It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

There are better Looney Tunes cartoons than the Sylvester and Tweety series but the series is still entertaining and nice to watch. Sylvester and Tweety are not among Looney Tunes' greatest duos, but at least their duo makes sense and doesn't feel odd(unlike Daffy and Speedy). Tweetie Pie signals their debut together- having been seen before solo- and it is a great one and one of their better cartoons. The cruelty of Sylvester/Thomas' owner is a turn-off point, the one character here who you dislike from the get go, but that's a personal nit-pick above all else. The animation is vibrant and detailed and with plenty of bounce, both Tweety and Thomas/Sylvester well and recognisably drawn and Thomas/Sylvester's facial expressions are expressively done. Carl Stalling's music not only is orchestrated beautifully but rhythmically it bursts with character and it gives great energy to the action. It's not just it sounding nice and that it's action-enhancing but also how well it accompanies the gestures and expressions of the characters and even the sound effects too. The dialogue is sharp and the gags while not surprising are made funny, in some instances hilarious(especially the one with Thomas/Sylvester trying to fly up to the cage via an electric fan), by the interactions between the duo and Thomas/Sylvester's facial expressions. Which like with Wile E. Coyote induces some of the laughs on their own, I don't think the fireplace gag would have worked quite so well without his reaction to that he was burning. Tweetie Pie is violent but actually not in a sadistic or bizarre way that it churns the stomach like the Gene Deitch Tom and Jerry cartoons did. Tweety has the cute- but not too sickly sweet- persona that he is now famous for but he also has shades of the anarchic personality that was given to him in the Bob Clampett outings. But Thomas/Sylvester makes the biggest impression, not just because he has the funniest moments but you also root for him, and this is in general not just here. He may have a different name and be fatter but the voice and the catchphrase are unmistakable. The two work great together and as aforementioned at the beginning of the review their chemistry makes sense, plus as usual Mel Blanc voices superbly. All in all, a great debut for this bird and mouse duo, one of their best if not their very best. 9/10 Bethany Cox

"Tweetie Pie" is an excellent Tweety/Sylvester cartoon with interesting origins. Prior to the making of this film, director Friz Freleng paired Sylvester with a woodpecker in a couple of cartoons and decided that he was ultimately going to replace the woodpecker with Tweety. Eddie Selzer, who somehow became the head of the Warner Bros. cartoon department at this time, insisted that Freleng use the woodpecker, but Freleng held his ground and insisted on using Tweety. As Freleng later recalled, the argument persisted to the point where he gave Selzer his pencil and walked out, telling him to do the cartoon himself! Selzer later coaxed Freleng to return to the studio and make the cartoon the way Freleng intended, using Tweety. Freleng did, and the irony of it all is that the resulting cartoon, "Tweetie Pie," won an Academy Award!(In this particular cartoon, the big, ugly cat who ultimately became known as Sylvester is named Thomas, and Tweety's name is actually spelled T-W-E-E-T-I-E. Since I always like to be true to character names, I shall refer to these two characters as Thomas and Tweetie.) Highlights from "Tweetie Pie" include the following. While Thomas comes down the chimney, Tweetie grabs a hugs pile of logs and lights a fire; although it's predictable, Thomas' reaction to his rear end ablaze is funny! Thomas saws a hole in the roof over Tweetie's birdcage, but the cage remains still and Thomas comes tumbling down with the roof! (It may actually be funnier to freeze-frame this scene on your DVD player so as to witness Thomas' horrified reaction while falling from the roof.) Thomas covers Tweetie in a drinking glass, so that Tweetie's yelling, cymbals, bass drum, and trumpet cannot be heard; he gets out of his predicament soon enough, though. Thomas attaches an electric fan to his waist, thereby flying him in the air so as to reach Tweetie's birdcage, but his plan backfires when he looks below and sees Tweetie about to pull the plug; Carl Stalling's accompanying music brilliantly accentuates Thomas shaking his head and Tweetie nodding his head."Tweetie Pie" is such a great cartoon! In this film, Tweetie actually has larger jowls and is much more of an active tomboy (as introduced in a few earlier cartoons by director Bob Clampett) than he is in his later cartoons directed by Friz Freleng. You can find "Tweetie Pie" on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2 Disc 3, with an additional commentary by filmmaker Greg Ford and a brief audio clip of Friz Freleng.

If you watch a number of these Tweety and Sylvester cartoons you'll notice the two stars with different owners. "Granny" is the usual owner of Tweetie, but not always. Here, in this cartoon we see a woman who already owns Sylvester, taking in Tweetie whom she thinks is an abandoned bird. She calls our cat here "Thomas," too, and she's a nasty woman. She would be reported for animal abuse, in this day and age, as she constantly beats Sylvester with a broom.This gets off to a good start as Tweetie is outside freezing in the show. Sylvester is hidden inside a snow man waiting for the right time. That comes along quickly and Sylvester jumps out, puts on his snow shoes and starts stalking the little bird. When he pounces, he grabs the little heater that Tweety was using to get warm, instead of the bird. A second try succeeds, but the cat's owner comes out and demands to know what he's hiding inside his paws. She winds up taking in the bird.The rest of the cartoon is the standard material of the cat trying to catch the bird who is in his cage way up in the ceiling.This was passable but I didn't care for the beatings "Thomas" took from the owner. I understand this was the first pairing of the two main characters, so it explains why we see different names and different owners. I'm glad "Granny" took over from this woman and Sylvester didn't have to hang around this house for too long.

The first pairing of Tweety Bird and Sylvester was also an Oscar winner. Quick, violent and absolutely hilarious. And every time I hear Tweety say "I tawt I taw a puddy tat" I break up. Well worth catching. Also the print I saw had bright, vivid color. TCM usually shows this around Oscar time--look for it!