This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

A different way of telling a story

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

. . . most likely would take longer to read than this seven-minute Looney Tune's running time. Pirandelloism, or the eternal conflict between Illusion and Reality (named after SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR playwright Luigi Pirandello) was in vogue when DUCK AMUCK was released, so Daffy is marching in lock-step with his Zeitgeist here. Though the black duck becomes increasingly agitated WAITING FOR GODOT, he cannot help being reduced to a boy-toy with NO EXIT from the Solipcistic imagination of his Arch Nemesis, Bugs Bunny. Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau frequently tried to diagram "Reagan's Brain" while "The Gipper" spent his days watching himself pretending to be someone important in some old movie on the TV in his White House bedroom. These daily newspaper comic strips showed that our Commander-in-Chief's Noggin' was totally Looney Tunes (which helps explain why we invaded Grenada--this actually happened in Real Life; you can Wiki it!). Reagan's autobiography was titled "Where's the Rest of Me?" This is taken from Daffy's poignant cry in DUCK AMUCK. Pirandelloism, anyone?

It's Daffy Duck versus his sadistic animator in one of the all-time greatest Looney Tunes cartoons. It's a brilliant and experimental short from the great Chuck Jones. It's very creative and very funny from beginning to end. The animation is gorgeous. Everything is constantly changing (backgrounds, Daffy's appearance, etc). The music is wonderful. Mel Blanc's voicework is, of course, perfect. The script is hilarious and full of great lines. Love the ending. I just can't see a single thing wrong with this classic cartoon. It would spawn many copycats over the years in various mediums. Even Jones himself would go back to the idea with Rabbit Rampage a couple of years later. It's one of my top five Looney Tunes shorts and, I think, the best solo Daffy cartoon ever made.

Daffy Duck lives up to his name in this completely wacky cartoon in which he's at the mercy of an unseen animator who puts him through his paces and then some. There's a wild streak of Disney going through all this, derived from the way the Disney artists used their brushes to create characters and backgrounds for THE THREE CABALLEROS and SALUDOS AMIGOS. So no, the idea isn't completely original. The concept has been used before.But it's definitely a superb example in the way it treats the idea of an animator having complete control over backgrounds and situations, as well as costuming and design. It works on every level.The surprise twist at the end reveals who the animator is.Summing up: An essential Chuck Jones cartoon. Not to be missed.

Daffy Duck... the most deliciously self-absorbed character in memory... possibly the King of such. Even though, by strict ethics, we ought not enjoy caustic payback... there is something innocent in our enjoyment of seeing this "greedy little duck"' the backstabbing, ego maniacal, the quintessential self-absorbed character; getting his come-up-ins. And from us, the viewers, vicariously through Chuck Jones and Mike Maltese (the director writer respectively). Then, the cathartic exasperation in Daffys' exclamations seems to strangely give vent to our own frustrations even if unconsciously aware of them previously.( Is there some of Daffys' flaws in us too?) But beyond academics, it is a joy to see the free range application of morphing realities, contradiction to settings, convention and the breaking rules of traditional expectation. Polka-dotted in daisy tutu ? with the body of something from Marvin's Martian Militia; from "Hey look I'm a Buzz-Boy to Cow-Boy to Alaskan-whatever... this is the true joy of animation and the very definition of zaniness. Finally, WB Looney Tunes, especially Duck Amuck was PS. Politically Safe. In other words, before PC and the polarity of present Right-Left self and social identity, there was PS; but it had no name nor concept. I have a political ID and it is either Left or Right but I like to find areas that we can enjoy together without claiming that it reinforces a partisan bend. I'm OK and if you love Looney Tunes and stuff like Duck Amuck, then as far as I'm concerned, we're both OK in that special little safe zone. I personally KNOW what Chucks' political persuasion was... it was ANIMATOR; for everyone.