Lions on the Loose (1941)
*** (out of 4)
Pete Smith short has two lion cubs breaking free from the zoo and heading out for trouble. First they end up breaking into a home where they visit a child's room and play with his toys before moving to the kitchen for something to eat. We then see them out in the wild as one of the cubs comes in contact with a giant python. This is a pretty strange short that is extremely entertaining even if one will question the final few minutes. The start of the movie is wonderfully charming and I'm sure kids and adults will really eat it up. The lion cubs are so cute that one will easily have a smile on their face as they're set free in this room where they pretty much destroy everything. The kitchen stuff is just as fun as they get into flour and a chocolate cake. The strange part is at the end when we get some rather dramatic scenes of this small cub getting into the face of this large python. The snake eventually turns and goes away only to have the cub attack and bite it. I'm really not sure what the point of showing this stuff here, which would probably scare a child but everything leading up to this is well worth watching.