This short was nominated for an Oscar and is actually a very funny cartoon, for a Donald Duck. Donald is so obnoxiousus that its hard sometimes to enjoy the cartoon, but Donald is not the focus here-hunting is. The spoof of hunting here is almost as good as it is in Tex Avery's "Field and Scream" and is the funniest aspect of the short. The final gag with the cow is a scream! This runs periodically on The Ink and Paint Club. Recommended.
7 Reviews
It's like war mayhem.
OllieSuave-00722 May 2017
Donald Duck goes hunting in the woods, urged by the spirit of his great-grandfather, who was a hunter back in his days. However, the hunting season is portrayed as a sporting event, with hot dog vendors, fire engines and ambulances. The event is also treated like a all-out war, with the hunters' bazookas and tanks to catch their prey.
It's a beautifully animated, but an unusual cartoon with just lots of chaos. No funny, classic Donald moments here - just lots of endless running around and war-like mayhem. However, the cameo appearance by Bambi and his mother was a nice treat.
Grade C+
It's a beautifully animated, but an unusual cartoon with just lots of chaos. No funny, classic Donald moments here - just lots of endless running around and war-like mayhem. However, the cameo appearance by Bambi and his mother was a nice treat.
Grade C+
No wonder this was nominated for an Oscar, this cartoon is brilliant!
TheLittleSongbird15 November 2009
This cartoon is one of my all time favourite Donald Duck cartoons, it is a hilarious spoof of habits of the American Hunter. No wonder No Hunting was nominated for an Oscar, for it is a truly brilliant cartoon. It never fails to be short of funny, the final gag with the cow has to be one of the funniest gags ever in a Disney cartoon.
It wasn't just the humour that made No Hunting a true winner. Other aspects were the wonderful animation and the beautiful music. Plus the voice overs of Clarence Nash and Bill Thompson as Donald and Grandpappy. Both men did a splendid job I must say. Also watch out for Bambi and his mother in a surprise appearance. Overall, absolutely brilliant. A must see. 10/10 Bethany Cox
It wasn't just the humour that made No Hunting a true winner. Other aspects were the wonderful animation and the beautiful music. Plus the voice overs of Clarence Nash and Bill Thompson as Donald and Grandpappy. Both men did a splendid job I must say. Also watch out for Bambi and his mother in a surprise appearance. Overall, absolutely brilliant. A must see. 10/10 Bethany Cox
Don't Shoot The Cow!
Ron Oliver27 July 2003
A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.
The spirit of Donald's pioneer Grandpappy inspires him to get out and shoot some meat for the table.
Nominated for an Academy Award, NO HUNTING is a very funny spoof of the habits & foibles of the American hunter. Bambi and his Mother make a surprise appearance; this was to be Grandpa Duck's only role in a Disney cartoon. Clarence Nash provides Donald with his unique voice.
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.
The spirit of Donald's pioneer Grandpappy inspires him to get out and shoot some meat for the table.
Nominated for an Academy Award, NO HUNTING is a very funny spoof of the habits & foibles of the American hunter. Bambi and his Mother make a surprise appearance; this was to be Grandpa Duck's only role in a Disney cartoon. Clarence Nash provides Donald with his unique voice.
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.
This controversial film appears in a special septic . . .
pixrox122 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
. . . tank section of "The Chronological Donald, Volume Four" Disc Two called "From the Vault." These Dizzy Mega Corporation anti-social dregs are notoriously difficult to review, because any mention of their actual contents generally constitutes grounds for deletion at a family web site. In the sordid case of NO HUNTING, it is pretty hard to compose any remarks without bringing up the single-syllable g-word, which is made up of three letters and rhymes with "run." NO HUNTING is packed with these deplorable G's from start to finish, most if not all of them wielded improperly in extremely dangerous fashion. To top it all off, one character yells out a rallying cry for pale-faced supremacy in America: "Remember the Alamo!" gratuitously bringing up a war crime which saw land-grabbing renegades slaying many brave Mexican Freedom Fighters trying to prevent human traffickers from bringing race-based involuntary servitude BACK to Texas.
It's on, but maybe it should be off.
Horst_In_Translation7 January 2018
Warning: Spoilers
"No Hunting" is a Disney cartoon from 1955, so over 60 years old, and this one runs for a bit over 6 minutes only. It was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost out to Speedy Gonzalez' entering into the world of film/cartoons. Donald is in the center of it all and he goes hunting with a couple other guys, but none of them is really successful. With one exception, they are all humans here, but this one exception is another humanized duck. And this other duck added almost nothing for me story-wise or fun-wise. And even Donald seemed like a viewer in his own film most of the time unfortunately. He was in it because he was Donald, but with the excessive narration in the first half, it felt more like a Goofy cartoon. What else? Oh yeah, the very first minute with the prey turning the tables on the hunter was the funniest part of it all. The moment the hunt begins it all goes south and I found it difficult to enjoy. The epilogue was just equally bland. All in all nowhere near my favorite Disney or Donald works, on the contrary rather as I found this extremely underwhelming and my suggestion is you skip it and watch something else instead. It's way worse than many many other non-Oscar-nominated cartoons from back in the day.
Don Duck rides off for an impromptu shooting trip . . .
cricket3022 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
. . . with his car packing at least a half dozen long guns. Unfortunately for this foul water bird, none of his Peace Makers remotely qualify as military-style assault rifles. NO HUNTING provides few clues as to Don''s occupation and income, if any. Given the rustic if not ancient appearance of his personal arsenal, however, it seems likely that this impoverished quack-quack cracker is eking out a tawdry hand-to-mouth life style. With his well being relegated to the good graces of such antique shooting irons, it's hard to see how Don can ever redeem a life of misery, no matter how many treks he takes to the forest with deficient shot rods. In fact, Don's outdated firepower is so deficient that he's nearly gunned down by his better-armed fellow marksmen during his woodsy foray. Let Don's sorry saga remind you to support your local chapter of BANGS: Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps.
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