This is a very funny cartoon, but from a plotting standpoint, it's a mess. The individual gags just happen more or less by happenstance. Ub Iwerks was interested in technique more than content. He was an idea man only when it came to the mechanics of things. A master at what he did and one of the finest animators who ever dipped a pen into an inkwell, but not overly interested in mundane trifles like plots or stories. Tex Avery, master of the machine gun school of sight gags, included something resembling a plot most of the time, even if he simply poked fun at it later. This was Iwerk's Achilles heel and why, at least in part, his studio folded in a few years. His shorts were visually nice, even beautiful in some cases, funny and often just as forgettable as a stale piece of toast. This has some wonderful gags and you may remember the gag for years-but forget which cartoon it was in after two days. The individual parts are better than their sum. Worth watching because the animation is superb. Cotton candy, sumptuous but hardly filling. Recommended with above caveats.
