Blitz Wolf
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 12:00PM
Release Year: 1942 Director: Tex Avery Review: A brilliant propaganda piece made by Tex Avery during World War II. The story is a farce on the Three Little Pigs, with Adolf Wolf as the wolf coming to invade. Only one little pig was smart and loaded his stone house with weapons to fend off the wolf, and finally sends him to hell thanks to the aid of the powerful defense bond bombs. Yes, it's that thinly veiled. Its a fascinating look at history through the lens of cinema. Despite its motives, its still very sharp, and funny. It was a bizarre medium for conveying their message, given its animated like a saturday morning cartoon, but its effective. It definitely shows its age with many racist jabs, which fixes it firmly in the paranoid war time era. It may not be PC by todays standards, but its still a great piece of propaganda filmmaking.
Rating: 3.5/5
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