Review of Pluto's Heart Throb

. . . and familiarity breeds contempt, or at least lots of yellow ink and paint, as the Dizzy animators gleefully give one of their mascot mutts, Butch the Bulldog, a yellow streak or stripe along the anatomical protrusion where his A. W. O. L. spine should be, because he cowers and cringes in abject pusillanimous cowardice, frozen to statue-like stillness as his non-swimming female love flounders in a fountain a few feet in front of his nose toward the close of PLUTO'S HEART THROB. Since its earliest films, Dizzy characters invariably shirk the fight, whether it's Mick the Mouse fleeing Pete, the porcine trio running from the wolf or Pinocchio hiding from his whittler in the whale. When the going gets tough, Dizzy protagonists get going in the opposite direction. The U. S. military code stipulates that such cowards "must be shot at dawn." In the early 1800's, U. S. Gen. Hull surrendered Detroit because he imagined that he was surrounded by an invisible heathen horde. Even after he was shot, Hull never had a car company namesake. Neither has Don the Duck.