Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

TheLittleSongbird While not one of the classics of the Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote series, it is a long way from one of the duds.The animation is beautifully coloured, with both characters being well drawn especially Coyote and expressions and detailed backgrounds. While formulaic, as with most cartoons of the series, the story is lively paced and told with continuous charm and fun.'War and Pieces' is a very funny cartoon, without being one of the funniest. The pants and invisible paint gags are excellent gags, but the gag with the Chinese Roadrunner is the definite highlight. Both characters come off very well indeed, Roadrunner is a plot device but still very amusing but Coyote has the funniest of the material and is the more interesting and likable of the two.My only big complaint actually is Bill Lava's score. He has composed worse, but it is lifeless, on the cheap side and somewhat ill-fitting.In conclusion, with the exception of the music 'War and Pieces' is very nicely done. 8/10 Bethany Cox

utgard14 The last Road Runner short directed by Chuck Jones in the classic era before he left Warner Bros. While it's not among his best, it is enjoyable and a fitting end to a great series. The animation is crisp with lovely colors and nice backgrounds. The music, provided by Bill Lava, is better than his average output but still weak compared to previous Looney Tunes composers. The gags are mostly funny. Love the bit where Wile E. Coyote loses his "pants." Other good gags include ACME invisible paint and Secrets of a Harem. The highlight of the short is the ending where Wile E. meets a different Road Runner from the other side of the world and tries his luck at catching that one.

Lee Eisenberg As Chuck Jones saw that Warner Bros. was closing the animation department, he probably decided that he should direct one last Road Runner-Wile E. Coyote cartoon. "War and Pieces" has Road "Burn-em Upus Asphaltus" Runner and Wile E. "Caninus Nervous Rex" Coyote doing their usual stuff until WEC throws a wrench in the works. He uses a rocket pack to try and catch RR, but it turns around and sends him burrowing all the way through earth until he comes out in China...where he meets a Chinese RR! Are these sadistic birds trying to take over the world or something? So, it was good to see Chuck direct one last cartoon before leaving the studio, if nothing else. Worth seeing.

angilbas "War and Pieces" was the last classic Road Runner short and director Chuck Jones evidently knew that the studio was about to close, as he began this film with a slow-motion/freeze frame technique similar to the earliest of the series. Jones followed this with his typical fast, fine comic timing, supported by beautifully stylized backdrops. Caninus Nervous Rex (Coyote) is blasted, dropped, dunked, pressed, shot, run down, and sent clear through to China as he tries to catch that bird.