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7/10
Just Little Ones
boblipton27 November 2021
Why, it would take both of them to kill you, and that's why a Smith called Pete narrates this short about two lion cubs who escape from the zoo, and try out some home invasion. Smith seems amused by it, which is probably because it's not his home they have invaded, his feather pillows they have destroyed, nor his chocolate cream pie they have devoured.

Actually, they are cute, darn them.
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6/10
"Our erstwhile marauders take it out on the . . .
oscaralbert7 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
" . . . Lamb," says the pompous narrator of LIONS ON THE LOOSE, an offensive live-action short from the Sign of the Groaning Cat film concern. Considered by most as the official propaganda arm of America's deplorable Fat Cat One Per Center crowd, LIONS ON THE LOOSE was released mere months after this monetized gangster mob had tried to rewrite history with a bladder-busting yawner dubbed GWTW, making Abe Lincoln the villain of the War to Squelch Lazy Race-Based Human Slavery on the Part of Mint Julep-Swilling Clowns Given "Deferments" from Fighting on the Basis of How Many Human Beings They "Owned" (as documented recently in THE FREE STATE OF JONES). GWTW was released in the hopes that it would cause the face of Our Great Emancipator to be immediately chiseled off Mount Rushmore, but it merely resulted in a few gelded statuettes being stolen away from THE WIZARD OF OZ--the REAL "Best Film" of 1939--in a rigged election. Still smarting from Lincoln's persistence in South Dakota's granite, the folks behind LIONS ON THE LOOSE sic their predators on The Lamb, a universal symbol for Our Savior. The Good Book says that in the End Days, the lion will lie down with the Lamb. Unfortunately, in these Times of Tribulation, LIONS ON THE LOOSE symbolically throws People of the Book TO the Big Cats, on the apparent theory that there's too much Good Religion going on in the USA.
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6/10
Just a Little Diversion
Hitchcoc28 November 2018
This is simply a contrived little bit about two lion cubs who get out of their zoo cages and experience a series of events. Mostly, they are destructive wherever they go, causing minor damage here and there. They are also in danger from their relatively small size. There is nothing very remarkable about this short feature.
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Charming Smith Short
Michael_Elliott31 March 2010
Lions on the Loose (1941)

*** (out of 4)

Pete Smith short has two lion cubs breaking free from the zoo and heading out for trouble. First they end up breaking into a home where they visit a child's room and play with his toys before moving to the kitchen for something to eat. We then see them out in the wild as one of the cubs comes in contact with a giant python. This is a pretty strange short that is extremely entertaining even if one will question the final few minutes. The start of the movie is wonderfully charming and I'm sure kids and adults will really eat it up. The lion cubs are so cute that one will easily have a smile on their face as they're set free in this room where they pretty much destroy everything. The kitchen stuff is just as fun as they get into flour and a chocolate cake. The strange part is at the end when we get some rather dramatic scenes of this small cub getting into the face of this large python. The snake eventually turns and goes away only to have the cub attack and bite it. I'm really not sure what the point of showing this stuff here, which would probably scare a child but everything leading up to this is well worth watching.
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6/10
Cute cubs create chaos
gtyj199023 April 2006
This Pete Smith special follows a couple of lion cubs who escape from a zoo and then wreak havoc in one home's nursery full of toys and its kitchen, before they entertain a monkey, that's "riding" a goat, by toying with a python. As with all of this producer's short films, it's all in fun and Smith's narration includes (indeed, provides) a lot of the humor, as he voices the characters' thoughts (e.g. giving the animals personalities): a Jack-in-the-box in the nursery pops up & down, hiding when the cubs get too close; when the cubs tear open a feather pillow, a Christmas song briefly plays; the cubs discover, and then eat a pie on the kitchen counter-top before a can of flour spills, covering them both "white"; the monkey "speaks" to the cubs before one of them "tangles" with the python, who's "upset" when the cub tears at its hide, etc.. Entertaining as usual, especially for young animal lovers!
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