Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Steve Carras This was an early animated prototype of Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (which, btw, was released not in the late '60s, but in the early70s, and coincidentally it was the first of his pernament Warner Bros.Studio association!)Other toons used this gimmick too. MGM's "Pipe Dreams" Warner's own "Wholly Smoke" Art Clokey's "Grub Grabber Gumby!"Billy Bletcher was the villain, the very obscure Bernice Hansen, the little pig. The title was the only thing from that 1905 E.P.Butlerbook,"Pigs is Pigs", with a very different storyline than the WB cartoon, but Disney made a film twenty years later of the Butler book. WB was indeed the most cynical of the studios till Jay Ward,Hanna Barbera, then Spumco in the 90s.Soundtrack includes "Fella with a Fiddle" and "When My Dreaboat Comes Home", also much used in WB shorts of the time-"Fella" in "The Cat Came Back", "The Blow-Out",the title short "Fella", and "Little Beau Porky",and "Dreamboat" in "Porky's Badtime Story", and its remake "Tick Tock Tuckered",and "The Birth of a Notion".When the mother pig (talking in a Jewish accent--VERY sneaky WB type joke even for that un-PC period!) (as we see the outside shot of the piggie house!) warns her sonny-boy of indigestion, WE know he might have some nightmare, especially when he finds himself in a different place all of a sudden, especially when a Billy Bletcher-voiced mad doctor appears! But is it a dream, reality, or is it Memorex?(Compare this with PORKY's shorts, or more recent live action comedies about fatness--"Big Momma's House 1 and 2", and this year's smashes "Norbit" and "Hairspray"! (and that last was set back in the sixties..)The ending, like the "A Clockwork Orange" gimmick,is like "Wholly Smoke" (same director,Frank Tash), which DID have Porky.

ccthemovieman-1 Technicolor rears its beautiful head right on the opening shot, one of the prettiest scenes of a straw-thatched house in the country you've ever seen.This is a story of a little pig who was a big pig when it came to eating. He couldn't stop and even ate all his brothers spaghetti at one meal. His mother chastises him, saying he will regret his actions.One day some ghoulish-looking guy invites him inside, straps him into a machine and force- feeds him a ton of food. It reminded me of what happened to a guy addicted to violence in the famous late '60s film, "A Clockwork Orange." There, a guy was treated similarly for addiction violence; here, it's food.What happens to Piggie at the mad scientist's place and at the end of the cartoon is unexpected.

slymusic Piggie is always hungry and constantly thinks about nothing else but food. And no matter how much he eats, it is never enough! In a rather silly nightmare sequence, Piggie meets a jaundiced mad scientist, who devises some intricate mechanical gadgetry in order to force-feed Piggie large quantities of all kinds of goodies, much to the scientist's mischievous delight. Is it any wonder, therefore, that the appropriate title for this cartoon would be "Pigs Is Pigs"? It is definitely far from being my favorite Warner Bros. cartoon, but it still has its good points.In my opinion, the best moments from this short include the following. The popular song "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" can be heard during the opening shot of the straw house while the little piglets are outside playing, and also during the later nocturnal shot of the house while the piglets are sleeping. Piggie swipes a pie off of the windowsill and spins it around his finger as he eats it; he tries to eat a second pie in the same manner, but the mother pig catches him in time and he accidentally chomps on his bare fingers. And at the dinner table, all the little piglets humorously babble grace while Piggie ties all of their spaghetti strands together, so that he can devour all the spaghetti with one big slurp.So there you have "Pigs Is Pigs" in a nutshell. If you ever decide to watch this cartoon, it is my recommendation that you have a little something to eat before you do.

F Gwynplaine MacIntyre The Warner Brothers cartoon 'Pigs Is Pigs' takes its title from a best-selling humour book by Ellis Parker Butler, but is not otherwise related to that book. (In fact, the 'pigs' in Butler's book are guinea pigs.)This very funny cartoon is about a little-boy pig (not Porky) who lives with his young siblings and their mother. (There doesn't seem to be a father pig in this family, so who brings home the bacon?) There are several spot gags dealing with the gluttonous Piggy stealing his siblings' dinners as well as scoffing his own.Eventually he leaves home and finds himself at the door of a mad scientist (with an elaborate hiccough) who invites Piggy in for some free food. Which, indeed, he gets. But the mad scientist is testing a contraption that resembles the feeding machine in Chaplin's 'Modern Times', only it's more aggressive. The scientist straps Piggy into the machine, which then proceeds to force-feed him huge amounts of food. We get a variation of Friz Freleng's 'Hold the Onions' gag, which showed up in several Freleng toons. At the climax of the story, there's a very impressive montage as the scientist ratchets up the action. When he's finished, he laughs evilly as Piggy finds himself swollen to gargantuan girth. (Great voice work as the scientist by Billy Bletcher, better known for the voice of Paw Bear in some later Warners toons.)SPOILER COMING. Warner Bros were the most cynical movie studio, and 'Pigs Is Pigs' follows the same pattern as several other Warners cartoons - including 'Now that Summer Is Gone' and 'I Wanna Be a Sailor' - in which a little-boy animal with a moral failing (in this case, gluttony) is taught a lesson and appears to repent but then (hilariously) proves he has no intention of reforming. In the case of 'Pigs Is Pigs', the whole ordeal turns out to be a nightmare ... and of course Piggy hasn't really learnt his lesson.Kids and adults will both get a laugh out of this toon. 'Pigs Is Pigs' is also interesting for another reason, and from here on this review is adults-only. At approximately age eight, a boy named Bob Flanagan was profoundly impressed by 'Pigs Is Pigs'. Flanagan had cystic fibrosis, and he had to be repeatedly spanked on his chest by an adult in order to clear out his fibrotic tissues. The sadomasochistic aspects of 'Pigs Is Pigs' (bondage, forced feeding, forced body modification, experiments on an unwilling subject) had a highly erotic effect on young Bob, who developed at an early age an interest in masochism. Bob Flanagan grew up to be the adult subject of the 1997 documentary 'Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist'. In his performance pieces, the adult Flanagan often paid tribute to 'Pigs Is Pigs' and its early influence on him. Several of the Warners cartoons by Bob Clampett have extreme fetish content, so it's intriguing to know that somebody found fetish content in a cartoon by the more staid Freleng. I'll rate 'Pigs Is Pigs' 9 out of 10. Don't worry, parents: this cartoon won't turn your kids into Bob Flanagan.