runar-4
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Friz Freling was notorious for re-using gags in his cartoons. These include playing "Those Endearing Young Charms" on a booby-trapped instrument, the trained pigeons gag and many, many others. This cartoon is a nearly complete remake of 1950's "Stooge For A Mouse". Freling replaced Mike the Bulldog with Bugsy, Sylvester with Mugsy and the mouse with Bugs. In fact, if you were to take out everything that was reused from this cartoon, it would only be thirty seconds long. It would be interesting to cut all the repeated gags from Freling's cartoons and see which pile would be larger.
Freling may have once been an innovative director, but as time went on, his cartoons became collections of overworked, reused material.
Freling may have once been an innovative director, but as time went on, his cartoons became collections of overworked, reused material.
This combines several elements of previously filmed ideas. The evil creature/force/spirit inhabiting the bodies of humans to wreak murderous havoc dates back at least to the 1967 Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold" (#2-14) and recurs in the 1998 movie "Fallen". Also borrowed from both is the notion that the evil being can move from body to body but, in an added little touch from "Fallen" has only a small amount of time to find a new host or die.
However, the ending of this particular story involves a nice little twist that both of its predecessors missed, an ending which will remain undisclosed here but makes this story still worth watching even if you've seen both its forebears.
However, the ending of this particular story involves a nice little twist that both of its predecessors missed, an ending which will remain undisclosed here but makes this story still worth watching even if you've seen both its forebears.
It's not as bad as 1964's "False Hare" but other than that, there isn't much good to say about this cartoon. Not only is it a ripo...er...spoof of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", but it's also a poorly disguised clip show (meaning that no imagination was used in the making of this cartoon). The opening of each sequence with Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck are poorly re-drawn copies from previous cartoons. The transportation segues between sequences are tedious at best, but better described as just plain old boring. It was obviously written by committee, even if that was only a committee of two. Ford & Lennon couldn't storyboard their way out of a wet paper bag.
If this is the direction of post-Termite Terrace Bugs, Elmer, Sam and the rest, I'd be much happier to never have another Warner cartoon made.
If this is the direction of post-Termite Terrace Bugs, Elmer, Sam and the rest, I'd be much happier to never have another Warner cartoon made.