Swing Shift Cinderella

Plot synopsis:
At the beginning, the Big Bad Wolf is chasing the young version of Little Red Riding Hood from the beginning of Red Hot Riding Hood. But then Little Red stops and points out that the two of them are in the wrong cartoon. The Wolf shoos away Little Red and decides to go and meet Cinderella (played by Red from Red Hot Riding Hood). He takes a taxi to her house and immediately falls in love with her upon seeing her, but she sternly rebuffs him. Eventually, Cinderella calls her Fairy Godmother (played by Grandma from Red Hot Riding Hood) to get rid of him and set her up for that night's ball. The second the Fairy Godmother hears that there's a Wolf, she rushes right over. The Fairy Godmother traps the Wolf, then gives Cinderella a sexy dress and transforms a pumpkin into a Woodie for her to go the ball, but tells Cinderella that she has to get home by midnight (just like in the classic fairy tale).
The oversexed Fairy Godmother then keeps the Wolf busy. She appears before him in an old-fashioned 1890s swimsuit ("Miss Repulsive 1898") and then an evening gown before trying to snuggle up to him on the couch. She chases him all around Cinderella's house, but the Wolf escapes when he gets the Fairy Godmother's wand, turning Cinderella's bathtub into a convertible. He leaves for the nightclub where Cinderella is performing, with the Fairy Godmother in pursuit. Soon after arriving, the Wolf accidentally kisses the Fairy Godmother, thinking she was Cinderella, which only further deepens her lust for the Wolf. Cinderella soon comes out on-stage and performs an exotic dance while singing the song "Oh Wolfie" (to the tune of "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!"). The Wolf howls and chases after Cinderella, but the smitten Godmother uses various methods (usually a mallet) to keep him in line.
After the performance, more brief chasing ensues until the clock strikes midnight. Cinderella rushes home as the Fairy Godmother's transformation wears off, but she manages to make it home in time--it turns out that Cinderella's a Rosie the Riveter and that the reason she had to be home by midnight was so she wouldn't be late for the night shift. Cinderella's relieved to be rid of the Wolf, but it's revealed that the bus is full of wolves, who start wolf-whistling and catcalling at her.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
Tex Avery at the top of his form!.
This cartoon is just great!
Lots of sight gags, a fair number of topical gags framed on the war and life on the home front and the most entetaining fairy godmother to come down the pike in quite a while.
Another "fairytale" cartoon by Avery that is ribald and lecherous and pokes fun at everything, including itself.
Tex Avery was incredible.
The bit with the jeep is beautiful!
The swimmers make the final turn, they're coming to the wall-it's a world record!
Recommended!.
one of the greatest cartoon shorts.
This is a wonderful film and about the best cartoon ever directed by Tex Avery--or anyone else for that matter.
That's actually saying a lot because his films for MGM are as good or better than the best at Warner Brothers/Loony Tunes or the Tom and Jerry films (these MGM shorts were not directed by Avery).
It's only been in recent years that a real appreciation of his work has been growing--especially with the release of the movie THE MASK--which was strongly inspired by the way over-the-top zaniness of his very surreal cartoons.This film starts with a wolf chasing Little Red Riding Hood.
They actually run past the film's title at which point the wolf stops and tells the kid to scram--at which point he goes on the prowl for the incredibly sexy Swing Shift Cinderalla (a reference to the ladies who worked the "swing shifts" at wartime armament factories).
In addition to the wolf's crazy escapades chasing the lady, the Fairy Godmother gets involved and chases the wolf!
Throughout all this there are amazing and silly sight gags--coming so fast that there are enough for two or three cartoons.
Among my favorites were the mallets crashing over the head, the wolf's reactions when he first meets Cinderella and when the Fairy Godmother accidentally transforms herself into "Miss Gruesome".
A wonderful, high-energy and intensely entertaining film not to be missed.By the way, if you liked this, try watching Avery's RED HOT RIDING HOOD--a very similar film from MGM that was made two years earlier and with very similar themes..
Bing,Bang,Zoom,Boom,Flop,B-O-I-N-G!.
Let's face it.
Tex Avery was a one of a kind director of animated shorts.
The best thing that could happen to his career was being fired by Leon Schlesenger at Warner Brothers.
This allowed Avery to migrate over to M-G-M to direct a series of frantic, fast paced animated shorts for Fred Quimby.
Swing Shift Cinderella was probably the best of the batch (or at least among the best, at any rate).
The plot has the wolf tiring of chasing Little Red Riding Hood,only to want to pursue Cinderella (a lounge singer/assembly line worker).
As in any Avery short,there is no lack of visual gags (which can run from the truly silly to outright surreal).
The short manages to get some good use of mish mashing the whole Cinderella/Little Red Riding Hood plot line (with Hood's grandmother tossed in for good measure).
Thankfully, Avery's animated shorts exist on a series of DVD's, for future generations to enjoy (about the only thing will be the countless WWII references and in jokes that will go sailing right over their heads)..
Outrageous!.
Tex Avery was always looking for ways to exaggerate his toons into sight gags of outrageous hilarity, and in this one he spares nothing: from the opening montage in which a feral Wolf chases Little Red Riding Hood across the titles only to realize they're in the wrong story, to later introducing the main story -- that of a much different, sexier Cinderella, one who sings in Castle Manana while still having to be back by midnight or else.
Insanity ensues of course when she calls on her Fairy Godmother to come to her aid and dress her up; in pure Avery fashion we see numerous chases in which the Godmother goes ape over the Wolf and bends over backwards to literally chain him to her: the final twist is revealed in the end when Cinderella zooms back to her house at the stroke of 12:00 AM, swiftly changes to an industrial outfit, and realizes she's surrounded by wolves on her way to work.
Hysterical animation, always a treat to watch on TCM's Cartoon Alley..
'Cinderella' at its funniest, sexiest and most imaginative.
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.Also have much admiration for Tex Avery, an animation genius whose best cartoons are animated masterpieces and some of the best he ever did.
It was truly wonderful and fascinating to see Avery put his own unique spin on one of my favourite fairy-tales and 'Swing Shift Cinderella' has as of now become one of his best cartoons (coming from a director who had so many very good and more cartoons, have yet to see a "bad" one) and one of my favourites in general.
'Cinderella' has never been funnier, sexier or more imaginative, and only Avery can achieve something like that.The characters are an absolute delight.
The wolf and the fairy godmother are a riotous duo and work so wonderfully together, and there has never been a hotter Cinderella.
The voice work all round is a tour-De-force.Can't say anything bad about Avery's direction.
He does a wonderful job directing, with his unique, unlike-any-other visual and characteristic and incredibly distinctive wacky humour style all over it as can be expected.Once again there is nothing sadistic or repetitious, instead it's imaginative, wonderfully wild, deliciously deranged, violent but imaginatively so and hilarious throughout from start to finish.
The sight gags throughout are an absolute joy and are immaculate in timing, not a misfire in the bunch, nothing too tame and it retains the quintessential magic of the original story.
The in-jokes are witty and inspired, and the topical issues are insightful and done in an entertaining way.It is no surprise either that the animation is superb, being rich in colour and detail.
The character designs are unique, Avery always did have creative character designs, and suitably fluid.
The music, courtesy of Scott Bradley, is lushly and cleverly orchestrated, with lively and energetic rhythms and fits very well indeed.Overall, simply amazing and one of my favourites.
10/10 Bethany Cox. Cultural in-jokes and inspired animation spark a very funny Avery outing....
A lascivious wolf stops chasing Red Riding Hood long enough to take part in a Cinderella story--with the heroine a dead-ringer for Bette Davis!
This Cinderella, with mascara-circled eyes and a voice dripping with disdain, wants to go to the ball all right, but only because she's the sultry stage chanteuse; her Fairy Godmother has eyes for the wolf herself--but even dolled up in Old Lady Chic, she can't get his attention.
Using a particularly expressive style of animation here, Tex Avery gives us a grown-up Cinderella with more curves than the Hollywood Freeway!
Jessica Rabbit would envy this bombshell, which makes the tag at the finish line even funnier as Cindy returns to her duty as an aircraft riveter on-board a bus full of wolves.
She may have gone back to her working girl roots, but the guys love her anyway..
Tex Avery's classic cartoon short with the big bad wolf from red riding hood invading the Cinderella story..
One of the best cartoons from the 1940's and of all time.
This is my favorite from legendary animation director Tex Avery.
This is a great cartoon that represents it's time, the swinging 1940's.
This is a sequel to the cartoon "Red Hot Riding Hood" and the 2nd installment of five cartoons featuring a wolf lusting & chasing a sexy female stage performer.
The two characters have no official name but the wolf is simply known as "The Wolf" but it's possible his name is Joe because he is briefly called Joe in this cartoon and in "Wild & Wofy".
The woman is called "Red" by fans(for her red hair & for that her 1st appearance was as red riding hood)but she appears in every cartoon with a different name.
This is pure Tex and he had a style like no one else.
He was the anti-Disney of his time and this cartoon proves it.
This might be the most sexual cartoon of this time, it's aimed for adults and Tex does things Disney wouldn't dare to do.
Sex is never bluntly said or shown but definitely applied.
I Love the begin when the wolf and little red riding hood run pass the opening credits and realize their in the wrong cartoon.
I love how Tex breaks the fourth wall and it's a great way of bringing the wolf into the Cinderella story.
The reactions by the wolf are legendary as they are exactly how every man feels upon seeing a sexy woman.
I love the grand ma from "Red Hot riding hood" who's the fairy godmother here.
I wish she was used in more cartoons.
It's so funny seeing this hyped up, oversexed and extremely horny old woman chasing the wolf, and him being repulsed by her.
There's undertone of sexual arousal on the part of the wolf & grand ma and you get the feeling that grand ma is trying to rape the wolf and the wolf trying to rape Cinderella.
I love Red, playing Cinderella, she generally looks sexy not exaggerated like Jessica Rabbit, Red looks like a real woman which makes her even more sexy.
The highlight and my favorite part is Red's erotic stage show, the animation of her dance is great!
I love her song "Oh, Wolfie!", a very sexy song and this has one of the best endings ever, when Red has to make it home by 12 o'clock for her other job at the steel mill but when she gets on the bus she finds out it's a bunch of wolves howling in lust!
Great animation, I love the colors and layouts here, super fast pace and a great twist on the Cinderella story.
This one of the greatest cartoons of all time from Tex Avery and mgm studios..
Back in 2007, when Warner Bros.
threw .
. this MGM animated short SWING SHIFT C!NDERELLA onto one of their DVD releases, it was mostly due to their Prophetic Foreknowing that Iwanna would become America's De Facto First Lady in 2017, and SWING SHIFT's "Cinderella" character is an uncannily accurate depiction of Putin's choice for America's new Czarina (sorry, Kellyanne).
Vlad "The Mad Russian" Red Commie KGB Chief Putin shows up himself here as "Joe" (aka, The Big Bad Wolf).
When Joe first attacks Cinderella's Home (standing in for our American Homeland), he's a Toothless Threat: No-Drama Obama's still in charge.
However, when Cinderella and Kellyanne Conway (aka, her Fairy Godmother) leave the safety of Obama World for an Inaugural Ball in Putin's (aka, The Devil's) Playground (aka, Mar-a-Lago, or "Manana Castle" here, where only Fat Cat One Per Centers can afford the $500 dinners--that's Mar Lago's current membership fee, adjusted for inflation).
There Kellyanne can shill for Iwanna\Cinderella's Fashion Line, while Putin's Plutocrat Cronies take Selfies with the "Nuclear Football" and kibitz on Top Secret War Room Strategy Sessions.
All that's missing is Hillary leading chants of "Lock HIM up, Lock HIM up!!" against Putin's Puppet, Rump.