Alicia I love this movie so much

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

agj8012 The Warner Brothers cartoons are known for their abstract sense of humor. That's why the cartoons are so great. But even for a Warner Bros. cartoon, this one is strange. In this cartoon directed by the great Chuck Jones, the devil has lost one of his horns, and is looking everywhere for it. The horn ends up being found by an elderly British man who thinks that it is a hearing-aid. However, when the man decides to use it, strange things happen. A plant in the process of growing sounds like a symphony, and insects sound like streetcars. The cartoon becomes even more surreal when an incidental character, a short man dressed in purple, shows up at random times. This cartoon certainly does not make much sense, but the cartoon is absolutely hilarious at the same time. The reactions of the elderly man to the surreal situations that he is in are priceless, and the inventiveness of this cartoon is evident everywhere. The art style in this cartoon is purposely simplistic, and definitely has a sixties feel to it(the cartoon was produced in 1963.) Perhaps the most original cartoon of all time, this masterpiece will forever be a shining example of the irreverent, sophisticated humor of Chuck Jones cartoons.

phantom_tollbooth As a youngster I always eagerly looked forward to a Warner Bros. cartoon coming on TV but I was always disappointed when the opening titles featured, in place of the classic concentric circles, the angular, modern titles that became synonymous with the deeply inferior, latter day Warner shorts. These jutting triangles, accompanied by an ugly re-imagining of the Merrie Melodies theme, almost always signified the arrival of a dreaded Speedy and Daffy cartoon. However, there was always the slimmest of slim chances that you might luck out and instead be rewarded with Chuck Jones's 'Now Hear This'.'Now Hear This' was the cartoon which first introduced the modern title sequence which would go on to be defiled by the Depatie-Freleng monstrosities. The most abstract cartoon Warner Bros. ever released, 'Now Hear This' is a clear forerunner for any number of surrealist animations from 'Yellow Submarine' to Bob Godfrey's superb 'Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit'. Having experimented with just about ever visual and narrative device available, with 'Now Hear This' Jones turns his attention to sound. The visuals here are minimalist, with highly stylised characters performing against a backdrop of nothingness. The cartoons begins with a frustrated devil searching for his missing horn (he wanders through the opening credits, showing a demonic contempt for convention). The horn is discovered by a stuffy English man (recognisable as English by his monocle and moustache even before the confirmation of a 'Keep Britain Tidy' sign and a burst of the British national anthem) who swaps his battered old ear trumpet for this new discovery. Thus begins his descent into aural hell! There is very little logic to the events of 'Now Hear This' but the images flow so beautifully that questioning them seems churlish. The impeccably chosen and synchronised bursts of sound (courtesy of genius sound man Treg Brown) are at once extraordinarily disturbing and this eerie edge to the cartoon cannot have escaped the attention of children's programmers since 'Now Hear This' was rarely seen on kid's TV. It is far more akin to the sort of cartoon I used to discover on TV at about 1am and then be haunted by for weeks for some indistinguishable reason. Like all such cartoons, 'Now Hear This' is utterly compelling and unpredictable. Testament to Chuck Jones's ongoing crusade to keep imagination alive, 'Now Hear This' is both a visual and aural treat.

Stephen Holloway While Chuck Jones did do an superb job in directing this short, the credit should also go two men who helped made the picture enjoyable, Treg Brown in sound and William Lava in music. The picture starts off with the devil searching for his lost horn. Little did he know, an British gentleman finds it and uses it as a hearing aid. However, he soon found out that the "hearing aid" has an mind of it's own, and takes him on a wild ride. By the end of the film, the British man decides to retrieve his old horn (that he threw away eairler in the cartoon,) and walks off. (Or rather limps off.) Seconds later, the devil (from the start of the picture), returns and finds his missing horn. Another character arrives to give the moral and ends the film. The combine efforts of Brown sound effects through out the film was done well along with Lava's music of "Yankee Doodle" and "Rue Britania" as well was also good along with the rest of music of the picture. It will be available on DVD later this month as part of Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 6. It's also available on the DVD intitled Warner Bros. Home Enterainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, 15 winners 26 nominees as well. I highly recommend this picture. an 9 out of 10. By the way, the only flaw, very little to no background.

heyyoupatguy Another Chuck Jones cartoon where he steps outside his Warner Bros. characters and deals with the abstract in the same vain as 'High Note' and 'The Dot and The Line'(although the previous title may be slightly inaccurate, it is along the same lines). Not much else to say-just a very inventive and enjoyable offering from the greatest short-subject animator in the world. Unfortunately, it doesn't get played very often.