Dumb Patrol (1964)
4/10
Not a complete waste, but could have been much better
26 June 2011
Dumb Patrol is neither among the best or the worst. However it is for me one of the more disappointing Looney Tunes cartoons. I will give it plaudits for making an effort to stay true to Bugs and Yosemite Sam's characters, for having some decent music from Bill Lava particularly the music when Sam is falling down in the sky and for Mel Blanc putting some fine voice work here though some of his lines for Yosemite could have been delivered with a little more robust it sometimes sounded deep and subdued. The animation was inconsistent, Bugs and Yosemite were fine, but the colours lacked vibrancy and Porky(who was only in the cartoon for about half a minute) was very poorly drawn. The cartoon is too short and feels rather leaden in the pace particularly at the start, while the story is standard. The writing and sight gags were below par I feel, I liked Bugs' final line but I feel more could've been done with the closing shot and while I smiled a couple of times there was never anything I found laugh-out-loud funny here. Overall, could have been better but it does have some good things. 4/10 Bethany Cox
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