That was an excellent one.

hyped garbage

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Rupert the Pig is the runt of the little. Everyone on the farm bullies him and refuses to let him eat anything. They never let poor Rupert join in any reindeer.... well, he runs away from farm and has an adventure in this prototypical triumph-of-the-little-guy Terrytoon.Although it may be unfair to point out that Paul Terry's staff did this plot about five hundred times after this, I do so. I have seen a bunch of them. I am bored with the plot, bored with the cuteness, bored with yet another example of the little guy triumphing because Paul Terry's audience was small children and their triumph is foreordained.One good point is that some one on Terry's staff seems to have been reading Joseph Campbell's THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES. Rupert leaves home, goes on a journey into the dark underworld and returns changed. It's not much to hang a cartoon on, but it's something.