luige-cp Reviews

The Mad Hatter (1948)

A Cartola (1948)

[10/10 · 12 January 2015]

Indeed, the rise of the short Woodpecker is in the 40's! Honestly, it's very difficult to give an average or low note pros short this time because all are fantastic.

And Mad Hatter is no different, launched in 1948 by Lantz studios, brings a wonderful animation with movements compared with Warner and Disney. And the short has influences of Disney, being directed by Dick Lundy. The Woodpecker receives a letter saying that he will make a screen test in the studio Bee Movies, of course, it should go elegant, then takes his hat and puts it on his head, but as she dirty and old ends up being destroyed by insects. So Woodpecker will buy a new hat in Leoncio shop, where he does everything to put the hat on the head of Woodpecker. After much confusion happens, the hat moves alone and let the Woodpecker crazy and want your hat anyway, leaving an influence of Disney, where his character Donald also goes through similar situations.

With so much confusion, the Woodpecker in the end destroys the roof of the film studio and do not get the test. Woodpecker gets angry and appears the girl of dreams and the Woodpecker finds a way and gives it his laugh ....

The short is very good, deserves to be recognized. I do not understand the 6.2 rating it should be at least 6.8. And some episodes of the 60 have higher grades, which is kind of wrong.

Woodpecker is very beautiful here, he is very charismatic. Leoncio is also very charismatic. And the goose is also funny.

Fred Brunish funds are full of color and give that line the episode. And the music of Darrell Calker is fantastic, in 1948 he is still in his prime, with many beautiful compositions. Little did that months later, The Woodpecker Song would be a tremendous success.

Solid Ivory (1947)

O Ovo da Galinha (1947)

[10/10 · 15 November 2014]

The short is one of the best 40s of the Woodpecker, directed by Dick Lundy of the year 1947. The short opens with a barn on the farm where Woodpecker is playing pool (where New Show in the Woodpecker, the sport is featured in a few episodes as the hobby of bird), but the cue ball ends up stopping at the chicken coop and the nest falls from a very clever hen no name, it goes to the henhouse and picks up his ball back, but the chicken thinks he grabbed her egg, and does everything to disrupt the Woodpecker. Woodpecker uses his techniques to try to get his billiard ball back from the use of a corn, use the ax, nylon stockings, even masquerades as a stylish and charming rooster to a hen trying to cheat. In the end, he runs off to the nest for the farm, but stumbles and falls to the ground, and in a way there is a cute and funny end where the woodpecker, the hen and chicks do well. But proof that Dick Lundy brought some of the personality characteristics of Donald Duck for the woodpecker. Very nice!

The Coo Coo Bird (1947)

The Coo-Coo Bird influences

[10/10 · 11 November 2014]

The Coo Coo Bird was released in 1947 by Lantz studios, where now the woodpecker was having, former animator Dick Lundy control and director of the short films from Disney in the late '30s and early' 40s, especially the creator of Duck Donald. And of course he took what he learned and experienced over the years in his cartoons. If you're a fan of old cartoons like I should note that there is a very big influence of Disney studios in the years 1947-1949 in Lantz studios, due to Dick Lundy. Obviously, Dick brought elements is Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse to the Woodpecker was in this drawing, even quoted in lantzpédia site. It is this influence that we see in The Coo Coo Bird, where the woodpecker trying to sleep, so that nothing interferes. But nothing goes right into the night bird, this time is on a board in the middle of a big city (but at the end of the design has a huge backyard, leading to believe that the design is pass in a rural area), and suddenly a neon light of a hotel disrupts your sleep, and then the sound of a cuckoo in the clock, he is overwhelmed by his building's glass window, and gets into trouble with a crazy automatic table which serves as a bed, and at the end of the design since the day he is chased by two dogs and a hunter, making it a body of woodpecker and two dogs together (there is a clear influence MGM Tex Avery and Warner Looney there). Then he gives hardly the end of the short, one can conclude that the short has a history of Donald Duck, mixed with funny gags that recall the wacky shorts from Warner and MGM. It's a great design!