The Terrytoons are oddly interesting, mainly for anybody wanting to see (generally) older cartoons made by lesser known and lower-budget studios. They are a mixed bag in quality, with some better than others, often with outstanding music and with some mild amusement and charm and variable in animation, characterisation and content.
Of their offerings up to this point of this very early stage, 'Hawaiian Pineapples' is one of the weakest alongside 'Roman Punch'. Not awful, but it really does fail agreed to pack punch. While one never expects much exceptional with the early Terrytoons, and generally even (the only component to consistently be so is the music), there were not many cartoons at this very early stage that didn't have an awful lot to recommend. 'Hawaiian Pineapples' is one of them.
'Hawaiian Pineapples' best asset, always the case with Terrytoons, is the music which predictably is outstanding. It is so beautifully and cleverly orchestrated and arranged, is great fun to listen to and full of lively energy, doing so well with enhancing the action.
The backgrounds for 1930 are remarkably detailed and there is some nice inventive visual detail, showing a studio that were aiming for ambition and succeeding in some aspects. Some synchronisation is neat.
However, like the previous cartoons and much of the ones since, the character designs are crude and don't match the amount of detail that went everywhere else in the animation. 'Hawaiian Pineapples' is also way too short and is rather choppy in places, almost like it was intended to be two minutes longer but was edited.
Furthermore, the story is paper thin and thoroughly predictable, and doesn't have the natural charm or lively pacing (erratic here) to make up for it. Nor any good gags, which are too few and are far too random and short to make much impression. Not to mention extremely dull, the absurdity isn't there and there isn't even enough to them to reach the opposite way of cute, saccharine level, basically there's nothing to them. Characters are personally deprived. Even Hawaii itself is bland, other than the music and some of the clothes and objects one associates Hawaii with it could have been practically anywhere.
In conclusion, lacklustre cartoon. 4/10 Bethany Cox
Of their offerings up to this point of this very early stage, 'Hawaiian Pineapples' is one of the weakest alongside 'Roman Punch'. Not awful, but it really does fail agreed to pack punch. While one never expects much exceptional with the early Terrytoons, and generally even (the only component to consistently be so is the music), there were not many cartoons at this very early stage that didn't have an awful lot to recommend. 'Hawaiian Pineapples' is one of them.
'Hawaiian Pineapples' best asset, always the case with Terrytoons, is the music which predictably is outstanding. It is so beautifully and cleverly orchestrated and arranged, is great fun to listen to and full of lively energy, doing so well with enhancing the action.
The backgrounds for 1930 are remarkably detailed and there is some nice inventive visual detail, showing a studio that were aiming for ambition and succeeding in some aspects. Some synchronisation is neat.
However, like the previous cartoons and much of the ones since, the character designs are crude and don't match the amount of detail that went everywhere else in the animation. 'Hawaiian Pineapples' is also way too short and is rather choppy in places, almost like it was intended to be two minutes longer but was edited.
Furthermore, the story is paper thin and thoroughly predictable, and doesn't have the natural charm or lively pacing (erratic here) to make up for it. Nor any good gags, which are too few and are far too random and short to make much impression. Not to mention extremely dull, the absurdity isn't there and there isn't even enough to them to reach the opposite way of cute, saccharine level, basically there's nothing to them. Characters are personally deprived. Even Hawaii itself is bland, other than the music and some of the clothes and objects one associates Hawaii with it could have been practically anywhere.
In conclusion, lacklustre cartoon. 4/10 Bethany Cox
