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Director: Gerry Chiniquy
Release date: January 18, 1964
Stars: Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Porky Pig
Rating: ★★★
Review:
‘Dumb Patrol’ is the last of the Bugs Bunny vs. Yosemite Sam cartoons, being the last screen appearance by the hot-tempered little villain, after a career of nineteen years. Set in World War I the film is dedicated to an air battle between Bugs and Sam, here billed as Sam von Shpamm.
Gerry Chiniquy’s timing is all too relaxed, and unfortunately there’s way too much talking, but there are some fine gags, like Sam shooting his own plane to pieces. The short is no standout, but certainly no bad farewell to the little mustached character. Note Porky Pig’s short cameo as a French soldier.
Watch ‘Dumb Patrol’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is Bugs Bunny cartoon No. 165
To the previous Bugs Bunny cartoon: Transylvania 6-5000
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‘Dum Patrol’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 3’
Directors: Tony Benedict, Gerry Chiniquy, Art Davis, David Detiege & Friz Freleng
Airing Date: April 1, 1980
Stars: Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzales
Rating: ★
Review:
‘Daffy Duck’s Easter Egg-Citement’ is an Easter-themed Looney Tunes television special produced by DePatie-Freleng.
Unlike Chuck Jones in ‘Bugs Bunny in King Arthur’s Court‘ Friz Freleng doesn’t attempt to tell one long story in the 25 minutes he’s got. Instead, we have three: the first evolves around Miss Prissy, who, in Foghorn Leghorn’s egg farm, lays a golden egg. Daffy and Sylvester find it, and fight eachother for it. This episode contains the only fine piece of animation of the whole special: the depiction of a paranoid Daffy in a car.
In the second episode Daffy is a guard at a chocolate bunny factory, protecting it against Speedy Gonzales, and in the third Daffy tries to go south, trying several options, including a horse. This part reuses the horse from the Pink Panther cartoon ‘Pinto Pink’ (1967) and some of its gags, too.
These stories are framed with Daffy in a very ‘Duck Amuck‘-like setting. Like ‘Bugs Bunny in King Arthur’s Court’ ‘Daffy Duck’s Easter Egg-citement’ suffers from bad designs (especially Foghorn Leghorn, who’s not a Freleng character, is badly drawn), can music, slow timing and excessive dialogue.
Director: Gerry Chiniquy
Release Date: June 13, 1967
Stars: The Pink Panther
Rating: ★
Review:
In ‘Jet Pink’ the Pink Panther enters a secret airport and climbs in test jet X13, which immediately goes astray.
This cartoon marks former Warner Brothers animator Gerry Chiniquy’s debut as a director. Unfortunately, it’s far from an overnight success: ‘Jet Pink’ is inconsistent, and rather unfunny.
The cartoon reuses the ‘count to ten and pull string’ gag from ‘Goofy’s Glider‘ (1940), but its execution is terrible when compared to the original.
Watch ‘Jet Pink’ yourself and tell me what you think:
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