Verbal Humor In The Animation Movie

2.1 Review of Literature
The previous studies on humor translation on a movie from the source language to target language present some weaknesses and strengths of the relevant studies below:
Winarti (2011) wrote a thesis entitled "An Analysis of Pun Translation In The Animation Movie Madagascar II Escape to Africa" The study discussed the types of pun humor which consists of three parts, namely paronymy, homonymy and polysemy and techniques of pun translation found in the movie Madagascar II Escape to Africa. The study presented about pun translation used Delabastita's theory (1993) and second analysis types of pun came from Schroter (2005). That study found three types of pun they are paronymy with 32 data, homonymy with 5 data, and polysemy

She also provided and analyzed it well. It can be understood the point of her thesis well because the explanation that author gave was clear and brief. The differences between her study and this study are in the theories and the data.
A relevant thesis entitled “Verbal Humor In The Rio Animated Film And Its Translation In The Indonesian Subtitling” by Rahmawati (2013) focused in three aspects, first the types of verbal humor occurred in the movie, second the subtitling strategies of the English verbal humor into the Indonesian subtitling text, and third the acceptability of the Indonesian translation of verbal humor in Rio animated

The first one is type of humor appears in The Simpsons Movie used Raphaelson-West's theory (1989) and the humorous effect in the movie whether it successfully translated into target language or not that used Allison Ross’ theory (1998) about humor features. In the conclusion of her study, she stated that “there are three types of humor, those are three data of linguistic humor, four data of cultural humor, and five data of universal humor. In addition, the humorous effects are found namely two data of linguistic humor and three data of cultural humor are failed to be translated into Indonesian