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Absolutely the worst movie.

Absolutely Brilliant!

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

. . . favor Alistair Sim's 1951 version of A CHR!STMAS CAROL as the most memorably poignant film version of novelist Charles Dicken's Christmas Tale (with Bill Murray's SCROOGED edging out Mr. Magoo's rendering of Ebenezer 21% to 19% for runner-up honors). Certainly only a stone-cold Hearted humbug could maintain even one dry eye during the final scene of Sim's characterization, when a comely maid grants him entrance to his nephew Fred's Christmas evening dinner party, as the house guests sing the ballad "Barbara Allen" in the background. Just a few years after Sim's evocative performance, the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated shorts people use ROBIN HOOD DAFFY to build upon World War Two's warm after-glow toward all things English in general (and Sim's aforementioned live-action feature film in particular) by having Porky Pig (assuming the role here of Friar Tuck) warble "Barbara Allen" to Daffy Duck's hapless title character. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY makes it clear that--unlike Bugs Bunny's turn as RABBIT HOOD--Daffy is far less likely than Tiny Tim to be just one of the "Men in Tights," let alone their leader.

Robin Hood Daffy (1958) *** (out of 4) Not quite as great as RABBIT HOOD, here's another Chuck Jones directed take on the Robin Hood legend. This time out Daffy Duck is wearing the tights and after running into Friar (Porky Pig) he must convince him that he is the real Robin. Of course, with Daffy this isn't going to be too easy and he keeps making one big mistake after another. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY contains some very good animation and a rather cute story but at the same time I don't think it comes together as good as it could have. Yes, it's a good movie but it's still middle-ground in terms of Looney Tunes and some of the classics they've done over the years. Some of the highlights includes a scene towards the end where Duffy flashes past the man he's trying to "take" and we see a great scene of him going into some water up up a draw bridge. The animation here is very effective and so is the laugh. The rest of the film contains some fast action but none of it is as funny as it should have been.

This one always cracks me up. Especially when Daffy Mocks Friar (Porky) Tuck with, "Guffaw, Chortle, Nyuk, it is to laugh." The "Yikes and away!" is great too. They don't write 'em like this any more.Another favorite: "In the classic Warner Bros. cartoon 'The Scarlet Pumpernickel,' Daffy Duck is earnestly pitching his new script to the unseen Jack Warner. As Daffy tells the story, we see it unfold, performed by the great stock company of Daffy, Porky Pig, Sylvester and Elmer Fudd. But it soon becomes clear that Daffy does not have an ending for his movie. Warner presses him, Daffy keeps reaching, and Warner keeps asking for more. Poor Daffy. In his zeal, he forgot that adding any old plot development is not enough to make a gripping story. You've got to have something important on the line, something that matters. Daffy should have been asking himself, Who cares?That's a question all novelists must repeat. If you can create a character worth following and a problem that must be solved — and then along the way raise the stakes even higher—you're going to have the essential elements of a page-turner."

This short is an extremely funny teaming of Daffy with Porky as his "straight man" (with Porky's antics the cause of a lot of the funniest bits). I have to talk about something specific in the short, so let this be my spoiler warning: Any cartoon where Porky Pig sings the first verse of "Barbara Allen" is one my permanent list of favorites. When I first saw this cartoon, hearing an old tradition song issuing forth in the dulcet tones of Porky Pigs had me rolling on the floor and it still makes me laugh like a loon to this day.The fun in this cartoon is watching Daffy and his progressively desperate (and increasingly unsuccessful) attempts to convince Porky that he really is Robin Hood, honest and for truly, he is! This has been released on a Looney Tunes Golden Collection on DVD and it (and the rest of the Collections) are well worth having and all most highly recommended!