That was an excellent one.

Excellent but underrated film

Don't listen to the negative reviews

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Three young preppy men from Pimento U (P.U.), the Dover Boys, are out for the day. They pick up a snooty young woman to have fun for the day. A game of hide and seek draws the attention of a wolfy guy who hates the boys. He kidnaps the young woman. There are some really hilarious scenes with the guys, especially when they need to get a message from the young woman. This cleverly portrays a really different time and the animation is superb. The best part of the film is when the young woman is supposedly at the mercy of the cad who has taken her. There is a fifth character and one should keep an eye on him. Once again, there is a bit of a surreal component to many of these cartoons.

I felt the humour style of this cartoon was in many ways more similar to a Hanna Barbera cartoon than a Looney Tunes cartoon, but I still loved it all the same. It makes fun of sissy romance and heroic rescuing, while still having original and bright humour. I personally appreciated the narration, especially as it was the same narrator in Disney cartoons like "Dumbo" and "The Art of Skiiing".Anyway, this episode is set at Pimento University, where the most popular boys are the Dover boys, Tom, Dick and Larry are going out on their bicycles in the sunshine one day, to pick up "their" fiancée Dora, a cute brunette with a squeaky voice who rides on Tom's bicycle. She is playing hide and seek with the Dover Boys when accidentally they hide in a casino where their arch enemy, Dan Backslide is playing Poole. He realises that Dora is being left on her own and snatches the girl and takes her to his hunting lodge. Can the Dover Boys save her?I recommend this cartoon to people who love a mixture of slapstick humour, witty humour and spoofing humour and to people who like a different approach to Looney Tunes once in a while/often. Enjoy "The Dover Boys at Pimento University"! :-)8 and a half out of ten.

Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall, The (1942) ** (out of 4) At one time Chuck Jones said Warner almost fired him because of this cartoon and it's very easy to see why. This here is without question one of the strangest shorts I've seen from the studio. Three brothers, Larry, Tom and Dick, are taking their fiancé out when a rival kidnaps her. I'm really not sure what to say about this film but I guess the best way to put it is that this is either a great masterpiece of originality or one of the worst films ever made. I'll let you decide but I thought the film was pretty bad but at the same time I couldn't help but admire how different it was. The characters are strange, the color scheme is strange and pretty much everything else is strange including the humor. I'm really not sure what this thing is trying to do or if it's trying to spoof something but this here is one you'll have to see for yourself.

A gem from the early 1940's, Jones took a path that would lead to the UPA animation revolution of the fifties with "Dover Boys". Although this film was hated by studio brass (and Jones almost canned because of it) it has become an animation classic--if anything else, the pursuit of "sweet Dora Standpipe" by vile Dan Backslide is hilarious. Listen for the Dover Boys' tendancy to break into barbershop harmony at inappropriate times, and the most unusual hide-and-seek game in civilized history.