Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . were an actual Religion worthy of tax-exempt status, or a dangerous cult to be banned from America, PORKY IN EGYP+ proves. The Looney Tunes crew clearly takes the latter side of this discussion, showing that the unintelligible call to "morning prayer" ACTUALLY is an invitation to illicit gambling, liaisons with streetwalkers of uncertain sex, and all manner of foreign decadence. (I'm just reporting what's documented on the screen: watch PORKY IN EGYP+ for yourself if you need further sordid details about masochistic public displays, bamboozled Western tourists, and so forth.) Porky searches for that "still, small voice of solitude" in the desert, but a hot sun makes our porcine friend hallucinate bag-piping camels and worse. No famous Americans such as Daniel Pearl were beheaded in the Mideast during the six or seven decades after PORKY IN EGYP+ broadcast Warner Bros.' warning against U.S. travel to this hostile region. Obviously, the past 20 years have seen Porky's Complaint increasingly forgotten or ignored. PORKY IN EGYP+ should be mandatory viewing for any American contemplating travel to Djibouti, Dubai, or Dearborn.

Lee Eisenberg One of Bob Clampett's many surreal cartoons has Porky Pig on vacation in Egypt, where he misses a tour. Boarding a camel, Porky travels through the desert, but the oppressive heat sends the camel into full-scale dementia! How funny to think of an American going to a foreign country expecting a really easy time, and this befalls him! Yes, "Porky in Egypt" mostly looks like a place holder in between the really great cartoons that in 1938 (aside from "Porky in Wackyland", others included "Daffy Duck in Hollywood"). But I still find it funny. And if I may say so, people often treat the desert as the least tolerable climate, but if you've ever experienced a hot humid climate such as the southeastern US, the desert actually feels quite nice.Anyway, worth seeing.

slymusic "Porky in Egypt" is unfortunately not one of the better Porky Pig cartoons directed by Bob Clampett, although it IS abundant with Clampett's characteristic zaniness. Porky misses out on a guided tour of Egypt, so he grabs a camel and embarks on his own tour, during which the hot sun gets the better of the twosome and causes them to go completely insane. As interesting as this sounds, the main problem with this cartoon is that is doesn't really go anywhere.Despite its weaknesses, "Porky in Egypt" still contains a few memorable moments. The opening scene depicts a group of Arabs solemnly chanting and then abruptly shooting craps, after which we see an ostensibly beautiful harem girl who then reveals her hideous face! Porky's camel is quite funny as he 1.) hunkers down on all fours and declares to Porky his craziness with the heat, 2.) performs a Scottish jig, and 3.) imitates humorist Lew Lehr with his line "Camels is the cwaziest peoples!" We can always count on Bob Clampett for the wildest, weirdest animation possible, but "Porky in Egypt" is simply a silly cartoon that misses its mark. The sight of one particular fire swallower with pins, needles, and swords stuck through his body is painful to behold.

Shira Dotnet The only familiar Looney Tunes character featured in this one is Porky Pig. It's about 6 1/2 minutes long.The setting is theoretically 1930's era Egypt. A bunch of guys sit around wearing turbans and loin clothes. A woman wearing harem pants and a little top struts by with a jug on her head, then removes her face veil to expose a very ugly face. (She doesn't dance, though.) Then the scene shifts to a guy in loincloth and turban sitting on a bed of nails. He swallows a flaming sword which gives him indigestion. Next a tour group of people clad in European-style safari garb boards a camel to go sightseeing. All of this happens within the first minute and a half.Porky Pig tries to join the tour group, but gets left behind. So he gets on his own camel and heads out. They get lost in the desert under the blazing sun. The camel freaks out and starts playing bagpipes, then dances the Highland fling. (Yes, it really is recognizable as the Fling complete with shedding. The camel's turnout isn't half bad... As for what it's doing in a cartoon titled Porky In Egypt, well, remember, the camel IS freaking out.) Porky sees a mirage of the camel sitting in a pond of cool water and tries to jump in with it, and finds himself buried in sand. The camel gets its sanity back long enough to take them back to the city.I'll admit, Porky isn't my favorite Looney Tunes character, and 4 1/2 minutes of the camel freaking out got to be a bit excessive for my taste - at first it was amusing, but then it started to drag and seemed like it wasn't going anywhere. So in general I'm not fond of this cartoon. But I was amused by the first 1 1/2 minutes, and I did like the camel's Highland Fling.