I nominate this Our Gang comedy as one of the most child-unfriendly ones I've seen...and I've seen nearly all of them. It features the kids being uncharacteristically mean and the final portion just is nuts...and it makes you wonder if the writer was insane!!
The story begins with some sort of election for the gang. Here is where the film started to lose me...each candidate threatened to punch voters in the nose if they didn't vote for them. Poor Farina doesn't wanna get hit and he spends the entire short looking for a way to escape this fate. Kind of cruel stuff. At the end, he wanders into the middle of another election...one with gangsters. All of the sudden, they all being shooting at each other....with machine guns!!! And, Farina and his kleptomanica sister are stuck in the middle of it! It ends with their mother spanking Farina and almost spanking the baby. Who thought any of this was funny????!!!!
The story begins with some sort of election for the gang. Here is where the film started to lose me...each candidate threatened to punch voters in the nose if they didn't vote for them. Poor Farina doesn't wanna get hit and he spends the entire short looking for a way to escape this fate. Kind of cruel stuff. At the end, he wanders into the middle of another election...one with gangsters. All of the sudden, they all being shooting at each other....with machine guns!!! And, Farina and his kleptomanica sister are stuck in the middle of it! It ends with their mother spanking Farina and almost spanking the baby. Who thought any of this was funny????!!!!