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A lacklustre foiling
The Terrytoons are oddly interesting, mainly for anybody wanting to see (generally) older cartoons made by lesser known and lower-budget studios. They are a mixed bag in quality, with some better than others, often with outstanding music and with some mild amusement and charm and variable in animation, characterisation and content.
'Foiled Again' is one of the weaker Terrytoons from 1935, an again hit and miss batch. It is a pretty lacklustre cartoon and has the same amount of problems as it has the amount of strengths. 'Foiled Again' is watchable as a one time watch, completest sake is the main reason to see it.
Best asset is the music, which predictably is incredible. It is so beautifully and cleverly orchestrated and arranged, is great fun to listen to and full of lively energy, doing so well with enhancing the action. The ambitious, elaborate detail in the backgrounds is still great to see and some synchronisation is neat.
A few decent gags and the characters, while not as zesty as before, are still charming.
Outside of the backgrounds however, the animation is primitive at best with a fair bit of crudeness, over-simplicity and choppiness.
Likewise, the story is paper thin and formulaic with a big air of over-familiarity due to doing very little new with a premise that was feeling old well before this was made. There are not enough gags and they are not particularly funny, clever or memorable. There is a lack of charm and energy generally. Some of the story feels choppy, like some Terrytoons a longer length would have solved this perhaps.
All in all, lacklustre but not unwatchable. 4/10 Bethany Cox
'Foiled Again' is one of the weaker Terrytoons from 1935, an again hit and miss batch. It is a pretty lacklustre cartoon and has the same amount of problems as it has the amount of strengths. 'Foiled Again' is watchable as a one time watch, completest sake is the main reason to see it.
Best asset is the music, which predictably is incredible. It is so beautifully and cleverly orchestrated and arranged, is great fun to listen to and full of lively energy, doing so well with enhancing the action. The ambitious, elaborate detail in the backgrounds is still great to see and some synchronisation is neat.
A few decent gags and the characters, while not as zesty as before, are still charming.
Outside of the backgrounds however, the animation is primitive at best with a fair bit of crudeness, over-simplicity and choppiness.
Likewise, the story is paper thin and formulaic with a big air of over-familiarity due to doing very little new with a premise that was feeling old well before this was made. There are not enough gags and they are not particularly funny, clever or memorable. There is a lack of charm and energy generally. Some of the story feels choppy, like some Terrytoons a longer length would have solved this perhaps.
All in all, lacklustre but not unwatchable. 4/10 Bethany Cox
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Mar 25, 2018
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