Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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

CoachJim I saw this last night as the lead-in to the showing of the 1933 classic, King Kong. With the distance of time and evolved social awareness, I found this to be very offensive. Technically, it seemed quite rushed. The finesse of period Woody Woodpecker cartoons was totally absent. There was a very thin script, which seemed unnecessarily harsh in telling an angry story. This old white guy was appalled. I can only assume that the person who chose this short did so to magnify the evolution of national social consciousness.

John T. Ryan SUCCESS IN ANY field spawns both imitation and parody. It has long been said that: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." If this is so (and we're sure it is)then the spoof, the send-up and that old standby, parody should rank right up there also. (And don't forget Lampoon, either!) THIS 1933 CARTOON short does a credible job in recreating in cartoon world similar settings that mimic Skull Island of KING KONG fame. The cartoon opens up with Pooch the Pup and his female companion already having arrived on their version of that mysterious island far southwest of Borneo, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra and Australia. They arrive during the sacrificial rite that offers up a female native to the giant godlike ape.THROUGH SOME ERROR, Pooch's lady friend get's switched and is taken by the super simian, who apparently would actually have eaten her as a tiny morsel of his dinner. Cupid appears and does his bit with bow and does his thing; which renders the big ape helpless. (This in a direct spoof of the quotation in the opening credits and prelude to the KING KONG story of" ".......and he (the Beast) was as one dead." AFTER THE INTRODUCTION of an all-purpose dinosaur from either the Jurassic or Cretaceous periods and their version of the Kong vs. Tyrannosaurus bout, a brief tip of the hat to MGM's TARZAN THE APEMAN, the capture of the ape sees his sight gag ridden trip to the big exposition of "Klunk" in NYC. His eventual escape and final fate is sealed with his tumbling off the skyscraper and his crashing and burning!! WE CAN SUPPOSE that this was a very amusing to audiences of the day. We did our best to look at it both analytically, as well as objectively. Having done so, we can only suppose that it produced about a 5 or 6 on the old Laugh Meter. Like any theatrically released picture, its appeal and enjoyment factor would rise when viewed as a part of a live, red-blooded and breathing audience.ONE ELEMENT THAT jumps out of the screen at a viewer in this 21st Century is the casual use of racial stereotypes concerning the native (indigenous, aboriginal peoples). Their character design was that of those being derivative of the Minstrel Show.WE HAVE JUST only today heard of this title and screened it for the first time. It is one in a series of POOCH THE PUP Cartoons produced for Universal Pictures by Walter Lantz. This predated his successes with ANDY PANDA, WOODY WOODPECKER, WALLY WALRUS, CHILLY WILLY and others.

BA_Harrison Woody Woodpecker creator Walter Lantz was quick off the mark with this animated parody of King Kong, which came out in 1933, the very same year as the classic monster movie; but perhaps he should have taken a little more time, because in his rush he forgot to include any decent gags or memorable characters.Giant amorous ape aside, the main character is Pooch, a generic 1930s animated animal (dog?) vaguely reminiscent of Betty Boop's pal Bimbo. Then again, he's a bit like Mickey Mouse. Or Felix the Cat. When his equally generic girlfriend is abducted by King Klunk, Pooch sets off in hot pursuit to rescue her.Technically and stylistically, this early cartoon is fairly typical of the era, with repetitive use of looped frames to extend the action, random inanimate objects coming to life, and politically incorrect depictions of natives, but with humour that is as prehistoric as the titular ape's home it will probably be of little interest to anyone but animation historians or avid fans of King Kong who feel the need to watch anything remotely related to the film.

Michael_Elliott King Klunk (1933) ** 1/2 (out of 4)This pleasant Universal cartoon has been forgotten over the decades but it's in fact the first film to spoof RKO's KING KONG so that reason alone gives it some historic importance. In the film, Pooch the Pup takes his girlfriend to the Africa so that they can make a movie about a giant ape. They find the ape, return it to the U.S. and of course it breaks free and steals the girlfriend. The plot to this 9-minute short pretty much follows all the major points in KING KONG and I'm rather surprised how obvious it was as I'm sure there was some sort of legal matter that the studio could have done. With that said, fans of the giant ape will certainly want to check this out just to see how well it does spoof the film. I thought the stuff dealing with the fight between the ape and a dinosaur in the jungle was extremely well done and I won't ruin the ending but the final shot of the ape was perfect. The thing that keeps this short from being a classic is the Pooch character and the fact that he's just not that memorable or funny. There were several attempts at humor but most of them fell flat on their face. Some will probably find some of the humor around the jungle people to be offensive as it's the (for the time) typical black characters and their stereotypes.