brilliant actors, brilliant editing

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.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

A rather boring cartoon featuring Goofy, who goes hunting for ducks and uses a mechanical decoy to lure the ducks to him. However, the fouls, which were quite annoying, outsmarts him and Goofy ends up capturing his own decoy for dinner.Like Donald, Goofy pretty much gets the best made out of him, but he has a better attitude in dealing with adversity. Not a very funny cartoon, though, nor very exciting. It's just a lot dull slapstick Goofy clumsiness and annoying birds.Grade D

Before watching the excellent British Film Noir Faces in the Dark,I felt like watching an animated short on my birthday.Checking the first "Complete Goofy" DVD,I found that I still had 4 movies on the disc to view!,which led to me deciding it was time to correct this goofy foul.The plot:Going duck hunting,Goofy takes some toy ducks with him to bring the ducks nearer to his gun. Putting the toy ducks among the fake ones,Goofy soon struggles to tell them apart.View on the film:Jumping into the duck pond with Goofy,director Jack Hannah gives the short a fluid quality,with the water animation having an excellent slippery appearance. Flying down to Goofy,Hannah paints the ducks in bright,refreshing green which make them stand out on the screen. Staying in one location,the screenplay by Dick Kinney and Bob North give the film a slap-stick zest in very funny set pieces where the ducks turn the tables,and Goofy gets hunted.

This is a short in the Goofy series produced by the Disney Animation studio. There will be spoilers ahead:The short opens with a formation of ducks evading hunters in a clever fashion. One rather ingenious duck tests the water, so to speak, whenever they spot a likely stopping point. The second pond they see appears deserted and they fly down.They're almost right, as the sole hunter in sight is Goofy-and he's more of a danger to himself than he is to the ducks. There's a nice bit where he sees the ducks and pays them no notice, as though he's unaware that they're ducks! He then brings out a decoy, which he proceeds to confuse with a real duck. There are some nice gags where he goes about trying to figure out which is which, making the real duck angry in the process. He finally figures it out and then the fun begins!To say that Goofy often forgets to think things through is an understatement. A pair of waders suffers greatly at his hands as a result. He provides endless amusement for a pair of ducks at the same time. In the end, he does go home with dinner, but the last gag is hilarious, so I won't spoil it here.This short is available on the Complete Goofy Disney Treasures DVD set and is well worth watching. Recommended.

While the story is somewhat standard, Foul Hunting is still a lot of fun to watch. It is unusual to not having narration observing and counterpointing Goofy's action as well as entertaining and teaching, considering this was a period where the How to...series was in full swing. However it was also a welcome change, here we see Goofy emerging as his own personality rather than taking on multiple ones(which he also excels in, but you do want to see more of his versatility), a side that we'd not seen since Goofy and Wilbur, and that was very nice. Goofy also is a hilarious and appealing character, and the ducks are cute and amusing supporting characters. He is complimented by some simple but fun gags, like the consequences of Goofy's pants filling up with water and Goofy accidentally cooking his decoy mechanical duck thinking it was a real one. The animation is lusciously coloured and beautifully drawn, excellent quality overall, while the music fits wonderfully with each sequence with character and loving orchestration. In conclusion, standard but great fun and a nice change from the deservedly popular How to...series. 9/10 Bethany Cox