Memorable, crazy movie

Lack of good storyline.

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Many of Bob Clampett's cartoons are superbly made, inventive, extremely funny and his style always shines through. Porky is always watchable and Sylvester is one of the funniest and most interesting Looney Tunes character. So 'Kitty Kornered' has much going for it.Clampett's style certainly shines through in 'Kitty Kornered', not just in the storytelling and gags but also the visual style. It is one of his wildest and wackiest, and also one of his most visually imaginative. The animation is really wonderful here, with several eye-popping and inventively exaggerated moments. It's also very colourful and beautifully detailed.'Kitty Kornered' features yet another music score from Carl Stalling, which as always is fabulous and reinforces why he is my, and many others, personal favourite regular Looney Tunes composers. Stalling always made a great cartoon even better with his music scores, with its lush and lively orchestration, high energy and character and action-enhancing synchronisation.The gags, which are many and come by thick and fast, also hit their mark, they are never less than very funny and a vast majority of the time are hilarious. The goldfish gag is a classic, and one will love the references to 'Arsenic and Old Lace', 'Lassie' and 'War of the Worlds' (this reviewer will respectfully disagree about it feeling tacked on). The dialogue has the usual razor sharp Looney Tunes wit, especially with Sylvester though Porky's dialogue is funnier than usual as well. The cartoon is frenetically paced, but never feels rushed or over-the-top.Porky is always likable and watchable, he can be a little bland when a lead or pitched against characters with stronger personalities but he is far from that here. Even better is Sylvester (looking different than he would become later), who is often a riot and even when evolving his characteristic personality shines constantly. The other cats are fun too, especially Tiny, if not as memorable as Porky and Sylvester. Mel Blanc excels brilliantly as always in multiple roles.All in all, wonderful cartoon and a Clampett classic. 10/10 Bethany Cox

. . . as well as ins and outs during the seven-minute running time of this Looney Story, KITTY KORNERED. Across the Pacific in Asia, many snakes became so irritated when they lacked a pot to hiss in that they grew hoods (along with extra-deadly venom). Porky Pig finds himself in less than a state of Perfect Bliss here, as he totally lacks pants, it's Winter, and his four cats keep locking him out of his house. Suffering severely from blue bells being totally absent outside, along with the rest of the Flower Family, Porky resorts to canine shadow puppets to drive off his feline fiends. But when the cat quartet nose out a moose in Porky's manger, they raise him four Martians, none of whom answer to "Mork" or even "Marvin." Then it's GOOD MORNING, SAN JUAN HILL! as a foursome of saber-wielding Teddy Cats charge triumphantly up Porky's staircase, driving him from his home once and for all. The pervert pig turns plaintively to the movie audience and whines, "Can anyone out there spare a pair of pants?"

Bob Clampett's 'Kitty Kornered' is one of the most bizarre cartoons you'll ever see, even by Clampett's standards. Perhaps the main reason for this is that Clampett wrote the script himself, which explains the wildly fluctuating plot. It's filled with crazy animation, wild gags and nonsensical events. But for all its unselfconsciousness, I've never warmed to 'Kitty Kornered' particularly. It's just that little bit too odd and lacks the warped sense of logic that holds together most of the weirder Warner cartoons. It begins with a simple premise: Porky Pig attempts to put his four cats out for the night (including Sylvester in his third appearance and sporting a black nose instead of his usual red hooter) but is continually confounded by their superior wits. There's some good gags and the usual frenzied animation style that makes all Clampett's cartoons worth a look but the whole thing seems constantly on the brink of falling apart and finally does so as the cats decide to disguise themselves as aliens in a tacked-on satire of Orson Welles 'War of the Worlds' broadcast. It makes for a strange climax to a head-scratching cartoon. Despite my general dislike of 'Kitty Kornered' I'd encourage anyone to see it for its historical value as a Clampett-penned cartoon and to savour those brief moments of genuine brilliance such as the goldfish gag or the heart-stopping early moment when Porky bursts through the curtains to surprise the cats.

Porky Pig is trying to put out his four cats for the evening and one them is the cat we know as Sylvester, who became a lot more famous when he was paired with Tweetie, which began the year after this cartoon was released.At 9 p.m., according to this story, all cats were thrown out of their houses for the night, even in the middle of winter. Where did that come from? Well, Porky has three big cats and one little guy. That's the one, the shrimp, with an attitude and there is no way he's going out in the snow. Pretty soon all four cats are inside and Porky is outside and f-f-f-freezing in his nightcap.There are some funny visuals in here as the cats live it up for a short while, getting drunk on "Arsenic And Old Grape" wine, smoking cigars, binging on chocolates....until Porky gets back inside. Then, look out!Great visuals and direction by Robert Clampett highlight this, although all the action and noise could give you a headache. This is one, wild cartoon with something loud happening every second. It has to be one of the wilder cartoons of the classic era. I enjoyed how both sides tried tricks on each other, such as the "Lassie" and "War of the Worlds" imitations.