Daffy Duck in Hollywood

This is one of the first Daffy Duck episodes of all time - and I have to say that his animation and voice were a great deal more different! Personally I'm glad they didn't stay with these qualities of his for long, but I am glad that they stayed with his craziness for a good more ten years or so! :-)

This episode is quite clever in presentation. A movie director called Von Hamburger (who looks strangely like Porky) is directing his film and he needs it finished very quickly to give to his producer so he can see it. After Daffy has annoyed Von Hamburger with gags (both funny and mediocre) he goes off to the film studio to make himself a movie, by cutting clips from old movies and sticking them together with glue. Just as Von Hamburger is giving the producer, I.M Stupendous, his film reel, Daffy replaces it with his film...

I liked this episode for the interestingly old Daffy (this is the second oldest episode I have seen of him), the muxed ip movie he made, the animation and some of the humour. For some reason, after watching quite a few of these old Warner Bros shorts, I'm beginning to like old humour.

I recommend this to people who like the crazy Daffy Duck, the old Daffy Duck and Hollywood. Enjoy "Daffy Duck in Hollywood"! :-)

Film studio producer I. M. Stupendous rejects Daffy Duck as an actor and puts the pressure on the director. Daffy holds a grudge and causes all kinds of havoc in the production. He slices up an edit of the movie with various random shorts. To everyone's shock, Stupendous is overjoyed.

Wow! I do not like that voice work. I hate the director's voice. I get the cartoon voice, but it is trying too hard. Also I find it annoying. Annoying is not good comedy. It is also something that cannot be overlooked. It is not like the director goes away. The annoying voice just keeps annoying me until the end.

In this short cartoon, a tensed-up director is trying to complete a movie, but Daffy Duck comes up with several ways to delay it, including bullets in a camera. One gets the feeling that the creative team behind "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" was probably poking fun at Hollywood. But even ignoring that, we get a real surprise once we see the finished movie.

So, this is partly a look at old-style Hollywood (especially the old-style editing), but it remains entertaining in the 21st century. Motion pictures really are our best entertainment.

A real treat, isn't it? Yes sir, yes sir, yes sir, ye-e-e-e-s sir!

This short by Tex Avery lampoons Hollywood and the filmmaking process and does so quite well. Daffy wants to be an actor in the worst way, but can't manage that, so, by cutting and splicing clips from film archives, he "directs" his own movie. As a personal aside here, one of the saddest things here is that his "movie" is better than some of the product being turned out in recent time that has separated entirely too much of my money from my pockets with little benefit for me! Hilarious gags abound here. Well worth watching. Recommended.

This isn't much. Daffy Duck didn't really become that funny until later, at least a full decade later. I'm glad they got rid of his stupid, laugh. He's my favorite cartoon character of the '50s, but not here, not this early in his "career." He's smaller, has a different voice and his humor is generally geared to little kids.

All the laughs in here were in the first minute, such as the exaggerated German film director rolling his "r's," which was funny at first but then overdone.

The cigarette lighter gag was clever, then Daffy blowing smoke rings that say "Wanrer Brothers" just so "I can give my bosses a plug. I've got an option coming up." It's that kind of clever stuff we saw in later years. The rest of this - Daffy being a nuisance in the filming of a movie - really wasn't that good.

By the way, you know it's an older cartoon when the characters are all dressed like human beings but they have animal-heads.