"Little 'Tinker" is another Tex Avery MGM cartoon and this one is from 1948, so it has its 70th anniversary this year. The protagonist here is a little skunk that is madly in love with basically all the animals from the forest, but his smell makes it fairly hard for them to appreciate his efforts. Like many other times with Avery, it is about a character that really only appears in this one film and never again. The voice cast includes a few fairly well known names that lovers of these old cartoons will immediately recognize. Sadly, the outcome here is a bit on the underwhelming side though. The protagonist is cute in his off-stage scenes and the ending is kinda sweet too, even if it feels a bit forced to be happy, but the weaknesses prevail. The music and coolness factor did almost nothing for me, the plays on words are fairly mediocre and it just wasn't funny or entertaining or sweet enough in my opinion. Avery's films are usually more about coolness really than about emotion, but this one comes short in both fields. It does not live up to the premise in the seven minutes from start to finish. the good animation alone os not really enough for me to give this one a thumbs-up as honestly most cartoon works from this Golden Age of Animation, not just by MGM, look very nice. My suggestion is to skip this one.
Review of Little 'Tinker
