Having just watched Donald Duck as a Nazi in one cartoon I decided to continue the Duck/propaganda theme and watch this Daffy Duck cartoon – my favorite of the two animated ducks. This one sees Daffy in the role of an Allied Forces commando trying to infiltrate enemy lines while at the same time Herr Von Vulture is on his last warning to stop such incursions.
I was looking forward to this because very early on we see that it is "zany" Daffy, which is my preferred version of his character and one I find very funny usually. I say usually because the comedy here is just a little bit too obvious and I didn't find it quite as funny as I should have done. Some moments are quite clever but mostly it is hammer-hitting as the majority of the action (although the final stroke is a good one). It is a shame because the characters are good – Daffy is in good form and Von Vulture is a funny creation, even if a little obvious. Works as a piece of propaganda but for zany, crazy Daffy, the material here is just too close to "ordinary" to work.
