Review of Great Guns

This Oswald short has some incredibly lively animation, especially in the dogfight sequence. It's hard to believe that this is only the fifth Oswald short by production order, the perspectives are the most experimental since "Trolley Troubles", and the inking on Oswald is a huge step up from its predecessor, "The Mechanical Cow."

Unfortunately, I don't really have any idea what's going on for most of this short. A mouse in a bi-plane drops a bomb on a picture of Oswald's love back home, which, naturally, causes Oswald to retaliate. Eventually he gets into a hand-to-hand brawl with the mouse, but has to pretend that they weren't fighting at all when the general comes around? Why would the general be mad that Oswald is fighting the enemy? Is he the general for the enemy side and the mouse is one of his soldiers? Are all three of them on the same side?

Other than the odd character roles, this is a very entertaining early Oswald cartoon. I disagree with what the guy on here who complained about war not being funny, this is far from the most literal portrayal of WWI, and man, a lot of the best cartoons from the golden age had to do with war. Don't hate the player, hate the game.