"Pink, Plunk, Plink" is an American color cartoon from 1966 directed by Hawley Pratt and written by Michael O'Connor and even if this one is also already way older than half a century, ot is not anymore from the Golden Age of Animation. But it tries to score with some of its formulas. Music is a crucial component in some of the most known Warner Bros and Tom & Jerry cartoons, also classical music, so in these under 7 minutes we have here it is Pink Panther vs. a tiny conductor who looks like the antagonist every time in these PP cartoons and they are battling with firepower who is the one that should be allowed to be in charge of the orchestra. You know the outcome. Well, I must say the wit occasionally is not bad, but the comedy overall left me unimpressed, like the rifle and rocket scenes for example. Either you hear explosions or (good) music or complete silence, well at the beginning the PP tune too, but the fact that you hear absolutely nothing is not too rare in these Pink Panther shorts. There is a sense of minimalism to them. The best example is the animation. Backgrounds are frequently in one color only and they sure did not waste any time on animating the audience here. Even the orchestra is barely seen at all. Welll, if you want to defend it you can say it is minimalism. If you are critical, you can say it is just without attention to detail. I am not sure which side to pick here. The moment when the two protagonists at the end become one person almost is not too bad. But this and also the surprising cameo by Henry Mancini alone are not enough good moments for me to recommend this short. It says nothing too positive about the franchise that this is one of the most known PP shorts. watch something else instead.
Review of Pink, Plunk, Plink
