Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Was very fond of Woody Woodpecker and his cartoons as a child. Still get much enjoyment out of them now as a young adult, even if there are more interesting in personality cartoon characters and better overall cartoons.That is in no way knocking Woody, because many of his cartoons are a lot of fun to watch and more and also still like him a lot as a character. Some may disagree, but to me 'The Coo Coo Bird' is one of his better efforts. A few of his previous cartoons, especially when partnered with Wally Walrus, saw him as a bit of a jerk while never being unbearably annoying, but he isn't here.One really relates to his struggles to get a good night's sleep and the lengths he goes to get one, which is one of the main reasons why it's one of his best to me (think there are many who have craved a good night's sleep only to have it disturbed, went through it myself last night). Another is that 'The Coo Coo Bird' is less predictable than some of his previous cartoons which followed a formula but still did so very well.While there may be cartoon characters with slightly more interesting personalities, Woody is still at his best funny and commanding and the most likable he's been in a while.As ever, the animation is great. The characters are well drawn, but even better are the rich colours, meticulously detailed backgrounds and smooth backgrounds.Music is another strength here. It's characterful, lushly orchestrated and is not only dynamic with the action it even enhances it. The writing is amusing and chuckle-worthy enough and the gags are well-timed and often hilarious, while with a subject that is so easily identifiable from second one to the finish.Voice acting is solid.All in all, classic Woody Woodpecker. 10/10 Bethany Cox

The Coo Coo Bird was released in 1947 by Lantz studios, where now the woodpecker was having, former animator Dick Lundy control and director of the short films from Disney in the late '30s and early' 40s, especially the creator of Duck Donald. And of course he took what he learned and experienced over the years in his cartoons. If you're a fan of old cartoons like I should note that there is a very big influence of Disney studios in the years 1947-1949 in Lantz studios, due to Dick Lundy. Obviously, Dick brought elements is Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse to the Woodpecker was in this drawing, even quoted in lantzpédia site. It is this influence that we see in The Coo Coo Bird, where the woodpecker trying to sleep, so that nothing interferes. But nothing goes right into the night bird, this time is on a board in the middle of a big city (but at the end of the design has a huge backyard, leading to believe that the design is pass in a rural area), and suddenly a neon light of a hotel disrupts your sleep, and then the sound of a cuckoo in the clock, he is overwhelmed by his building's glass window, and gets into trouble with a crazy automatic table which serves as a bed, and at the end of the design since the day he is chased by two dogs and a hunter, making it a body of woodpecker and two dogs together (there is a clear influence MGM Tex Avery and Warner Looney there). Then he gives hardly the end of the short, one can conclude that the short has a history of Donald Duck, mixed with funny gags that recall the wacky shorts from Warner and MGM. It's a great design!