Boom Boom
Tags: psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
Beans and Porky are soldiers and have been sent into the battlefield. Porky is on a surge with some fellow infantry. When bombs rain near them, the pig quickly retreats and runs into a bunker and under a bed where Beans is sleeping on. Beans gets up and tries to encourage Porky not to be afraid.
While Beans and Porky are having a meal, a dove comes to them with a note. The note was a message from their general who is held hostage by enemy forces. They then set off in their motorcycle to rescue their leader.
Beans and Porky go into enemy territory. Looking from outside undetected, they find their general in an enemy bunker, being interrogated and tortured. Beans makes his move by tying up the enemy officers from a distance with a rope. He and Porky then rush forward and pick up the general. The general and the two soldiers attempt to escape using a nearby airplane. But before they can fly far enough, their aircraft was shot by enemy fire, causing them to plunge back to the earth.
Fortunately, all three of them survived the crash and are in a bed at a hospital. Though injured, the general is honored by the soldiers' bravery as he awards medals to Beans and Porky.

Review: Early Porky Pig, mainly battle-related sight gags.
An early Porky war cartoon, with Porky as a doughboy in World War I.
This one also has Beans, an early character who was in a few shorts, but didn't pan out as well as they probably wanted him to at Termite Terrace.
Decent cartoon, moves fairly fast with very good animation.
Worth looking for.
Recommended..
Oh what a booming war.
Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.'Boom Boom' shows that, as to be expected, that Porky is a likable character and he is and also amusing, cute and interesting, though to me he works better in support against a stronger in personality character, where he plays it straight, than a lead.
Beans is equally fun and easy to like, it's a shame that he didn't make it bigger because while he didn't have the most multi-layered or interesting of personalities he certainly had one and it wasn't a bland or annoying one.As far as the story goes it is pretty slight and, although this is personal preference and something not everyone will share, Joe Dougherty's voice for Porky has never really done it for me.
It's not just because Mel Blanc's more famous interpretation is more appealing to me and fits better but Dougherty doesn't sound anywhere near as natural or endearing, have always found that he overdid the stutter and that's true here too.On the other hand, the animation is characteristically great, especially in the first half, crisp, detailed and fluid throughout.The music is not Carl Stalling or Scott Bradley and does lack variety at times, but it is still lush and characterful and adds a good deal to the action if not quite enhancing it.
Billy Bletcher is very good as Beans.While not hilarious, the gags are numerous and they are never less than amusing, not making the mistake of taking things too seriously or preaching.
Yet 'Boom Boom' also reminds us quite pertinently that World War I was not an easy or pleasant time and that's an understatement.Concluding, decent cartoon.
7/10 Bethany Cox. WWI Porky.
Boom Boom (1936) *** (out of 4) Boom boom is right in this WWI short that has Beans and Porky Pig having to go into enemy territory when their commanding officer is captured.BOOM BOOM is a pretty good short as long as you don't take it too serious.
I'm sure some might not enjoy a comedy dealing with war but I personally don't take it too serious and especially when this was well before WWII.
With that said, the animation is certainly the stand out here as the drawings were terrific and the details on the battle field were quite impressive.
As far as the mission goes, it too was rather fun as Beans and Porky made for a good team and there were some nice smaller characters as well.
This certainly isn't a masterpiece but it's a nice little short..
Ain't war fun, kids?!.
There is something a bit unsavory about this old Warner Brothers cartoon.
While I have seen and enjoyed quite a few wartime cartoons, this one is different.
Instead of focusing on life in boot camp, this one is set on the front lines during WWI.
And, most importantly, it sure looks like a lot of fun.
Who cares that 11,000,000 people lost their lives—it's all a giant laugh here!
Perhaps I'm being overly sensitive, but I just cannot see trench warfare as a funny thing—crazy as that must sound.So is this cartoon complete crap?
No. While I hated the way the film made war look so gosh-darn fun, the animation was exceptional.
Warner (Looney Tunes) was still using black & white stock when this was made in 1936 but the quality of the drawings and backgrounds is top-notch.
And, while this incarnation of Porky Pig is the morbidly obese one with a strange voice, it is a quality cartoon.
Bad in many ways, but still quality cartoon..
Porky as a doughboy in WWI....
There's a primitive look to BOOM BOOM which is well titled because the soundtrack is full of exploding shells, all of which have a habit of aiming for their target with such accuracy that they actually follow Porky and his doughboy pals as they run across the front lines of battle.
The plot is a simple one involving Porky's decision to help rescue a prisoner from "the bad guys" by using his wits to outsmart the enemy.It's a bit disconcerting to watch these cartoons in B&W when we're all used to seeing our cartoon favorites in vivid color these days and the animation is definitely a bit tacky by today's standards--or maybe "crude" is a better word.Manages to hold the interest for its brief running time, but it's definitely not likely to get much of a rise from today's Porky the Pig fans used to more streamlined animation.
It appears as a short subject on the Errol Flynn Signature Collection for CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE..
"I sh-sh-should've stayed on the f-f-f-f-f-farm!!".
It always baffles me when viewers mention how bad 1930s animation is.
Back then, all the studios whose product was financed by a major company used full animation--24 drawings a second, one drawing for every single frame of film.
You can't get any fuller than that, at least up until the age of computer graphics.
Maybe these viewers meant to complain about the early character designs; in any case, the movement in most of these cartoons is as fluid and liquid as you can get.I have a special liking for cartoons with sick humor....cartoons like "The Wise-Quacking Duck" (in which Daffy acts like he's been beheaded, spurting ketchup and all), and "Sock-A-Bye Baby" (in which Popeye proves he's even more of a bully than Bluto himself, pulverizing anyone in sight).
The present cartoon doesn't quite rank with those two but is a gutbuster nonetheless.
Lots of sick bomb gags, and taking place during a war, the film's full of anthropomorphic bombs with actual facial features and, of course, minds of their own.
Their accuracy is 100%.
One extended scene has a horsey fellow trying to dodge one of these bombs (it has unlimited ammunition), with the horse finally getting blown up to heaven.Porky Pig and his sidekick Beans the cat (it was really meant to be the other way round) get down to some long-awaited plot business in the trenches when Porky cowers under one of the bunks and says "I sh-sh-sh-should've stayed on the f-f-f-f-f-farm!" Beans (who's munching on a can of them) ways, "Take it easy, Porky ol' pal, take it easy!" (establishing why the other guy became a star and not the other guy).
They search for and rescue their leader, General Hardtack, and eventually the three of them bet blown to smithers and end up in a hospital bed \, where they divide up the medal they earned..
What could be funnier than Post Traumatic Stress Disorder .
. not to mention Death by Friendly Fire, or craven cowardice on the front lines?
That's the main question posed by BOOM BOOM, a Looney Tunes animated short released by Warner Bros.
Some 13-year-olds that saw it then were blown up at Pearl Harbor.
Strangely enough, the close of this eight-minute piece anticipates "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Porky Pig and his rodent friend manage to rescue canine Gem. Hardtack as the latter's being tortured by German police dogs.
If this were a Disney release, the returning trio's first stop after recrossing No Man's Land would be Anaheim.
But since Warner Bros.
released BOOM BOOM, the threesome instead wind up frolicking in a single bed together!
The implicit message is that such things are an inevitable outcome for men without women.
While last year's FURY had to throw in some village broads for sexual relief, BOOM BOOM comes off as more mature in recognizing the Spartan realities of War. Quite a coup for an otherwise thoroughly silly cartoon.