Too much of everything

Powerful

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

. . . like our prospective belt buckle-stabbing Housing Secretary Ben&Jerry Carson to realize that PETTIN' IN THE PARK is the Warner Bros. Division of Looney Tunes Prophecy's (specializing in giving Extremely Early Warnings to 21st Century America about its upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti) way of alerting the U.S. to the Coming Trauma of Donald J. Rump's initial Cabinet of Deplorables picks. For instance, there's no reason for a pelican to swallow a ringing alarm clock here other than to foreshadow Oklahoma's vicious attorney general being appointed chief "Environmental Protector," so that in his role as a fox guarding a hen house he can crack every basement floor and driveway in America through Unlimited Fracking (something he's already "achieved" in his Native Oklahoma, where Earthquakes are up 2379% during his Reign of Environmental Terror), and engineer the homicide of EVERY U.S. citizen unable to afford the endless supply of oxygen tanks now required to just stay alive, since no one will be able to survive Rump Air an entire four years now that Big Pollution has been given its License to Kill. With PETTIN' IN THE PARK's penguin goosing the on-duty nanny to represent the KKK Imperial Wizard just named U.S. Attorney General, and the nanny herself abandoning her infant in the street to ride off for car sex with a Rich Stranger (summarizing the career to Rump's "Amway calling" Education Secretary), the horrors just keep coming as the Looney Tuners spend seven minutes vivisecting the Id of the Coming Rump.

This is the third and last of the Merrie Melodies cartoons based on the songs of Gold Diggers of 1933 included in that movie's DVD. The first part has a policeman and a maid trying to woo each other on a park bench. Things seem to go well until an animal accidentally pinches the maid's behind. So she moves to someone with a car. After that part is over, we then segue to a swimming sequence. The seems really show in how there was only so much time one could use the title song for the first part before the animators knew they had to fill up the short's standard 6-minute running time. So no, Pettin' in the Park is no great shakes but interesting enough if you like looking at these early talkie cartoons.

Here is another cartoon by Warner Brothers that is plugging a song from its movie, "Gold Diggers Of 1933." This one doesn't have a tenth of the clever and zany scenes 'I've Got To Sing A Torch Song" did, and so it doesn't offer much in the way of entertainment except for the catchy title song. I have to admit I like the title song and it's the highlight of the short animated film.What we get are birds of all kinds and a few people kissing in the park and singing, followed by a diving contest between several big birds, and then a swimming race, which has the best humor in the cartoon. Seeing the ostrich run through the water is pretty funny. Oveall, however, the cartoon is no big deal.