Little Go Beep (2000) User Reviews

Child abuse runs rampant in . . .

[oscaralbert · 5/10 · 6 August 2015]

. . . LITTLE GO BEEP, an eight-minute animated short from some very sick people at Warner Bros. This "Baby Looney Tune" begins with a possibly bogus newspaper article posted on-screen headlined, "Streakers Run Rampant." Above this header is a quarter-page photo of a totally bare chubby human male chasing a much younger and equally nude long-haired teenage girl. This eye opener comes just 28 seconds into this "youth" offering. An unclothed Coyote and Road Runner are in the picture here racing between the Naturalist people pairing, though "baby" Wile E. Coyote ( = "Poor Schnookius") sports a white diaper for the duration of this sadistic exercise. When Pops Cage E. Coyote is not busy bragging to his toddler son about his trophy shelf, he's putting the young kid on the Road to Ruin by assigning him the impossible task of catching a road runner. Worse yet, he condemns his only apparent living offspring to a lifetime of muteness by forbidding Wile to utter a word until he captures the speed-of-light bird. Perhaps Warner could make a funny cartoon about Munchausen-by-Proxy, but this Captain-Ahab-by-Proxy misfire is woefully lacking in the humor department.

This animated short can best be pigeon-holed within the . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 7/10 · 9 April 2021]

. . . science fiction\horror sub genre. LITTLE GO BEEP features an evil box, capable of transforming a fledgling bird into rabid badger. The last time I saw a movie at a theater in Wisconsin, patrons had to B. Y. O. U. (Bring Your Own Umbrella) to fend off the not-so-friendly fire of a continual popcorn bombardment. When viewed with hindsight, this war between the rain gear faction and the snack food anarchists sort of telegraphed the upcoming chaos befalling the Badger State legislature, sitting a few doors down from the cinema (and not very far from the Badgers' football stadium). Therefore, anyone who has survived a Wisconsin death trip may want to steer clear of LITTLE GO BEEP.

The Child Is Father

[boblipton · 7/10 · 1 April 2024]

Here's a recent pretty good entry in Warner Brother's occasional cartoons. It posits that once upon a time, the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote were toddlers, and the Coyote was trying to catch the roadrunner back then, too, with as little success as later.

For what is essentially a silent cartoon -- Stan Freberg gets a few lines as the Coyote's father, instructing him on being a predator -- the excellence of the gags is paramount, and the creators of this cartoon have done a fine job, converting various children's toys into weapons. Against the Coyote, of course.

The result succeeds in not only being funny, but in being cute. Since Chuck Jones -- who created these characters -- started out wanting to make cute cartoons, I'm sure he'd be pleased with the result.

Whoever knew that Wile E. Coyote would be this cute and crafty as a baby?

[TheLittleSongbird · 9/10 · 19 July 2014]

The Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote series was on the most part entertaining, especially for Coyote. Little Go Beep was surprisingly delightful for a late Looney Tunes cartoon, and is almost as good as the best Road Runner/Coyote cartoons. Road Runner has very little to do, in fact he's barely in it but that it was all that wasn't quite so good. Wile really does steal the show, even as a baby he is hilarious and crafty with priceless facial expressions that are just as funny as the gags. And he is so cute. The story is vibrantly paced and very loyal to the "formula" format of the series, if you've seen a Roadrunner/Coyote cartoon before the story and the outcomes of Wile's traps won't come as a surprise but that doesn't matter. In fact, the cartoon really respects the previous Roadrunner/Coyote cartoons, with the type of gags, Wile's facial expressions and even the screen captions at the beginning. The animation is bright and colourful with lots of detail and fluid movements, characters move easily and are always on model, and again Wile's expressions are beautifully and cleverly done. The music has much bombastic energy and the orchestration is very lively, enhancing the action really well. You won't be surprised by the outcome of the gags, but they are still hilarious, felt very fresh and quite clever actually, can't decide which is the favourite because they all worked, with an ending that you do not expect. Coyote's father has a final line that raises a laugh and Stan Freberg does a good job voicing him. All in all, cute, colourful and hilarious, a delightful modern cartoon that re-captures the charm and spirit of the Roadrunner/Coyote series really quite well. 9/10 Bethany Cox