The early days of Looney Tunes studio were very problematic. They tried out a variety of characters and none of them really stuck with the public. The best of them probably was Bosco...and that sure isn't saying much. It's clear when you've seen a lot of these films that they were really struggling to find a sense of identity...though the animation was mostly very good. But he stories, characters and all the singing really make the shorts age poorly.
In "The Queen Was in the Parlor", you see a lot of the problems the studio was dealing with in the shorts. For no particular reason, everyone keeps singing and it really seems to take the place of plot at times. And, like many of their films, a hero arrives to save the day...in this case, it's Goopy Geer...a dog who has long faded into obscurity after his three appearances. It's not so much that he's unlikable...but he's more ill-defined and unfunny...a common problem with their stars of the early to mid-30s.
Apart from the singing, the plot (as it is) is very scant. Only at the end does a villain appear and Goopy quickly dispatches him. Well animated but tremendously dull...with no laughs I could discern.
In "The Queen Was in the Parlor", you see a lot of the problems the studio was dealing with in the shorts. For no particular reason, everyone keeps singing and it really seems to take the place of plot at times. And, like many of their films, a hero arrives to save the day...in this case, it's Goopy Geer...a dog who has long faded into obscurity after his three appearances. It's not so much that he's unlikable...but he's more ill-defined and unfunny...a common problem with their stars of the early to mid-30s.
Apart from the singing, the plot (as it is) is very scant. Only at the end does a villain appear and Goopy quickly dispatches him. Well animated but tremendously dull...with no laughs I could discern.
