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Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens Chuck Jones, if you're not familiar with the name, directed many of the best, most inovative, and therefore, most famous of the Warner Bros. cartoons (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies), including Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century, What's Opera Doc?, The Rabbit of Seville, Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening, etc., as well as the Christmas favorite How the Grinch Stole Christmas (that would be the classic original, not the overblown live-action remake). Jones was a genius of animation, character drawing, comic timing, and abstract ideas. While there were other animation directors who were excellent and contributed to the overall quality of Warner Bros. animated output during the 1940s and 1950s, none of them (to my mind) can compete with Jones for sheer originality and hilarity. This documentary gives a bit of Jones's biography, but concentrates on the wonderful cartoons: what advances he made in the art of animation, the techniques of animation, how each element comes together to make a whole, in a very easily accessible, informative, and interesting way. Includes many snippets of interviews from Jones himself, his daughter, a few voice actors who worked with him, animators and background artists who worked for him, and contemporary film critics and theorists like Leonard Maltin and Roger Ebert, as well as a multitude of clips from his cartoons. Excellent. ***1/2 out of **** Cast Year of Release: 2001 Page last updated 9/30/04. |
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