuck Jones, Felix the Cat, Tom & Jerry | 1 comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: January 20, 1965
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★
Review:

‘Ah, Sweet Mouse Story of Life’ is the first of a short series of five classic chase cartoons with blackout gags, resembling Chuck Jones’ own Road Runner series.

The gags are good, but somehow surprisingly unfunny at the same time. Most remarkably, this cartoon revives an ancient cartoon power, frequently used by Felix the cat in the twenties: the ability to use one’s question marks and thoughts.

Watch ‘Ah, Sweet Mouse Story of Life’ yourself and tell me what you think:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3yzc0k

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 134
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Tom-ic Energy

The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse

June 21, 2011 in ★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1964, Chuck Jones, cute kitten, The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse, Tom & Jerry | 2 comments

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: December 8, 1964
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★
Review:

In ‘The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse’ Tom is master of the house and Jerry is his slave. But then enters a cute young kitten. Tom gets jealous at the intruder and tries to get rid of it. But Jerry befriends the kitten and in the end the tables are turned.

One of the weaker entries in Chuck Jones’ Tom & Jerry series, ‘The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse’ is a surprisingly unfunny cartoon, suffering from bad timing and ugly music.

Watch ‘The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse’ yourself and tell me what you think:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ngu09

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 133
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Snowbody Loves Me
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Ah, Sweet Mouse Story of Life

Snowbody Loves Me

June 19, 2011 in ★★★½, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1964, cheese, Chuck Jones, snow, Snowbody Loves Me, Switzerland, Tom & Jerry | Leave a comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: May 12, 1964
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★½
Review:

In ‘Snowbody Loves Me’ we see Jerry freezing in the Swiss Alps, but then he finds a cheese shop.

Jerry manages to enter it, but locks Tom outside by doing so. Tom manages to throw Jerry out again, but like in the early Tom & Jerry cartoon ‘The Night before Christmas‘ (1941) his conscience plagues him, and he subsequently rescues Jerry from death.

Like ‘Much Ado About Mousing‘ ‘Snowbody Loves Me’ borrows a theme from an earlier Hanna-Barbera cartoon, and again, the result cannot stand the comparison to its source of inspiration. ‘Snowbody Loves Me’ is cute alright, typical for Jones’s late style, and its colors and designs are beautiful. However, the action is slow, and the gags are mediocre.

Watch an excerpt from ‘Snowbody Loves Me’ yourself and tell me what you think:

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 132
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Much Ado About Mousing
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse

Much Ado About Mousing

June 17, 2011 in ★★★½, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1964, Beethoven, bulldog, Chuck Jones, Eugene Poddany, Much Ado About Mousing, Tom & Jerry, whistle | Leave a comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: April 14, 1964
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★½
Review:

In the opening scene of ‘Much Ado About Mousing’ we see Tom fishing for Jerry in a harbor, using cheese. But Jerry seeks help from a yellow bulldog. The bulldog gives Jerry a whistle with which he can call for the Bulldog’s help.

Sounds familiar? Indeed, this idea is borrowed from the early Tom & Jerry short ‘The Bodyguard’ (1944). ‘Much Ado About Mousing’ is not bad, but it pales when compared to the former cartoon. Its story and its gags are fine, but the music, by Eugene Poddany, wears the action down, despite his effective use of Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous fate theme from his fifth symphony.

Watch ‘Much Ado About Mousing’ yourself and tell me what you think:

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 131
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Is There A Doctor in the Mouse?
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Snowbody Loves Me

Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?

June 15, 2011 in ★★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1964, Chuck Jones, Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?, potion, speed, Tom & Jerry | Leave a comment

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: March 24, 1964
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★
Review:

In ‘Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?’ Jerry invents a potion, which makes him lightning fast.

Jerry uses his new speed to eat everything that Tom wants to eat. When he runs out of speed he drinks a potion, which makes him enormous, thus abruptly ending the film.

Like the Hanna-Barbera Tom & Jerry cartoon ‘The Invisible Mouse‘ (1947), ‘Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?’ suffers from an all too powerful Jerry. When Tom is bullied, it’s not comical, it’s sad. The result is one of the weaker entries in Jones’ Tom & Jerry series.

‘Is There A Doctor in the Mouse’ has the questionable honor to be the first Chuck Jones Tom & Jerry cartoon with a pun in the title. Titles like these would dominate the Chuck Jones Tom & Jerries. They were not their best feature. Apart from being rather trite, they more often than not had nothing to do with the content, at all.

Watch ‘Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?’ yourself and tell me what you think:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ofixi

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 130
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: The Cat Above, The Mouse Below
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Much Ado About Mousing

The Cat Above, The Mouse Below

June 13, 2011 in ★★★★, MGM films, Tom & Jerry | Tags: 1964, Chuck Jones, Figaro, opera, Tex Avery, The Cat Above The Mouse Below, Tom & Jerry | Comments closed

Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: February 25, 1964
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★★
Review:

In ‘The Cat Above, The Mouse Below’ Tom is a successful opera singer performing Figaro’s famous aria ‘Largo el factotum’ from Gioachino Rossini’s ‘Il barbiere de Sevilla’ (what else?) at a grand theater, but awakening Jerry by doing so.

In this short Tom displays some fantastic facial expressions, director Chuck Jones’ trademark. It’s also probably the best of all Chuck Jones’s Tom & Jerry cartoons, albeit not as funny as Jones’ earlier ‘Long-haired Hare‘ (1949) or Tex Avery’s ‘Magical Maestro’ (1952), which both use the same theme.

Watch ‘The Cat Above, The Mouse Below’ yourself and tell me what you think:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6eg8vi

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 129
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Penthouse Mouse
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?

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