One of the many one-shot cartoons released by Warner Bros. but not well remembered - it only recently got released as part of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6 - "The Fighting 69 1/2th" portrays two groups of ants who go to war over a picnic blanket. Well, that's more justifiable than launching a war against a sovereign country just to gain control of its resources. The formic armies use pieces of food as weapons; that's better than nuclear weapons, right? The attempted negotiations don't go so well; not even Sergio Vieira de Mello could have helped these ants.
Long story short, wars fought by cartoon characters look much more pleasant than wars turn out to be in real life. Friz Freleng's cartoon - stripped of its opening credits in the Blue Ribbon reissue - is pretty entertaining. Not a masterpiece, but worth seeing.
Long story short, wars fought by cartoon characters look much more pleasant than wars turn out to be in real life. Friz Freleng's cartoon - stripped of its opening credits in the Blue Ribbon reissue - is pretty entertaining. Not a masterpiece, but worth seeing.