Lumber Jerks

Two British gophers are storing their nuts for the weekend, when they find that much of their tree has been taken away which they have to find and bring it back. 'Goofy Gophers' indeed, try 'utterly lame never heard from again' gophers. I hold Looney Tunes shorts to a higher standard and when said standard isn't realized (or in this case even close), I'm sorely disappointed, and such is the case with this one. It just plain not the good at all and that saddens me a bit. This animated short can be found on disc 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1.

My Grade: D

Lumber Jerks (1955)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Twin gophers are collecting nuts to move into their new home (a tree) when lumber jacks tear it down and move it down the river to turn into furniture. Freleng and Blanc were masters of animation but this here is one of their duds. I really can't say too many goods things about this short and the more I think of it the less I like it. For starters, found a lot of the animation to be mediocre at best. Nothing is downright bad but at the same time nothing really jumps off the screen saying it's good. I was also rather disappointed in the vocals because they're more annoying than anything else. I'm sure the heart of the filmmakers were in the right place but the end results are pretty lacking.

cute cartoon very reminiscent of chip n dale but with english accents.

two chipmunks find their tree home has been demolished and follow it along the river and to the sawmill.

Clever and inventive cartoon but I still prefer chip n dale

I wouldn't compare this cartoon to Chip and Dale, those gophers are funny being themselves. Their flavor is certainly, English accent and behavior of gentlemen, that was funny as hell. It would be interesting to know what exactly means this world play "Lumber Jerks", 'cause I've came up with two variants. As usually this cartoon was simply killed in translation to Russian language, besides, somehow gophers turned out to be boy and girl :) I wish there was more of these characters to see, and I second that one of the drivers was Bugs Bunny, that was a nice touch. As for DVD release it is very worth buying the video quality is very good, that is remastered very good, vivid colors and stuff like that, audio quality is good as well considering that it is from year 1955, you know.

Mac and Tosh? The Goofy Gophers? Never heard of them. And I bet Walt Disney cried plagiarism the day this came out. And I don't blame him if he did as they are a total rip-off of Chip and Dale. They are kinda funny funny though.

Mac and Tosh both have English accents and are very well spoken. When lumberjacks show up in their forest and cut their home down they go off to the lumber mill to get it back. Only it's made into furniture (you can't help but notice the tiniest environmental subtext here) and they plan to steal it back, nonetheless, from the delivery drivers (one of whom sounds EXACTLY like Bugs).

They are cute but not strong enough to really last as long as the better known Looney Tunes. And perhaps Disney put an injunction on Warner preventing such blatant plagiarism. Is this why we never saw Mac and Tosh again?