TheLittleSongbird The Bosko cartoons may not be animation masterpieces, but they are fascinating as examples of Looney Tunes in their early days before the creation of more compelling characters and funnier and more creative cartoons.None of the previous Bosko cartoons were great, most of them being hit and miss, but they were interesting and mostly quite decent. His eighth cartoon (if one includes his "pilot" cartoon 'The Talk-Ink Kid'), 'Ain't Nature Grand', is one of his weakest, at this point his second weakest after the strange 'The Booze Hangs High'. Certainly watchable but while nature certainly is grand that is the last adjective to describe the cartoon overall.Certainly there are good things about 'Ain't Nature Grand'. The animation is not bad at all. Not exactly refined but fluid and crisp enough with some nice detail, it is especially good in the meticulous backgrounds and some remarkably flexible yet natural movements for Bosko. The music is one of 'Ain't Nature Grand's' highlight components, its infectious energy, rousing merriment, lush orchestration and how well it fits with the animation is just a joy.Some parts are fun and intriguing, such as those with the frogs and the spider, with a few ways that nature and insects used being fairly inventive. The climax is entertaining and one is definitely rooting for the insects. The supporting characters are nice and the synchronisation and sound are remarkably good.Bosko himself is not that endearing, his personality being a bit bland this time around. The story is paper thin with pedestrian pacing at times and a few repetitive bits too. Like 'The Booze Hangs High', the humour is too far and between and generally is not that amusing let alone funny.Outside of a few moments, 'Ain't Nature Grand' is not that imaginative, and the cartoon is very routine, at times dull and easily forgettable on the whole.In summary, alright cartoon but without the desire to see it again in a hurry. 5/10 Bethany Cox

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . what message does AIN'T NATURE GRAND! have for we 21st Century Americans of the Future, given Warner's penchant to use its psychic Looney Tunes prognosticators to warn the USA of its upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti? Stated another way, which current day Real Life personality is Bosko representing? Since Bosko's behavior is of a childish rule-breaker from the start, that's the kind of man we need to look for among Today's notables. (Bosko is playing hooky from school to fish in a "No Fishing" zone, where he vandalizes the sign in a juvenile attack on needed government regulations.) What Modern-Day self-styled Peter Pan has been avoiding Real Work while flushing his Daddy's money down the toilet by bankrupting gaming casino after casino, not paying taxes like a responsible U.S. citizen (lodging 112 nuisance lawsuits against 47 different tax agencies), running for the highest office in the mistaken belief that he can then grant himself a pardon for all his infantile tax crimes if elected, and generally urging all of his Fellow FreeLoaders to break all government regulations themselves in a Bosko-style fashion? Here's a clue: His name rhymes with "Rump," and Warner predicts all the chicks that he's bragged about groping on the infamous ACCESS H0LLYWOOD tape will behave like the Two Lady Bugs of AIN'T NATURE GRAND!, hiring a waspish lawyer and machine-gunning him in his Rump with a cloud of busy bee sex crimes returning to haunt him.

Robert Reynolds This cartoon is a largely routine and exceedingly forgettable short. There are one or two fairly decent bits that I'll likely discuss, so consider this your spoiler warning: This short is set in the great outdoors, with Bosko going fishing. Bosko decides that he can't put the worm on the hook and use it for bait, so he lets it go-whereupon it's spied by a bird and nearly become food rather than freed. The chase scene between bird and worm is a good deal more interesting than most of Bosko's bits. Bosko pets a fish he catches, which spits in his eye for his efforts.Bosko wanders around and various critters dance and do little bits. There's a particularly nice bit with some frogs and one with a spider and Bosko is involved here and there. The climax of the short has Bosko attacked by insects which bomb him and cause him to jump into a fountain for cover. I found myself cheering on the bugs.Not really a bad cartoon, but there were much more interesting Bosko shorts than this one. You can tell it's early in the game for Warner Brothers animation. They were way behind Disney and Fliescher and Lantz were also much better at this point. Worth seeing once.