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6/10
I'm sure chickens give birth to ostriches all the time!
planktonrules5 December 2021
In "Plenty of Money and You", a chicken inexplicably is raising a baby ostrich. This oddball 'chicken' ends up being taken prisoner by an evil weasel and the ostrich's predilection for eating ANYTHING ends up saving its life when it eats a case of fireworks.

The animation is the best thing about this otherwise okay film. And, if you do watch, understand that in reality ostriches NEVER stick their heads in the ground.
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7/10
Eggs can have mysterious things
cartoonnewsCP6 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
A hen lays eggs and one egg hatches into an ostrich. The ostrich is very curious and lands himself in trouble. He finds a moving water hose and tries to attack it but loses and he also gets his head stuck in a hole.

A weasel tries to make him his dinner but when he eats the lightblub and the fireworks, the weasel can't take it anymore. The ostrich's fireworks explode attacking the weasel and damaging him. The hen reunites with the ostrich. One of his fireworks says Eat Sloppy Joes as the cartoon ends.

First cartoon with Merrily We Roll Along in closing titles. Blue Ribbon reissue on 12/9/44 retains original closing but there is a dubbed version however, the colors look worse than the original.
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6/10
Seldom has the Apocalypse been so thoroughly depicted in a cartoon . . .
oscaralbert13 January 2017
Warning: Spoilers
. . . as it is here in PLENTY OF MONEY AND YOU. On its surface, PLENTY OF MONEY is a simple story about a hapless ostrich in a flock of chicks. But what do ostriches have to do with money, unenlightened viewers may quibble, and how does a Black Hen give birth to eight normal chicks and an ostrich, anyway?! However, those "in the know" will tell you that PLENTY OF MONEY actually has NOTHING to do with ostriches, and EVERYTHING to do with the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Warner Bros.' warning division of Animated Shorts Seers (aka, the Looney Tunes prognosticators) use the Black Hen birthing an ostrich gambit to symbolize the Fox-in-the-Henhouse-like Advent of Billionaire White House Resident-Elect Rump rising to the top by perpetuating the Racist Birther Movement. The Weasel trying to cook Rump's goose, of course, in meant to foreshadow the Russian KGB Rat Vlad "Mad Dog" Putin himself, would-be Czar of Moscow, Crimea, and the USA. Realizing that desperate tactics are needed to get out of a predicament that's his own fault, Rump the ostrich swallows tons of fireworks, which shake the very ground when he unleashes them, thus foretelling us that Rump soon will be forced to nuke Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Mexico, and probably tiny Monaco, for good measure (that little Principality's zoning board nixed a proposed Rump Tower Casino). Then all Hell will break loose.
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7/10
Plenty of fun
TheLittleSongbird25 January 2018
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.

'Plenty of Money and You' is not one of Friz Freleng's best cartoons and he was yet to be in his full prime, but for a relatively early effort from him it's a very solid one. It is never what one would call hilarious, Freleng is on reasonably subdued form compared to his later efforts and the story is flimsy and occasionally loses momentum.

However, the ostrich is good fun as a character and the weasel is even more interesting and entertaining as the antagonist of the cartoon. The conflict between them carries 'Plenty of Money and You' and does so very well.

The cartoon is amusing, especially the alternate song lyrics for especially anybody familiar with the song (even when not the lyrics are pretty clever), and there is a freshness that keeps it from flagging.

Animation is excellent, it's fluid in movement, crisp in shading, vibrant in colour and very meticulous in detail. Ever the master, Carl Stalling's music is typically superb. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it. The song is very infectious.

Voice acting from Mel Blanc and Dave Weber is terrific.

In conclusion, good fun. 7/10 Bethany Cox
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