Fast and Furry-ous (1949)

Lack of good storyline.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The first Road Runner and Coyote cartoon ever made (and their only one made in the 1940s). It's directed by Chuck Jones with a story by Michael Maltese. This team would be responsible for most of the great Road Runner and Coyote shorts. This first one sets the template for the rest of the series. The concept was always the same in that Wile E. Coyote tries various devices and traps to catch the Road Runner but constantly fails, typically in hilarious fashion. Here we have the basics already on display: boomerangs, dynamite, a roadblock, disguises and costumes, rockets and jets, running off a cliff, and classic ACME gadgetry. Chuck Jones would use a variation of every gag in this first short over and over throughout the series. The animation is beautiful with great colors and well-drawn backgrounds. The Road Runner and Coyote look slightly different than they would look later, but that's true of pretty much all the Looney Tunes characters in their first appearances. It's a fun, fast-paced short that begins one of the best and most consistently creative and funny series in the Looney Tunes library. It's one every fan should see at least once. A classic by every definition.

I have to say that the name of this short film is not really familiar to me, but the characters certainly are. Over 65 years ago, this was the birth of Road Runner and Coyote. The trio behind this are Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese and Mel Blanc, who worked on uncountable other Warner Bros. films together. This cartoon here runs also for 7 minutes like all these others. And many more Roadrunner vs. Coyote short films should follow, even several ones in the 21st century. The contents are basically always the same, but it's still funny. Coyote uses all kinds of technical gadgets, sometimes more complicated, sometimes less, to catch Roadrunner and have him for dinner. One the plate, that is. But Roadrunner is simply too smart and too fast for his opponent. In this very first film here, Coyote uses simple stuff like paint or boomerangs, but it's equally useless just like his giant rocket or Superman costume. This cartoon was fun to watch. I would not call it great by any means, but it's certainly the watch and the "meep meep" is simply legendary by now. Recommended.

We get a great look at the would be classics like the Road Runner and Wile E Coyote for the very first time make their debut. As we see the Road Runner a fast bird that is uncatchable and Wile E Coyote who is desperate and smart.But he is not as smart as the Road Runner as don't let just being fast fool you. As the Road Runner proves to be clever along the way.Also we see Wile E making his first ever relationship with the now famous and infamous fictional company Acme. As we would later find out those products from that "company" are wasted. In order for Wile E to get the Road Runner.Still we see years later that we are suppose to support Wile E and his character develops. But without the Road Runner, there would be done of that as we also love us some Road Runner!

'Fast and Furry-ous' is the cartoon that started the chases between Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. The cartoons with those two characters belong to my favorites. From the opening where Road Runner is introduced with his kind of Latin name Accelerati Incredibulis and Coyote with his kind of Latin name Carnivarious Vulgaris the shorts are always funny.Funny I say, but also very predictable. With this first cartoon that is a fact as well. May it is the charm of a cartoon like this. You expect something, exactly that will happen, and still it is funny. There is one surprise in this one and that is the ending. I laughed numerous times. If it was really the first one I saw I would have laughed even more. This is a great cartoon.