It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

. . . it's FAKE English Comedy. Warner Bros. hoists itself on its own Piccard, leaving Looney Tunes fans dangling from the Tree of Life like so much Strange Fruit. The animators of the short NOW HEAR THIS contend that Satan's Left Horn translates Trump, when you use it as an ear trumpet. Though there are few if any lines of dialog in this relic from America's CAMELOT Days, you can practically hear The Donald yelling out his catch-phrase, "Get 'Em Out, Get 'Em Out!!" every time Bernie Sanders rides into the scene on his purple tricycle. If Monte Python took LSD as teenagers, their trip would pretty much follow in the footsteps of NOW HEAR THIS. Benny Hill must have paid lots of royalties to NOW director Chuck Jones. Ditto LAUGH-IN, HEE-HAW, HOOTENANNY, and THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS. But being King in the Land of the Blind doesn't change the fact that you've only got One Eye. No one wins a trophy for putting their trash out first, either. Chuck's ancestor John Paul may have been better served if HE had NEVER begun to write!

"Now Hear This" is an absolutely brilliant cartoon that happens to be something of a masterpiece - I think - for the sound effects wizardry of Treg Brown. Featuring many avant-garde background designs, large words flashing on the screen, bizarre sound effects, odd musical commentary, and SILENCE, this cartoon isn't like any other Warner Bros. cartoon I've ever seen.My favorite sequences: After the British gentleman finds himself inside a dark railroad tunnel, he is horrified to see a giant eyeball staring at him, as well as the words "Punk!" and "Wise Guy", followed by more sets of eyeballs. A tuba plays Mendelssohn's popular Spring Song while the British gent finds himself literally wrapped up in musical staves. At the sight of the word "Silence", a bouncing ball kicks off a flatulent march tempo. A tree grows to the accompaniment of a flute playing the Spring Song, after which the poor gent becomes absolutely discombobulated by a lengthy, dizzying, stentorian horn honk and a cymbal crash; an egg then hatches into a marching trombone playing a most god-awful rendition of "Yankee Doodle".Directed by Chuck Jones, "Now Hear This" is a cartoon that is well worth its weight in strangeness. And don't cover your ears; make the most out of every sound!

While Chuck Jones did do an superb job in directing this short, the credit should also go two men who helped made the picture enjoyable, Treg Brown in sound and William Lava in music. The picture starts off with the devil searching for his lost horn. Little did he know, an British gentleman finds it and uses it as a hearing aid. However, he soon found out that the "hearing aid" has an mind of it's own, and takes him on a wild ride. By the end of the film, the British man decides to retrieve his old horn (that he threw away eairler in the cartoon,) and walks off. (Or rather limps off.) Seconds later, the devil (from the start of the picture), returns and finds his missing horn. Another character arrives to give the moral and ends the film. The combine efforts of Brown sound effects through out the film was done well along with Lava's music of "Yankee Doodle" and "Rue Britania" as well was also good along with the rest of music of the picture. It will be available on DVD later this month as part of Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 6. It's also available on the DVD intitled Warner Bros. Home Enterainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, 15 winners 26 nominees as well. I highly recommend this picture. an 9 out of 10. By the way, the only flaw, very little to no background.

I've just seen this latter-day Chuck Jones effort for Warner Bros. when I linked Cartoon Brew which linked this from YouTube. Wow, what a psychedelic collage before it became fashionable! This short is very hard to describe so I'll just say what a wonderful mix of sound and images concerning a British man hearing strange stuff from a horn he picked up. Gotta give sound effects man Treg Brown credit for really going creative here. This kind of thing probably isn't surprising to anyone who has seen Jones' later Oscar-winning short The Dot and the Line but even so, Now Hear This certainly qualifies as one of the strangest cartoons ever (and was also nominated for an Academy Award, to boot!). To those who have long looked for this rare short, go to YouTube or anywhere else this might be available and hope it eventually turns up on a future Looney Tunes disc collection.