Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

CoachJim I saw this last night as the lead-in to the showing of the 1933 classic, King Kong. With the distance of time and evolved social awareness, I found this to be very offensive. Technically, it seemed quite rushed. The finesse of period Woody Woodpecker cartoons was totally absent. There was a very thin script, which seemed unnecessarily harsh in telling an angry story. This old white guy was appalled. I can only assume that the person who chose this short did so to magnify the evolution of national social consciousness.

MartinHafer Pooch the Pup was an evolution of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. After Universal Studios essentially stole the character from Disney, the new and much more bland character went through many changes. At first, he looked a lot like the Oswald of old but then the animation got better...and the stories MUCH blander and saccharine. When this killed off the series, Universal hadn't learned their lesson and instead of making the character and cartoons sillier and more chaotic, they just redrew Oswald and made him Pooch the Pup! If you look at a picture of Oswald circa 1932 and Pooch only a year later, you can easily see the similarity.In this installment, Pooch is there to capitalize on the popularity of RKO's big hit, "King Kong". So this finds Pooch going on safari to find a giant ape living along side dinosaurs. In addition to these characters, there are lots of locals....who are drawn in a manner that would be seen as VERY offensive today. But no need to worry too much...as practically no one gets to see Pooch today. This is NOT a bad thing but if you insist, you can find his cartoons on YouTube like I did.Now I am not saying this is a terrible film provided you can look past the racist drawings. The animation quality is good and the story fortunately lacks the saccharinely cute characters found in many of these Walter Lantz cartoons. Not terrible...which is high praise indeed for a Lantz cartoon.

John T. Ryan SUCCESS IN ANY field spawns both imitation and parody. It has long been said that: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." If this is so (and we're sure it is)then the spoof, the send-up and that old standby, parody should rank right up there also. (And don't forget Lampoon, either!) THIS 1933 CARTOON short does a credible job in recreating in cartoon world similar settings that mimic Skull Island of KING KONG fame. The cartoon opens up with Pooch the Pup and his female companion already having arrived on their version of that mysterious island far southwest of Borneo, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra and Australia. They arrive during the sacrificial rite that offers up a female native to the giant godlike ape.THROUGH SOME ERROR, Pooch's lady friend get's switched and is taken by the super simian, who apparently would actually have eaten her as a tiny morsel of his dinner. Cupid appears and does his bit with bow and does his thing; which renders the big ape helpless. (This in a direct spoof of the quotation in the opening credits and prelude to the KING KONG story of" ".......and he (the Beast) was as one dead." AFTER THE INTRODUCTION of an all-purpose dinosaur from either the Jurassic or Cretaceous periods and their version of the Kong vs. Tyrannosaurus bout, a brief tip of the hat to MGM's TARZAN THE APEMAN, the capture of the ape sees his sight gag ridden trip to the big exposition of "Klunk" in NYC. His eventual escape and final fate is sealed with his tumbling off the skyscraper and his crashing and burning!! WE CAN SUPPOSE that this was a very amusing to audiences of the day. We did our best to look at it both analytically, as well as objectively. Having done so, we can only suppose that it produced about a 5 or 6 on the old Laugh Meter. Like any theatrically released picture, its appeal and enjoyment factor would rise when viewed as a part of a live, red-blooded and breathing audience.ONE ELEMENT THAT jumps out of the screen at a viewer in this 21st Century is the casual use of racial stereotypes concerning the native (indigenous, aboriginal peoples). Their character design was that of those being derivative of the Minstrel Show.WE HAVE JUST only today heard of this title and screened it for the first time. It is one in a series of POOCH THE PUP Cartoons produced for Universal Pictures by Walter Lantz. This predated his successes with ANDY PANDA, WOODY WOODPECKER, WALLY WALRUS, CHILLY WILLY and others.

Michael_Elliott King Klunk (1933) ** 1/2 (out of 4)This pleasant Universal cartoon has been forgotten over the decades but it's in fact the first film to spoof RKO's KING KONG so that reason alone gives it some historic importance. In the film, Pooch the Pup takes his girlfriend to the Africa so that they can make a movie about a giant ape. They find the ape, return it to the U.S. and of course it breaks free and steals the girlfriend. The plot to this 9-minute short pretty much follows all the major points in KING KONG and I'm rather surprised how obvious it was as I'm sure there was some sort of legal matter that the studio could have done. With that said, fans of the giant ape will certainly want to check this out just to see how well it does spoof the film. I thought the stuff dealing with the fight between the ape and a dinosaur in the jungle was extremely well done and I won't ruin the ending but the final shot of the ape was perfect. The thing that keeps this short from being a classic is the Pooch character and the fact that he's just not that memorable or funny. There were several attempts at humor but most of them fell flat on their face. Some will probably find some of the humor around the jungle people to be offensive as it's the (for the time) typical black characters and their stereotypes.