. . . Warner Bros.' Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, the Looney Tuners) historically have had a far more accurate track record in having the multitude of their prognostications of 21st Century America's upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti ACTUALLY COME TRUE compared to such over-rated past "prophets" as Nostradamus. However, like Cassandra of the Ancient Greeks, Warner's warnings generally have fallen upon blind eyes, as illustrated by the Sherman's-March-to-the-Sea-like Advent of White House Resident-Elect Rump. Take I WISH I HAD WINGS, for instance. As it was released in 1932, new American Czar Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "Mad Dog" Putin's Red State Enablers in America's "Fly-Over" Country SHOULD have had plenty of time to digest its message. However, these U.S. Bread Basket of Deplorables somehow failed to realize that THEY were the night-crawler(s) the Fat Cat Billionaire-representing Hen shoves into the meat grinder midway through I WISH I HAD WINGS. The post-meat-grinder worms (or Red State Citizens) come out even smaller and MORE endangered, as the swarm of Mini-Me Rumps engendered by the Red Commie Satan Putin when he established America's first-ever Monarch-in-Residence eat them for lunch! Especially if you're a Red State Commie Sympathizer, please check out I WISH I HAD WINGS in its entirety, as it painstakingly etches out ALL the details of your Imminent Doom cut by cut by cut.
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Great for Looney Tunes in 1932....otherwise, meh.
planktonrules20 November 2021
If you want to see many of Looney Tunes' early cartoons that have NOT been colorized, I was surprised to find them on HBOMax...which is where I found "I Wish I Had Wings".
The story is set on a poultry farm, where you see ducks and chickens doing various funny things such as chase worms. I certainly wouldn't consider any of this hilarious, but for the early 30s, this is pretty typical. He edginess in cartoons we've come to love and expect mostly came in the 1940s.
The story is about little black chick who doesn't seem to get any food due to all his brothers and sisters. So, when he sees crops just over the fence, he wants to have wings so he can fly to the feast...though if you look, he IS small enough to just squeeze through the chicken wire fence! Oddly, once he makes it, he's chased by a scarecrow and in the end, the chick is able to outthink him.
All in all, a big improvement over most Looney Tunes films of the day because it is reasonably funny and the singing isn't as ubiquitous as it usually was. My score of 7 is relative to other cartoons from 1932...and by today's standards it's still a bit limp.
The story is set on a poultry farm, where you see ducks and chickens doing various funny things such as chase worms. I certainly wouldn't consider any of this hilarious, but for the early 30s, this is pretty typical. He edginess in cartoons we've come to love and expect mostly came in the 1940s.
The story is about little black chick who doesn't seem to get any food due to all his brothers and sisters. So, when he sees crops just over the fence, he wants to have wings so he can fly to the feast...though if you look, he IS small enough to just squeeze through the chicken wire fence! Oddly, once he makes it, he's chased by a scarecrow and in the end, the chick is able to outthink him.
All in all, a big improvement over most Looney Tunes films of the day because it is reasonably funny and the singing isn't as ubiquitous as it usually was. My score of 7 is relative to other cartoons from 1932...and by today's standards it's still a bit limp.
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