4/10
Early Daffy Duck Just Doesn't Measure Up
10 May 2007
This isn't much. Daffy Duck didn't really become that funny until later, at least a full decade later. I'm glad they got rid of his stupid, laugh. He's my favorite cartoon character of the '50s, but not here, not this early in his "career." He's smaller, has a different voice and his humor is generally geared to little kids.

All the laughs in here were in the first minute, such as the exaggerated German film director rolling his "r's," which was funny at first but then overdone.

The cigarette lighter gag was clever, then Daffy blowing smoke rings that say "Wanrer Brothers" just so "I can give my bosses a plug. I've got an option coming up." It's that kind of clever stuff we saw in later years. The rest of this - Daffy being a nuisance in the filming of a movie - really wasn't that good.

By the way, you know it's an older cartoon when the characters are all dressed like human beings but they have animal-heads.
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