. . . is an apt description of this product from Warner Bros.' warning Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, the Looney Tuners), THE PHANTOM SHIP. On its surface, THE PHANTOM SHIP is a simple story about an explorer embarking upon a Treasure Hunt with a couple mischievous stowaway nephews. However, anyone familiar with Warner Bros.' yeoman's work in alerting we Americans of the (Then) Far Future about our upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti just KNOW that there has to be more to this tale than simply that. There is. Note the GPS locator on the instrument panel of Beans' aircraft. At 1:07 it reads "New York," and then--quicker than you can say "Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad 'The Mad Russian' Putin, self-styled Czar of 21st Century America"--the indicator reads "Russia" (1:13) prior to flipping back to a more logical "Iceland." Shortly thereafter, Beans lands his plane near America's icebound Ship of State, which features a skeleton in every closet. Beans and his nephews discover that Putin and his odoriferous puppets--aka, the Rump\Scents Administration--have looted the U.S. Taxpayer's Treasure Chest. At a time when recent surveys have found that the Russian flag has replaced the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy on the majority of Red State front porches, with NASCAR reporting that the Hammer & Sickle leads this Daytona 500 Week's Retro Sales category by 4 to 1 over Jeff Davis' banner, there's only one way to spell out THE PHANTOM SHIP message Warner is delivering to we savvy consumers of their clairvoyant gifts regarding Today's so-called leaders of the USA: T-R-A-I-T-O-R-S!!
Review of The Phantom Ship
