Absolutely Brilliant!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

. . . leaves Sylvester coveting the Giant's humongous canary ("Acres and acres of Tweety Bird," as Sylvester exaggerates). While Sylvester is able to carry this Ginormous Tweety, he cannot chomp him down in one bite (as he's been able to do with hundreds of earlier Tweeties during this series). Since Sylvester never gets so much as a nibble of Tweetzilla, it's impossible to know exactly what line of attack he might have in mind for a potential Super Canary Fest. Though most guys in a similar predicament would recruit their buddies to help deal with such an unexpected (if unwieldy) bird bonanza, Sylvester is depicted as a "loner" cat throughout his Tweety-stalking career. When other felines appear, he sees them mostly as rivals for his meat supply--not to be trusted. Therefore, Sylvester never calls in any reinforcements during TWEETY AND THE BEANSTALK. Consequently, Sylvester is butt-dialed down to China as soon as he chops down the beanstalk (with the Giant's rear end looming above him). Fortunately, he "pops down" next to an Asian Tweety, meaning that he's in store for something like Gen. Tsao's chicken.

Personally I like the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons, though if I were honest I prefer those of Bugs and Daffy. Tweety and the Beanstalk is for me one of their better cartoons, along with Hyde and Go Tweet. It is basically a fun little twist on the timeless Jack and the Beanstalk tale, with a size reversal between Sylvester and Tweety. The animation is crisp and colourful, while the music is bright and lively. Both Tweety and the Giant have some great dialogue, my favourite was the one in the title of this review, while some of the cartoon revolves around Sylvester's ingenious(or not so ingenious) traps to capture Tweety. Tweety is good here, while Sylvester and the Giant are even better, and Mel Blanc is excellent once again. Overall, simply great. 10/10 Bethany Cox

"Tweety and the Beanstalk", directed by Friz Freleng, is a fast & funny Tweety/Sylvester cartoon in which the slobbering feline finds himself as the main character in the familiar Jack & the Beanstalk story. Thus, Sylvester is tiny, even tinier than Tweety! "I tawt I taw a itty bitty putty tat!" My favorite moments from this cartoon: I love the way Tweety says, "Ooh, dat itty bitty putty tat, he up to no dood!" as Sylvester unscrews the bottom of Tweety's birdcage and gets flattened. I also laugh at Tweety's Asian stereotype at the very end; yes, I know it's wrong, but it's very funny.You can catch "Tweety and the Beanstalk", among numerous other Looney Tunes fairy tales, on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5 Disc 2.

Maybe I am in the minority here, but I thought this Tweety-Sylvester cartoon was terrific. It was very inventive and reminded of a good Roadrunner cartoon. Here, Sylvester uses his wits to come up with some really good plans to get Tweety but - like the coyote who never could get the Roadrunner - always comes up short.That's the angle of the story, too: "short." Sylvester climbs Jack's giant beanstalk and winds up somewhere way up in the clouds in a magic kingdom and more specifically, in a huge castle where everything is gigantic compared to him. Tweety is there and it is he who incorporates some of the words in the subject head here when he says, "I tawt I saw a little itty, bitty puddytat!" The rest of the cartoon is Sylvester coming up with ingenious plans to get the giant (to him) bird and then, at the end, battling the human "Giant."Good stuff and very clever material.