I love this movie so much

best movie i've ever seen.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Sylvester the cat is stranded at home for two weeks with no milk but plenty of canned food. All he needs is a can opener, but a sly, mischievous little mouse - who was never even provoked - always keeps the utensil just out of poor Sylvester's reach. And that, my friends, is the basic story line for "Canned Feud," a terrific Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.Here are my favorite highlights from this cartoon (DO NOT read any further if you have not yet seen it). Sylvester is hilarious as he reacts in horror and runs around the house tripping over tables when he finds out that his owners left him with no milk for two weeks. He is also funny when he excitedly and hurriedly asks the mouse to give him the can opener. Among Sylvester's numerous failed attempts to capture the mouse and retrieve the can opener, two of them stand out: First, Sylvester hoists a grand piano up in the air with a rope, intending to slam the instrument on top of the mouse, but, of course, Sylvester ends up slamming himself through the floor instead. And second, Sylvester tries to vacuum the mouse but ends up vacuuming himself, after which the mouse adds some burning coals to the vacuum bag."Canned Feud" is a very enjoyable cartoon to watch. Even when Sylvester doesn't have Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippity Hopper as his usual foils, it seems like just about ANYONE can whip his carcass!

I've long wondered why the Termite Terrace crowd tortured Sylvester so much. In "Canned Feud", his owners go on vacation and leave him locked in the house. He has plenty of cans of tuna, but a nasty little mouse keeps holding the can opener out of reach, forcing Sylvester to come up with all sorts of unpleasant gags to try and get it.So why would a mouse want to be a sadist? Your guess is as good as mine. Of course, these cartoons were chock-full of sadists (or at least characters with a New York side): Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, even Tweety himself. If nothing else, it goes to show that these cartoons weren't really intended for children; they were created to get shown before feature films in the cinema.Anyway, it's not a bad cartoon, but I've seen better.

This is one of the only cartoons I can think of where you really felt sorry for Sylvester! In his movies with Tweety, he was a jerk but in this one he was just a cat trying to feed himself some cat food,...and a truly evil mouse gets in his way! Okay, let's back up a little. The cartoon starts with Sylvester noticing that the family is leaving for a vacation and they forgot about the cat. Then he realizes HE is the cat! He begins to panic but then soon finds that there are plenty of cans of cat food. Then, the evil little mouse appears,...holding the can opener!! Sylvester then spends most of the rest of the cartoon chasing the mouse and begging him for the opener. The mouse seems to be some sort of sadist and just loves making Sylvester miserable. At the end, the mouse relents and gives Sylvester the opener. And, when Sylvester goes to get a can of food, he finds that the mouse had padlocked the cabinet and he is shown playing with and taunting Sylvester with the key! I think I liked this cartoon so much because it had a really dark sense of humor--making you really feel terrible for the poor cat! It made me laugh out loud many times throughout the cartoon.

I'm sorry, but I found it impossible to get into the spirit of this short, due to the fact that my sympathies lay not with the nasty little mouse, but with poor Sylvester who does all he can to just to get a bite to eat, but ultimately ends up with nothing. Why should I feel any affection for this vile vermin, who tortures the innocent cat for all of 7 minutes for no other reason other than he is obviously deriving some sick pleasure in watching our favourite feline injure himself terribly just to get his paws on some food? In other cartoons maybe Sylvester deserves what he gets, but in this particular animation all he wants is a decent meal, and he doesn't even get a good pay-off in the end.. Just when he thinks he's won, that rancid rodent has one more trick up his furry sleeve. Yes, like most Fritz Freleng classics, it's fantastically inventive and devilishly clever in it's own right, but so what? After it had finished I was left with a bad taste in my mouth no amount of soap and water could remove. Its not over yet though.. when I have the time and resources, I will remake "Canned Feud", this time putting in a far more satisfying ending than the current atrocity. Sylvester will have his tuna yet.. ;)