It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

"Blitz Wolf" is an American cartoon from 1942, so this one is already over 75 years old and at 10 minutes it is longer than most from that time. I guess they really wanted to have it stand out wherever they could. It's an MGM production and among the most known works by Tex Avery, who is still very well-known today and the cast includes some big name voice actors too like Pinto Colvig, who for once is not with Disney here. Still I am pretty disappointed by this film here. While trying to depict as much humiliation of Blitz Wolf Adolf Hitler here as possible, it completely forgets the most important thing: to be funny, witty, entertaining and creative. The animation is okay, even if it feels like it's just a lot of noise and one explosion after the next, but if the weak play-on-word bomb jokes are the best the film has to offer, then 4 stars out of 10 may still be on the generous side. In my opinion this one came short with regards to everything "Der Fuehrer's Face" managed that very same year and I am glad the latter took home the Oscar that year because it was so much more deserving and has aged far better than this one we got here for which even the Oscar nomination may have been too much. I guess they really wanted to make as many political statements as possible. Needless to say the 3 pigs vs. wolf reference in here was also completely lost. A truly shoddy short film and I give it a thumbs-down.

Tex Avery has been responsible for some brilliant cartoons, that are beautifully and cleverly animated, clever, extremely entertaining and with something for everybody.'Blitz Wolf' may not be up there with Avery's very finest, but it is a very clever take on a famous story that has actually been very well-adapted in animation (it's also one of the better takes on it) and is definitely one of the best "WWII propaganda" cartoons, though it is much more than that. Like with all Avery though, there is plenty to enjoy for both kids and adults.Kids will love how the famous story is adapted, the animation, the music, the characters, the very witty and wild tone and the voices. while adults will like it even more for all those reasons, plus they will also understand more what the cartoon is trying to say, understand and appreciate more the subject matter and references and admire how 'Blitz Wolf' isn't afraid to say what it does.To me, that was one of 'Blitz Wolf's' biggest strengths, knowing what to say and how to say it. It is wild and very savage (while not being too preachy, a danger with this sort of cartoon and subject), which was quite a brave route to go considering the subject, but also very funny in doing so. While somewhat of the time, so a couple of parts may go over the heads of first-time or younger viewers or may not hold up, but on repeat viewings those parts make sense and the cartoon holds up remarkably well for a "WWII propaganda" cartoon.As always with Avery, the animation is great, vibrant, meticulous, stunningly detailed and wildly clever. The music by Scott Bradley, also responsible for the scoring of prime-Tom and Jerry, is lush and rousing with the ability to not just add to the action but enhance it (Carl Stalling was also a master of this). 'Blitz Wolf' is smartly and wittily scripted, with a wild and savagely satirical tone at times, while the "propaganda" stuff makes its part but allows the Three Little Story to shine through. All the characters are lots of fun, especially the Wolf, and the voice acting is terrific from Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham and Bill Thompson.Overall, clever and quite brilliant Tex Avery cartoon, and much more than a propaganda cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox

This MGM cartoon isn't shown today--and much of it is because the film was very timely during WWII but the significance of many of the references would simply be lost on today's audience. The other reason is that many people just don't care about history or have no desire to learn from it. And this is a real shame, as this movie would be a wonderful and simple way to explain the steps leading to WWII to kids. I am a history teacher and I plan on using it.In this re-telling of The Three Little Pigs, the setting is just before WWII. The wolf represents Hitler and the Three Pigs represent the nations of Europe and/or the USA. Two of the three pigs take no efforts to protect themselves from the wolf--having signed non-aggression pacts with the wolf in which he guarantees not to harm them. The third doesn't trust the wolf and not only builds a brick house, but arms himself with a massive arsenal! And, naturally, the wolf easily destroys the two pigs' homes and is only stopped thanks to the third pig.The cartoon is well-written, funny in places and easy watching. In other words, it's very watchable and tells an excellent message--one that might just be applicable to today as well.PS--It's hard to find this cartoon today. I saw it on youtube.com by typing "banned cartoons" and then watching it. There is nothing objectionable about the toon. Perhaps it was shelved because people objected to the images of a Hitler-like wolf!! People this overly sensitive are doomed to a fate much like the first two piggies! People you study your history to learn not to make the same mistakes again and again.

Among the many rarely-seen cartoons buried deep in the film vaults because of their depictions of racial stereotyping, risque content, animal abuse, and WWII propaganda, "Blitz Wolf" stands out as one cartoon that should at least air late at night when the kids are asleep and the adult cartoon fans can watch (or tape) it. With its adult-oriented gags and the Wolf as the most heartless, murderous dictator ever to come out of the 1940's (you know who I'm talking about), is it any wonder that it's rotting away in a film vault instead of being shown for historical content? Oh, well...