Wonderfully offbeat film!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Chuck Jones did three cartoons featuring the adventurous Ralph Phillips. In "From A to ZZZ" and "Boyhood Days", Ralph is a boy. In this Army-commissioned cartoon, Ralph is of military age and is having nightmares about the call from Uncle Sam – until Willie N. List turns up with his Anti-Nightmare Machine (from ACME corporation, of course), and calms Ralph's fears.At this stage of Chuck Jones' career, cartooning must have come easy. It is surprisingly good. The Army must has given Jones virtually free rein, because it comes across as informative and fun. It's a cartoon first, an Army recruitment exercise second.The creative additions add considerably to this cartoon: the dog that must be kept asleep with "Rock-a-bye doggie, in the tree top"; the send-up of Army stereotypes (the sadistic sergeant, KP duty, uniforms that don't fit).Yes, it's an Army recruitment exercise, but it's more than just that. It's a good cartoon that entertains its audience.

. . . to make a Looney Tunes KKK Recruitment Ad, as the U.S. Army did in this propaganda piece from the mid-1900s--the Klan Grand Wazoos surely would have been pleased as punch if the result was something as Lily White as DRAFTY, ISN'T IT? My Grand Pappy once explained to me a quaint adjectival acronym he picked up back in these benighted times: WASP (or White Anglo-Saxon People), as in "Only WASPs can buzz into this party," or "This neighborhood (or restaurant, motel, or what have you) is for WASP nests only." DRAFTY, ISN'T IT? portrays the U.S. Army as the ultimate WASP nest, complete with armored tanks and nuclear rockets. Potential enlisted "Ralph Phillips" is White, as are the four Boot Campers and the quartet of sergeants shown. Wikipedia has NO record of alternate versions of DRAFTY, ISN'T IT? also being paid for by U.S. taxpayers to recruit Asians, Hispanics, and Blacks into that Black Hole for American tax dollars, the U.S. Military. Though I got stung by a bee while doing brushwork in my yard today, this WASP sting hurts a lot worse!

In this semi-sequel to "From A to Z-z-z-z-z", daydreamer Ralph Phillips dreams - at night, that is - of being various things, until a figure named Willie N. List appears and shows him the benefits of joining the army (rather than waiting to get drafted). I assume that in 1957, an army life seemed more honorable than it does nowadays. Since "Drafty, Isn't It?" came out, we've had the Vietnam War and the Iraq War. So while Chuck Jones probably had good intentions in making this cartoon, the tragic reality has proved to be quite different from what it shows.So, this short is pretty funny if you just accept it as a silly cartoon (it turns out that Wile E. Coyote isn't the only one who receives stuff from the ACME Corporation). But I, for one, would never want to join the army. Even if you survive the next military escapade - even if you don't lose any limbs - there's the risk of being homeless after the service. So it's best not to obey this cartoon.

This is the second of two cartoons starring the adorable daydreamer, Ralph Phillips. In the first, From A to Z-Z-Z-Z, he spent his school day dreaming of being a hero in a wide variety of situations and in this followup, you've got the exact same formula, except that he's been sent to his room after accidentally breaking a window. While he waits for his dad to come home, his overactive mind creates a lot of funny situations that will delight the audience. The part I liked the best, though, was when the nice dad returned and Ralph left the room--imagining he was little George Washington out to chop down a cherry tree! You can imagine what is probably going to happen next and the cartoon fades out.Yes, I know that Washington never chopped down a cherry tree--but it's still a funny scene.