Sorry, this movie sucks

As Good As It Gets

A Major Disappointment

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.

This is almost too wacky - but as long as you remember this Looney Tunes cartoon is supposed to be wacky it can be funny in places. I say this because some of the wackiness in "Porky in Wackyland" seems very silly and almost disturbing, but as long as you see the funny side of it, it is perfectly fine. If you do not like anything that is remotely crazy, wacky or silly, then this will be an utter nightmare for you (if you happen to be being forced to watch it, otherwise, you ought to stop watching IMMEDIATELY).I enjoyed this episode for its craziness, Porky, the Dodo, the animation and some of the jokes included. I will have to watch this episode a great deal of times before I remember all of the jokes and you probably will have to as well (unless you did not like it).This episode starts with a newspaper article about Porky going to hunt the last dodo. He goes to darkest Africa (the portrayal of this is not a comfortable one for me, which is odd), to a place "where anything can happen". The population of this area unknown to everybody else is 100 nuts and one squirrel (this is the first proper joke). After this - most things do happen...I recommend this to people who like old Looney Tunes, Porky and wackiness. Not only is this also worth watching for historical value, but it is surprisingly good for modern audiences as well. Enjoy "Porky in Wackyland"! :-)

Watching this fabulous pre-WWII creation, I was immediately reminded of the American cartoonist R. Crumb. What is interesting is that R. Crumb admitted to taking hallucinogenic drugs to draw his strange comics in the late 1960's. Of course, this cartoon with Porky Pig doesn't include Crumb's sense of pornography (thankfully). Crumb's comics are simply rehash seeing some of the inhabitants of Wackyland. I wonder what the illustrators back then did to create such fantastic off the wall stuff. Sure, there were some obvious inspirations in this cartoon (3 stooges) but just about everything is going insane!Thoroughly enjoyable and liberating cartoon for 1938! I saw it in color on Cartoonland. I wonder if I saw the colorized version (It was in color...)

Robert Clampett is known for the surreal elements of his shorts (like the silkworm in "Porky's Birthday" who does his stuff when Porky says "Sew", but as Porky makes conversation with his friends in the party, havoc reaks with the silkworm as Porky stutters the word "So", with Silkworm thinking Porky said "Sew"). He is among my favorite Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies directors (him, Chuck Jones, and the best, Tex Avery). The "Ren and Stimpy" creator said that Clampett was a major influence. The Tiny Toons character Gogo is based on the Dodo in "Wackyland". In this surreal and original short, Porky goes to Darkest Africa (going past Dark and Darker Africa) to hunt the remaining Dodo bird. Porky then comes to a surreal place called Wackyland, where "It Can Happen Here", where the Dodo resides (population: "100 Nuts And A Squirrel"). Porky goes across strange people and things in Wackyland, like people who make the sun rise in the morning, a man who makes jazz sound with his body, and a 3-headed person whose heads resemble Larry, Curly, and Moe. Then he comes across a man who knows all, and as Porky asks where is Dodo, he says "Thattaway" with arrows pointing at different directions,, and the man's sign forms a hall leading to the Dodo. As Porky goes to the Dodo's lair, there comes The Dodo, and Porky tries to catch it. The Dodo uses surreal ways to escape, like drawing a door using a magic pencil and riding on the WB logo and firing a slingshot at Porky. Ten, Porky uses his wit to catch Dodo, and I like the ending. As Porky finally catches the Dodo, Dodo says "I'm the last of the dodoes... ain't I, fellas?" and other dodoes appear and they say "Yeah!".

This cartoon is an early pinnacle of animation insanity, the prototypical Warner Brothers short. A blitzkrieg of jokes, puns, and free-wheeling mayhem, WB-style cartoons sometimes equaled, but never surpassed, "Porky in Wackyland". Every square inch of every frame is packed with information that flows in several directions at once. Carl Stalling's score is as integral to this cartoon as any of the visual elements (and more so than the "script"). For these, and many other, reasons, "Porky in Wackyland" is the blueprint for the best of WB cartoons, as well as a signpost to various late-20th Century highbrow/lowbrow aesthetics.