Too much of everything

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Daffy is tired of being cast in comedy roles. He writes a script where he will appear as the Scarlet Pumpernickel, a highwayman who gets what he wants. In this case, it is the hand of a princess (whose father is a pig and who is, herself a duck). Don't ask. Anyway, on her way to marry Sylvester who is a viscount, Daffy/Pumpernickel absconds with her. No wedding takes place. Then it is up to Daffy to keep what is his. Very crisp animation of Chuck Jones makes this work. Even though he is playing a serious role, Daffy continues to be Daffy. His script appears to be several thousand pages long. I've seen this so many times. It is somewhat endearing.

"The Scarlet Pumpernickel" is a wonderful Warner Bros. cartoon that stars an unusual grouping of familiar characters - Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, Mama Bear, and Henery Hawk. I love Daffy's earnestness in the opening scene as he pleads with the high & mighty Jack L. Warner to quit typecasting him in comedy and allow him to appear in a dramatic role, namely as the Scarlet Pumpernickel, for which Daffy wrote the story.Here are my favorite moments from this cartoon. Porky, as the Lord High Chamberlain, is very funny in his initial appearance, stating that he is "simply furious" and shouting at Lady Melissa (a yellow duck) to keep away from "that masked stinker" the Scarlet Punpernickel. Our "hero" is quite funny as he sneezes, swings face first into a stone building, and makes use of an "olympic high jumper". But the funniest of all is Carl Stalling's great music score as Daffy changes into his Scarlet Pumpernickel outfit, dashes out the window, and misses his horse.Directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese, "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" is a brilliant cartoon that clearly pokes fun at medieval action/adventure stories. This cartoon has been "captured" on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 Disc 2 (a disc that specializes in Daffy Duck and Porky Pig).

With TWO good themes carried off in a hilarious way, good characters chosen and a good plot, this Daffy Duck episode is pretty tough to beat! Yet another good thing about this episode, is the clever, brilliant mux-ip of the modern and the old Daffy Duck (this episode was made in 1950, when the new greedy, sly, mean Daffy Duck that most of us know was just starting to appear) and the choosing of so many Looney Tunes characters - including a new one! The episode begins with Daffy feeling hyperly angry and stressed at doing so much comedy and he has had the nerve and steel to write a script which focuses on a more serious theme - or as serious as Daffy can possibly be. The story is not the Scarlet Pimpernel - but the Scarlet Pumpernickel, as Daffy! Also appearing is Porky as the High Chamberlain and who seems to be a new character, a yellow duck, as the fair Melissa. She is to marry the Grand Duke, who is Sylvester, but she loves the Scarlet Pumpernickel, who is an outlaw. It's the start of a grand adventure, with good gags along the way...Good for people who like comedy versions of famous book people and good for people who want to watch Daffy's attempt at a more serious episode. Enjoy "The Scarlet Pumpernickel"! :-)

I love it! it's my favorite (and only) Daffy Duck cartoon, I'm not too crazy about him. Also I'm not to keen on parody too. In fact, I HATE IT PERIOD! But I can accepted this great swash-buckling cartoon by Chuck Jones with animation by Phil Monroe. I do love the Chuck Jones/Phil Monroe collaborated cartoons.And since this short was inspired around the title of the story "The Scarlet Pimpernel," I would like to point out, that I've seen the movie version of the book "The Scarlet Pimpernel" from 1935 starring Leslie Howard on T.C.M and I had even taped it too. I'm even thinking of reading the book too; I'm crazy about literary movies.So overall I really love this cartoon.