Horst in Translation ([email protected]) This is a 7-minute animated short film from over 60 years ago and it may very well be the most known one including everybody's favorite (non-Disney) duck. The fact that a short cartoon becomes induced into the National Film registry already says it all pretty much. It's a very inventive movie and there is something happening constantly. The setting is changed, Daffy's costume is changed or he transforms into an entirely different character. Also the filmmakers played a bit with colors and, more notably, with sound here. Daffy has the voice of a cock at one point. The filmmaker team are the usual Warner Bros. guys again: Jones, Maltese and Blanc who worked on hundreds (or in Blanc's case) of movies. I enjoyed watching this one, but still I feel it is slightly overrated. People should not mistake the inclusion of the pen (led by Bugs Bunny) for one of the greatest cartoons ever made just because the other ones do not include the drawing artist behind the cartoon. With that being said, I still recommend these 7 minutes.

nick-sultana All I will say is the following factors make this a animated masterpiece of the Warner Bros' Looney Tunes history:It's directed by the one and only Chuck Jones (or Charles M. Jones as credited in some of his hilarious works)The style of animation is just a sight to behold, its funny, colorful and plenty of detail to admireIt's Daffy Duck's leading role (my 2nd favourite fictional character in the series) and the idea of him being tormented by the mysterious animator in many hilarious ways is comedic gold! Mel Blanc as always gives his very best voice work to make him seem so believableand lastly...Its a 4th Wall Breaker, not just the fourth but many walls are broken in the cartoon universe and the audience Overall, don't miss the chance to see this masterpiece of all time!

Jackson Booth-Millard A few people think that Daffy Duck is annoying, including me sometimes, but at the same time he is lovable and fun to watch. This is one of only a few cartoons in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies collection where the main character argues with the animator and makes it a hilarious surreal experience. It starts with Daffy playing a Musketeer ready to do some fighting, but then all the sudden the background disappears, and when Daffy asks the scenery, the animator paints him a farm. Daffy accepts he has to do a farm sketch, until he sees an igloo and changes to a skier, and then some tropical trees changing to a Hawaain music player. The background disappears, and when Daffy tries to reason with the animator, he is erased, and redrawn as a cowboy with a guitar, with no sound. Sound is restored, but all the wrong sounds are occurring as Daffy plays the guitar, and then gets out of the clothes and tries to reason again. Daffy gets his voice back again, and asks for some scenery with no colour, and when he demands some, the animator paints Daffy. He loses his temper, gets his body erased, and the animator draws him a ridiculous new flower, chicken leg and "screw ball" flag body, which he sees in a mirror. After being erased and redrawn again as a sailor, the animator gives him a sea background, where Daffy falls in the sea, swims to the near island, and demands a close-up, which he does eventually get, but too close. Daffy tries to reason with the animator gently, before being interrupted by the above falling black background, and after stopping the "The End" sign appearing, he says he'll let the animator go his way, while he goes his. Daffy decides to entertain with some dancing, until the picture is lifted to the next slide, with another Daffy coming on to have a quick argument with the other, until one is erased and the other is put in an aeroplane. After going through a crash and falling with an anvil parachute, which becomes an exploding bomb, Daffy has had enough and demands to know the identity of the animator, and when he is shut behind a drawn door, it zooms out to see the animator, Bugs Bunny, ending with his laugh and the words "ain't I a stinker". Daffy Duck was number 30, Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies number 20, and Bugs Bunny number 10 on The 100 Greatest Cartoons. Very good!

jeffcox31 Duck Amuck is a brilliantly done cartoon. Too often cartoons are just seen as a bunch of random wacky jokes, but Chuck Jones adds another level: character driven comedy. To be sure, this cartoon is VERY wacky. But but what makes this cartoon really work is the exploration of the character of Daffy Duck. Chuck Jones was the driving force behind Daffy's change from a hyperactive, insane character who harassed others for no apparent reason into the scheming, easily angered, self centered character he is best known as today. In Duck Amuck, Jones crystallizes his vision for Daffy's new direction, showing him as a character who wishes to put on a good show for his audience, but is so easily frustrated that everything seems to be working against him. Instead of going with the flow, he flies off the handle at everything that goes wrong, which in turn is worsened by whoever is doing all of this stuff to him. In his best characterization, Daffy manages to be sympathetic enough that the audience still roots for him, even though he probably deserves whatever he has coming to him. In his worst characterization, his greediness and anger take over to the point he becomes completely unsympathetic. This cartoon and the so-called "Hunter's Trilogy" feature Daffy's best characterization, the cartoons featuring Daffy and Speedy Gonzales made in the mid 1960's have the worst.