Out And Out Rout: Hit Or Miss?

[LooneyLover81]

Hi Gang,

What do you think of the Road Runner cartoon "Out And Out Rout" which aired January 29, 1966?

Hits:
The junk dragster sounds like a Detroit Diesel 6-71 engine.

Misses:
One of the Format Films subcontracted 11.

Regards,



Ben (LooneyLover81)

[Chow Hound]

Miss, but I'd still like to have it for nostalgic reasons AFTER all my favorite WB cartoons are released.

[Marty26]

With the exceptions of the final two cartoons (Solid Tin Coyote and Clippety Clobbered) and possibly Chaser On The Rocks (a guilty pleasure of mine), all Larriva directed Roadrunner cartoons are misses IMO. I used to like them a lot as a kid, but seeing as to how my tastes in cartoons have become considerably more discerning, I find them to be rather dull compared to Jones's Roadrunner cartoons.

Though I'll admit that Bill Lava's "desert soundtrack" for the second to last cartoons was actually pretty catchy. Certainly better than his awful over-dramatic sounding score in Run, Run Sweet Roadrunner.

[angilbas]

Hit. The dragster bit is a highlight and the animation, though cheap, shows signs of effort (nice touch to have cacti swaying in the wind, and the falcon's wing beats are well done). As a rule it's hard to identify the animation in later Larriva RRs as compared with Tired and Feathered or Boulder Wham!, but Virgil Ross seems to dominate this film. Bob Bransford may have handled a few scenes, as when Wile E. tries to stop his land sail. I can't spot Hank Smith; maybe he was limited to wind-blown plants and an onrushing truck.




-Tony

[J. J. Hunsecker]

Miss. I never liked these Larriva Road Runner cartoons even as a kid.

[J Lee]

Grading on a curve, I gave this one a "hit" if only because the dragster gag is one of the very few in the 11 Larriva RR shorts I could actually see fitting (with better animation and music) into a Jones-Maltese Road Runner cartoon. That's not much to go on, but with Rudy's efforts, you take whatever good gags you can find and enjoy them as much as possible. ;)

[J. A. Boschen]

I have to remain neutral on these Larriva Road Runner Shorts. I don't like them now but when I was in elementary school, when they were running on Nickelodian, any Road Runner Cartoon was a treat and a real novelty to me to watch, both the Jones and Larriva toons:D

[oceansoul]

The only one I kinda like from these Larriva-shorts is Chaser on the rocks... It's not very good either, but at least it has an original plot (the hot desert) which could have worked well under a better director, and of course with a better music.

[Daffysleftfoot]

All the Larriva-directed Roadrunners are a miss for me.

[Marty26]

The only one I kinda like from these Larriva-shorts is Chaser on the rocks... It's not very good either, but at least it has an original plot (the hot desert) which could have worked well under a better director, and of course with a better music.

There was always something about that particular cartoon that turned me on. I agree that it was certainly one of the more original cartoons in the Rudy Larriva series (which, unfortunately, isn't saying much). And I liked how it's possibly the only Roadrunner cartoon that attempts a storyline (even if it's a very subtle one).