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This cartoon, while it has its moments and is very good, is really not that exceptional and really isn't much more than a redo of two earlier Droopy cartoons directed by Tex Avery (Senor Droopy and Homesteader Droopy) and while Michael Lah does a good job, why it was nominated for an Oscar is a trifle puzzling. There were certainly better cartoons in 1957 that weren't (Touche and Go, Mucho Mouse and even Blackboard Jumble, another Droopy), so its nomination "is a puzzlement", so to speak. Recommended.

Droopy is reading a fairy tale. Sir Droopalot and Sir Butchalot are sent to battle a dragon and win the princess. The dragon is not so concerned with Droopalot. This is an MGM cartoon produced by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna. This is a great Droopy cartoon. It hits on the Droopy character at his pure best. His delusional confidence is adorable. He is an unique creation. I don't know how much influence Hanna and Barbera had with this episode. Director Michael Lah seems to be a long time worker collaborating with two legends. While I am a big Droopy fan, I'm not sure that he's Oscar nomination worthy. Don't get me wrong. He's the best but this is only an MGM cartoon short.

A medieval kingdom is afflicted with a dragon. The king offers his daughter's hand to whoever can get rid of it. Only two knights are brave enough to try: Droopy and Butch.

It's from that period when MGM was still trying to produce new cartoons, with Hanna & Barbera running the division while they worked on their early television animation. It's of a piece with the tv work, with almost non-existent background work, simple character design, and less-than-full animation. Only the color work, done in an impressionistic manner, shows this was intended for theatrical release.

The gags are pretty good, which is the point of the matter.

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.

'One Droopy Knight' is Michael Lah's third solo-directed Droopy cartoon, and while it is not as good as his first one 'Grin and Share It' (one of his better efforts) it is much better than the disappointing 'Blackboard Jumble'. Ranking Lah's Droopy cartoons, it's somewhere in the middle perhaps. Also don't agree with the Oscar nomination with it not being in the same league as even the lesser Tex Avery Droopy cartoons (which managed to still be very good) and being one of the weaker nominees.

That sounds as if 'One Droopy Knight' is terrible. It isn't, far from it. It just isn't up to top Droopy standards that's all. It does lack Avery's unique visual style, creativity and wild wackiness, and while nothing is done terribly it's a case of feeling a bit bland at times.

When it comes to the humour, 'One Droopy Knight' is very amusing, love Droopy and Butch's knight names, and everything is well timed, present and correct. It's just that not much is hilarious or particularly creative. Droopy is humorous and charismatic as usual but he has been better used and written before. Again, the animation is not awful but the drop in quality is significant from the animation in Avery's output (know it is unfair comparing to Avery all the time, but in this case it's very difficult not to when he created Droopy and was responsible for a vast majority of his filmography), the backgrounds are unimaginative and plain and while the colours are very nice and there is good attention to detail there is a lack of refinement and the creativity of Avery's trademark visuals are missed.

However, despite how all this sounds, 'One Droopy Knight' is amusing and well timed. Droopy is always worth watching and so is Butch, who is the funnier and more interesting character here. The conflict and how it all transpires is not hard to figure out but the chemistry between the two is so strong that it's forgivable.

Bill Thompson's voice work is marvellous, one cannot imagine anybody else voicing Droopy, and Lah really doesn't do too bad a job with the cartoon but considering the brilliance of Avery's output it's not quite as inspired. The best thing is the music score. The music, courtesy of Scott Bradley, is lushly and cleverly orchestrated, with lively and energetic rhythms and fits very well indeed.

Altogether, not bad at all but didn't wow me over. 7/10 Bethany Cox

This is an average fairytale, where Droopy and Butch try to slay a dragon and be awarded with marrying the King's daughter. The names given to the two main characters were quite funny - Droop-A-Lot and Butch-A-Lot.

The part where Butch made Droopy snap the Princess' finger in his helmet was the funniest part in the cartoon, I think. Other than that, it's really a mediocre and average fairytale with lesser laughs.

Grade C

Well, I guess even Academy Award winning cartoons can't please everybody, but the gentleman from Tucson who thought this was "good but not great" is dead wrong! True, the animation is not the quality of the Golden Age of Cartoons, but this cartoon ISN'T about the animation. The script and the characters are by turns dry, witty, uproariously funny, and finally fall-down hilarious. Bill Thompson deserved his own Oscar for voicing both Droopy and Butch -- talk about two extremes! And keeping Knight Butchalot's Irish accent was a touch of comic genius. Even though this was a Droopy cartoon, the Dragon steals the show with his utter disdain and complete disregard of Sir Droopalot as an adversary, shunting him aside in hilarious ways and giving all his attention to the macho Sir Buchalot. This is a truly great cartoon that lives up to its Oscar win!

First of all, to correct one reviewer, this was not "an Academy Award Winning Cartoon." It was nominated, but did not win. That was justice, too, because this was nothing spectacular to begin with. In fact, if you've seen a number of Droop animated films, this ranks in the middle-to-lower half.

However, it was kind of "cute" with Droopy as the little knight, "Sir Droop-A-Lot.," competing with Butch, "Sir Wince-A-Lot" for the hand of the fair princess. A dragon has been terrorizing the area and the king has offered his beautiful daughter's hand to the knight that can slay the dragon.

The two little contestants then go out to battle the Dragon. The dragon just scoffs at these foes and makes mincemeat out of them in a hurry each time. Only when he insults Sir Droop-A-Lot by drawing a mustache and goatee on a picture of his beloved princess, does Droopy show his stuff. It was like Popeye eating his spinach and that finale was very good.

The consequences of mind induction nation for children who only have one parent who cares for them is definitely to be found in the horrible cartoons of the 50s making children believe that they will be popular if you act like idiots like droopy or Tom and Jerry or Laurel and Hardy you're one of them and the problem of course is that people in real life will not deal with such problematic behaviours and they will make fun of you and all this season this is to which this old-time cartoons and leading really in the modern days and not on any better with the consequences of bullies becoming more harsh and then you'll really get the whole downgoing of the whole universe by the movie industry and the media and of course that is the sat consequence of life and all these things but not only life but also the wrong decisions and the following of the shouting and that is the same thing really Lee nothing more can be said of it but Hollywood is bringing his all done to him this is why it's important that nowadays some people definitely still know how to make a stand and then they come on the nose like being bad but in reality they are just the consequences of children following droopy and Tom and Jerry and son when they were young and that is really all what is going on inshallah Allahu akbar and there is no God but Allah.