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The dark era begins..., 11 December 2007

Author: wile_E2005 from United States

This was the first cartoon made by Warner Bros. Animation when they reopened in 1967. And unfortunately, like Sander Schwartz's stint at WB Animation president from 2002 to 2007, the studio has never been the same. They mostly hired new staff members and very few veterans, and had Walter Lantz/Hanna-Barbera -director Alex Lovy direct the cartoons. He seemed to take the limited animation influence with him in these cartoons. Daffy is drawn severely off-model and looks very weird, and Speedy doesn't look as good, though at least he isn't drawn as badly as he was in 1968. The writing sounds like a bunch of kids wrote this short, with a highly-predictable ending. And other animation motions seem to resemble Hanna-Barbera or Filmation or UPA, and it comes out looking just plain low-budget. They even had Daffy do the old "bongo feet" thing when running off, just like the H-B characters do, and they also had some of the Hanna-Barbera sound effects used in it, looped over and over and only using a portion of H-B's vast sound FX library (sort of like when the studio would make "What's New Scooby-Doo?" in 2002), and Bill Lava's music sounds cheesy as well. But as I say, don't judge a book by this cover, and not all of the WB cartoons from this period were like this (only the Speedy vs. Daffy shorts). Luckily, they went and created Cool Cat, and that livened things up a bit.

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An Average Alex Lovy Short - And A Below Average WB Short, 22 May 2005

Author: MartyD82-1 from United States

Speedy takes a mouse friend to a ghost town and shows him a piece of cheese from a local cheese mine. Daffy willingly overhears them, mistaking the cheese for gold. Thus begins yet another Daffy/Speedy chase through an abandoned saloon and into the "Cheese Mine."

Many consider this to be among the worst Daffy/Speedy cartoons. While it isn't bad compared to some of the other Alex Lovy directed shorts (See Ya Later, Gladiator), it's fairly mediocre. A poorly drawn Daffy essentially goes after Speedy for no real reason other than to get the cartoon started, the jokes are worn out and unfunny (save for may be the telephone gag in the middle), and the ending is so predictable you could probably guess what it is just by reading my plot description at the top. The horribly drawn backgrounds and cheesy Bill Lava music don't help matters much, either.

Don't spend nights on end tracking this one down.

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