Pooch the Pup, his camera, and his girlfriend go to Africa to make a movie of a giant gorilla. Things proceed roughly as in King Kong (1933), though with various comic twists.
Manuel Moreno, Les Kline, Walter Lantz
United States
Is it worth watching? Honestly, only if you have a soft spot for 1930s animation experiments that don't quite know what they want to be. If you like your cartoons with a side of surreal nightmare fuel, you’ll dig it. If you’re looking for a polished story, keep walking. The whole thing feels like the animators saw the...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Walter Lantz
Eduardo Notari
Community
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"Is it worth watching? Honestly, only if you have a soft spot for 1930s animation experiments that don't quite know what they want to be. If you like your cartoons with a side of surreal nightmare fuel, you’ll dig it. If you’re looking for a polished story, keep walking. The whole thing feels like the animators saw the original King Kong and thought, "Yeah, but what if the monkey was more of a bouncy ball?" It’s chaotic. It’s loud. And man, the proportions in this thing change every five seconds..."
