. . . pleads the fatally annoying Gabby Goose as another prophetic Warner Bros. Omen of Doom--PORKY'S HOTEL--comes to a close. Anyone unfamiliar with Warner's Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, The Looney Tuners) will be aghast that a brief "kid's cartoon" from the 1930s would end on such a sour note. However, almost every Loyal Normal Patriotic Average True Blue Progressive Union Label American who's been exposed to these Warner Bros. Warnings to We Citizens of the (Then) Far Future recognizes that these clairvoyant predictions of our country's upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti form a body of prognosticating far more extensive and accurate than any One Thousand Quatrains from Nostradamus. The uppity Gabby is so mouthy and solipsistic here that Viewers of Any Era will want to rush at their screen and knock our this character's teeth, exactly like they're tempted to do to any member or supporter of the Deplorable U.S. Rump Administration. However, Warner is warning us specifically here NOT to litter America's sidewalks with chipped out teeth, angry tufts of gray hair, or dislodged pacemakers. Though it may SEEM like we're on the verge of that part of Revelations dealing with city streets coursing with Rivers of Blood, perhaps Cooler Heads can STILL Save the Day by Repealing and Replacing that Moldy Racist Suicide Pact from the 1700s (a Constitution that was INTENDED even by the "Slave"-whipping Founders to be supplanted every 20 years or so through a Constitutional Convention with something in tune with the Future!!) and deporting the Rump Family Crime Mob along with their 62 million Red Commie KGB Sex Criminal Enablers North to Canada for a Seven Generation Cooling Off Period. Even if these pathetic miscreants refuse to Self-Deport, Warner uses the current Secret Service Code Name for America's High Treason Executioner--"Mr. Goatee"--to suggest a Plan B: For the Sake of the Nation, who wouldn't cast a ballot for chopping off one head?
3 Reviews
Porky is open for business
lee_eisenberg13 June 2018
This time around, Porky operates a hotel and gives a traveling goat a place to stay, but a young duck starts making trouble. Like many Bob Clampett cartoons, "Porky's Hotel" features some rubbery stuff and the occasional gag. It's not the funniest short that Warner Bros. animation turned out, but enjoyable enough for its few minutes. I read in a book that while Disney would often spend up to $60,000 to produce each Silly Symphony, Warner Bros. only allotted $9,000 for each cartoon, and even less went into the cartoon's production once Leon Schlesinger took his cut. This makes one appreciate the effort that went into each cartoon. Clampett's direction, Carl Stalling's music and Mel Blanc's voice work - as well as the Rhymettes' singing - make this a good one. I recommend it.
Hotel antics with Porky, a goat and a goose
TheLittleSongbird19 January 2018
Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.
Have a good deal of respect and appreciation for Bob Clampett, more often that than not, and while not quite one of my favourite Looney Tunes characters (prefer those with consistently stronger, funnier and interesting personalities) Porky has always been very easy to like. 'Porky's Hotel' is another very good Clampett-directed Porky Pig cartoon and represents them well.
More so Clampett than Porky though. Porky is underused and a bit bland, especially with stronger personalities in the cartoon with Gouty Goat and especially Gabby Goose (who just about avoids being annoying for a pesty character).
Clampett brings his usual wacky, zany style, in visuals, humour and pacing, to 'Porky's Hotel'. It may not be him at his most anarchic but this is a long way from tame Clampett, and is evidence of Clampett having his distinctive style early on despite it not always coming out in his pre-peak period.
Mel Blanc is outstanding as always. He always was the infinitely more preferable voice for Porky, Joe Dougherty never clicked with me, and he proves it here. Blanc shows an unequalled versatility and ability to bring an individual personality to every one of his multiple characters in a vast majority of his work, there is no wonder why he was in such high demand as a voice actor.
Animation is excellent, it's fluid in movement, crisp in shading and very meticulous in detail, plus it is very imaginative. Ever the master, Carl Stalling's music is typically superb. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it.
'Porky's Hotel' is lightning-speed energetic that one completely forgets the slightness of the story, and is also incredibly inventively timed and very funny, if not uproarious. There is not really that much wrong here, just that Porky as a lead character pales in comparison to the support somewhat, especially Gabby.
In conclusion, good fun. 8/10 Bethany Cox
Have a good deal of respect and appreciation for Bob Clampett, more often that than not, and while not quite one of my favourite Looney Tunes characters (prefer those with consistently stronger, funnier and interesting personalities) Porky has always been very easy to like. 'Porky's Hotel' is another very good Clampett-directed Porky Pig cartoon and represents them well.
More so Clampett than Porky though. Porky is underused and a bit bland, especially with stronger personalities in the cartoon with Gouty Goat and especially Gabby Goose (who just about avoids being annoying for a pesty character).
Clampett brings his usual wacky, zany style, in visuals, humour and pacing, to 'Porky's Hotel'. It may not be him at his most anarchic but this is a long way from tame Clampett, and is evidence of Clampett having his distinctive style early on despite it not always coming out in his pre-peak period.
Mel Blanc is outstanding as always. He always was the infinitely more preferable voice for Porky, Joe Dougherty never clicked with me, and he proves it here. Blanc shows an unequalled versatility and ability to bring an individual personality to every one of his multiple characters in a vast majority of his work, there is no wonder why he was in such high demand as a voice actor.
Animation is excellent, it's fluid in movement, crisp in shading and very meticulous in detail, plus it is very imaginative. Ever the master, Carl Stalling's music is typically superb. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it.
'Porky's Hotel' is lightning-speed energetic that one completely forgets the slightness of the story, and is also incredibly inventively timed and very funny, if not uproarious. There is not really that much wrong here, just that Porky as a lead character pales in comparison to the support somewhat, especially Gabby.
In conclusion, good fun. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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