UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Michael_Elliott The Lion Tamer (1934) ** (out of 4) The second and final film in the Amos 'n' Andy cartoon series has our two "heroes" working at a circus where Andy is supposed to "tame" a fake lion but of course a real lion gets into the cage with him. I watched the two Amos 'n' Andy shorts back-to-back and there's no question that this one here is miles better than the first. I thought this one here actually featured a few funny moments even if the screenplay wasn't all that original. Even by 1934 there had been films where someone was supposed to be messing with a fake animal only to have a real one takes its place. I thought the scenes of Andy pushing the lion around were actually quite funny. I also thought the scene where we see inside the fake lion outfit to be funny as well. As for the rest of the film, it's certainly a product of its own time as most of the humor is just not funny and there's no doubt that the stereotypes aren't going to sit well with modern audiences. With that said, for the most part there's nothing overly offensive here once you get past the fact that it's two white guys doing the voices of the black men.

MartinHafer Back in the late 1920s, the "Amos 'n Andy" radio show debuted and it was a bit hit through the 1930s and 40s. However, there was one major problem in marketing the film--the voice actors were all white guys pretending to be black guys--very, very, very stereotypically stupid black guys. Now they tried making one film with these voice actors, "Check and Double Check". Aside from not being funny, the film also suffered because these men wore black-face throughout! So how could they solve this problem? Make "Amos 'n Andy" cartoons--and "The Lion Tamer" is one of them.The film consists of some animation that make the characters seem buffoonish--and I am sure that many folks seeing the cartoon today would be offended. However, the film made one other serious mistake--it just wasn't funny. It consists of Andy pretending to be a lion tamer--with Calhoun and Lightning wearing a lion costume. Surprise, surprise....a real lion breaks loose and he thinks this real lion is a fake...and hilarity is supposed to ensue...and doesn't. Not very good and mostly of interest for historical reasons.

tavm The Lion Tamer is the second Van Beuren cartoon that starred the popular radio characters Amos 'n' Andy. As in the previous one, The Rasslin' Match, another character named Kingfish tricks Andy into doing something Andy normally wouldn't do. Here, Andy has to tame a lion in front of a large audience. There are actually two lions here: a real one who's tied on the ground for show and a costumed one worn by a couple of friends. Andy is supposed to tame the costumed one but of course eventually ends with the real one. The visual gags involving both lions makes this a little better humor-wise than The Rasslin' Match but not by much. Since this was the last Amos 'n' Andy cartoon made, I'd only recommend this and its predecessor only to those who are Amos 'n' Andy completists. Both these cartoons are, for now, available for viewing on YouTube in pretty blurry prints.

rbverhoef 'The Lion Tamer' is an animated short starring Andy Brown and Amos Jones, two black men with the voices of Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden. I have not seen other cartoons with these two characters and after this one I do not really want to. The story that involves Andy as a lion tamer, a fake lion with two men in a suite, and a real dangerous one is as predictable as these things can be. You can probably guess the outcome by reading the sentence before this one.Besides the story that is not good we have a racist kind of animation. The black men (and the black audience watching the lion tamer for that matter) are caricatures, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but here it is sort of offending. Of course you should watch pass that, but with a predictable cartoon like 'The Lion Tamer' that's pretty hard.