TheLittleSongbird I am a huge fan of Looney Tunes, and I do like Porky Pig. Porky in Wackyland is not only one of Porky's best cartoons but one of Bob Clampett's masterpieces. The animation is wonderful, none of the characters are blockily drawn and the background art is fluid and inventive. The music is energetic and very infectious. The story is very well paced and interesting, and the dialogue and gags are wonderfully funny and surreal, not to mention wacky. Porky is great here with great dialogue and personality and he even gets to ride a really sweet little plane, the dodo is the cutest cartoon dodo I've seen and they wouldn't be extinct possibly if they had the intelligence and skills that this dodo had. Mel Blanc gives a bravura vocal performance, and Billy Bletcher even shows up briefly as a Goon. In conclusion, a brilliant cartoon and one of Porky and Clampett's best. 10/10 Bethany Cox

phantom_tollbooth Bob Clampett's famous black and white classic 'Porky in Wackyland' is a glorious glimpse into the mad mind of Clampett allowed to run riot. His trademark energy and ability to stuff a cartoon full to the brim with content are both apparent from the outset as a newsboy invades the cartoon's credits to inform us that Porky Pig is attempting to capture the last Dodo bird. Porky tracks the bird to Wackyland and from the moment his plane begins to tiptoe across the border of Wackyland all bets are off! We are treated to a feast of bizarre, logic defying gags as we are introduced to the inhabitants of Wackyland through a long panning shot which contains literally dozens of jokes. These wild, quickfire gags give way to the main plot after a couple of minutes and so begins one of the greatest cartoon chases of all time as Porky tries in vain to capture the nutty Dodo who constantly defies logic in order to evade and humiliate him. 'Porky in Wackyland' is an extremely influential and exceptionally bonkers cartoon that will appeal to anyone with a love of the surreal and the anarchic. It was later pointlessly remade in colour by Friz Freleng as "Dough for the Dodo", an emasculated take on the original which lacked the essential ingredient: Clampett himself.

ccthemovieman-1 This black-and-white early Looney Tunes cartoon looks different, sounds different...and is terrific.We read in the "The Globe" that Porky is off on a rare do-do bird hunt, trying to get a bird that is nearly extinct and worth billions of dollars. He flies off to "darkest Africa" and winds up in "Wackyland" where the population is "100 nuts and a squirrel" and the sign that says that audibly speaks to Porky saying "It can happen here!!!!"With that, we start seeing some really bizarre things regarding the scenery, the characters who inhabit this place and the weird things that happen. It looked a cross between a Salvardor Dali painting and Alice In Wonderful.Porky is then led to "the last of the do-do birds" and this a one strange bird, who fits right into Wackyland. This is great stuff, a real visual treat and a cartoon you could enjoy over and over just trying to catch all of the sight gags and great drawings in here. I couldn't help wonder what the audience thought way back in the 1930s. This had to be something really unusual for them to see.

Erich Young (erichyoung) Watching this fabulous pre-WWII creation, I was immediately reminded of the American cartoonist R. Crumb. What is interesting is that R. Crumb admitted to taking hallucinogenic drugs to draw his strange comics in the late 1960's. Of course, this cartoon with Porky Pig doesn't include Crumb's sense of pornography (thankfully). Crumb's comics are simply rehash seeing some of the inhabitants of Wackyland. I wonder what the illustrators back then did to create such fantastic off the wall stuff. Sure, there were some obvious inspirations in this cartoon (3 stooges) but just about everything is going insane!Thoroughly enjoyable and liberating cartoon for 1938! I saw it in color on Cartoonland. I wonder if I saw the colorized version (It was in color...)