Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Bereamic Awesome Movie

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

TheLittleSongbird Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.Also have much admiration for Tex Avery, an animation genius whose best cartoons are animated masterpieces and some of the best he ever did. All five Screwy Squirrel cartoons are great (my least favourite is 'Big-Wheel-Watha' but it is still wonderfully and hugely funny, just have a preference for the more daring Screwy cartoons), it is a shame that there weren't more, with 'Lonesome Lenny' being a close second favourite after 'The Screwy Truant'.Despite being a compelling, much more anarchic than his sweet appearance and funny character, as well as being charismatic enough to carry his cartoons as a lead character (as he does here), it is somewhat easy to see why Screwy didn't click and didn't last long, being a brash character with few sympathetic qualities. As one can guess, while one can see why others find him annoying, he's never been a problem with me. The Lenny-like dog, dumb and strong, manages to be Screwy's best opponent.Tex Avery does a wonderful job directing, with his unique, unlike-any-other visual and characteristic and incredibly distinctive wacky humour style all over it once again.Furthermore, 'Lonesome Lenny' is once again wonderfully over-the-top, very creative in its violent tone and some of it is hilarious, with enough variety to stop it from being repetitious.It's beautifully and brilliantly animated as usual. The character designs are unique, Avery always did have creative character designs, and suitably fluid. The music, courtesy of Scott Bradley, is lushly and cleverly orchestrated, with lively and energetic rhythms and fits very well indeed.Voice acting is very good.Altogether, wonderful and it was sad that there weren't more Screwy cartoons. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . but what about the fowl consistently passing rotten ones? During the 1940s, MGM's animated shorts department found itself facing exactly such a quandary, and decided to rid itself of this dire problem by churning out a series of brief cartoon Snuff Films. LONESOME LENNY thus marks Crazy Squirrel's swan song. This especially irritating rodent gets sold by a PETS OR FOOD store to be the "playmate" or Playmeat of a large dog with a thing for John Steinbach novellas. OF MICE AND MEN is his particular favorite, so he styles himself as "Lenny," a serial killer of soft furry things (not unlike current White House resident Rump). Lenny begins his brief time with Crazy Squirrel by subjecting him to extreme vetting. Though this squalid squirrel wins a battle or two, it's not long before he loses Lenny's extreme petting war. Director Tex Avery pins a "Sad, isn't it?" note to Crazy's corpse. However, the only unhappy aspect of Crazy's demise is that Disney did not follow suit with a few of its own especially obnoxious and over-exposed cartoon personalities, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

Jorge (pacheco_25553) This is one of my favorite cartoon. Unlike others I think the screwy squirrel is a very funny character. Tex Avery was a very gifted and talented animator with a dark humor and all his cartoons are excellent. This one is not an exception. Too bad that there are only five cartoons of this crazy character.

Robert Reynolds This short was the last one to feature Screwy Squirrel. His nemesis here is a dog patterned after the character Lenny from Of Mice and Men, which was a device used quite often in cartoons, particularly by Tex Avery (who used the two leads as the pattern for George and Junior as well). Good, if not particularly novel, short, which is probably why Avery stopped-he'd taken Screwy as far as he could and there wasn't much more to do with him. Characters were seldom important to Avery in any case. Well worth tracking down. Recommended.