Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . than the thought of having their babies swapped at birth with those of Random Strangers, Warner Bros. decided in the 1900s. Many of Warner's live-action features and animated shorts proved a barrel of laughs circling around this jocular theme. GOO GOO GOLIATH is just one of the Looney Tunes designed to instruct U.S. Citizens that Life is just a craps shoot, anyway; a dice game in which the odds of getting a particular outcome are about 100 million to one (the typical ratio of tadpoles to eggs when folks make Whoopee). Since those odds roughly covered the entire population as the Baby Boom got into full swing, it was logical to think that anyone's grandchild could be a Barack Obama just as easily as a Donald Trump. GOO GOO GOLIATH suggests that American procreation is akin to playing the slots (some sort of song might be associated with all of this, which goes "Put another nickel in, in the Nickelodeon . . . "). The moral of this story is that having U.S. babies is just like buying a box of chocolates: You just need to grin and bear it, rather than complaining about what the stork dragged in at the drop of a diaper.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Goo Goo Goliath" is a 7-minute cartoon from over 60 years ago that is certainly nowhere near Warner Bros' most known works. But with such a gigantic quantity, you cannot find quality everywhere and this is unfortunately true here. Freleng, Foster, Blanc and Benederet usually stand for quality, but not even they can make this one work. It is especially the background animation that looks lackluster here and very much inferior to what Warner Bros did during that time, or even a decade ago. One reason why this cartoon is not known today anymore is probably because it does not feature any of their most known characters. And in the middle section, it almost feels as if they were trying to channel Disney's "how to" videos starring Goofy, in this case "how to be a dad". "Goo Goo Goliath" is rarely funny or creative, I give it a thumbs down.

Lee Eisenberg I've always wondered what's up with the image of the drunken stork. Whatever it is, the besotted wading bird of the family Ciconiidae delivers a giant baby to a normal-sized couple, and...well, whatever your problems raising a baby are, they can't be this bad! I'm sure that "Goo Goo Goliath" was mostly a place holder (every director got to direct one or two miscellaneous cartoons each year). While not what I consider hilarious, it's easily enjoyable. Of course, you gotta pity storks. The mythical deliverers of new babies get depicted in cartoons as irresponsible alcoholics.Anyway, worth seeing.

CatTales While the drunken stork is an amusing thread running through this story of baby-swapping, there are many other memorable moments: the giant baby playing with life-size trucks, or the satire of those 1950's cautionary films with the scene of an empty yard and the narrator saying "a gatedoor carelessly left ajar, and an innocent baby wanders away..." (obviously a closed gate wouldn't have impeded the giant baby), or the giant father using a jeweler's eyepiece to see as he changes the diapers on his extremely tiny baby. Perhaps not as inventive as the classic Mars/Earth baby-swap, "Rocket-bye Baby" but still worthy.