Zip 'N Snort (1961) User Reviews

One of the better Roadrunner-Coyote cartoons

[TheLittleSongbird · 9/10 · 27 May 2010]

The story is nothing truly that special, but I loved everything else about it. The animation is great, the colours are lovely, the characters especially Wile E.Coyote are well drawn and the backgrounds are audacious. The music is also a nice touch, and the visual gags especially the one with the magnet are constantly entertaining. The two characters are on top form, Coyote is still crafty and cunning as I have come to know him by and the Roadrunner is great. The pacing is just right as well, fast, furious and fun like I'd come to expect.

Overall, easily one of the better Roadrunner-Coyote cartoons, very entertaining and worth seeing at least once. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Evereadii Eatibus

[utgard14 · 7/10 · 11 September 2015]

Basic but fun Road Runner & Coyote short from the great Chuck Jones. Nicely animated with good colors and well-drawn characters and backgrounds. The music is whimsical and fun. What really makes a good Road Runner & Coyote cartoon are the gags and this has some funny ones. Wile E. Coyote tries different things to get the Road Runner here but my favorite is the plan involving hiding ACME iron pellets under AJAX bird seed, hoping that once the bird eats the pellets he'll be able to grab him with a magnet. The plan fails hilariously, as usual. The series was pretty predictable in some ways but it proved it isn't so much what you do but how you do it that gets a laugh.

Another nice one from Chuck Jones

[rbverhoef · 7/10 · 9 May 2004]

Since this cartoon is written and directed by Chuck Jones you can almost be certain that it is at least nice. 'Zip 'n Snort' is better than nice. The Coyote, or Evereadii Eatibus, is chasing the Road Runner, or Digoutius-Hot-Rodis. To catch the Road Runner the Coyote uses a grenade in an airplane, some cannons, himself as an arrow and some grease to make him slippery. Of course the Coyote will not succeed.

This is a very good cartoon with some great gags. There is a sequence with a magnet and some electricity that has the perfect ending. Fortunately the other gags work as well. The animation, especially the Coyote, is great.

more chases, more hilarity

[lee_eisenberg · 10/10 · 1 June 2007]

Once again, Wile E. Coyote (insert scientific name implying eating) sets a litany of traps to catch Road Runner (insert scientific name implying speed), but always fails. As is protocol, the audience's sympathy is always with Wile E. - though we still laugh at his misfortune - while Road Runner apparently never notices anything. As the series's creators note, the reason that Wile E. keeps going is that he comes just close enough to catching Road Runner that he figures that he can succeed the next time around. After all, as George Santayana noted: fanaticism means redoubling your effort after you've forgotten your aim.

But anyway, "Zip 'N Snort" is a real classic. Available on the Warner Bros. 24 Karat Golden Jubilee video "Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote: The Classic Chase".

Zippy and short

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 18 February 2017]

Chuck Jones wrote and directed this cartoon short for Warner Brothers featuring Wile E Coyote and Road Runner.

By the 1960s the budgets of the cartoon departments were slashed which meant the animation was not as richly detailed as before but Chuck Jones would make it up with his inventiveness in storytelling.

As always Wile E Coyote has various devious ways to try to catch the Road Runner such as using a sling shot, Acme iron pellets, a grenade in a toy aeroplane, a cannon on a cliff ledge which ends up falling on him and axle grease on his feet that eventually sends him sliding into the path of an oncoming train.

As always you wonder if Wile E Coyote has thought his plan through, it seems to me hare brained or shall we say bird brained.

The always eponymous Warner Bros. bunch tap their . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 9 August 2018]

. . . Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, The Looney Tuners) to warn we Americans of (The Then) Far Future of our upcoming tragic suffering with this brief tale of woe, ZIP 'N SNORT. The villainous title bird constantly gloats as he tortures a famished mammal--representing We Humans (specifically, Us Salt-of-the-Earth True Blue Loyal Patriotic Average Normal 99 Per Center Silent Majority Progressive Union Label Citizens)--who is simply attempting to realize the American Dream of Life, Liberty, and Having a Bite of Supper. The dirty bird lures "Wile E. Coyote" into one disaster after another throughout ZIP 'N SNORT. This sorry saga ends with the starving lupine slip-sliding for his life along a railroad track as a speeding behemoth of an engine piloted by the awful avian bears down upon him. Warner, of course, is not simply telling the 1900s tale of ONE U.S. mammal and ONE mini-dinosaur. The best evidence of the Warner savants wider clairvoyant intent is how they label the coyote death train on-screen: "The New York Express." Any American who's attained the age of Two will tell you the name of the most despised, galling, dangerous gloating New Yorker bedeviling America Today!