I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (1916) *** (out of 4) Silent animated short has Krazy Kat jumping into his plane and flying to his girlfriend's house but he has a surprise coming to him. This runs a very quick two-minutes so you can't expect too much of a story but the entire film is just a set up for the final act, which I found to be quite funny. The entire film has a cute element to it and I also found the animation to be quite nice. Those seeking a historic element will probably find this more entertaining than your normal animation fans but you can look at this and see a connection to future cat films like Felix and Tom and Jerry.

This is sort of amazing in that it's about as primitive a cartoon as you are likely to find. Made in 1916 with no music or sound-effects - pure silence - we see Krazy Kat flying his little airplane (with the propeller in back, which I've never seen before on any flying machine) - over to his girlfriend's house. Her name is "Ignatz." There are bubbles that give us some dialog, as in a comic strip you'd read in the newspaper or comic book. Dig this first "bubble" "This is my darlink Ignatz's house."Krazy Kat serenades her but gets no response. "Ignatiz, I am waitink," he says. I won't spoil the surprise ending except to say that "Ignatz" is a mouse. A cat serenading a mouse? Only in the cartoons!Actually, this cartoon which looks like it is out of the stone age, has a funny ending and is pretty clever. This was the best of three bonus "out of the vault" extras on disc one of the Popeye The Sailor Man 19433-1938 Volume One DVD.

Since the previous reviewer summed up what happens in this 2-minute cartoon, I'll just mention that Krazy also has some kind of flying contraption which he uses to fly to where he mistakenly thinks is Ignatz' house and he takes a guitar where you see visual notes whenever he plays some music. And in many of the word balloons, many of the words end with "ink" like "darlink". Since Zsa Zsa Gabor speaks like that, I half wonder if she learned English after moving from Hungary with her sisters by seeing films like this! Nothing much more to say except this film has a primitive charm that could interest animation history buffs. If you are interested in seeing this, it's easily available on YouTube (at least it was when I found it there).

It really isn't fair to give these early animations ratings on IMDb because they are so different and so primitive. And you really can't blame them, as the medium was so new. Instead, I see them as important historical curios that should not be forgotten, though most modern audiences would probably be bored by them.This is a silent cartoon featuring Krazy Kat--who for some odd reason always seems to be in love with the mouse, Ignatz. Krazy Kat begins serenading Ignatz, but doesn't realize it's the wrong home. Ignatz sees what's happening and begins to pelt the cat with bricks. It's highly reminiscent of the much later Tom and Jerry or Itchy and Scratchy and gives us insight into the evolution of this dynamic.