I'm not a big fan of these recent computer animated shorts but this one's pretty good. The song's catchy, the animation's great and the story while simple and recycled has a bit of twist to it. I'd say check it out.
I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat
2011
Action / Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical
I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat
2011
Action / Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical
Plot summary
In 1950, Mel Blanc recorded some novelty songs for Capitol Records in the voices of his characters he did for Warner Bros. Cartoons. Now someone has taken his voices from one of those records and, with a new arrangement based on the originals by Billy May, has put them in this new computer animated short in order to illustrate the characterizations of Tweety and Sylvester in all their violent glory!
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Well done WB!
A New Incarnation
Apparently, Mel Blanc produced the song in the 1970's that is used in this updated, computer generated cartoon. The events are familiar to everyone. Sylvester expends endless energy, only to be foiled at every turn. Tweety is going to win and there's no denying it. He keeps his calm no matter what the situation. I think it is fine that someone decided to work a nice little song into a short feature.
Sylvester and Tweety in CGI
Although there are people out there that don't care for the Sylvester
and Tweety cartoons, and also those that dislike Tweety as a character,
this reviewer doesn't mind Tweety (while admitting he is too much of a
plot device in their latter cartoons) and mostly enjoys their cartoons,
though feeling that some are better than others.
'I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat' is the same as the CGI Roadrunner/Wile E.
Coyote cartoons 'Coyote Falls', 'Fur of Flying' and 'Rabid Rider'. In
that it is not quite up there with the best of the classic era
cartoons, but is almost as good and better than their later efforts
which saw some of their weaker cartoons (though the worst of their
cartoons, their weakest being 'The Jet Cage', are better than the worst
of the Roadrunner/Coyote series and especially the worst of the Daffy
and Speedy series, Bugs and Daffy also had cartoons that were worse.
Matthew O' Callaghan's CGI Looney Tunes cartoons are surprisingly
really good, being well made and entertaining and doing a great job
retaining the classic Looney Tunes feel missing for so long. Their only
real problems really are their too short durations, though his
Roadrunner/Coyote cartoons also could have been slightly wilder. All
five of them are well worth watching, with my personal favourite being
'Daffy's Rhapsody', which was the funniest, was closest of the five to
recreate the classic Looney Tunes spirit and Daffy rendition of Liszt's
"Hungarian Rhapsody 2" is sheer joy. 'I Tawt I Tawt a Puddy Tat' may be
my least favourite, but is still incredibly enjoyable. A large part of
it is due to that there is a personal preference for Roadrunner and
Coyote and Daffy and Elmer as duos.
This said, there is not much problematic with 'I Tawt I Tawt a Puddy
Tat'. Like 'Coyote Falls', 'Fur of Flying', 'Rabid Rider' and to a
lesser extent 'Daffy's Rhapsody', just over three minutes is too short
a length and with some occasionally rushed pacing it feels it.
However, the animation is vibrantly colourful and also remarkably
meticulous in detail and smooth. All three characters fare surprisingly
(having had no prior experience seeing either character in a different
animation style than traditional hand-drawn) well in CGI, and
characteristics of their original designs can be found here and
translate well in CGI. The music is similarly great, the main Looney
Tunes theme is a delight and not only does the music sound good and
entertain the viewer but it does a great job gelling with the action.
The song takes up a vast majority of the cartoon, and while it is not
as riotous or as visually imaginative as Daffy's rendition of
"Hungarian Rhapsody 2" in 'Daffy's Rhapsody', it is an incredibly
catchy song with hilarious lyrics. Mel Blanc's (whose distinctive voice
is heard through archive sound) vocals, in almost a one-man show, sings
the heck out of it. As said, the lyrics are hilarious and are perfectly
matched by the beautifully animated, nimbly timed and never less than
very funny visual gags, that are never repetitive, tired, dragged out
or painfully predictable. Hard to say which was the standout, because
all of them work excellently. The ending is not really that surprising,
anybody familiar with the character of Sylvester could see his actions
coming from quite some time away, but that doesn't distract from the
quality whatsoever because it's still funny and that it shows some
typical behaviour of Sylvester shows a respect for the classic Looney
Tunes characters and not a want to distort, dumb down or exaggerate
them.
While the story is not exactly much of one, basically it's a series of
gags revolving around the song, the cartoon is still mostly well paced
and compelling, not boring the viewer for a second. All three
characters are very well characterised, they carry the cartoon superbly
and their classic personalities are retained and not something else
that would have made them less funny and less likable. Granny's
contribution is small and deceptively dotty but with a fiery
feistiness, and Tweety (a marmite character that this reviewer has
never minded, in fact I've always mostly liked him, but admits that he
was too much of a plot-device character in the later cartoons) is not
annoying instead sweet and quite amusing (there's also a little of the
anarchic personality that was present in the early stages of his
development way back in the 40s).
Sylvester is the star though, like Wile E. Coyote in the
Roadrunner/Coyote series he is the funnier and more interesting of the
duo and not only is he is so well characterised in the animation
(Sylvester being one of the most expressive characters in the Looney
Tunes canon), he is one of those played for laughs characters that is
so fun to watch but it's also easy to feel sympathy for him. Mel Blanc
(his voice heard through archive sound) and June Foray do wonderfully
voicing the characters.
All in all, my least favourite perhaps of the five CGI Looney Tunes
cartoons from Matthew O' Callaghan but really good, which says a lot
about the surprising high quality of the five shorts. 8/10 Bethany Cox