Herman is Robin Hood and Katnip the evil tax collector in this ambitious but mediocre entry into the series.
The ambition shows early on in an original song and a nice point-of-view shot of Katnip as he laughs maniacally over his forthcoming oppression of the poor mice. Otherwise it's a series of decent gags that don't seem to add anything to the situations, just mean-spirited pain. Of course, that was the usual sequence of events in this series, but the over-the-top performances make this seem camp.
I usually enjoyed the Herman & Katnip cartoons when I was a child, mostly for the little-guys-against-the-big-guy theme and the great voice that Arnold Stang used for Herman. This one, though, is just fair.
The ambition shows early on in an original song and a nice point-of-view shot of Katnip as he laughs maniacally over his forthcoming oppression of the poor mice. Otherwise it's a series of decent gags that don't seem to add anything to the situations, just mean-spirited pain. Of course, that was the usual sequence of events in this series, but the over-the-top performances make this seem camp.
I usually enjoyed the Herman & Katnip cartoons when I was a child, mostly for the little-guys-against-the-big-guy theme and the great voice that Arnold Stang used for Herman. This one, though, is just fair.
