Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Alistair Olson
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Cheryl
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
danegem
The looney toon shorts have always struck me as various sketches/ideas/caricatures which would often vary on whether they would cater to one's tastes or entertainment value. Like the Marx Brothers, Saturday Night Live, Steven Spielberg animated shows ("Animaniacs"/"Freakazoid"/"Tiny Toons"/"Pinky and the Brain") or any non-Disney animated Theatrical short, the Looney Toons do what they think is funny, when they think it is funny and how they feel it should be carried out. This short struck me as an intermission between two other shorts, or even as part of a feature length film tracking Bugs Bunny's adventures. It is simple: Bugs Bunny is in a barrel in the sea, and he is picked up by a motherless gorilla who wishes to have a child of her own. Deciding to play along and indulge her, Bugs goes home and is greeted with hostility by papa gorilla. The short ends with Bugs Bunny besting the Papa Gorilla in a "battle of wits". Honestly, nothing special goes on in here. They both bang each other on the head and chase each other around, but its not very funny; its just plain boring. The opportunities one could have with such a setup are limitless, and it just seems like there was lazy planning and a lack of potential gags and setups. This is one short I will only recommend you watch once, unless of course you are a die-hard Looney Toon fan.
fmsteinberg
The ending of "Gorilla My Dreams" has special meaning for me because it is one of those Bugs Bunny vignettes with allusions to the real world that took me a several years to decipher. The ones with allusions to celebrities and classic movies are fun, and this one has a twist. At the end of the cartoon Mrs Gruesome makes a plaintive telephone call, after receiving the irrevocable filial rejection from Bugs and says, "Mr Anthony… I have a problem." My mother was once walking through the room while I watched this episode (after multiple times) in the 1970s and laughed at that line, which had never made sense to me. When I asked her why she laughed she said that "Mr. Anthony was a radio adviser, an Agony Uncle, from the 1950s" and she found that it was funny that a gorilla in a cartoon would make such a call. This concept was possibly loosely copied in a Simpson's episode: After Homer suspects that the alien Kodos is the father of Maggie, the family makes an appearance on the Jerry Springer Show. During the course of trying to reconcile a possibly cuckolded Homer, Kang and Kodos appear in the studio, which they proceed to destroy, including Jerry Springer. The Simpsons family are spared, but there is no resolution to the dilemma. As they walk outside of the destroyed studio, Marge says that she is really disappointed because even Jerry Springer was not able to solve their problem. In 50 years it is likely that Jerry Springer will be as remembered as Mister Anthony was 50 years after his appearance, but the joke remains.
ccthemovieman-1
Bugs, floating in a barrel in the ocean but unperturbed by it all, washes ashore on "Bingzi- Bangzi - Land of the Ferocious Apes." After some beautiful artwork showing the jungle, we come across some apes lying around reading books with titles such as "Apes Of Wrath" and "Our Vines Have Tender Apes." That's one feature I love with these Looney Tunes cartoons: the writers loved puns, as I do.Like Moses in the brush, Bugs is picked up by a woman (in this case, gorilla) who is thrilled at the prospect of caring for a new "baby."This cartoon, which is part of the Golden Collection Volume Two, shows Bugs' "soft spot," as he puts it: dames crying, so if the female thinks he's hers, well, to keep her from crying any more, Bugs "goes along with the gag." What ensues is mostly funny, from the sight gags - Bugs in a pink baby outfit, and then pretending to be an ape - to his battles with the father ape "Gruesome." The only lame part was the ending. Actually, I enjoyed the fabulous artwork in here with amazing jungle drawings, best of all, along with the puns in the beginning.
Op_Prime
Bugs Bunny has found home with his parents both being gorillas. Crazy, isn't it? Despite being crazy, this is a classic short. Once again, Bugs has to face a villain, the Gorilla Gruesome who would rather not have Bugs around and decided to 'play' rough. What are the odds he is going to regret it in the end? Very good.
