Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
The furries of summer are here! Originally conceived as an animated sequel to 1974’s Blazing Saddles comedy, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank took a long time coming to fruition, and was originally planned with the less cumbersome title of Blazing Samurai. At last we have our Wild West saga with a Japanese tilt that retains the legacy of Mel Brooks, who even voices the character of the Shogun!
Now if you’ve seen Westerns (or “Easterns’), there’s a little bit of many things you’ve seen before here, with elements drawn and blended from Kung Fu Panda, The Karate Kid, The Magnificent Seven, and Zootopia. An evil cat warlord (voiced by Ricky Gervais) seeking to destroy a town of cats sends an inept canine (Michael Cera) to be their defender, knowing full well that cats and dogs tend not to get along, and anticipating to sow internal chaos and destruction. Canine Hank, however, truly aspires to be a samurai, and finds a trainer and mentor in the unwilling, grumpy person (furson?) of Samuel L. Jackson’s character. Overcoming feline xenophobia against dogs, the aspiring canine samurai gradually acquires their acceptance and cooperation while developing his own skills, and the rest is history…
Paws of Fury is already playing in theaters, and I may borrow a kid as an excuse to go see it….
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July 23, 2022 at 1:18 am
I don’t know if I’ll go to see it, since I don’t have a wife and kids to camouflage the awkwardness of a lone bachelor attending a family film. But, I’m sure you’ll find it exciting. At least when compared to the over-hyped cure for insomnia called “Nope”! Which, by the way, rhymes with the substance Jordan Peele must’ve been abusing when he wrote the screenplay for that big-budget snoozefest.
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July 23, 2022 at 11:56 am
Yup, I’ve read bad things about “Nope!”😸
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July 23, 2022 at 9:05 pm
Believe them! By some miracle, I managed to sit through it for an hour and a quarter before finally deciding to go home…as it no longer deserved the benefit of my well-founded doubt.
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August 8, 2022 at 6:14 pm
This just in: ELVIS is officially worse Tom Hanks movie than LADYKILLERS and JOE VS. THE VOLCANO, combined! Making NOPE look like 2023 Oscar nominee, by comparison.
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August 8, 2022 at 6:16 pm
Because, frankly, I don’t know how else to describe a film that makes Elvis Presley look like a puppet who is more hips and vocal chords than brains.
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August 8, 2022 at 7:25 pm
I’ll take some surplus hip action and vocal chords if Elvis is giving any away… 😁
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August 23, 2022 at 8:02 pm
I finally saw this movie on pay-per-view. Not bad! I would describe it, though, as more of a kid-friendly remake of BLAZING SADDLES (complete with Mel Brooks doing a voice-over as what could be called “Shogun Lepetomaine”). If, that is, you can imagine BLAZING SADDLES as a CGI version of anime directed by Akira Kurosawa!
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August 23, 2022 at 9:47 pm
Eventually, I’ll probably be able to see “Paws of Fury” on a free network. I saw “The Bad Guys” on Peacock for free, and loved it, especially for the portrayals of “Mr. Wolf” and Diane Foxworthy… 🐺🦊
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August 31, 2022 at 11:45 am
I’m still waiting for the national release of “Puss n’ Boots; The 9th Life” (or whatever the subtitle is).
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August 31, 2022 at 11:47 am
Good Lord! Aliens have cloned my writings while I slept!
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August 31, 2022 at 9:01 pm
I always knew that aliens were responsible… 👽
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August 31, 2022 at 11:45 am
I’m still waiting for the national release of “Puss n’ Boots: The 9th Life” (or whatever the subtitle is).
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September 1, 2022 at 11:55 am
“Silly hombre! Do you think El Gato En Botas incapable of forgery when necessary?” 😉
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September 1, 2022 at 2:40 pm
Remember “El Guapo” from “The Three Amigos?” 😼
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September 1, 2022 at 4:49 pm
Yeah! But, he doesn’t hold a candle to Alfonso Bedoya who played the Mexican bandit chief in TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE.
“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”
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September 1, 2022 at 7:52 pm
@University of Michigan football fans: please don’t paraphrase the above quote in reference to your arch-rivals at U-Wisconsin. 😉
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