Just Plane Beep

Okay I was being a little harsh when I wrote that, but this was pretty mediocre in my opinion. It certainly isn't the worst Roadrunner vs. Wile E. Coyote cartoons, but it really isn't one of the better ones either. Some sight gags are interesting, such as when Coyote throws something red out the plane, it lands on the rear end of the plane, Coyote tries to retrieve it and the plane tilts downwards. I also liked the music, and Coyote's cunning attitude, and I admit I have always preferred Coyote over Roadrunner. However, the story is nothing special at all, the pacing is draggy, the animation is uneven, nice at times blocky on other times and the Roadrunner is irritating here. So overall, it is okay but mediocre really. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Another of the terrible Road Runner & Coyote shorts directed by Rudy Larriva in the 1960s. The animation is cheap and "TV quality" in the worst way. The colors are bright, I'll give it that. The music is loud and annoyingly repetitive. It will have you hitting the mute button faster than the Road Runner could dream of running. The Road Runner's barely in this, by the way. The gags here are unimaginative and the payoffs are not funny. Worse, most of the time they're cheaply covered by an explosion or smoke effect to hide the limited animation. To use one crappy gag as an example: Wile E. Coyote is flying a plane that's going to crash into a mountain. Instead of showing us that, it shows a big "bang" type of effect that covers the screen and when the smoke clears the plane has already crashed. To make matters even worse, Coyote is just standing there unhurt. He shrugs and then walks on to the next bit! I can't tell you how often we see that stuff in Larriva's cartoons. The man just had no sense of how to craft a joke and make it work like Chuck Jones did. So he just threw half-hearted gags in there that vaguely resemble something Jones might have done and then proceeds to butcher the joke to where it has no chance of being funny.