"Wild Elephinks" is an American cartoon from 1933, so a really old one as this has its 85th anniversary this year. The title sounds to me more like a Pink Panther short, but nope, this being a Fleischer Studios production with Dave in charge of co-directing makes this another black-and-white Popeye short, a really short one indeed as it barely makes it past the 6-minute mark, no comparison to some of the others, especially those in color. Anyway, no Bluto sadly in this one which makes it weaker already, but instead Popeye with Olive ends up on a deserted island, well deserted in terms of humans, but packed with animals that do not have the best intentions when it comes to Popeye. If you see what happens with some of these animals like the elk or basically every animal at the end turning into a coat (PETA won't be amused), then you will find the slightly more savage Popeye humor style in here. It is easily identifiable. Olive once again is not relevant at all with the only difference that, in a mix-up between Popeye and King Kong, she helplessly gets abducted by a savage monkey or ape I don't know. And Popeye has to take a break from bating the crap out of a big elephant in order to rescue his girl. Oh well, when he fights that elephant and also all kinds of other animals like lions, other predators, huge snakes... he has not eaten his spinach yet. Guess he just got enough sleep the night before because it was surprising how fit and strong he is in his human state in which he normally gets beaten up by Bluto. Oh well speaks for Bluto I assume. I have seen many Popeye cartoons and I don't think this is among the better let alone best. Stuff like the giraffe bridge scene just won't cut the cake anymore these days, but yeah I may be a bit biased as I have never been too big on the world's most known animate sailorman. Still I give it a thumbs-down and say watch somethign else instead.
Review of Wild Elephinks
