Baseshment
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Lela
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . most likely would take longer to read than this seven-minute Looney Tune's running time. Pirandelloism, or the eternal conflict between Illusion and Reality (named after SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR playwright Luigi Pirandello) was in vogue when DUCK AMUCK was released, so Daffy is marching in lock-step with his Zeitgeist here. Though the black duck becomes increasingly agitated WAITING FOR GODOT, he cannot help being reduced to a boy-toy with NO EXIT from the Solipcistic imagination of his Arch Nemesis, Bugs Bunny. Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau frequently tried to diagram "Reagan's Brain" while "The Gipper" spent his days watching himself pretending to be someone important in some old movie on the TV in his White House bedroom. These daily newspaper comic strips showed that our Commander-in-Chief's Noggin' was totally Looney Tunes (which helps explain why we invaded Grenada--this actually happened in Real Life; you can Wiki it!). Reagan's autobiography was titled "Where's the Rest of Me?" This is taken from Daffy's poignant cry in DUCK AMUCK. Pirandelloism, anyone?
WakenPayne
This is yet another piece of childhood nostalgia, Looney Tunes. After seeing a couple of them this one is easily my favourite. But then again I haven't seen that much since I was a kid so that can be a little problematic. Even as a kid I enjoyed this above most of them.The premise is take an animated character (Daffy) and put him in a situation where the background keeps changing time and place if it was there. All efforts to convince the animator usually end up in Daffy getting coloured, given a completely different and ridiculous body or other such ways to always make us laugh at his reaction.If you even have the slightest enjoyment of Daffy Duck or any of the other Looney Tunes characters then this one is certainly for you. Even after many years it always is fun to see him look at his ridiculous new body in a mirror and scream "EEK!"... Ain't I a stinker!
klolson54
Daffy Duck... the most deliciously self-absorbed character in memory... possibly the King of such. Even though, by strict ethics, we ought not enjoy caustic payback... there is something innocent in our enjoyment of seeing this "greedy little duck"' the backstabbing, ego maniacal, the quintessential self-absorbed character; getting his come-up-ins. And from us, the viewers, vicariously through Chuck Jones and Mike Maltese (the director writer respectively). Then, the cathartic exasperation in Daffys' exclamations seems to strangely give vent to our own frustrations even if unconsciously aware of them previously.( Is there some of Daffys' flaws in us too?) But beyond academics, it is a joy to see the free range application of morphing realities, contradiction to settings, convention and the breaking rules of traditional expectation. Polka-dotted in daisy tutu ? with the body of something from Marvin's Martian Militia; from "Hey look I'm a Buzz-Boy to Cow-Boy to Alaskan-whatever... this is the true joy of animation and the very definition of zaniness. Finally, WB Looney Tunes, especially Duck Amuck was PS. Politically Safe. In other words, before PC and the polarity of present Right-Left self and social identity, there was PS; but it had no name nor concept. I have a political ID and it is either Left or Right but I like to find areas that we can enjoy together without claiming that it reinforces a partisan bend. I'm OK and if you love Looney Tunes and stuff like Duck Amuck, then as far as I'm concerned, we're both OK in that special little safe zone. I personally KNOW what Chucks' political persuasion was... it was ANIMATOR; for everyone.
Mightyzebra
This is probably the most clever and inventive short I have ever had the opportunity to watch. It shows Daffy Duck, being made VERY VERY ANGRY by being drawn into many different messes. Daffy Duck is perfect in this episode. He is well-animated, nice enough and gets angry easily when necessary (In some episodes, I feel as if he is being unnecessarily cruel and he's not in this one, he's trying to be nice!).This short also has some MASSIVE humour. Just when you have finished laughing, yet ANOTHER joke comes on - and of course - you HAVE to laugh again!Recommended for all Daffy Duck and cartoon animation fans! Enjoy!
