I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The Worst Film Ever

Thanks for the memories!

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

In the tradition of Wille E. Coyote and Roadrunner, there is no dialogue and the action speaks louder than words. Inki the hunter was going to hunt a dinosaur, but instead goes after the Mynah Bird leading them in a series of wacky events. It is a great cartoon, the dinosaurs are interesting to look at and the animation is great, not to mention the music. But with every up there is a down. It is politically incorrect. First of all, the character is offensive to look at and is bound to cause an uproar. There are some running gags there. It must be seen to be believed. Give it a watch. Although it is not rated, but a G-rating would be nice.

. . . Warner Bros. courageously attempts to thwart the need for a #Cartoonssowhite Hashtag by depicting Inki as a Proud Member of the Black Race during CAVEMAN INKI. Ten years after CAVEMAN INKI graced USA theater screens, the Hanna & Barbera weasels--spawned in the same Racist Miasmic Swamp at MGM studios that birthed that infamously mendacious snooze-fest, GONE WITH THE WIND--plagiarized INKI with their Deplorable FLINTSTONES television series. These cheap cartoons Whited Out History with their bigoted all-White cast featuring the Rubble Family, along with the title characters, of course. Warner also uses CAVEMAN INKI to poke fun, in their usual clairvoyant way, at the Holy Roller Museums destined to dot America in the 21st Century in order to spread Fake "Facts" malarkey about people and dinosaurs roaming Earth AT THE SAME TIME!! The weak-minded Holocaust, Climate Change and Evolution Deniers that currently visit these Brainwashing Shacks are the same folks that accelerated the looming Human Extinction Event by AT LEAST a century when they recently installed Red Commie KGB patsy Don Juan Rump at the White House through the Rigged Election of 2016. Warner's Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, the prognosticating Looney Tuners) gets the last laugh at the expense of this Fascist Confederate Nazi ilk by throwing a Minah Bird into the mix, contemporaneous with Inki and the long-necked dinosaur. Every True Blue Loyal Patriotic Progressive Union Label toddler knows that in Reality, Minah Birds evolved from Minotaurs many eons later!

"Caveman Inki" and at least four other Inki cartoons have been shelved by Warner Brothers (home of Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes) because the character offends modern sensibilities. So, although audiences of the 1940s and 50s saw no problem with this depiction of a black character with huge lips and a bone in his hair, today it is bound to offend. While this is true, I have to see any cartoon banned (officially or unofficially) for many reasons. First, we need to know how far we've come--and, thankfully, this sort of character is something we wouldn't make today because most folks genuinely don't want to offend. Second, throwing out the entire cartoon is a loss of our history. And, in some cases, the cartoons are good even though they do offend. However, "Caveman Inki" isn't that good--it just isn't funny. Plus the myna bird character was used pretty much the same way seven years earlier. Not a terrible cartoon but one we probably won't miss as it sits on the shelf.

Chuck Jones clearly liked using classical music. In this cartoon he used the same mysterious, black, myna bird as he did in several other cartoons.The bird, (whose appearance signaled a stop to whatever fighting was going on) was always accompanied by the same melodic phrase by the classical composer, Felix Mendelssohn. Anyone familiar with the works of Mendelssohn will recognize the music immediately. And, I suspect the reverse will also be true, i.e. anyone having seen the huge, black myna bird, with the bored expression, doing his silly hop to the music of Mendelssohn, will find it difficult to listen to this music again without conjuring up a memory of this curious bird.