Dingo va à la chasse

A rather boring cartoon featuring Goofy, who goes hunting for ducks and uses a mechanical decoy to lure the ducks to him. However, the fouls, which were quite annoying, outsmarts him and Goofy ends up capturing his own decoy for dinner.

Like Donald, Goofy pretty much gets the best made out of him, but he has a better attitude in dealing with adversity. Not a very funny cartoon, though, nor very exciting. It's just a lot dull slapstick Goofy clumsiness and annoying birds.

Grade D

As the ducks are migrating, they come under some heavy fire each time the approach a watering hole. Then they alight on the one patrolled by "Goofy" whom we just know couldn't hit a barn door with an Howitzer. It doesn't help that he can't tell the difference between his plastic lure and the real thing either! Pretty soon it's clear that he's no match for these ingenious feathered critters and if I'd been him, I'd just have gone home before pneumonia set in or he did himself an injury with his own shotgun! It's fine, this, but a bit too much predictable slapstick, dialogue and kazoo work for me. I reckon the ducks will come back next year!

A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.

Goofy & his mechanical duck Clementine do some FOUL HUNTING.

This is a humorous little film which showcases the Goof at his most genially inept. His handling of a shotgun should bring a shudder to any viewer who practices good gun safety. The mallards are cute little guys and may remind viewers of Sonia the Duck in Disney's PETER AND THE WOLF (1946).

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a storm of naysayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.

While the story is somewhat standard, Foul Hunting is still a lot of fun to watch. It is unusual to not having narration observing and counterpointing Goofy's action as well as entertaining and teaching, considering this was a period where the How to...series was in full swing. However it was also a welcome change, here we see Goofy emerging as his own personality rather than taking on multiple ones(which he also excels in, but you do want to see more of his versatility), a side that we'd not seen since Goofy and Wilbur, and that was very nice. Goofy also is a hilarious and appealing character, and the ducks are cute and amusing supporting characters. He is complimented by some simple but fun gags, like the consequences of Goofy's pants filling up with water and Goofy accidentally cooking his decoy mechanical duck thinking it was a real one. The animation is lusciously coloured and beautifully drawn, excellent quality overall, while the music fits wonderfully with each sequence with character and loving orchestration. In conclusion, standard but great fun and a nice change from the deservedly popular How to...series. 9/10 Bethany Cox