oscaralbert Review of Bad Luck Blackie

Bad Luck Blackie (1949)

It's not hard to see why these MGM animated shorts . . .

[7/10 · 22 March 2017]

. . . are considered the most violent cartoons of all time. Take BAD LUCK BLACKIE, as an example. Stuff keeps falling from great heights onto the head of an endangered doggy. First man's best friend is brained by a flower pot. Then ANOTHER pot full of blossoms gives the hapless headache hog another concussion. To make matters worse, a piano pulverizes the poor pooch. Next, Fido is blown up by a bomb. A large boxy metal cash dispenser registers the next assault on the canine cranium, just before a serial smash-down by four sequentially falling horseshoes and--of course, of course--the nonverbal horse they came in on. If you miss Flattenings by fire hydrant and a heavy metal safe, you cannot escape seeing this mishap-prone mutt mashed further by an anvil, kitchen sink, bathtub, second piano, steamroller, airplane, city bus, and ocean liner. This Titanic take-down is all crammed into a scant seven minutes. (Irving Wallace once released a pulp novel entitled THE SEVEN MINUTES, but compared to it, BAD LUCK BLACKIE is pure pup pornography.)