The Rattled Rooster

At first glance, you'd think The Rattled Rooster would be a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon, but this stars a completely different, much slower-witted rooster in his fruitless attempts to catch a worm.

The gags this time around are really clever, like you'd expect in an Art Davis cartoon. Especially the scenes with the rattlesnake and the toothpaste gag.

To be honest, it's a shame that this worm didn't make any other appearances, since he had quite a bit of potential.

I enjoyed it. The gags and animation are perfect, not a single problem. I'm just not giving this as much of a high score as other cartoons, purely for the dislike of that Worm. Glad he didn't appear in anything else. It's just an awesome pile of Craziness, and that's all it needs to be. It will entertain massively. This cartoon still could have been a bland foghorn leghorn cartoon with pleasant animation, but It wasn't the characters are much different.

8.5/10.

When I first read the title, I naturally assumed that "The Rattled Rooster" was going to be a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon. It was a little jarring to see a different rooster (he looks like a slimmed-down version of FL) running through the routine. When he misses his chance to catch a worm in the morning - despite messing with the grandfather clock - this anonymous rooster comes across a rapscallion worm (a worm version of Bugs Bunny, you might say). After the rooster comes up with several tricks to catch the worm - all of which the worm turns against him, natch - the worm gets the rooster to think that he's a rattlesnake...at which point a female rattlesnake mistakes him for one! What is it with these characters?! So, it's one of the lesser known works from the Termite Terrace crowd, but worth seeing (if only once). Available on YouTube.

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.

Directed by Arthur Davis, it is easy to from reading the title assume that 'The Rattled Rooster' is a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon. Don't be fooled, because although the rooster character featured looks like a long-lost relative of Foghorn there is no Foghorn actually in sight. 'The Rattled Rooster' is certainly worth watching and is quite good, but do feel that it is not as good as most of the Foghorn Leghorn series and it is not and never will be one of my favourites.

'The Rattled Rooster' is pretty unoriginal and slight in story and some of the content could have done with more variety and not been as repetitive. It's always entertaining but very rarely is it hilarious.

However, the animation is excellent. Beautifully drawn, very detailed and the colours are vibrant, complete with some great expressions and Davis' distinctive style of the characters moving from foreground to background.

Carl Stalling's music score is typically lushly and cleverly orchestrated, with lively and energetic rhythms, it's also beautifully synchronised with the action and gestures/expressions and even enhances the impact.

Although not hilarious, 'The Rattled Rooster' amuses and entertains with some nice wit and good timing. The characters may not have much distinct personality or enough to have made them bigger or even stars but they were engaging and not hard to like. The ever versatile Mel Blanc's voice acting is stellar.

Overall, quite good fun though won't blow anybody away. 7/10 Bethany Cox