A hungry little pig eats a couple of pies off the windowsill. When it's time for dinner, he ties together the spaghetti of all the other little pigs and eats it all. That night, he has a nightmare where he is force-fed by a mad scientist.
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The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
This is one of Friz Freleng's earlier masterpieces in this cartoon. It has a very good story with good character personalities of a greedy little pig who can only think about food but then his food dream turns into a nightmare as I imagine that it was supposed to be rather dark. The Feed-a-Matic sequence was very original to me and this is what influence writers on shows like 'The Simpsons' and even in Walter Lantz cartoons; and even the writers from the Treehouse of Horror episode mentioned that they were inspired from this short. This is the second and final appearance of the Hamhock family as we wouldn't have needed anymore since it could only go worse. The animation here is very appealing as it was animated by mostly Bob McKimson since I can see some scenes he probably did but I'm not going to grasp on the styles. After only two cartoons of the Hamhock family; the characters then disappear from the screen but Pigs is Pigs is easily their best cartoon out of 'At Your Service Madame' and it's even on the '100 Greatest Looney Tunes' book.
. . . "Piggy," with this animated short, PIGS IS PIGS. Warner wanted to underline their warning to America about the Fat Cat Greedheads who had caused the then on-going Great Depression. No matter how much the gluttonous Piggy ingests here, he not only wants--he finds a way to STEAL more. Piggy is shown at the family supper table slurping down all the spaghetti right off his nine siblings' plates into his own insatiable gullet with such a gusto it was adapted by THERE WILL BE BLOOD villain Daniel Day Lewis into his infamous "I'll suck your straw!" scene. Even when Piggy falls into the clutches of an evil scientist, who force-feeds him fuller than a dozen Foie Gras geese, Piggy still is grasping for MORE! Warner tries to warn America NEVER to allow the One Per Center thieves and self-proclaimed Billionaires to ever filch our food again, Lording it over everyone else. These miscreants MUST be neutralized with extreme prejudice, just as the Looney Tuners pigged out themselves at Piggy's pig roast after completing PIGS IS PIGS. We all know how the U.S. Sheep Nation has backslid in the face of the Porkers to date. But as they say at the corner butcher shop, growing a backbone is better late than never.
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.
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.