GurlyIamBeach
Instant Favorite.
Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
AshUnow
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)
This is a 7-minute black-and-white cartoon from 1938, shortly before World War II. It features Mel Blanc, possibly the most prolific man in animation, maybe even movie, history and Billy Bletcher who also worked on a whole lot of films as voice actors. The director is Robert Clampett who also worked on many more Porky cartoons back then. One of the most famous characters in the old days. Here he has a touch of Woodpecker and the dodo he dries to catch reminds me a bit of a very early version of Road Runner. After all, Porky won't get his bird. And he even traveled to Africa for him. Too bad. Yet, he meets all kinds of strange and fantastic creatures on the Black Continent, even a few White ones, and also a very early version of CatDog. However, to me there were hardly no funny scenes in these 7 minutes. Occasionally, there is some wit and humor, but it's just not enough compared to the best cartoons of that era. Not recommended.
talarisw
I'm a big fan of cartoons and Warner bros. is the best among the old classic studios and Bob Clampett is my favorite director from that studio. He truly was the man who put the looney in the looney tunes. The endless imagination that's in his cartoons are amazing and "wackyland" is his signature cartoon. I love the layouts and backgrounds, that's work of great surrealism, on the level of Picasco and Salvador Dali. But it's Bob's wacky sense of humor that really shines. His cartoons are so free of inhibition and a lot of great humor comes out of it. I love the monster who suddenly turns gay, the rabbit who swings in the air, the three stooges monster and then there's the do-do and I love the stuff he does, he creates a pencil, draws a door in the air, lifts the door up like it's rubber, goes underneath it, then appears in a floating window that is connected to the door, but porky falls through the window! I love the whole "va da doody o" dance and the "WOOOOOO!" shout. And it has the best ending of any cartoon! Porky finally gets the do-do but 50 other do-dos come to confirm he's the last do-do! "Yeah! WOOOOOOOOO!"
ccthemovieman-1
This black-and-white early Looney Tunes cartoon looks different, sounds different...and is terrific.We read in the "The Globe" that Porky is off on a rare do-do bird hunt, trying to get a bird that is nearly extinct and worth billions of dollars. He flies off to "darkest Africa" and winds up in "Wackyland" where the population is "100 nuts and a squirrel" and the sign that says that audibly speaks to Porky saying "It can happen here!!!!"With that, we start seeing some really bizarre things regarding the scenery, the characters who inhabit this place and the weird things that happen. It looked a cross between a Salvardor Dali painting and Alice In Wonderful.Porky is then led to "the last of the do-do birds" and this a one strange bird, who fits right into Wackyland. This is great stuff, a real visual treat and a cartoon you could enjoy over and over just trying to catch all of the sight gags and great drawings in here. I couldn't help wonder what the audience thought way back in the 1930s. This had to be something really unusual for them to see.
Rikichi
Wow! Over sixty years later, this cartoon short stands out as one of the greatest achievements in this medium. Bob Clampett, given the complete freedom that producer Leon Schlesinger let him have, spun out some of the weirdest and wackiest ever made.We start out with a typical beginning for that era, Porky Pig is flying to Darkest Africa to find the last Do-Do, worth billions. But what follows is a mind bending journey, where no one evidently studied the laws of physics. Some of the humor are stock Bob Clampett jokes that are repeated in others of his cartoons, but he was always best with visual humor, when he let the animation be the star of the show.
