Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Warner Brothers often used caricatures of Hollywood stars in their cartoons. Here we have a pair of cats who are doing Abbott and Costello. I was never that fond of Bud Abbott because he always came across as a cruel man. Not just a straight man. Here the Costello cat is subjected to the nastiness of his partner and believes he is at fault. There is one element of significance here. This is the offering where Tweety Bird first appears. He is every bit as formidable as he ever becomes. He does look a little anemic, however.

"A Tale of Two Kitties" is a very good and very wild Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. It attempted to cash in on the popularity of Abbott & Costello (caricatured by felines), but when a certain little devil of a baby bird uttered the phrase "I tawt I taw a putty tat!", guess what happened! My favorite scenes from "A Tale of Two Kitties": Babbott (voiced by writer Tedd Pierce) tells Catstello (voiced by the "Man of a Thousand Voices" Mel Blanc) to give him the bird; a close-up on Catstello allows him to take the audience into his confidence in regards to censorship. Tweety (Blanc again) does his famous bit about running out of pitties. And Carl W. Stalling did a great job composing & arranging the music score for this film: "Rock-a-Bye Baby" is heard as Catstello slides down a stilt into Babbott's arms; "Someone's Rocking My Dream Boat" as Catstello literally springs into the air, to be attacked by the mischievously smiling Tweety; "I'll Pray for You" in the beginning of the film as Catstello asks about the itsy-bitsy bird; and "California, Here I Come" as Catstello flies upward eating an apple, following an explosion of TNT.There's only one piece of criticism I have for "A Tale of Two Kitties", and it is an unusually rare piece of criticism for the outstanding vocal talent of Mel Blanc. As much as I love hearing all his vocal characterizations in the Warner Bros. cartoons, I believe he overacts his role as Catstello in this film.

In this day and age, we have seemingly come to interpret Tweety Bird as "cute". In his first appearance, he was nothing like that; quite the opposite, he was a bad-ass. In "A Tale of Two Kitties", wandering felines Babbit and Catstello (spoofing Abbott and Costello) find a bird's nest. Grouchy, straight-talking Babbit sends the nervous Catstello up to get the bird, only the tiny avian - whose name isn't actually identified - proves to be the nastiest mother ever. There's naturally an anvil gag.It's just great to see how the guys behind the Looney Tunes weren't afraid to show anything that they wanted. Definitely one to see.

This is the cartoon where Clampett first introduced Tweety. He is a funnier and much more aggressive character here. His design is slightly different from the later Tweety everyone remembers. He looks more like a bird that has just been hatched; tiny, featherless and colored a pinkish hue. The actually stars of the cartoon, though, are a couple of cat caricatures of Abbot and Costello. "Babbit" tries to use "Catstello" to catch Tweety for himself. The cats are very appealing as characters, the timing of the gags is crisp and the dialogue is very clever. This cartoon also marks the beginning of Clampett's breaking away from a more literal style of animation to a more expressive, cartoonier one.