This very good Terrytoon begins with a blackout sequence showing what happened to various Mother Goose characters after they grew up. We then shift to the Big Bad Wolf, who has just been paroled after ten years in prison.
At the heart of this story is statement that times have changed. The wolf comes out of prison dressed as in Disney's THE THREE LITTLE PIGS; the pigs are now enormous boars; he changes to a zoot suit to go after little red riding hood and finds out that she is a man-hungry sophisticate out of Tex Avery's RED HOT Cinderella.
Many of the gags remain aimed at small children -- there's a concrete mixer that works like a cocktail shaker which is just the sort of conflation a child would make -- and the blackouts at the beginning undercut the surprises. Nonetheless, the liveliness with which the gags are executed keep up the fun.
At the heart of this story is statement that times have changed. The wolf comes out of prison dressed as in Disney's THE THREE LITTLE PIGS; the pigs are now enormous boars; he changes to a zoot suit to go after little red riding hood and finds out that she is a man-hungry sophisticate out of Tex Avery's RED HOT Cinderella.
Many of the gags remain aimed at small children -- there's a concrete mixer that works like a cocktail shaker which is just the sort of conflation a child would make -- and the blackouts at the beginning undercut the surprises. Nonetheless, the liveliness with which the gags are executed keep up the fun.
