Ding Dog Daddy Review

Ding Dog Daddy is a 1942 animated short film from the Merry Melodies series. It is a pretty solid cartoon.

Willoughby the dog has fallen in love with a female dog who rejects him and he eventually loses it and starts charming the dog statue. Now the film is not truly hilarious and I definitely found its pace overly slow and the runtime overlong, but the film still has a couple of funny scenes such as that amusing, memorable ending. The entire bomb factory sequence is quite memorable overall.

Willoughby is so endearing and tragic here that you can’t help but root for him. Pinto Colvig, the voice of Goofy, did a magnificent job portraying the character and honestly the film has some real pathos in certain scenes. Although very weakly animated, the emotion remains its biggest, unexpected strength and the thing that makes this whole flick quite unique in a way.

Ding Dog Daddy definitely has so-so animation and overlong runtime, but it’s funny in some scenes and particularly poignant in others.