Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

"One Froggy Evening" is a classic Warner Bros. cartoon written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones. The star of this cartoon is what you might call a one-hit wonder: the singing & dancing Michigan J. Frog! The only catch is that this frog will only do his shtick for a certain construction worker and NOBODY ELSE! Hence the film becomes a wonderful story of greed & frustration as the poor construction worker tries to convince others that this frog that he found can indeed sing and dance. But everyone else reacts negatively to an otherwise very ordinary-looking, lifeless frog devoid of any personality.My favorite moments from "One Froggy Evening" include the following. Aided by Milt Franklyn's music score to "Hello, Ma Baby," the construction worker inaudibly tries to impress upon a stuffy, humorless theatrical agent the special talents of the frog. A "Free Beer!" sign attracts the barhopping crowd to a local theater where the frog is singing & dancing on a tightrope; the crowd boos when the curtain goes up to reveal a lonely, lifeless, croaking frog on stage. The construction worker, now a hobo, is hilarious by simply pointing downward toward the frog when a policeman approaches him for supposedly disturbing the peace with singing; this lands the poor guy in a psychopathic hospital, where the frog sings "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" outside of the frustrated gentleman's padded cell."Subtlety" is a good word to describe "One Froggy Evening"; this cartoon makes excellent use of subtle facial expressions to convey meaning - without the necessity of any words! This is a major factor that made this cartoon well worth the amount of effort. Not to mention all the wonderful songs the frog sings: "Hello, Ma Baby," "Michigan Rag," "I'm Just Wild About Harry," "Largo al factotum" from Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville," and several other songs.

This is simply hilarious! A poor shmoe is helping demolish an old building. When he gets to the cornerstone, a live frog is miraculously living inside. But this is no ordinary frog, but one that sings and dances! The guy runs out to find an agent, but the frog won't sing for him. So, he uses all his money and rents out a hall. When the people come, the frog stops singing. It seems that the frog will only sing to this guy and this guy alone. Eventually, the guy is left penniless and quite irked at the dumb frog. In the end, he, too, sticks this frog in the cornerstone of a building under construction. Later, in the distant future, another poor shmoe is seen finding the frog and assuming he, too, will become a rich man!

Chuck Jones and company created another masterpiece with "One Froggy Evening", about a man finding a singing frog who only sings for him, leading to many unpleasant situations. These cartoons were so simple, yet so clever. I think that there's absolutely no doubt that this and many other cartoons from that era will stay firmly ingrained as part of our national heritage forever.One thing I notice is that Mel Blanc didn't do Michigan J. Frog's voice. But that's no problem. This cartoon is still great. How they came up with these things is beyond me; it just shows that they were geniuses. A great cartoon. These are the sorts of cartoons that we need to show our children.

Among my favorites of the Warner Brothers Merry Melodies shorts is the one with Michigan J Frog (which, like "the Man with No Name" in Leone films, is a marketing gimmick). It's basically a silent film only with a singing, dancing frog, right from the swamp into vaudeville as it were (ho-ho). His owner decides to make it rich with what is, well, a singing and dancing frog in such a reality-driven world as a cartoon. No one notices the frog's talents as it stops just as people are put in front of it; this even extends to an audience promised free beer. In the end, it's fairly tragic, however just in the sense of a Merry Melodies cartoon. This is one of those shorts, like Duck Amuck (my favorite), that brilliantly winks to the audience 'hey, we know this is all so irreverent and absurd, we'll play with it till it drops to the floor'. This time instead of the characters actively talking to the audience, we get the interplay between reality and fantasy played out between a man and an animal. It's funny, of course, because of the owner's attempts to get it to dance in front of others. And its timeless because it has this message of not being able to cross fantasy into reality, which is why all the Merry Melodies shorts, even the lessor ones, have this cool little quality to them. In short, one of Jones/Matleses' triumphs.