La Métamorphose de Cendrillon

A lascivious wolf stops chasing Red Riding Hood long enough to take part in a Cinderella story--with the heroine a dead-ringer for Bette Davis! This Cinderella, with mascara-circled eyes and a voice dripping with disdain, wants to go to the ball all right, but only because she's the sultry stage chanteuse; her Fairy Godmother has eyes for the wolf herself--but even dolled up in Old Lady Chic, she can't get his attention. Using a particularly expressive style of animation here, Tex Avery gives us a grown-up Cinderella with more curves than the Hollywood Freeway! Jessica Rabbit would envy this bombshell, which makes the tag at the finish line even funnier as Cindy returns to her duty as an aircraft riveter on-board a bus full of wolves. She may have gone back to her working girl roots, but the guys love her anyway.

...not exactly for sensuality and not comfortable humor, but for lovely freshness. The smart irony, the great fairy godmother and the poor wolf are the precious pieces of a lovely animation who, scene by scene becomes the most realistic of the post - war American realities, from the expectations and dreams to the pragmatic pespectives.

The Big Bad Wolf stops chasing Little Red Riding Hood. Instead, he starts chasing Cinderella. Fairy Godmother intervenes. This is a more adult theme cartoon. It's Tex Avery with the Wolf and that happens a lot sometimes. He's a more dangerous Pepé le Pew. I wouldn't mind more expressions from Cinderella but she is basically the super hot Instagram model. This is fun but not necessarily for kids.

Well, if you're in the mood for a Tex Avery cartoon, I highly recommend this one! It starts with Little Red Riding Hood being chased by the wolf as they run pass the title of this short. Then they stop and look at that before the wolf shushes Red away and changes to a tux! So the story switches gears to the title character and the Fairy Godmother being at home wearing glasses drinking herself a glass...I'll just now mention the gags come fast and furious which should not surprise anyone familiar with Avery's work. Perhaps the highlight is the "Oh, Wolfy!" number performed by the title character as she does moves that make the Wolf very horny! That sequence, by the way, was reused in Avery's later cartoon Little Rural Riding Hood which I reviewed on this site years before. I'll just now say I highly recommend Swing Shift Cinderella!

Another Tex Avery howling wolf cartoon. It's clever and hyped to the hilt. In this one, the wolf is the object of affection and it is played well. There is the usual eye popping. Since it's wartime, Cinderella is worker for the effort. Well done bits, especially with the Fairy Godmother.