cricket30 Review of Toby Tortoise Returns

Toby Tortoise Returns (1936)

"Jenny Wren" is somehow involved in the action of this . . .

[8/10 · 14 October 2021]

. . . brief cartoon, TOBY TORTOISE RETURNS. A send-up of Real Life actress Mae West, Jenny's appearance in a tale involving a tortoise and a hare is somewhat incongruous. The title character, with his body armor, IS perfectly analogous to Germany's Blitzkrieg Boys, about to overrun Europe as they launched a World War destined to kill tens of millions. Opposing this lethal turtle in the boxing ring is "Max Hare," a blatant caricature of Real Life hero pugilist Max Baer, beloved especially by Jewish citizens for smashing the Fuhrer's mouthpiece Schmeling in Yankee Stadium to cut short the latter's U. S. propaganda tour. Joining the treasonous Gopher Odd Party and its private mendacious groaning fat cat one per center film studio, TOBY TORTOISE RETURNS' producer similarly sides with the Freedom-squelching Prussians here against Hare\Baer and all Americans of a Patriotic Mind. Unable to fight Max fair and square, terrible reptile Toby resorts to illegal fireworks to "win" a hollow triumph, just as The Fuhrer would soon resort to V1, V2 and other war crime buzz rockets to violate every Law of Humanity.