Konterr Brilliant and touching

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Vimacone Frank Tashlin was wrapping up his 2nd stint at Schlesinger's in 1944 (supposedly). He had directed a string of mini-masterpieces during this time frame, including this one.A mother duck hatches her eggs, except one. Robespierre, partially hatched, is in search of a warm spot to hatch, but encounters peril along the way.A little known fact, in between his two stints at Schlesinger's, Tashlin worked on storyboards for Peter And The Wolf when he was at the Disney studio. This would have been done around 1940 and the film was released in 1946. There are some striking similarities in the staging of the snowstorm scenes. Some historians have stated that Tashlin utilized some of the ideas he conceived for Disney in his 1940's WB cartoons. Like Tashlin's other short released in late 1944 THE STUPID CUPID, I got the feeling that this film has some long lost footage, based on a conspicuous jump cut. While it hasn't been really discussed as much as THE STUPID CUPID, I wonder if Tashlin's eventual departure had something to do with the poor edits or if the Hay's Office objected to the adult gags that were prevalent in Tashlin's cartoons from this time frame.Warren Foster reworked this premise for McKimson a few years later as THE SHELL SHOCKED EGG (1948), which was more dialog driven. Both are excellent shorts.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . knows that 90% of animators are Asian, because that continent is the Ancestral Homeland of Cartoons as much as Africa is the Fatherland of NBA basketball. Yet, most of the artists associated with BOOBY HATCHED sport European-sounding monikers, because Rich People Party Congressional Storm Troopers were sent to kidnap every Japanese man, woman, and child at the outset of World War Two, and truck them to desert Ethnic Cleansing Gulags, which turned out to be Death Camps for many. None of these folks faced a shred of evidence that they had done anything wrong. All of them remained locked up for years without a smidgen of "Due Process." Upon release, none of the surviving detainees got their homes, businesses, or money back. "How could this happen in America?" ask my Millenial classmates. How could White strangers be allowed to occupy the Prime Digs built with the sweat off your brow, and passing down the stolen property through the generations into the 21st Century? Three words: Military-Style Assault Rifles. Not one of these political prisoners being herded like sheep to slaughter had so much as a semi-automatic AR-15. That's why five million Americans ALREADY have stocked up on their Bushmasters, and why 100 million more will do so under President Trump. When THE PURGE happens in Real Life, the descendants of the scabs who BOOBY HATCHED the Japanese animators' jobs and homes may be among the first to go.

phantom_tollbooth Frank Tashlin's 'Booby Hatched' is a splendid cartoon full to bursting with all sorts of different types of gag. A mother duck tries desperately to keep her eggs warm in subzero temperatures (and this set up alone spawns five or six great jokes in only a couple of minutes). All but one finally hatch out and the unhatched egg sets out on a journey to find warmth. 'Booby Hatched' seems to pack a ridiculous amount of plot into its seven minutes, incorporating the mother duck's attempts to hatch the eggs, the introduction of the unhatched protagonist, his attempts to find a source of heat, the discovery of his disappearance, the very late introduction of the main villain, a frantic chase, an unexpected twist and finally the punch line. That's without even mentioning the cameo appearance of a hibernating bear who steals the cartoon with just two lines! Tashlin's direction here is as magnificent as ever with some great executions of some tricky concepts (the egg x-ray sequence that opens the cartoon is particularly beautiful) and 'Booby Hatched' emerges as something of an undiscovered masterpiece, a tremendously satisfying classic which has happily reached a wider audience through its much deserved distribution on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4 DVD.

Robert Reynolds This is an incredibly funny cartoon, but a minor character steals the show. There is a hibernating bear who has two lines and the second is one of the funniest bits in the whole short. Other things to watch for are the roll call of the baby ducks' names after they hatch and Robspierre's closing line at the very end. Well worth looking for. Recommended.