Hollywood Canine Canteen
Hollywood Canine Canteen
| 19 April 1946 (USA)
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A group of celebrity dogs, led by an 'Edward G. Robinson' look-alike and including Jimmy Durante, decide that celebrity dogs need a nightclub of their own.

Reviews
Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Edgar Allan Pooh . . . go to Heaven, and in H0LLYWOOD CANINE CANTEEN Warner Bros.' Looney Tuners depict all of Tinseltown's "stars" as becoming mutts in the Hereafter. A person would need to be dead themselves to recognize some if any of these Doggie Versions of 1900s notables known to the Great Grandparents of Today's Millennials. Just imagine if we sent a Golden DVD out Today on a Voyager 3 Spacecraft, which included cartoon caricatures for the Pre-Corpse Versions of the Artist Once Known as Prince, along with Heath "The Joker" Ledger, Paul "Furious" Walker, Michael "Moonwalker" Jackson, Joe "Hit the showers, Jerry" Paterno, Whitney Houston, Robin Williams, Elvis himself, and so forth. Even if you tried to be more user friendly than Warner Bros. by providing names on-screen telling whom each animated H0LLYWOOD CANINE supposedly represents, would the people or aliens playing it back in a billion years really give a hoot? Merely displaying a name would not be enough to supply Viewers of the Future with any meaningful cultural context. The aliens would not be able to hear the doves crying as the Jesus Juice flowed freely amid a shower of purple rain.
slymusic Written by Warren Foster and directed by Robert McKimson, "Hollywood Canine Canteen" is a brilliant Warner Bros. celebrity caricature cartoon. The Hollywood Canine Canteen is a place where our canine servicemen can hang out with all the canine celebrities, shmooze, dance, listen to music, etc.Do I have any favorite scenes in this short? Yes, there are some. Laurel and Hardy have an amusing bit washing dishes. Bing Crosby's "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" can't compete with Frank Sinatra's "Trade Winds". Being a lover of big bands, how could I not admire the bandleader caricatures near the end of this picture? The same holds true for the brief lively swing dancing to the popular tune of "Avalon". But perhaps the funniest sequence in this cartoon involves a caricature of one of my favorite comedians: that craaaazy Joe Besser.There are plenty of great celebrities to look for in "Hollywood Canine Canteen". I only mentioned a few. Enjoy!
tavm Just watched this cartoon on the Hollywood Canteen DVD which I partly recognized as first watching on a local afternoon kids show called "The Buckskin Bill Show" in the late '70s. (He also had a morning show called "Buckskin Bill's Storyland" which I also watched) This one is a parody of the actual Hollywood Canteen which had various stars during World War II serving food and entertainment for soldiers around the world. Among the dog caricatures I enjoyed: Laurel & Hardy doing dishes with Stan putting the same one back, Abbott & Costello with the latter saying he's a baaaadd bow-wow, and Blondie & "Dogwood" with the latter getting a big sandwich full of bones. There are more gags that hit than miss so on that note, I highly recommend Hollywood Canine Canteen.
Lee Eisenberg Yes, it's another celebrities-caricatured-as-animals cartoon. Robert McKimson's "Hollywood Canine Canteen" has pretty much the same plot as Tex Avery's "Hollywood Steps Out" from a few years earlier, only this time portraying dogs belonging to famous people (often with names altered to sound canine). As is often the case, they depict Frank Sinatra - or his caricature - as emaciated.However, there is one scene that, in my opinion, represents a future part of popular culture. The female dog running the cloak room looks almost exactly like Connie Hines, who played Carol on "Mister Ed". And let me tell you, SHE IS ONE OF THE HOTTEST WOMEN EVER TO GRACE THE TV SCREEN!!!!!! Every time that I get a chance to watch "Mister Ed", I only watch it to see Connie Hines (who cares about a talking horse?). Although Ms. Hines retired from acting many years ago, I still consider her one of the most attractive/beautiful/good-looking/gorgeous women of all time. And this cartoon contains a character who resembles her almost to a tee, probably not knowing that they were creating a character who looks like her.OK, I'm sure that my assertion has nothing to do with the cartoon in general. The cartoon is worth seeing. Not one of their greatest, but certainly OK in a pinch. One of McKimson's more significant cartoons in 1946 was "Walky Talky Hawky", which debuted Foghorn Leghorn.In conclusion: I LOVE YOU, CONNIE, AND I ALWAYS WILL! XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO