User Reviews

For a while I have not been the biggest fan of Herman or his cartoons, but that doesn't stop a fair few of his cartoons being good. Campus Capers fortunately is another of the good ones without standing out as one of the best.

Campus Cleaners is colourful and entertaining, but it is also very standard. Not that that is a bad thing necessarily but when the story is just a basic cat and mouse game with not much original, basically a more violent version of Tom and Jerry, and when you can smell the outcome/ending from a mile away that does hurt the cartoon a bit. This was a big flaw, but that aside there was little else wrong and there was a huge amount to enjoy. The animation quality was getting stronger with each cartoon with that for Campus Capers being on the same for the very, very good animation seen in Naughty But Mice. It's very lively and smooth and the colours are vibrant, the characters are drawn well too.

The music is as great as ever as well, it's very distinctive 40s cartoons orchestration and in a good way and it's full of non-stop energy. It doesn't just sound good, but it adds a lot to the energy of the cartoon too, enhancing the humour instead of trivialising. Love the opening title tune and the Mice's song at the start was tuneful. The gags are not really very original but they are still funny and well-timed. They are violent too but they don't get sadistic, certainly not down to the level of Gene Deitch's Tom and Jerry cartoons. Herman is not at his most likable, nor at his least, he at least is quick-thinking, appropriately cunning and witty. Knucklehead, looking like a feline version of Bluto, is an entertaining adversary. All in all, Campus Capers is a standard but enjoyable Herman cartoon. 7/10 Bethany Cox

As I recall, Campus Capers was the cartoon debut for Herman the Mouse. Or was it Naughty but Mice? At all events, Arnold Stang did a good job in this enjoyable cartoon, as the voice of Herman. This was before the Herman and Katnip series; I do not remember whether Katnip was the feline who broke up the Harvard Alumni Dinner that the mice were enjoying. I DO recall that Herman and the other mice chased the cat away, and that at the beginning, the Alumni Club was adjacent to a church. I did not notice other buildings; other buildings were not included, so there was no telling whether this was a properly zoned community, or was that irrelevant to the cartoon? Be that as it may, such was an enjoyable cartoon which I have not seen in half a century.