Tex Avery has been responsible for some brilliant cartoons, that are beautifully and cleverly animated, clever, extremely entertaining and with something for everybody.'Blitz Wolf' may not be up there with Avery's very finest, but it is a very clever take on a famous story that has actually been very well-adapted in animation (it's also one of the better takes on it) and is definitely one of the best "WWII propaganda" cartoons, though it is much more than that. Like with all Avery though, there is plenty to enjoy for both kids and adults.Kids will love how the famous story is adapted, the animation, the music, the characters, the very witty and wild tone and the voices. while adults will like it even more for all those reasons, plus they will also understand more what the cartoon is trying to say, understand and appreciate more the subject matter and references and admire how 'Blitz Wolf' isn't afraid to say what it does.To me, that was one of 'Blitz Wolf's' biggest strengths, knowing what to say and how to say it. It is wild and very savage (while not being too preachy, a danger with this sort of cartoon and subject), which was quite a brave route to go considering the subject, but also very funny in doing so. While somewhat of the time, so a couple of parts may go over the heads of first-time or younger viewers or may not hold up, but on repeat viewings those parts make sense and the cartoon holds up remarkably well for a "WWII propaganda" cartoon.As always with Avery, the animation is great, vibrant, meticulous, stunningly detailed and wildly clever. The music by Scott Bradley, also responsible for the scoring of prime-Tom and Jerry, is lush and rousing with the ability to not just add to the action but enhance it (Carl Stalling was also a master of this). 'Blitz Wolf' is smartly and wittily scripted, with a wild and savagely satirical tone at times, while the "propaganda" stuff makes its part but allows the Three Little Story to shine through. All the characters are lots of fun, especially the Wolf, and the voice acting is terrific from Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham and Bill Thompson.Overall, clever and quite brilliant Tex Avery cartoon, and much more than a propaganda cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox

We all love to make fun of Adolf Hitler. He's the sort of political figure who's tailor-made for caricature, as Charles Chaplin discovered with 'The Great Dictator (1940).' But it also happens that he was a monster, one whose success spawned the most devastating conflict the human race has ever known. So it's with some uncertainty that comedy and propaganda combine in Tex Avery's 'Blitz Wolf (1942).' That same year, Jack Kinney's 'Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)' won an Oscar for showing Donald Duck's miserable life in "Nutzi" land, where he is continually battered into submission by the machinery of fascism, but Avery's cartoon is rather more open about its hatred towards Germany's leader. An opening title mocks convention by declaring that "the wolf in this photoplay is NOT fictitious. Any similarity between this Wolf and that (*!!*!) jerk Hitler is purely intentional!" Thus, the knives are sharpened, and Adolf Hitler's animated counterpart is about to receive his due.'Blitz Wolf' is styled around the tale of the Three Little Pigs (particularly the 1933 Disney Silly Symphony) – certainly the most offbeat version of the story you'll ever see – with the Big Bad Wolf having attained a characteristic moustache and a distinctive German accent. The first two pigs, having misguidedly entered into a peace treaty with the Wolf, are surprised to have their homes destroyed by his armies (this Wolf is too weak and cowardly to blow down houses himself, and instead uses mechanical beasts to do his dirty work). The third pig, his home a veritable steel fortress (a sign announcing "No dogs/Japs allowed!"), urges his brothers to help fight their collective enemy, both in combat and by purchasing war bonds. Not surprisingly, the remainder of the film consists of the Hitler-Wolf being continually shot and blasted from all angles, until he eventually wakes to find himself in the fiery dungeons of Hell. It gets a little bit repetitive, but, of course, Hitler deserves to be exploded as many times as possible.Whereas I found 'Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)' to be a highly rewatchable cartoon, even nearly seventy years later, Avery's take on Nazism isn't quite so fresh. There are some excellent word gags, such as a title on the Wolf's tank reading "Der Fewer (Der Better)," but there are also some self-referential signs that may elicit a disbelieving groan: "Gone with the Wind" when the first pig's house is blown away (despite the animators' acknowledgement of its corniness) and "Long darn thing, isn't it?" when we can clearly already see that the pigs' weaponry is rather lengthy. For the adults, there's also plenty of mischievous sexual innuendo at play, particularly in the comparisons made between the length of each army's cannons. One gag, with a suddenly-limp American cannon being rejuvenated by a dosage of Vitamin B1, was certainly more forward than I'm used to from 1940s children's cartoons. Overall, 'Blitz Wolf' is not the most intelligent of animated shorts, but it's an interesting historical document, and a bit of fun, too.

I was amused by the way some of the humor was aimed clearly over the heads of the younger end of the audience - and maybe some of the not-so-young-anymore realized they understood some of the humor, but knew better than to spoil their younger friends' innocence. It was fun watching the two naive piggies taunting their more serious kin, "You're diggin' a ditch - " and then freezing for a couple of seconds as they let the audience fill in the rest of the ditty in their heads.All in all, another excellent (and enjoyably over-the-top) Tex Avery creation. Though the wolf isn't as top-notch an incarnation of the enemy as some of the other war cartoons employed, it's well in keeping with the tone and background of this entry.

It was funny at how it mocked Disney's "The Three Little Pigs" (especially since the voice of the third little pig was the same as the one in the Disney version), it is very dated however due to the wolf being modeled after Adolf Hitler. I just saw this cartoon a few days ago and I laughed my butt off! I have to admit Tex Avery knew what to do to make a cartoon funny.