Buddy runs a movie theatre. The feature stars his crush Cookie. Before that, there's "Passe News", a preview trailer, and "Rejected Short Subjects". In the feature, Cookie performs on a piano and sings until a gorilla comes through her window. Buddy sees this and vows to "save" Cookie. Now that I told you the synopsis, I'll just say that while there are some amusing gags here and the animation is quite good, the short doesn't have much of a plot and, as usual, Buddy is just the blandest character ever created for Warner Bros. This character was created because when Hugh Harmon and Rudolf Ising took Bosko with them to M-G-M, Leon Schlesinger was left without a regular cartoon character for his animated shorts. Lucky for us, Porky Pig would be created the same year this short was made...
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Buddy's Theatre was just a slightly amusing cartoon starring the always bland Buddy
tavm28 February 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Buddy at the local theatre
TheLittleSongbird15 September 2017
Now a fairly obscure character, Buddy was the second Warner Brothers Looney Tunes character, after Bosko and followed by Beans the Cat. Buddy didn't last long, being retired in 1935 after 23 cartoons starting in 1933.
'Buddy's Theatre' is one of the average Buddy cartoons of a mixed bag of a filmography, ranging between mediocre and decent with a fair share of average ones. After the two previous Buddy cartoons being one of his best (especially 'Buddy's Adventures', one of the few very good efforts), 'Buddy's Theatre' struck me as middle-of-the-road and towards the lesser half.
Starting with the good qualities, the animation is nicely drawn and detailed with the black and white looking crisp, also some of the most imaginative of the Buddy cartoons. Even better is the music score. Music played a big part in the Buddy cartoons and it was essential for it to work, it's catchy and very fitting here.
Of the characters, the most colourful and interesting is the gorilla. While somewhat of a stock character Cookie is appealingly charming. There are some amusing gags and a little energy. The voice acting is good.
However, the story is barely existent (basically stringing along formulaic scenes) and predictable. Other parts of 'Buddy's Theatre' could have done with more energy.
Another part of the problem is Buddy himself in yet another cartoon of his where the support characters are more interesting than he is and with more compelling personalities, Buddy tends to be bland and he is here. Occasionally, it's a little too cutesy and a few other gags lack lustre.
Overall, average. 5/10 Bethany Cox
'Buddy's Theatre' is one of the average Buddy cartoons of a mixed bag of a filmography, ranging between mediocre and decent with a fair share of average ones. After the two previous Buddy cartoons being one of his best (especially 'Buddy's Adventures', one of the few very good efforts), 'Buddy's Theatre' struck me as middle-of-the-road and towards the lesser half.
Starting with the good qualities, the animation is nicely drawn and detailed with the black and white looking crisp, also some of the most imaginative of the Buddy cartoons. Even better is the music score. Music played a big part in the Buddy cartoons and it was essential for it to work, it's catchy and very fitting here.
Of the characters, the most colourful and interesting is the gorilla. While somewhat of a stock character Cookie is appealingly charming. There are some amusing gags and a little energy. The voice acting is good.
However, the story is barely existent (basically stringing along formulaic scenes) and predictable. Other parts of 'Buddy's Theatre' could have done with more energy.
Another part of the problem is Buddy himself in yet another cartoon of his where the support characters are more interesting than he is and with more compelling personalities, Buddy tends to be bland and he is here. Occasionally, it's a little too cutesy and a few other gags lack lustre.
Overall, average. 5/10 Bethany Cox
This brief cartoon constitutes another dire warning . . .
oscaralbert12 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
. . . from Warner Bros.' prolific and profoundly proficient Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, the Looney Tuners) for we Americans of the (then) Far Future about our upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti. This clairvoyant team of prognosticators begin BUDDY'S THEATRE with a short-term prophecy involving the Fascist Italian dictator Bernie Mussolini (dubbed B. Mausoleum here). If the latter Nom De Guerre is not enough of a tip-off to the Axis Power's Roman Miscreant's Final Fate, Warner's cartoonists double underline it by having the tickets to see Mussolini\Mausoleum on the Big Screen consist of SAUSAGE LINKS! This, of course, portends the Real Life fact that within a decade Mussolini's corpse would be swinging upside down impaled upon a MEAT HOOK--next to the nude torso of his mistress--in a public square. (This is what happens to Fascists who rig elections with the help of foreign hackers.) Speaking of doomed Fascists, we're brought to the Warner warning relevant to People of Today.
This is the final portion of BUDDY'S THEATRE, introduced by a screen which states "Warmer Bros. presents a Phoney Vitamin short, Cookie (Buddy's gal) in THE CHINCHILLA." The title character of this movie-within-a-movie looks a lot like a Hulking Uncouth Primate (think White House Resident Rump). He attacks Cookie several times, always grabbing for her private parts. Soon Cookie is dangling helpless from a tree limb, her white panties caught on the branch. This is a prophecy that the Flower of American Womanhood will be mortally threatened by the U.S. Supreme Court pick of Red Commie KGB Strongman Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin (aka, Rump's Puppetmaster). Putin's plot is to destroy the fabric of American life through rampant rape, incest, and forced births--especially in the so-called Red States, where Putin's Red Commie influence is the strongest. (As MSNBC recently disclosed, Putin already has legalized rape in his home base of Red Commie Russia.)
Warner then shows Buddy swinging directly from his projectionist's booth into the action on screen in order to first disable, and then boot to Canada the Deplorable Rump-like figure threatening Cookie. Obviously, Warner's intended Moral to this Story is that We Average Normal Blue Collar Working Class 99 Per Center Americans MUST rise up immediately, reform our Union Party into a reconstituted Grand Army of the Republic, use the legal means available (that is, a Constitutional Convention) to Repeal and Replace the Racist Billionaire's Party Suicide-Pact Constitution with one that fits our 21st Century--NOT the Racist 18th Century--and pay off the National Debt that the Billionaire Party has run up by confiscating their ill-gotten Racist Booty on their way out of America's Door!
This is the final portion of BUDDY'S THEATRE, introduced by a screen which states "Warmer Bros. presents a Phoney Vitamin short, Cookie (Buddy's gal) in THE CHINCHILLA." The title character of this movie-within-a-movie looks a lot like a Hulking Uncouth Primate (think White House Resident Rump). He attacks Cookie several times, always grabbing for her private parts. Soon Cookie is dangling helpless from a tree limb, her white panties caught on the branch. This is a prophecy that the Flower of American Womanhood will be mortally threatened by the U.S. Supreme Court pick of Red Commie KGB Strongman Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin (aka, Rump's Puppetmaster). Putin's plot is to destroy the fabric of American life through rampant rape, incest, and forced births--especially in the so-called Red States, where Putin's Red Commie influence is the strongest. (As MSNBC recently disclosed, Putin already has legalized rape in his home base of Red Commie Russia.)
Warner then shows Buddy swinging directly from his projectionist's booth into the action on screen in order to first disable, and then boot to Canada the Deplorable Rump-like figure threatening Cookie. Obviously, Warner's intended Moral to this Story is that We Average Normal Blue Collar Working Class 99 Per Center Americans MUST rise up immediately, reform our Union Party into a reconstituted Grand Army of the Republic, use the legal means available (that is, a Constitutional Convention) to Repeal and Replace the Racist Billionaire's Party Suicide-Pact Constitution with one that fits our 21st Century--NOT the Racist 18th Century--and pay off the National Debt that the Billionaire Party has run up by confiscating their ill-gotten Racist Booty on their way out of America's Door!
A fun filled cartoon theatre
andyjg11 September 2006
Buddy is running a local theatre single handed, and as in Buster Keaton's 1924 silent "Sherlock Junior" joins in with the the action on the screen, saving his girlfriend Cookie from the clutches of the evil gorilla. On the way there are many comic swipes at the Hollywood of the time ( Warmer Pictures present,A phoney vitamin production,Pass'e News,smash hit, 3 years in the remaking,it's colossal, it's stupendous, it's super colossal,in fact it's almost mediocre,don't fail to see James Backnee in "Here come the Gravy" 15 features for 15cents, come & spend a quiet weekend with us! are a few of the gags) Catch this 'toon if you can, it's well worth a look.
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