Greedy for Tweety

September. 27,1957      
Rating:
7.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Sylvester Cat chases Tweety Bird into busy city streets as he himself is being chased by a bulldog. All three are in an accident and taken to an animal hospital, each with a broken leg.

Mel Blanc as  
June Foray as  

Reviews

Linbeymusol
1957/09/27

Wonderful character development!

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NekoHomey
1957/09/28

Purely Joyful Movie!

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Dotsthavesp
1957/09/29

I wanted to but couldn't!

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Fatma Suarez
1957/09/30

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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utgard14
1957/10/01

Fun Sylvester & Tweety short from director Friz Freleng. Sylvester's chasing Tweety while Hector the bulldog chases Sylvester and all three wind up running into traffic. They're sent to the hospital where Granny is their nurse. Being injured doesn't stop Sylvester and Hector from trying to inflict pain upon one another, though. My favorite scene is when a doped-up Sylvester is losing consciousness but keeps trying to force his eyes to stay open. Every time he opens them Hector is getting one step closer until the inevitable 'pow.' Great animation in this one with lovely colors and well-drawn characters and backgrounds. Lively music and wonderful voice work from the incomparable Mel Blanc and June Foray. Not one of the best Sylvester & Tweety shorts but a very enjoyable one with lots of laughs.

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TheLittleSongbird
1957/10/02

Not everybody likes the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons and not everybody likes Tweety, I personally do enjoy most of their cartoons and have never had any major problem with Tweety(though Sylvester has always been much funnier and more interesting). Greedy for Tweety is not one of their best(not their weakest either, that'd be Tom Tom Tomcat), but is a lot of fun. The story is somewhat unsurprising with its formulaic moments and the ending is very predictable, it to me was pretty obvious how Greedy for Tweety was going to end from the start. Tweety is cute and at times amusing but he doesn't have a lot to do and can feel like a plot device here. Greedy for Tweety conversely is colourfully animated, the odd sketchy background here and there but most of it is colourful and smooth. Milt Franklyn's score is lush and characterful, it doesn't enhance the action quite as effectively as the work of Carl Stalling but that's not to be taken as a bad thing, Franklyn's music still is beautifully orchestrated and full of energy and Greedy for Tweety is not an exception. Greedy for Tweety is a very funny cartoon if more in the visual gags than the dialogue, the x ray/operating room and putting dynamite in the leg casts ones coming off particularly well, I actually felt the pain of the latter one(likewise with the mouse with the hammer). That is not to say that the dialogue is bad because it's far from it(just that there are more quotable ones), Granny's final line is priceless and much funnier than any of Tweety's final lines(a lot of them pretty lame but not all). The cartoon is never dull either. Granny has a lot more to do than usual and is a worthy side character but Hector and especially Sylvester make more of an impression, Hector is appropriately brutish while not being too sadistic and Sylvester suffers the worst of the pain as well as having the funniest moments. Overall, Greedy for Tweety isn't anything mind-blowing but still entertains in a lot of ways as it should. 7.5/10 Bethany Cox

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rbverhoef
1957/10/03

Tweety is chased by Sylvester and Sylvester is chased by Hector the bulldog. Instead of catching each other they are all hit by traffic and they end up in an animal hospital. The lady that takes care of them is not very fond of Sylvester and Hector and very fond of Tweety.This short has its moments and especially the ending is good, although it also is a little predictable. The Looney Tunes are almost never boring and this one will not disappoint you.

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edwartell
1957/10/04

This is one of those shorts where Sylvester chases Tweety and Hector the bulldog chases Sylvester. Unlike most of those films, where Sylvester gets beaten up by Hector in the end, this time their chase leads them into traffic, and from there to a recuperative stay in the animal hospital. But even in heavy casts, cat and dog are determined to whack the crap out of each other and cause incredible amounts of pain. Rarely in a WB cartoon has so much pain not been glossed over; there are no fade-outs here, and the pain accumulates for the character rather than just fading away. Because of this, an unusually hilarious and terrific short.

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