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ACTOR
Mel BlancPaul Julian
DIRECTOR
Chuck Jones,Phil Monroe
SYNOPSICS
Soup or Sonic (1980) is a English movie. Chuck Jones,Phil Monroe has directed this movie. Mel Blanc,Paul Julian are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1980. Soup or Sonic (1980) is considered one of the best Animation,Family,Comedy,Short movie in India and around the world.
The coyote's array of failures this time include a dropping safe, a pole vault, a rocket he rides on, a firecracker in a frisbee, giant flypaper, and explosive tennis balls. Everything seems to land him at the bottom of the same canyon.
Same Actors
Same Director
Soup or Sonic (1980) Reviews
Nemesis Ridiculii
Originally part of the TV special Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over, this later (and lesser) cartoon by Chuck Jones is yet another exercise in nostalgia, repeating old gags while offering little that's new. What is new and stands out the most about this cartoon is the final gag, which you'll either think is funny or dumb. I hate the sign jokes in a Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon so whatever humor there was in the climax was lost on me due to the signs. The thing I hated most about this was the way the music and sound effects are so loud and obtrusive. In the classic shorts the music flowed with the action and the sound effects enhanced the animation. Here it's typical cheesy TV quality stuff that feels disconnected from the art and tacked-on. And did I mention loud? Because it's frigging annoyingly loud. I didn't think this was a particularly good cartoon but it was the best of the new material produced for the TV special. Certainly the best animation-wise. Road Runner & Coyote are clearly Chuck Jones' babies so it's no surprise he tried harder with this one than the other two lame Bugs cartoons.
Chuck Jones at his WORST
This cartoon is amateurish in every sense of the word. Many people give it high marks because the Coyote finally "catches" the Road Runner, but the whole production is the work of a novice animation team (Jones notwithstanding). There is no continuity in this short. Granted, C/RR shorts all consist of a collection of 15 - 30 second vignettes, but they maintain a loose confederacy. In this one, there is no such feel. The aminators took short cuts and it shows. For example, in one scene the Coyote STRADDLES a red rocket and lights it to chase the Road Runner, the rocket shoots away leaving just a collapsed shell and Wile E. plummets to the desert floor sitting SIDE SADDLE on the shell - a highly noticeable continuity error that one would NEVER see in earlier WB shorts. To compound it, in a later scene Wile E. again goes off a cliff and the SAME falling sequence (Wile E. side saddle on the rocket shell) is used. The problem is, there was no rocket when the Coyote went over the edge the second time. The facial expressions are not genuine. The reactions to events and actions do not ring with the truth or the sardonic bite of earlier cartoons. Timing is non-existent. The orchestrations are not well sequenced with the on-screen action. There are so many problems here that space prohibits naming them all. The C/RR cartoons are some of the greatest bits of comedic animation in cinematic history, but this one is terrible, and not just in relation to the earlier superior cartoons. Currently produced amination like Spongebob Squarepants and Johnny Bravo put this cartoon to shame. Jones would probably like to forget this one.
This is another one of those animated shorts in which Wile E. Coyote . . .
. . . takes a beating, but keeps on ticking. During this Looney Tune's 8:35 running time, I counted about eight incidents in which Mr. Coyote suffers potentially fatal hurt. He falls down into a canyon after just 56 seconds. He plunges again in about the same place 68 seconds later. It only takes half a minute before Wile is whistling Dixie down once again. Just 39 ticks later DOWN GOES WILE! DOWN GOES WILE! DOWN GOES WILE! yet again (to paraphrase the late Howard Cosell), this time with a heavy safe following up to add insult to injury. Wile is blown up for the sake of variety after another 30 seconds passes. Then, 34 seconds after THAT, Wile's Acme brand Giant Fly Paper draws a Giant Fly! About five minutes into this masochistic exercise Mr. Coyote is crushed and blown up in the same catastrophe. Before the end credits roll Wile is in the midst of a giant explosion involving Acme tennis balls.
On the most part Soup or Sonic is very good
By all means it is never going to be one of my favourite Looney Tunes cartoons. The rocket gag was stupid and not very funny, and the first half does read of some decent gags but you know the outcome as it does have a very similar feel to the standard Coyote/Roadrunner cartoons. The animation I was mixed on, both Roadrunner and Coyote are drawn well but some of the backgrounds did look on the washed-out and sparse side. However, the music is full of character and energy, and Roadrunner and Coyote are both fun to watch, as cunning as he is I can't help feeling sorry for Coyote. The second half of Soup or Sonic picks up significantly, the pace is crisper, the gags more imaginative and the story is much more unexpected. The giant fly-paper gag is really wonderful and one of the better ones for me in the RR/C cartoons. The ending is very surreal and unexpected and in a good way, showing that different can mean good. All in all, a very good cartoon on the most part even if the second half is better than the first one. 7.5/10 Bethany Cox
Chuck Jones again
Chuck Jones as the director is still the best thing for a Road Runner cartoon. 'Soup or Sonic' proves that again. The Road Runner (this time Ultra-Sonicus ad Infinitum) with his famous "Beep! Beep!" (or Beepius-Beepius) is chased by the Coyote (here Nemesis Ridiculii) and this time he is actually caught. How this happens I will not reveal but it is one of the wonders of this cartoon. The Coyote uses a couple of rockets, a safe to drop, firecrackers and a frisbee, explosive tennis balls and some giant fly paper. The first couple of minutes are okay but near the end this cartoon becomes really good. The gag with the fly paper and the ending are both great and make sure you will laugh.