Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

one of my absolute favorites!

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Bob Clampett's cartoons often were high in energy and fun and displayed a uniquely wacky visual style that one can recognise immediately. Porky Pig is often likable and amusing, if at times overshadowed by characters with stronger personalities.'Patient Porky' is not quite among Clampett's masterpieces, and Porky has also been in better cartoons. However, it is still enormously enjoyable stuff, Clampett's imaginative visual and wacky directing style is all over 'Patient Porky', and works brilliantly.The animation is excellent. The blacks, whites and greys look absolutely beautiful, even nearly 80 years on, while also rich in detail and high in imagination. Carl Stalling's energetically high-voltage, luscious, rousing, dynamic and action-enhancing music score and inspired arrangements of pre-existing music shows off his genius. The lyrics in the more musical moments will make one laugh out loud.It is an exceptionally funny cartoon as well, with some wonderfully cornball lines and names, some pretty inventive and brilliant kinds of illnesses and symptoms and shows a view of being in a hospital in a hugely entertaining but somewhat nightmarish way. Porky's screen-time is not large but he is still memorable and fun plus you do feel sorry for him.Likewise the supporting characters are very colourful, the elevator operator is a racial stereotype, and a not particularly subtle one, but not in a way that's overtly offensive. The voice acting is terrific, with Mel Blanc once again showing the second-to-none ability to bring different personalities and voices to several characters.Overall, not a masterpiece but still great. 9/10 Bethany Cox

"Patient Porky" is a fine Porky Pig cartoon directed by the wacky Robert Clampett. Poor Porky - he ate too much birthday cake. So he goes to the hospital and gets ABUSED! Here are my favorite sequences from this cartoon. I like the very opening scene at the hospital, involving a switchboard operator with an annoyingly funny voice (a caricature of Helen Troy) and an African-American elevator operator (a caricature of Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, if you'll pardon the racial stereotype). Carl Stalling's wonderful music score plays a swinging rendition of "Rock-a-Bye Baby" when the camera focuses on a blackboard indicating today's births. When Porky arrives at the hospital, a feline patient (posing as a doctor) literally throws the hapless pig in bed and begins to sing a very silly song, which is taken over by a trio of beautiful female voices. I also like how funny Porky is when he squirms violently in bed as the "doctor" whips out a handsaw."Patient Porky" is a lot of fun to watch! Find it on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5 Disc 3, a disc that is loaded with wild cartoons directed by Bob Clampett.

One of the many relics from the days when Porky Pig mostly appeared in black and white cartoons, Bob Clampett's "Patient Porky" does contain a racial stereotype (in the form of an elevator operator). As in "The Daffy Doc" two years earlier, an excessively eager physician tries to operate on Porky (in the earlier one, it was doctor wannabe Daffy Duck).Having seen many of Porky's cartoons from his debut until the US entered WWII, one can see that the studio usually cast Porky in rather sedate, pedestrian roles: fireman, pilgrim, bullfighter. Therefore, this one was pretty much representative of the era. "You Ought to Be In Pictures" may have been the one exception. Porky's roles got really cool once Chuck Jones started directing him regularly after WWII, frequently casting him as a foil to Daffy's craziness.Anyway, this one isn't bad. Worth seeing maybe once.

This was an all right Porky Pig short. Most of the jokes were not really stale and it had some really funny stuff here. The whole story is kind of interesting, not really at all boring. It wasn't excellent, but it was good. Thumbs up.