Memorable, crazy movie

Expected more

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

. . . Warner Bros. warns America (well in advance, one could say) with PORKY'S FIVE & TEN. This animated short opens with a March 24, 1938, newspaper headline about Beloved U.S. President FDR seeing off small businessman Porky Pig on his trade mission to Boola Boola. Since the Red Commies were on the march all over the world (then, as now), FDR volunteered to serve 16 years as Our Commander-in-Chief. Wishing to Lord it over We Blue Collar Union Label Working Class Average Normal Americans like the Oligarchical Greedhead Terrorist Czars of Red Commie KGB-ruled Russia, the U.S. Billionaire Rich People's Party then term-limited Our Beloved Osama-Killing Leader Obama to only eight years in office (at the end of which he could have beaten KGB Chief Vlad "Mad Dog" Putin's Puppet Rump by AT LEAST 10 million votes!). Though Rump STILL lost the 2016 Election by a 21st Century record defeat margin of 3 million votes, Putin's Hackers rigged the outcome for Rump's catastrophic Misrule to Destroy America. Warner Bros.' animators foreshadow ALL of these developments step-by-step during FIVE & TEN (Rump, for instance, is the pudgy little black guard minnow to which swordfish Putin gives his unscrewed sword). Then Warner uses the water spout which restores Porky's STOLEN birthright at the finish here to call for the retroactive abolition of BOTH the "Trump University"-like "Electoral College" AND U.S. Presidential term limits, so that Obama can immediately move back into HIS and OUR White House to keep us safe for at least another 12 years!

In "Porky's Five and Ten," Porky decides to open a dime store on a remote desert island in the South Pacific. With his tiny sailboat overladen with supplies, he heads out onto the open waves, but is sabotaged by a swordfish and a group of his finny friends, desirous of the treasure within Porky's store stock. Most of the cartoon takes place beneath the waves with the fish interacting with the various items from Porky's merchandise. It's no "Porky in Wackyland," though it is harmless and only marginally funny; the little ones may well get a kick out of it and should be able to relate this to the universe of SpongeBob Squarepants quite readily, if they are kids not allergic to black and white.It is recognizably the work of Bob Clampett and if you are a Clampett booster this might rate two "woo woos!" out of four, being of lower grade than his best work, but not quite the throwaway property that some of his spot gag cartoons are. If you are of the camp that is irritated by Clampett generally than this will irritate you too, though not as much as perhaps "The Wise Quacking Duck." One thing though; its inclusion on the Warner's "Hollywood Hotel" DVD is a reason to celebrate. "Porky's Five and Ten" was a cartoon that fared very poorly in a stenciled, colorized version made in the 1960s; it has since been digitally colorized as well, with better results. The copy of the stenciled version used by WXIX-TV in Cincinnati starting in the 1970s was cut down to around four minutes, and the resulting butchery made Gefilte fish of the storyline. That Warner's was able to recover the original with its proper titles and restore it to the crisp, pristine black and white original condition seen on the "Hollywood Hotel" DVD was the best thing that could have ever happened to this picture. It was the least that they could do, given how badly this title has been mangled in the public domain market, on television and elsewhere.

This black & white short from Looney Tunes was included on the DVD for "Hollywood Hotel". I DON'T recommend you rush out to see the feature, as it's not particularly good. Perhaps at least the cartoon is worth a look.Porky Pig is planning on opening a 5 & 10 cent store on a Pacific island(!). On the way, the boat is sabotaged by fish and they steal some of his housewares. So, you get to see fish swallow radios, clocks and the like with semi-humorous results. Then, very strangely, the fish all begin acting and looking like Hollywood stars--and it's pretty strange having all this accompanied with the tune "Hooray for Hollywood". Quite surreal, actually. Then, from out of no where, a waterspout arrives and saves the day for Porky. Weird, but enjoyable.

I will say that "Porky's Five & Ten" is far from the best cartoon that the Termite Terrace crowd produced. But knowing that Bob Clampett directed, you should know that you're in for a few surprises. Certainly some of the celebrity impersonations were pretty cool. It seems that once again, nobody ribs Hollywood more than Hollywood itself.OK, maybe we could be cynical and ask why this is labeled a Porky Pig cartoon when he doesn't appear that much in it (not to mention that people in the 21st century very likely won't get some of the pop culture references). But I say that as long as we just accept the cartoon for it's completely wacky premise, then we should be able to have fun. Available on YouTube.