After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

. . . just as their grandparents swore by a Timex "watch" (tag-line: "It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking") as these wrist-worn time-tracking devices--back in Fashion today among the UltraRich, but yet to appear during this Century of American Decline in the zip codes of working people--once served as the link between the gold pocket watches in vogue during the 1800s and our current multi-tasking cell phones. Both Energizer and Timex have capitalized upon Warner Bros.' characterization of Wile E. Coyote. For example, in the Looney Tunes animated short ZIPPING ALONG, Mr. Coyote gets raced over nine times by his meal ticket\nemesis, the roadrunner. Wile also gets Smushed by extremely heavy objects thrice, severely mouse-trapped like the JACKASS guy, run over by a truck, sent into four Death Plunges, blown up on five occasions, and shot roughly 63 times (not counting an incident of being shot himself from a cannon). Since this cartoon dates back to the 1900s, I have a hunch that Mr. Coyote padded off to his bed (after a hard day on the set) wearing Energizer Bunny Slippers, as well as a tick-tick-ticking Timex Watch.

Again the cartoon does not take itself seriously. As you have to not take yourself seriously in order to watch a cartoon like both the Roadrunner and the Wile E Coyote.At first the Coyote tries to take matter into his own hands. As Coyote later learns that he can't just do it all by himself as the bird proves to be fast and clever from time and time again.So he of course revolts to the now famous and infamous depending on your own opinion, Acme company. Which is now and has been a trademark for the Coyote to fail.Always funny but sad in a way to see Wile E get knocked around and just beaten while trying to get the Roadrunner as his prey.

As fast as a locomotive, even faster...it's the Road Runner! Once again, he's out for a battle of speed & wits against Wile E. Coyote, who is willing to do ANYTHING to get that bird! With a fun cartoon like "Zipping Along," the audience gets another look at how the Coyote works hard to set up his various Road Runner traps, only to have them backfire every time.My favorite gags in this short include the following (but don't read any further until after you have watched it). The camera freeze-frames on the Coyote for the traditional display of his Latin name (in this case, "Road-Runnerus Digestus") while he is in the process of rapidly moving his head, so we get to see many heads at once! Before the Coyote even thinks about setting up any traps, he repeatedly gets run over by the Road Runner, each time with a passing "Meep meep!" In attempting to blow up the ultra-quick bird by means of a hand grenade, the Coyote accidentally tosses the safety pin while the grenade is still in his teeth, and his big-eyed reaction tells the rest. The Coyote sets up a bunch of mousetraps, but the Road Runner's brisk zooming causes all the traps to fly in the air and land on the Coyote, who, after a brief pause, lets out a hilarious yell. He then tries to fly in the air with one arm holding onto a kite and the other arm clutching an aerial bomb, but he immediately falls to the ground, and the bomb explodes."Zipping Along" is a very good cartoon in the Road Runner/Coyote series from director Chuck Jones. Don't miss it!

It's strange how your perspective shifts as you get older. When I was a young devotee of ROADRUNNER, it was the titular hero I identified with, his speed, obviously, his unassailability, his grace, his freedom, his cheek. Watching him again, nearly two decades on, I find that the real hero of the cartoon is not this miraculous popinjay, but his hapless nemesis, Wil E. Coyote.There is something monstrous and inhuman about Roadrunner's indestructability, but nothing heroic. He is a creature of instinct, he is what he is, a road runner. We should no more applaud his skill than we should marvel at rain falling. Even his mockery seems mechanical, unwilled. He is something abstract, ungraspable, a hurtling metaphor for all we fail to achieve in life.Wil E. we can love, identify with. He has a name. Like all self-willed names, it is preposterously inappropriate. Although part of his failure can be attributed to his enemy's fleet feet, it is his ineptitude that is mostly to blame. His wily schemes are incompetently conceived in the heat of the moment - the eternal chase allows no room for pause.These cartoons are a further elaboration of Buster Keaton's Beckettian agonies - here plot is completely abandoned, for a daring, perpetual repetition, where closure is forever denied. Because the only closure could be death - Road Runner's, Wil E.'s, or ours. We will never pin down that which we can sense, but cannot hold. And yet we must continued to try, because stillness can only lead to thoughts of mortality and despair.Chuck Jones' imagination only improves with age. The Cezanne-like geometrics are a marvel to behold. The saturated colours still dazzle, and the backgrounds, part simplistic children's book illustration, part bleak dreamscape, are as piercingly evocative as ever. The insane and complex variations on what is essentially a simple, inexorable plot are breathtaking, and puts almost everything that was stumbling lamely out of Hollywood at the time to shame. Jones, horribly underrated, was at least as great a director as Keaton, Hawks or Sirk, and it is about time we said so. So I did.