Vintage Plastic Daffy Duck Warner Bros Seven Arts 1968
Even Speedy can't salve this disaster!
A great many Warner Brothers cartoon fans consider the cartoons produced in the mid to late 1960s to be lousy beyond description equally a class. While I don't tend to agree with that coating judgment (or with most coating judgments, come up to that), I feel that, for this ane especially, lousy is an understatement. If someone argues at that place is a worse effort out there, I'd accept to seriously disagree. Everything virtually this one screams, "Garbage" and at the top of its lungs. Every complaint (about legitimate, some not) that is made almost the later on cartoons as a grade is here-bad music, horrid backgrounds, no imagination, lousy writing, bad animation (even for limited animation)-everything nearly this one makes it the nadir of Warner Brothers animation. Non even ridicule tin make this one sufficiently entertaining to brand it worth watching more than in one case and only that if you are a hardcore Warner Brothers completeist. Watching information technology will temporarily lower your IQ 20 points. You accept been warned.
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Not even Daffy Duck tin can save this disappointment of a drawing
I really wanted to like this, while I love Daffy Duck I don't care much for Speedy Gonzales. I nonetheless watched it regardless and was disappointed. Well admittedly I have been disappointed with a vast majority of Speedy cartoons, but this in particular could and should have been MUCH meliorate! For one thing, the animation here looks really inexpensive, no colour, vibrancy or fluidity, instead the backgrounds are lifeless and all the characters specially Emperor Nero look really odd. In brusk, it looks like mediocre at best TV animation standard. I didn't like the music either, generic and forgettable, and some of information technology was abrasive. The writing was lousy, and the visual gags are very unimpressive. In fact, the sole saving graces really are that it goes by speedily, 1 or two "funny" lines from Daffy(who deserves better than this) and Mel Blanc'due south voice characterisations. Everything else is pretty much disposable. 4/ten Bethany Cox
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I of the lamest of the late-60s
Of course, the Daffy and Speedy cartoons of the 1967-1969 period (when Warner Bros. Animation had a new executive producer, Beak Hendricks) are normally mediocre, and this is no exception. You lot can tell it's going to be a inexpensive cartoon when yous see the bizarre stylized Warner Bros.- Vii Arts opening titles (with even more bizarre theme music than usual!) The background music isn't actually WB-like, merely more Television cartoon-like, and the animation resembles that of a Hanna-Barbera and Filmation cartoon. Daffy and Speedy look really hideous in this short, equally well. In fact, one of the only high points in information technology is that Mel Blanc, the original vocalization actor providing Speedy Gonzales's and Daffy Duck'south voices, lends his talents to this odd-brawl cartoon. Some parts are a bit predictable, but I think information technology was pretty funny when after destroying Nero's fiddle, the Roman emperor says, "Now I'thou gonna interruption your neck!" Then they must stop and wait at an old "Rome-style" crosswalk, with a torch flame that changes color with the traffic light! Nonetheless, with its cheap animation, information technology looks more similar a cheap parody on MAD Television rather than a real Looney Tunes cartoon, but at least it's meliorate than the WB blitheness studio when it was run by Sander Schwartz.
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Dull
The "Daffy vs. Speedy" serial of cartoons (which pits Speedy Gonzales against Daffy Duck who, in this era, is reduced to a grouchy, sadistic and humorless foil) and the "Larriva Eleven" (a series of 11 shoestring budget Wile East. Coyote & Route Runner cartoons outsourced to television animation studio Format Films and directed by onetime Warner animator Rudy Larriva who had worked for the Chuck Jones unit of measurement from 1939-1943 before leaving to do freelance work for Disney and UPA, earlier joining Format in 1959; information technology's rumored that Jones, furious at Larriva for leaving his unit of measurement, never spoke to him again) from the series' Dork Age in The '60s is of debatable quality. However, almost everybody unanimously agrees that the terminal cartoon to use Daffy, Speedy, or any of the "classic" characters in general, 1968's Run into Ya Later Gladiator, is horrible across belief. On top of Daffy's Jerkass traits being turned Up to Xi even after the 2 previous Daffy/Speedy shorts, "Fiesta Fiasco" and "Skyscraper Caper", at least tried to dial them back by having the disharmonize exist a misunderstanding in the former, and the duo existence friends in the latte making him seem excessively bad-tempered even compared to prior shorts in the series, this cartoon is riddled with an uncharacteristic plot (which is about Daffy and Speedy accidentally existence sent back in time to 65 A. D., Rome, where Emperor Nero plans to feed them to the lions as entertainment in a gladiator arena), half-assed, Off-Model animation (fifty-fifty going so far as to reuse the exact same background twice for Daffy looking out of a window, even though he was in a completely different room both times), banal, forgettable music courtesy of William Lava (lacking his usual dissonant and atonal style), overuse of stock sound effects from the Hanna-Barbera library, a lot of lame and/or borderline-nonexistent gags, etc. Not to mention the whole thing was a waste of potential, as a like premise had already been washed better in a 1955 Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam short called "Roman Legion-Hare". When Mel Blanc is the but good thing near this short, putting in a great functioning as ever, so the upshot is what's considered the accented worst Golden Historic period Warner Bros. Drawing of all fourth dimension.
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Embarrassing at best
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This was the terminal cartoon to use any of the classic Warner Bros. characters; after this, new characters and ane-shot cartoons were their entire output.
First off, the blitheness and music are very poor. There are ii scenes with Daffy looking out a window, and the exact same animation is used fifty-fifty though he was in a different room each time (first the lab, and then Daffy's bedroom). There'southward likewise the score, which is generic at best. The cartoon itself looks like something out of Hanna-Barbera (complete with an overuse of their audio effects).
That'south nothing to say well-nigh the writing. Daffy gets angry at Speedy for his "corny music"? Is that the best the writers could come up upwards with? On another note, they at least tried to make Daffy less of a wiggle in previous cartoons later getting horribly flanderized through much of the 60s (the Daffy/Speedy drawing before it really had them as friends).
And so the ii get sent dorsum in time, where they are fed to a king of beasts. This culminates into a serial of rather bland gags with awful timing (just one example is the scene with the king of beasts eating Speedy's wooden sword).
Then they intermission Nero'south fiddle, become chased by him and then get sent back to the nowadays. Also, Nero got brought along with them. Why didn't the scientist only send him dorsum to Ancient Rome? And why did he have to bring together Speedy'due south band?
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What A Sad Way To Terminate An Already Flawed Series
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Daffy'due south a Physicist's assistant assigned to clean the laboratory with the strict order of "not pulling the chain" (ie. setting off the physicist'due south fourth dimension motorcar). In one of the lamest musical moments ever in a WB cartoon, he overhears Speedy and his Mexican folk band. To become rid of the pest, Daffy tries to trick Speedy into pulling the chain to send him back to 65 AD Rome. Unfortunately, the trick backfires and both wind up existence sent dorsum to 65 Advertizement, where they are thrown into a coliseum as gladiators.
This was the last Daffy/Speedy drawing produced (and, therefore, the last cartoon with "classic" WB stars), and unfortunately, it only works to reinforce what everybody hated most the serial. The plot shows promise simply is marred past sloppy writing (especially the ending) and poorly timed gags - the only even remotely funny 1 existence the lion'due south facial expression after his mane has been cut off and he looks in the mirror. The animation is poor even by 1968 standards. And the generic Mexican-style soundtrack is fifty-fifty more sloppily scored than in previous Daffy/Speedy shorts (it's only generic groundwork dissonance with virtually no interplay with what's happening in the cartoon).
Overall, this is a sad swan vocal to an already maligned series of cartoons. While my personal feelings towards the Daffy/Speedy cartoons tend to be a piddling softer than most, several of them completely miss the mark. This is one of them.
Sentry information technology strictly out of curiosity.
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See Ya Later Gladiator [1968]
In a weird fashion, I sort of liked this as Daffy actually HAS skilful authority in a manner to become later Speedy -the latter's musical mayhem-and in the principal parts of the short, the two don't fight but go against Emprorer Nero and his lions. But yeah, this is far from the best. No wonder the two retired. BTW Marty, I've seen y'all on another forum I use doing those Daffy-Speedy threads..my communication is to picket it...
Oddly, the open theme music is somewhat good, and likewise the payoff gag at the end. I noted something. Besides Blanc doing all the voices on these, there is no star billing for the duck and mouse in these shorts, as with the newer characters - Norman Normal, Merlin the Magic Mouse,etc.etc.etc.
The open up music, like that one near is heavily compressed even in the original version every bit shown theatrically, as far as I know.
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Meh, simply they were budgeted
Ouch, this drawing was a bummer. But Mel Blanc'southward voices practice salve the day. The cartoons plot is kind of weird. You lot take Speedy traveling with Daffy dorsum to the Roman empire and and then back with the emperor. Animation is okay, only exercise keep in mind that these were very strictly budgeted so I'll give it some credit for trying. Alex Lovy was not the all-time, simply he definitely wasn't the worst.
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A sorry end for classic characters
Daffy and Speedy cartoons are not good to brainstorm with, but this is ever worse than normal. The plot is ridiculous, audio effects lame, and the characters, particularly Daffy, await off model at times. Information technology looks similar they spend virtually $12 to make this.
Avoid at all costs.
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