Bird Man (1935) Poster

(1935)

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Neither a Bird Nor a Man
boblipton3 April 2015
Krazy Kat sings the statement: I am a bird man!" several times, straps a plank to each hand and jumps off a roof. This is not going to turn out well.

Of course, delusion had never been unknown in George Herriman's strip; whenever Ignatz Mouse heaved a brick at Krazy's head, she took it as a sign of affection. However, Harrison and Gould had been directing the Krazy Kat movie cartoons for ten years at this point and Krazy now was almost always a tom cat. So were Harrison & Gould harking back to the comic strip, or had they simply come up with the final gag and built the entire cartoon around it? I haven't the slightest idea and found the cartoon fairly annoying, despite the numerous good gags scattered through it. This is a clear case of Your Mileage May Vary. I hope you enjoy watching this one.
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6/10
Delusions of Grandeur
Hitchcoc13 January 2016
This is just a throwaway as far as I'm concerned. What I mean is that it is just ordinary. Krazy Kat, being a crazy cat, decides to fly. He tries the typical tying of boards to his arms and crashes. Eventually, he gets full of tar and feathers and finds that this allows him to fly. The whole thing has a sight gag or two, but the point is a bit lame. It's nice it only ran about six minutes because there wasn't much else to do with the plot. The plus is that each time these guys made a cartoon, they added a little more strength to their production efforts. It has been interesting watching these things chronologically to see the development.
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