Please don't spend money on this.

It is a performances centric movie

An action-packed slog

Blistering performances.

Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.Have a good deal of respect and appreciation for Bob Clampett, more often that than not, and while not quite one of my favourite Looney Tunes characters (prefer those with consistently stronger, funnier and interesting personalities) Porky has always been very easy to like. 'Pied Piper Porky' is another example of being a good representation of them both, if not among the best efforts of either.More so Clampett than Porky though. Porky is still very likeable and very effectively plays it straight. Even though his material is not as strong as that for the supporting characters (especially the mouse, the funniest and most interesting character in the cartoon) and their personalities to me stood out more.Clampett brings his usual wacky, zany style, in visuals, humour and pacing, to 'Pied Piper Porky'. It may not be him at his most anarchic but this is a long way from tame Clampett, and is evidence of Clampett having his distinctive style early on despite it not always coming out in his pre-peak period.Mel Blanc is outstanding as always. He always was the infinitely more preferable voice for Porky, Joe Dougherty never clicked with me, and he proves it here. Blanc shows an unequalled versatility and ability to bring an individual personality to every one of his multiple characters in a vast majority of his work, there is no wonder why he was in such high demand as a voice actor.Animation is excellent, it's fluid in movement, crisp in shading and very meticulous in detail, plus it is very imaginative. Ever the master, Carl Stalling's music is typically superb. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it.'Pied Piper Porky' is lightning-speed energetic that one completely forgets the slightness of the story, and is also incredibly inventively timed and very funny, if not uproarious. There is not really that much wrong here, just that Porky as a lead character pales in comparison to the support somewhat, especially the mouse. In summary, very good. 8/10 Bethany Cox

. . . the Rump Administration's Whistle-Blower-in-Chief Rat says to Porky Pig, representing Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin's Puppet Rump, at the beginning of this prophetic Looney Tune, PIED PIPER PORKY. (The unseen back story of this animated short, suggested by the title, is Rump playing the Pied Piper to a Basket of Deplorable U.S. Fifth Columnist Traitors, seducing them down the Primrose Path to Hell with a lot of Marxist False Promises of Pie-in-the-Sky that even a kindergartner in a Normal True Blue Loyal Patriotic Average Union Label Family could have told them amounted to so much hogwash.) The Gloating Rat's Opening Remark in PIED PIPER PORKY refers, of course, to Rump firing FBI Chief James Comey as the latter was about to circumvent Imperial Wizard "Attorney General" Jeff Sessions to indict Rump for High Treason via the U.S. Supreme Court. Porky is presented here as a compulsive liar, aptly foreshadowing Rumpnochio, proved as such by montages of his own sound clips by EVERY U.S. News Screen Organization EXCEPT for Fox Lies. Later on the Warner Bros. Early Warning Prognosticators show the Whistleblower Rat grabbing Porky Rump's "pipe" and declaring that "This thing's no good, boss--full of holes" before breaking Rump's Game Host Mind Control device once and for all. Desperate, Porky Rump tries to deploy his Imperial Wizard Sessions Cat against Whistleblower Rat, but the rodent soon emerges from the UNDRAINED swamp of Washington, DC, wearing a spiffy new cat coat.

Before Bob Clampett became the star cartoon director at Warner Bros.*, he mostly directed Looney Tunes starring Porky Pig in various low-key roles. "Pied Piper Porky" casts the stuttering swine as the famous rat-removing character. After Porky discovers that a smug mouse has decided to stay, he sics a cat on the rodent, but things don't go as planned.So, this is mostly a relic of what I would call Warner Bros. cartoons' pivot point: they were already really wacky, but not yet reflecting the absolutely zany imagery of animation's infancy. Worth seeing.*From about 1936 to 1940, Tex Avery was the star cartoon director, with gag-centric classics such as "I Love to Singa", "The Isle of Pingo Pongo" and "A Wild Hare" (which debuted Bugs Bunny). Following his departure in 1941, Bob Clampett became the star cartoon director, turning out phantasmagoria-like classics such as "A Corny Concerto" and "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery". Following Clampett's departure in 1946, Chuck Jones became the star cartoon director; his cartoons were more intellectual.

Clampett left Warner Brothers, did the Beany & Cecil puppet shows and seems to have dropped from the consciousness of animation fans. Yet there was no one with a wilder sense of cartoon stretching than he. He spent much of the late 1930s doing Porky Pig movies (when he produced his first masterpiece, PORKY IN WACKYLAND), but mostly he was confounded by the fact that Porky, although Termite Terrace's major star in the period, seemed to lack much of a personality; through the 1950s he remained more of a character actor than a star.In this one he sets up the situation, which is a cat-versus-mouse routine. It's a very funny movie -- by this time, Warner's had developed its cartooning style, so that its shorts were all good -- but not one of the amazing ones. Still, it's well worth your time.