Big Ears

BIG EARS is a fine little short from the Our Gang team. What I particularly enjoyed about this one is that the back story is a little darker than you usually see in 1930s-era family comedy, with two bickering parents and their impending divorce acting as a catalyst for some childish shenanigans in which a kid feigns sickness in order to keep his family together.

The film also has a controversial scene in which the kids work their way through a medicine cabinet, trying to figure out which liquids to take in order to make a kid ill. It's business as usual for the Little Rascals here, with some very funny one-liners courtesy of Stymie and plenty of screen time for the reliably endearing Pete the Pup. In short, I can't imagine anyone not enjoying it.