. . . makes like a serial killer, knocking nine ninnies into comas by bashing their noggins and "braining" them. FISTICUFFS presents itself as a boxing "how to," but it is not content to follow the "rules" of proper pugilistic parlays. Instead, featured brute "Mad Max" clubs his unwary victims with "rabbit punches," elbows, kidney shots, low blows, wrist-first backhands, and worse. For misguided "comic relief," a sadistic blonde called "Elizabeth" or "Liz" slaps, bites, and finally cold-cocks a would-be Good Samaritan trying to protest her (and her attire) from the ring riot. (Without the benefit of perhaps a dozen "between takes" costume changes, Liz would wind up bloodier than CARRIE-after-her-bucket-dousing from all the arterial spray necessarily elicited by FISTICUFFS). This short was released by the Pachyderm Party's propaganda machine during the Planet's run up to World War Two, when many treasonous traitors of the Elephantine Persuasion hoped that America would enter the fray on Der Fuhrer's side. In Real Life, Storm Trooper Max was merely "The Brown Bomber's" wedding night sparring partner, as a warm-up for his later clobbering of Iron Cross nominee "Max What-do-you-Smell."
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