Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.
Also have much admiration for Tex Avery, an animation genius whose best cartoons are animated masterpieces and some of the best he ever did. Generally like the Droopy cartoons and the character himself a lot, his best cartoons are classics and among Avery's best. Both these distinctions, of it being one of Droopy's best and Avery's, are true for 'Northwest Hounded Police'. It is only Droopy's fourth cartoon and he is already a character so well established in personality and manages to be both lovable and very funny.
The Wolf is a villain that has menace and great comic timing, with brilliantly animated and priceless reactions, whether it's the facial expressions or his body language, some of the best in the whole of animation definitely. 'Northwest Hounded Police' is yet another endlessly inventive and hysterically funny cartoon in a way that is unmistakably Tex Avery.
Avery does a wonderful job directing, with his unique, unlike-any-other visual and characteristic and incredibly distinctive wacky humour style all over it as can be expected.
'Northwest Hounded Police' is deliciously wacky, it is also incredibly clever, imaginatively creative and full of inspired visual gags, play on words and hilariously droll asides and deliciously corny puns. It's essentially a one-joke cartoon but has so much variety and imagination that it never becomes repetitive.
It is no surprise either that the animation is superb. The character designs are unique, Avery always did have creative character designs, and suitably fluid. The music, courtesy of Scott Bradley, is lushly and cleverly orchestrated, with lively and energetic rhythms and fits very well indeed.
Voice acting is very good from Bill Thompson and Frank Graham.
Overall, an animated masterpiece. 10/10 Bethany Cox
