SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Tad Pole . . . as anyone who's been burned by Canadiayapper "lemons" will immediately recognize that the lopsided, ramshackle wagon transporting this deplorable "Our Gang" bunch of juvenile delinquents (starting at 7:45 of this 20-minute episode) could only have originated in the so-called nation of Canadia (aka, America's Northern Threat). Cars, trucks, and SUVs that are total duds are called "lemons," of course, because that sounds slightly more benign than the original Bad Car Epithet: lemming (after Canadia's National Rodent, famous solely for stampeding off cliffs in great herds). Whether you call Our Gang's BEAR SHOOTERS wagon a lemon or a lemming, this 1930 live-action short will remind everyone of what they exclaimed when they drew the short straw and purchased that one vehicle from Hell: "This Junker must have been slapped together in Canadia!" As the Miscreants running Canadia Today are plunging ahead with their plot to bury all of that alleged nation's Nuclear Waste along the Great Lakes shoreline a few yards from our American Homeland, Leader Trump can kill THREE birds with one nuke by flattening Canadia's largest Vehicle "Assembly" Plant. This will A)keep Canadia from dumping their radioactive garbage next to OUR drinking water, B)Lessen the number of Lemmings on U.S. Highways, and C)Leave North Korea shaking in their hip waders.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Bear Shooters" is a 20-minute live action short film from 1930, so this one is already over 85 years old. It is a black-and-white sound film and if you read the names McGowan, Roach and Walker you maybe realize already that here we have another film about Our Gang / Little Rascals. Chubby, Wheezer and Farina are on board among others and Jackie Cooper is in it as well. And of course the biggest animal actor from its era is on board too. I am talking about Pete the Pup. In general these rascals short films were pretty animal-focused. You read in the title that the gang goes bear hunting and they encounter a gorilla on the way and are basically trying to be safe from the big ape all the time. Admittedly, there was very little story here for a film, even if it only runs for a third of an hour. And the comedy was hardly convincing either. This must be one of the worst Rascals films I have seen. Then again, I am generally not too big on them and I don't think their work has aged that well. The cuteness aspect is eventually all there is to these films. And of course, by today's standards, this simply isn't enough. Thumbs-down from me. Don't watch. Oh yeah and don't be fooled by the photo. No Laurel or Hardy in here, just the kids.

mark.waltz Hiding criminals are no match for the early talkie cast of "Our Gang". It is a day in the great outdoors where Jackie. Chubby, Mary Ann, Weezer and the others, not only dealing with a man in an ape suit (which they natively identify as a bear) but the mix-up of Limburger cheese for lineament. I actually prefer this gang to their replacements a few years later because they seemed to have more fun and were less deliberately cutesy. Of course, the fact that Hal Roach has the gang integrated was amazing for its time. Children today may not relate to these adorable kids because they had to often use their imagination to find their fun and did it without the benefits of technology.

Syl The Our Gang and friends go bear shooting but run into gorilla and criminals on the run. These short films were often showed before a film presentation. Jackie Cooper is adorable. As somebody who grew up watching the Little Rascals in syndication. The kid actors here and in others always seemed to have more fun and adventure. For the Our Gang, Hollywood came of age even during the Great Depression. The Little Rascals traveled a little bit before the overdevelopment of the soon to be metropolis of Los Angeles. Hollywood was still a small town during the Our Gang days. These short films with Little Rascals are always memorable. The kids in these shorts always try to act like adults.