Truly Dreadful Film

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

. . . of the Troubled Times our country had in store IF a day ever came when private citizens could tote around guns wherever they went. MOONLIGHT FOR TWO depicts the happy, care-free, fun-filled lives a community enjoys when there are no guns around. The climax of this animated short comes when a gun-wielding thug (not unlike the ones running amok in Paris this week) crashes the hayseed square dance. After each mass shooting in today's Pandemic, National Rifle Association (NRA) stooges yelp, "More guns, more guns!! Bring guns to parks! Bring guns to movies! Bring guns to kindergarten! Bring guns to church!" This month in Detroit a gentleman complained in church that its pastor was fornicating with the gentleman's wife. The pastor whipped out his revolver and shot his parishioner stone cold dead! Everyone knows that Fox "News" viewers are seven times more likely to be packing that PBS watchers. People in public places already feel the need to whisper if they're going to say something nice about our President, or Gay People, or Women's Rights, because they don't want to be shot dead by the secret, self-appointed thought police. At least ten million U.S. residents are just as mad-dog nuts as the gunman here in MOONLIGHT FOR TWO, and nearly all of these Crack-A-Zoids are armed to their teeth. Warner Bros. tried to warn us of the consequences of allowing the NRA to bully five gun crazies onto the U.S. Supreme Court, but hardly anyone took note. Now it's too late!

This is an early Harman-Ising short done for Warner Brothers. There will be mild spoilers ahead: Warner Brothers basically used these shorts to promote songs in their catalog from their feature films. The plots, minimal at best, were almost an afterthought. Typically, they were a bunch of loosely connected visual gags strung together around the singing of whatever song was picked as the core of the short.This one concerns a courting couple going to a dance. The trip there is a bunch of sight gags connected to their journey there and their wooing of one another. The best gags come at the dance, particularly after our hero has a confrontation with an angry cantankerous bear. The most interesting "character" is an animated stove which saves out hero by applying himself to the backside of the bear and a good time was had by all (except the bear) This short is an extra on a Forbidden Hollywood DVD set of pre-code movies, accompanying "The Purchase Price". The set itself is good and this short is worth watching. Recommended.

Moonlight for Two is a Merrie Melodies cartoon from Hugh Harmon-Rudolf Ising Productions in association with Leon Schlesinger and distributed by Warner Bros. In this one, a hillbilly dog couple come to a dance while singing the title song. Many hilarious gags involving hillbilly stereotypes like the one of the sock still dancing while the musician takes it off his foot! My favorite ones involve a dancing stove who later saves the hero's life when a shotgun-shootin' bear disrupts the dance. Loved the hero using the stove to shoot the bear back! Highly amusing and well worth seeing for any animation fan of early Warner Bros. So long, folks!

And therefore nothing is really funny. That's my take on it and you may certainly disagree, but this is the principal reason why Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies are not particularly funny -- nor are the versions of popular songs offered here particularly good, given the squeaky-voiced vocal artists offered for your entertainment here.A great deal of the fun in the Termite Terrace era of animation is not simply that anything can happen, but that you, the audience, knew what was going to happen to poor Daffy Duck when he tried to swindle Bugs. Even the Cartoon Laws of Physics -- such as the best known one, about gravity: gravity will not work upon an object until the object recognizes it is going to fall -- make a rough psychological sense, once you're in on the gag.Here, alas, the best jokes are poor celebrity caricatures: Rudy Vallee shows up, although he looks more like Harpo Marx to my eyes.