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

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This sequel to the Tortoise and the Hare is a little amusing - a very nice throwback to the previous story. The two animals takes boxing to a whole new level and the cartoon has some special cameos from past Silly Symphony characters. However, I think the Tortoise and the Hare take the sport a little too over-the-top, in the league of the over-imagination of the anti-wolf machines in the Three Little Pigs sequels.Crazy stuff here, but definitely doesn't surprise the original story.Grade C+

. . . which was certainly the case in the 1900s when Warner Bros. was forced to create a Looney Tunes Department to save America from its Great Depression brought on by such unsavory Disney cartoon fare as TOBY TORTOISE RETURNS. Comparing ANY Looney Tune with Trash like TOBY is akin to juxtaposing a three-year-old's finger painting against Vincent van Gogh's "Starry, Starry Night." Lacking any semblance of nuance, TOBY will strike any viewer who's enjoyed Bugs Bunny's tussles with the tortoise as a scribbled two-dimensional stick figure. As is the case with most Disney offerings of this "Silly Symphony" ilk, everything about TOBY seems cheap, static, repetitive, and totally lacking in vision. It's as if Old Walt ordered each of his animators to write "I will NOT have an original thought" 100 times on a blackboard! Some people (like the creators of SOUTH PARK and THE SIMPSONS) obviously grew up on Looney Tunes. It's safe to say that the Proliferators of BARNEY and TELETUBBIES were weaned on Disney's "Silly Symphonies"!

Toby Tortoise is back dueling with the hare. But this time they are not racing, but boxing. As you would expect Toby is slow and incapable while the hare is loud and overconfident. It's quite uneventful and boring for the most part. Toby is not a good character as his cartoons move as slow as he does.I'm not sure what kind of boxing match allows the various forms of humiliation and torture used by the hare, but one of gags involves fireworks and backfires on him, thus allowing Toby to win by default.Subliming message of the cartoon: if you lack the skill to win honestly - cheat.

After watching The Tortoise and the Hare on YouTube, I quickly watched the sequel right after on there and I found this one more hilarious than the predecessor. Actually, I thought Toby Tortoise Returns was very funny while TTATH was only amusing. Especially since the competition is now in the boxing ring and there are cameos from other stars of other Walt Disney Silly Symphonies cartoons. I was especially very amused by the Mae West bird caricature Jenny Wren and the Harpo Marx rooster (whose hair is red as opposed to the more familiar blonde) from Who Killed Cock Robin? (whose scenes I'm familiar with from seeing them in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage) There's dynamite, Mexican music, a couple of hospital orderlies, and plenty other hilarious stuff that I don't want to spoil for you. Needless to say, I very much recommend Toby Tortoise Returns.