Daffy Duck und der Dinosaurier

Caspar Caveman and his pet dinosaur go hunting for breakfast, and guess whom they come across! Of course, Daffy isn't going to get caught so easily, especially since he conveniently has a number of tricks up his sleeve.

I guess that Daffy Duck was a relatively new character when this cartoon came out, but they sure did some funny stuff with him. I think that my favorite scene was when Caspar Caveman slingshots a rock at Daffy, and Daffy escapes it, and it ends up conking the dinosaur on the head and the dinosaur does a dazed dance. "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur" is what people mean when they talk about classic cartoons!

It is the time of the dinosaurs. Caspar Caveman and his pet dinosaur are going hunting. They encounter Daffy Duck at a local lake, but the duck keeps escaping.

Casper Caveman is Fred Flintstone but less appealing. I am not sure to whom he is supposed to be referencing. The character needs to be dumber and less too cool for school. He seems to be modeled after a crooner. I do not like him and that is the vast majority of my problem. The Honeymooners is still over a decade away, but that's what this needs to be. He needs to be Ralph Kramden. I really do not like Casper's design and personality.

For no particular reason our story is laid in the stone age"-millions and billions and trillions of years ago-probably before any of you people were even born.

A caveman called Casper Caveman is hungry and wants some breakfast,he gets a craving for duck so he gets his pet dinosaur Fido to help him find one,they eventually find a duck and it turns out to be Daffy Duck.

****/*****

4/5 STARS

A Truly UNDERRATED AND MISUNDERSTOOD CLASSIC

-DILLON HARRIS

Daffy Duck & the Dinosaur employs some good, solid gags, but I'm not a huge fan of the early, manic-like Daffy. I thought the real star of the show was Casper Caveman, who is supposedly a caricature of Jack Benny (I'll take Paul Penna's word for it, because I really don't know!) Nevertheless, Casper had some great mannerisms and was just a funny, unsuspecting victim of Daffy's crazy plans. Speaking of crazy plans, the ending was also quite funny and refreshing when Daffy gets a little too caught up in his scheme. Overall, this is a good, solid Daffy Duck cartoon. It's not the funniest out there, but it definitely has its moments.

My IMDb Rating: 8/10

This begins with "Casper Caveman" waking up and walking out his front door (which has a "welcome" mat beneath it! The guy looks like Elmer Fudd but talks like Jack Benny, so it must be parody of him. Anway, Casper is starved and crank so he and his pet dinosaur, "Fido," go looking for food. He spots Daffy swimming peacefully nearby, fires a rock from a slingshot at him.....and the mania is on.

Daffy outsmarts the rock (don't ask), Fido goes goofy after being struck by that rock and assorted other things happened and few of them were funny. I love Daffy Duck cartoons, but these early ones. They are just plain stupid and his little "oh, ooh" laugh is annoying. It sounds like Tigger in Winnie The Pooh. Just because it's Daffy or Looney Tunes, doesn't guarantee it's good to be good. It almost does...but certainly not in this lame effort.

About the only thing impressive about this cartoon is the color and the fine restoration job of it for the LT Golden Collection Vol. Three set.