utgard14 One of the all-time greats. Chuck Jones' brilliant parody of Buck Rogers with Daffy Duck as the title character who, along with his sidekick "Eager Young Space Cadet" Porky, tries to stake a claim on Planet X in the name of Earth and finds Marvin the Martian attempting to do the same for Mars. Being a fan of Daffy, a fan of Chuck Jones, and a fan of old school sci-fi, this one is a real treat for me. It's been one of my favorite Looney Tunes cartoons since childhood. Even now, after I've seen literally hundreds of Looney Tunes shorts since I first saw this one, it still ranks in my top ten. The animation is excellent with creative little bits of business all around. Pay attention to the details in this one. Beautiful colors and backgrounds. Exciting music from Carl Stalling. Flawless voice work from the legendary Mel Blanc. It's one of the best shorts Chuck Jones ever made and probably his second best Daffy short behind Duck Amuck. The writing is fresh and clever, the gags are funny, and the animation is top notch. I don't have a single bad thing to say about this classic.

dominickneedname This short film is outstanding. From the very beginning until the end its filed with silly scifi jokes and amazing hand-drawn animation. Its to bad they don't show shorts like this before movies nowadays. Pixar and Disneys new cgi shorts like Paperman and La luna are good but will never come close to this masterpiece.Now that i got my mini rant on cgi out of the way...This short is about Duck Dodgers (Daffy duck) fighting for control of planet X which Marvin the martian is also after. This leads to loads of grade A humor and jaw dropping animated scenes featuring strange SciFi technology.After sixty years this film is still huge. Being a favorite of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.Go check it out if you are a fan of animation or scifi you wont be sorry.

Tweekums This Daffy Duck spoof of Buck Rogers in the Twenty-fifth Century is fairly funny, especially once he has met up with Marvin the Martian."Duck Dodgers" has been given the task of finding Planet X, the only remaining source of Illudium Phosdex (the shaving cream atom). He sets off with his side kick, eager young space cadet Porky Pig, and eventually finds the planet which he claims for Earth, a few seconds later Marvin arrives claiming it for Mars and the two of them have a stand-off involving Acme Disintegration Guns, Ultimatum Guns and finally they each attack the other with explosives that leave little of the planet intact.I found this to be pretty funny, Daffy usually amuses me more than Bugs Bunny due to his general incompetence and Marvin the Martian is always funny.

bob the moo When the earth's supplies of the shaving foam atom run low, the scientific community turns to Duck Dodgers, the space travelling adventurer, to seek out a new supply. Dodgers travels to the unexplored planet X, rich in the atom, to claim it for earth; however a Martian is also on the planet to claim it for Mars. A battle ensues.For many people this is Daffy's best cartoon; it certainly seems to have stuck in many peoples' childhood memories, mine included. The plot spoofs the Buck Rodgers series of the period reasonably well and sees Daffy going to planet X and battling Marvin with a variety of funny weapons. It starts a little slowly but gets better when Marvin appears. The gags may not be brilliant but they have a certain imagination and energy to them that make it all work pretty well.I much prefer Daffy in his `crazy duck' personae rather than his later work, which is probably why I only enjoyed this film rather than loved it. Here he seems quite restrained and it is only occasionally when his character shines through the character of Dodgers. Porky has little to do but is reasonably amusing in his minor role, but it is Marvin that gives the best support in his rather one-dimensional role.It will stick in my mind because it is such a good little spoof but it isn't as good as perhaps it has been remembered. On top of that, I didn't see any of the Daffy I really love and that was a problem for me.