Best movie of this year hands down!

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Most of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons are great fun to watch, although the series generally ran out of gas in the 60s. Fast and Furry-ous is their debut and to this day is still one of their best and funniest cartoons.The animation is great, some of the best of the series in fact. The colours are beautiful and vibrant, the backgrounds are simple but still very detailed and attractive, the physical comedy is all tightly edited and the character designs, while more elaborate for Coyote here than with his later and more famous look, are very nicely done and smooth. Music is courtesy of the consistently brilliant Carl Stalling, it doesn't disappoint here and I prefer his livelier and more richly orchestrated scoring to that of Bill Lava's in the later cartoons.Fast and Furry-ous is also incredibly funny, one of the funniest of the entire Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons and this is all with no dialogue at all. The physical comedy is impressively animated and is never less than amusing, at its best hilarious, while the sight gags are equally terrific, the highlight being the refrigerator gag, one of the most original, elaborate and ingenious gags of any of the Roadrunner and Coyote series. The painting-the-tunnel-on-the-stone-wall gag works well too, even if it was repeated numerous other times throughout the series, and the razor sharp pacing helps. Who can't help love the Oliver Hardy-esque looks into the camera too? The story avoids being too repetitive or formulaic and the fresh material, as well as that it's their first cartoon, helps give a sense of originality.Both characters work great together. Roadrunner is one-dimensional, but amusing and never annoying, but it is Coyote who is the funnier and more interesting character. Cunning yet very easy to sympathise for and with priceless facial expressions, he's one of Chuck Jones' best creations. Overall, a wonderful cartoon in all regards, and one of the best of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Chuck Jones's 'Fast and Furry-ous' was the first installment in what went on to be one of the most popular Warner Bros. cartoon series; the Road Runner shorts. Despite being universally referred to as the Road Runner cartoons, the undisputed star of the series is Wile E. Coyote, the scrawny obsessive with a continual misplaced trust in the Acme corporation. It was the Coyote's hysterical facial expressions and reaction shots that would ultimately upstage the gags. At this early stage in his career however, the Coyote is not quite as handsome as he would become and his reactions are less captivatingly observed. Also, this being the first Road Runner cartoon, the novelty of the gag-after-gag-after-gag premise is seen as enough and therefore the gags themselves are largely weak or predictable. There are also early appearances of gags that would go on to be used time and again throughout the series; the logic defying painted landscape joke and the climactic hit and run of the Coyote by a vehicle with the Road Runner on board. These gags were strong the first time round but have become so well established that they fail to raise a smile after they are witnessed for the umpteenth time. There are a couple of nice sequences towards the end of 'Fast and Furry-ous' involving a refrigerator and some skis and a pair of Acme jet powered tennis shoes. These aside, however, 'Fast and Furry-ous' is an historically important but fairly underwhelming cartoon. The series it spawned threw up some vastly superior episodes once the look of the Coyote was refined and his relationship with the audience cemented.

"Fast and Furry-ous" is the first in a series of remarkable cartoons featuring the forever popular Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. Director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese really got the series off to a great start, and the Road Runner and Coyote eventually became two of the most popular cartoon characters ever devised.It appears to be much easier to remember these Road Runner/Coyote cartoons for their particular gags than for their titles. In any case, here are three of my favorite highlights from "Fast and Furry-ous." First off is the repetitive gag of the Coyote painting a tunnel onto a solid, flat rock and the Road Runner speeding straight through the rock into the imaginary tunnel. But, as always, when the Coyote tries it, he smacks directly into the rock. When the Coyote disguises himself as a little girl and places a school crossing sign in the middle of the road, he gets trampled by the Road Runner as he skips across the road. The cunning bird briefly returns disguised as a little girl as well and holds up a sign that reads "ROAD RUNNERS CAN'T READ." And finally, the most elaborate gag in the picture: in order to successfully ski after the Road Runner, the Coyote straps a large refrigerator onto his back, the idea being that the fridge can churn out ice cubes, which can then be crushed into snow by an attached grinder. This plan works out briefly, but the attached motor gives out (watch the Coyote's troubled facial expression when this happens) and the Coyote plunges off a cliff."Fast and Furry-ous" is an overall enjoyable cartoon that was the start of one of the most beloved animated series ever made. Bravo to Chuck Jones and his entire staff for masterfully creating all these hilarious Road Runner/Coyote cartoons.

The Road Runner films form one of the most famous theatrical cartoon series ever. They are also some of the most hilarious in terms of visual comedy, and never get old. Though there is just a simple formula that is exploited throughout, and it is repetitive, it never goes bland. This also means no cartoon stands out, nothing particularly memorable. But this cartoon does shine brighter, not only because of its greatness as entertainment but because it was the debut of both stars, and the makers were not short of ideas. The usual facial expressions and high-quality - though slightly outlandish due to the early date - animation is combined with fresh and new gags, which were at the time not dated and only the cream of the crop of ideas were used. Highly recommended.