Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Vimacone Clampett's 1939-40 entries are frequently dogged by fans and historians for bad jokes, frequent re-use of animation and unoriginal ideas.This entry is considered by many to be one of the most unoriginal shorts he did. It's pretty much THE DAFFY DOC (1938) with a new spin, only Daffy doesn't appear. The title card is a still image from the title card of aforementioned short. The opening scenes of the hospital and the cat patient trying to operate on Porky are also lifted from the former.The Schlesinger staff must have had an affection for Rochester, Jack Benny's sidekick. He frequently appears or is alluded to in Clampett's cartoons from this time-frame. Although drawn in the stereotypical black face style of the day, he's always depicted as an endearing character. Nonetheless, Rochester's scenes as an alphabetical elevator operator were usually cut from television prints, making showings very short.Look for a cameo of the prototype Bugs Bunny in the opening scenes. This would be the last appearance, in release order, of Bugs in his embryonic stage.While not a favorite of many fans, I've always had a liking for this short. It's primarily nostalgia for me.

slymusic "Patient Porky" is a fine Porky Pig cartoon directed by the wacky Robert Clampett. Poor Porky - he ate too much birthday cake. So he goes to the hospital and gets ABUSED! Here are my favorite sequences from this cartoon. I like the very opening scene at the hospital, involving a switchboard operator with an annoyingly funny voice (a caricature of Helen Troy) and an African-American elevator operator (a caricature of Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, if you'll pardon the racial stereotype). Carl Stalling's wonderful music score plays a swinging rendition of "Rock-a-Bye Baby" when the camera focuses on a blackboard indicating today's births. When Porky arrives at the hospital, a feline patient (posing as a doctor) literally throws the hapless pig in bed and begins to sing a very silly song, which is taken over by a trio of beautiful female voices. I also like how funny Porky is when he squirms violently in bed as the "doctor" whips out a handsaw."Patient Porky" is a lot of fun to watch! Find it on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5 Disc 3, a disc that is loaded with wild cartoons directed by Bob Clampett.

Lee Eisenberg One of the many relics from the days when Porky Pig mostly appeared in black and white cartoons, Bob Clampett's "Patient Porky" does contain a racial stereotype (in the form of an elevator operator). As in "The Daffy Doc" two years earlier, an excessively eager physician tries to operate on Porky (in the earlier one, it was doctor wannabe Daffy Duck).Having seen many of Porky's cartoons from his debut until the US entered WWII, one can see that the studio usually cast Porky in rather sedate, pedestrian roles: fireman, pilgrim, bullfighter. Therefore, this one was pretty much representative of the era. "You Ought to Be In Pictures" may have been the one exception. Porky's roles got really cool once Chuck Jones started directing him regularly after WWII, frequently casting him as a foil to Daffy's craziness.Anyway, this one isn't bad. Worth seeing maybe once.

Op_Prime This was an all right Porky Pig short. Most of the jokes were not really stale and it had some really funny stuff here. The whole story is kind of interesting, not really at all boring. It wasn't excellent, but it was good. Thumbs up.