Just so...so bad

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

In most cartoons starring Sylvester the Cat that are directed by Friz Freling or Robert McKimson, the pussycat is usually the aggressor who's after either Tweety or Hippity Hopper, the baby kangaroo mistaken for a giant mouse either by the red-nosed feline or his son, Sylvester, Jr. In Chuck Jones' Scaredy Cat, he's Porky Pig's mute pet who, despite many attempts of signaling his master of danger, gets admonished as being delusional since Porky always sees something different. This change of characterization is quite convincing in Jones' hands and he stages many scenes of mice about to carry another cat for execution quite atmospheric. The rodents look like Hubie and Bertie, by the way. Quite funny scenes of Porky just being nonchalant almost the whole way when weird things happen behind his back. The ending may be lost to modern audiences but Scaredy Cat is mostly successful in being spooky and highly amusing at the same time.

"Scaredy Cat" is an entertaining Porky/Sylvester cartoon, with Porky in his typical fussy middle-aged bachelor role who is constantly annoyed at Sylvester's childishly scared mannerisms. In fact, probably the best thing about this short is Porky's stuttering reactions to Sylvester's paranoia about the "haunted" house where they are staying.Some of the funniest scenes in "Scaredy Cat" include the following. Sylvester jumps into Porky's nightshirt after he sees a group of mice executioners carrying a cat to the guillotine. Later, Sylvester prevents an anvil and a bowling ball (both supplied by the mice) from whacking Porky in the head, but Porky of course misunderstands and demands an explanation from the mute Sylvester. (In fact, throughout most of the film Porky simply misses out on all the mischief that the mice create, and this only adds to Sylvester's hysteria.) Porky is even too absentminded to notice that the mice pushed his bed out the window onto a flagpole while he is sleeping! "Scaredy Cat" is a well-named cartoon, and Porky and Sylvester make a great team. A similar "haunted house" premise cropped up again with the world-famous pig and cat in "Claws for Alarm" (1954).

Porky Pig and Sylvester the Cat find themselves in a spooky house where Sylvester sees dastardly mice planning an execution, needless to say Porky doesn't believe him for much of the short.I liked this cartoon, as Slvester is a favorite character of mine and tweety isn't in this at all, I could never really stand that bird so that's another reason I liked this one. Also call me a tad morbid, but when Sylvester nonviolently tried to commit suicide I found myself laughing. This funny cartoon is on Disk 2 of the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1"My Grade: B+

Scaredy Cat is the first in a series of Porky/Sylvester teamings directed by Chuck Jones, and the series certainly started with a bang. Sylvester and his master Porky move into the last house the real estate agent had, for reasons only Sylvester understands. The house is inhabited by homicidal mice, who will stop at nothing to kill the intruders most painfully. Sylvester is the only one who knows what's going on, and the oblivious Porky mistakes Sylvester's attempts to save him as murderous. The animation of Porky is good, but Sylvester doesn't really look like himself. We must take into consideration that Sylvester was quite a new face in '48, and besides Jones never really drew him like Freleng did. The best horror scenes are those in which the mice's plans don't come off, like Sylvester's empty basket descending. The audience never knows what happened to the basket, nor what happened to Sylvester when he goes all white. This is a brilliantly funny cartoon, essential for all Looney Tunes fans, and as all Looney Tunes fans will have the Golden Collection DVD, all fans will see it!