Ugh, I didn’t think there was a bad Marvin the Martian cartoon, but here we are.
The animation is bland and the jokes are either reused or fall flat. The ending was an embarrassing wink to the camera and Bugs is not himself at all. He is so passive. I guess they did eventually drag every character into the ground by the 1960s.
Nostalgia got me on this one as I remember it from one of the Looney Tunes package movies I used to watch as a kid before I could watch individual shorts. The mid-century space design is probably the star here. Space looks so unique, like no other vision of it I have seen before, perhaps due to its disregard of considering how these characters breathe. It’s not really laugh out loud funny often, but it is so enjoyable with its…
Fascinating.
Fascinating that the skit existed and was popular.
Fascinating that they thought it could be enough for a film.
Fascinating watching the creators try to tell the same uncomfortable and unfunny joke in different ways for 70 minutes.
Fascinating how they make Pat so unlikable.
Fascinating in being a relic of a different time with an insensitive look at gender by today’s standards.
Fascinatingly bad.
This is really just a glorified clip show more than a documentary. Only Cavett is really interviewed and the talk is only of his relationship with Groucho, mostly on his show. The archival material is almost always enjoyable and there are some laughs to be had.
Old Groucho is so different than young Groucho. He has more schtick and less of a sense of anarchy, but he is more often funny than not. George Burns is such a great storyteller.…
