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TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

TheLittleSongbird The Bosko cartoons may not be animation masterpieces, but they are fascinating as examples of Looney Tunes in their early days before the creation of more compelling characters and funnier and more creative cartoons. There are some good cartoons, as well as some average or less ones.Some of Bosko's cartoons are good (with the animation, music and some well done gags often standing out as particularly impressive). Others are average or less and hindered by lack of laughs, lacking stories, struggling to have enough material to sustain even the short running time and the limitations of Bosko himself. For me 'Bosko and Bruno' was merely decent. Not great, but not average or less.Its weak link is the story, which is paper thin, routine and at times repetitive. Bosko is still a fairly limited character, with his charm but not one who is funny or interesting in personality.Bruno his dog though is far funnier, more interesting and more appealing personality-wise. His material is stronger too.There are other strengths with 'Bosko and Bruno' too. It is well-animated, not exactly refined in places but fluid and crisp enough with some nice detail, it is especially good in the meticulous backgrounds and some remarkably flexible yet natural movements for Bosko. The music doesn't disappoint either, its infectious energy, rousing merriment, lush orchestration and how well it fits with the animation is just a joy.Regarding the gags, they are a lot of fun, there is plenty and most make one laugh out loud, inventive visually and they also have the necessary thrill factor.All in all, a good but not great Bosko cartoon, around high middle as far as his cartoons go. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . HITTIN' THE TRAIL FOR HALLELUJAH LAND, but apparently felt no such qualms in NOT prohibiting us from watching BRUNO AND BOSKO, which might as well be titled HITTIN' THE TREE FOR HALLELUJAH LAND. The sorry lot which makes up the current day Warner Brass and focuses mainly on how many MegaCorporations they can foist off ownership of their greatly watered-down brand upon, presumably endowing those at the top of the Warner pyramid with multiple Golden Parachutes, could care less that their former stable of Looney Tuners has proved more uncannily accurate in their predictions of Present Day America's upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti than the over-rated Nostradamus was about ANY of his alleged prognostications. The late Looney Tunes director Chuck Jones was perhaps the last surviving Looney Tuner who realized that the classic brief cartoons from Warner's Animated Shorts Seers division were primarily important for their political context, then and now (when I heard Chuck say this during an interview, I began seeing ALL Warner's cartoons in a different light). Though Bosko seems to be leading his dog Bruno during BOSKO AND BRUNO, a close viewing proves that it's actually BRUNO who's calling most of the shots. Obviously, Warner's Looney Tunes psychics are sensing the advent of newly appointed (by the Racist "Electoral College") American strongman, Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "Mad Dog" Putin (represented here by Bruno, who else?) and his Puppet, White House Resident-Elect Rump (Bosko, naturally). After a series of "adventures" corresponding to every twist and turn of our 2016 Rigged Presidential Election, Bosko and Bruno end up on the Train of America, hurtling down a track which dead-ends at a solid tree! The cattle-like majority of Americans who have yet to raise a peep about the Red Commie KGB takeover of America, our U.S. Military, and all of our former Freedoms are represented by a cow stuck on the tracks in front of the train, which gets totally Accordioned, Crushed, and Destroyed when the locomotive collides with the tree trunk. Inevitably, KGB Chief Putin and his Puppet Rump escape unscathed, since Loan Shark Putin (those of us who have seen Rump's tax returns know that he's "borrowed" many billions of bucks from Vlad and his Oligarchs!) has planned to end America this way since recruiting Rump in the 1970s as a prospective MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE with a promised Golden Parachute (that's likely to find the Trumpster eventually landing next to the Kremlin in Red Square).

tavm I actually liked this cartoon a lot better than the previous reviewer. There are many thrills here starting when Bruno the dog gets his foot stuck on the train tracks and it's still there when the train comes through and then he's gone and we feel for Bosko when he's crying but then Bruno reappears from a trap door under the tracks bringing relief for us and anger from Bosko! It doesn't last for long, however, as they walk through a tunnel (haven't they just learned a lesson here?) and while inside they hear something moving so they run outside and after getting a safe spot find it's a cow with his bell ringing! Bruno also chases a chicken and in turn gets chased by a hunter. So, in summation, this was a very thrilling and funny cartoon. Most highly recommended for anyone interested in Warner Bros. cartoons made before the days of Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and Bugs Bunny. That's all, folks!

Robert Reynolds This is, at best, an average short in the Bosko series. It isn't awful, but it isn't memorable for much, either, as there isn't a great deal going on here. Here there be mild spoilers: Bosko is seen in the beginning carrying what was called a "bindlestiff", or a stick with a bundle on the end, tied in a piece of cloth which contains basically all your belongings. Bosko is a hobo, a tramp, "gentleman at liberty" and he's joined by his dog, Bruno. They're walking along a railroad track when a train comes along.That's basically it as far as plot goes-they're either running from an oncoming train or riding on top of a runaway train. There are a few gags in other areas (Bruno battles a flea near the beginning of the short, for example) but the short basically has the pair placed in danger in one way or another because of trains or parts of trains. The animation is very nice in spots, but at least two sequences is clearly the same drawings used repeatedly to show the same action more than once.This would probably be a more interesting short if there were a bit more variation to the bits, but there isn't, so it is what it is-a fairly basic and somewhat predictable cartoon. I still would like for it to appear on a future Looney Tunes Golden Collection. Worth seeing at least once.