Any big fan of Blitz Wolf?

[houserunner]

1943 Academy Awards best short subject cartoons category, six cartoons are nominated. Der Fuehrer's Face, Blitz Wolf, Pigs in a Polka etc. Der Fuehrer's Face is a winner, good choice indeed. I love Kinney's surrealistic Donald Duck toon, but if I'm the one of Academy Awards voting members that year, I pick Blitz Wolf instead of Der Fuehrer's Face.


Blitz Wolf is one of those rare cartoons that gets better with each viewing. There're so many funny, inventive trademark Avery gags, everytime I watch it, I found something new. Blitz Wolf is also possibly funniest Three Little Pigs - theme cartoon ever made. If you haven't seen it, don't miss the chance next time. Here are some of my favorite gags and bits from Blitz Wolf.

[ warning - spoilers ]


* screaming bomb gag - that's a great weapon!
* can opener bomb - another great weapon
* gone with the wind mark - Yes, corny gag, but I love it
* bomb loves esquire magazine - hey, they whistling, too:)
* final moment from hell, well it's possibility. . . . .

Anybody loves Blitz Wolf, please let me know your thoughts about this Avery classic. Thanks.

[Eugene the Jeep]

I love it.

[JPox]

This was the first appearence of Tex's Wolf character. Great cartoon with lots of great gags.:D
I chuckle every time the pig gives the gun some vitamin B12.

[Matt the Y]

Yep, this one's a masterpiece!!! :D :D :D

So many great gags in this one; too many to count. Tex Avery's very first cartoon for MGM and already he sets the stage for what the next thirteen years worth of his films at the studio are going to be like. Even some of the more non-PC gags (such as the three pigs bombing Japan off the map and then blaming it on Gen. Doolittle) are, I think, hilarious.

This one definitely deserved the Oscar nomination; pity it didn't win. "Der Fuehrer's Face" was deserving of the Oscar too but this short is just great, Man!

[UncleLina]

Blitz Wolf is a very good cartoon. Anyone notice how Tex's kind of realistic style at warners (Crackpot Quail, Heckling Hare) transformed into a more streamlined style without all the attention to detail (compare the wrinkles on the Heckling Hare Dog to Droopy in Dumb Hounded).

[J Lee]

Blitz Wolf is a very good cartoon. Anyone notice how Tex's kind of realistic style at warners (Crackpot Quail, Heckling Hare) transformed into a more streamlined style without all the attention to detail (compare the wrinkles on the Heckling Hare Dog to Droopy in Dumb Hounded).

The Disney influence, as Barrier noted in his book. Tex took over a crew that was familiar with either Walt's or Hugh Harman's more detailed style, which by 1941 Tex and the other directors at Warners had learned was not necessary to get the gags across. Sometimes it worked, as with the opening of "Red-Hot Riding Hood", where the overly-detailed design of the wolf helps sell the pseudo-Disney premise, but other times, it made Avery's early MGM cartoons feel a little slower and heavier than they should have been for the type of gags he was trying to put across.

"Blitz Wolf" also has a more detailed overall look than what Avery would have gotten if he had done the same cartoon over at Warners (with the exception of McKimson's close-up work, which was pretty intricate). The change works for the early part of the picture to set up the war, but I think the faster style Warners was mastering by the time Tex left the studio would have made the second half of the cartoon even better than it is.

[J. A. Boschen]

One of my favorite wartime cartoons, and one of the most patriotic for the era.

[Cartman]

BLITZ WOLF would be on my top ten Avery cartoon list.

[J. J. Hunsecker]

I'm also a big fan of this cartoon. Wartime propaganda at its best.