Hollywood Canine Canteen (1946)
Hollywood Canine Canteen Review
Hollywood Canine Canteen is a 1946 animated short film from the Merry Melodies series. It is a weaker film.
The canine pets of Hollywood stars meet and decide they need their own nightclub. The cartoon tours the nightclub and presents a series of vignettes featuring dog-styled caricatures of Hollywood celebrities. That’s the premise and I don’t have a problem with that premise at all as I love dogs and classic Hollywood, but the execution itself is so weak that the film ended up being very disappointing.
I loved the score of course, but there have been much better animated shorts with that music utilized much better. The animation is excellent and the music and animation accompany each other well, but not one scene in terms of plot, humor and action is particularly memorable here unfortunately.
Hollywood Canine Canteen looks and sounds great, but the substance itself is rather lacking.
