There They Go-Go-Go!

There They Go-Go-Go! (1956)

*** (out of 4)

Poor ol' Wile E. Coyote is so hungry the film starts off with him cooking mud to eat but he even messes that up. Then the Road Runner goes pass him and an all new hunt begins. This time out we see Wile try using a sling, a gun, spiked balls and even a rope on a tree but, of course, we know what's going to happen. I'm watching these shorts in order and I must say that I've love to see Wile take one big chunk out of the Road Runner. Considering this is the ninth attempt of Wile you can't help but wish he could just eat one time. If not the Road Runner I wish he could eat anything the right way. The series was certainly starting to repeat itself but there's enough action and explosions here to make it worth watching.

Typically wonderful Chuck Jones Road Runner & Coyote short. The opening scene, where Wile E. Coyote shapes a pile of mud to resemble a turkey and then "cooks" it, is pathetic in the most hilarious way. What follows is another funny gag, then another, and another. It's fun from start to finish. Some of the Coyote's attempts at catching the Road Runner in this one include a tree catapult, a mace contraption that has to be seen to be believed, a ladder bridge, and a tire full of dynamite. All of these attempts backfire, of course. There's also one of the better sign gags the series ever used. The animation is quite nice, with slightly sketchy backgrounds and lovely colors. The desert never looked as colorful as it does in the Road Runner cartoons. Carl Stalling's music is whimsical and fun. It's a solid cartoon all the way around. Perhaps not the best of the lot but it's up there.

Michael Maltese must have liked to start a number of these cartoons showing just how starved poor Wile E. Coyote is, that he will do anything to feed his empty stomach. Here, he bakes mud in his oven, pretending it's a chicken. Once it bites into it, he discovers the sad truth and "Famishius Fantasticus" dumps it into his trash bin. The rude Road Runner (Dig- Outius Tid-Bittius) races by, knocking down Wile and making the trash can land on top of his head....and smugly sticking out his tongue while racing away. (Just once I'd like to see poor Wile give the RR what's coming to him!)

In addition, before the chase starts and Wile's wild ploys to catch the bird, he has to desperately search for water because his butt's on fire.

The spring-loaded gun sequence was excellent and really laughed at Wile's little umbrella trying to protect him falling boulders. Otherwise, overall it just a "fair" Road Runner cartoon. Not bad, but not memorable, either.

This is a very good cartoon featuring the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. Instead of starting the chase right away, the Coyote first tries to make a chicken out of mud. After he tastes it, and breaks his teeth on the thing, he also makes a trashcan where he puts the chicken in. At this point the Road Runner enters this cartoon. The Coyote uses a gun, some other things that belong to the army, a broken ladder and some rocks that must fall down.

This is a very good cartoon. The opening sequence that makes it a little different is very nice, the gags work (the Coyote even comments on his own stupid ideas,) and the animation is simple but doesn't distract. A very good cartoon from the Road Runner vs. Coyote series.

This is one of the worst cartoon that have ever been made. Extremely poor sceneries, por editing, poor music, poor execution, poor animation, poor story, even poorer gags which are deadly repetitive and is extremely painful to watch. Chuck Jones did not pay any heed to an even contest. He made the coyote look feeble, incapable and so horribly out of shape compared to the godly roadrunner that it can not be deemed to be a rivalry. It is a poor watch. The cartoons are rubbish and the endless blowing up of the coyote is neither funny nor hilarious and is outright boring and painful to watch. I could not appreciate Chuck Jones work as they are truly very very poor.