IslandGuru Who payed the critics

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . just as their grandparents swore by a Timex "watch" (tag-line: "It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking") as these wrist-worn time-tracking devices--back in Fashion today among the UltraRich, but yet to appear during this Century of American Decline in the zip codes of working people--once served as the link between the gold pocket watches in vogue during the 1800s and our current multi-tasking cell phones. Both Energizer and Timex have capitalized upon Warner Bros.' characterization of Wile E. Coyote. For example, in the Looney Tunes animated short ZIPPING ALONG, Mr. Coyote gets raced over nine times by his meal ticket\nemesis, the roadrunner. Wile also gets Smushed by extremely heavy objects thrice, severely mouse-trapped like the JACKASS guy, run over by a truck, sent into four Death Plunges, blown up on five occasions, and shot roughly 63 times (not counting an incident of being shot himself from a cannon). Since this cartoon dates back to the 1900s, I have a hunch that Mr. Coyote padded off to his bed (after a hard day on the set) wearing Energizer Bunny Slippers, as well as a tick-tick-ticking Timex Watch.

phantom_tollbooth Chuck Jones's 'Zipping Along', the fourth cartoon in the Road Runner series, is notable for how it increases the relationship between the Coyote and the audience. The gags are hit and miss, ranging from hilarious (the mouse trap gag is still among my favourites) to dull (the bomb and the kite) or genuinely weak (the double "meep meep" from the Road Runner and the dust he leaves behind). However, the reaction shots of the Coyote are all priceless and there are many more of them than in the opening trio of cartoons. His endearingly defeated glances to the audience are capable of turning a weak gag into a hilarious one. For example, the nonsensical joke with the giant magnet and the TNT is improved 100% by the extremely brief look of horror the Coyote shoots our way a millisecond before the explosion. It's the tiniest piece of animation but it's monumentally effective. There are numerous little moments like that all the way through 'Zipping Along', considerably heightening its enjoyment factor. It's also notable for the fact that it is the first Road Runner cartoon not to close with the Coyote being hit by a vehicle which the Road Runner is on board. He is hit by a vehicle at the finale and we do hear a "meep meep" afterwards but it doesn't come from the Road Runner!

ccthemovieman-1 I like these opening graphics which give us various "scientific names" of the two main characters. This time, the roadrunner - who is shown outracing a fast train - is labeled "velocitus tremenjus." Wile E. Coyote, watching from above, is now labeled "Road Runnerus Digestus."Wile E.'s slapstick attempts at getting the bird include a hand grenade, mousetraps, a giant kite with a big bomb, falling telephone poles, bird seed with steel shot and a giant magnet, hypnotism, a giant boulder, shotguns and more! It's unbelievable how many attempts the coyote makes in each cartoon with the predictable results.This wasn't one of the funnier episodes, I didn't think, although it was entertaining as always.

Robert Reynolds The life of a predator isn't what it's cracked up to be! He must be up to his eyeballs in debt to Acme (or has a sizable source of funds), his medical bills equally large and for what? A singular lack of success in catching one bird! I say give up, get a pizza and take up stamp collecting. Great fun and worth watching. Recommended.