A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953)
A Street Cat Named Sylvester Review
A Street Cat Named Sylvester is a 1953 animated short film from the Looney Tunes series. It is a solid, but not great flick.
Tweety seeks shelter from a blizzard and taps on Granny’s house door. Sylvester answers and grabs the canary. He tries to hide Tweety from Granny while evading the attacks of Hector, Granny’s bed-ridden bulldog, who wants revenge on Sylvester for his broken leg. Tweety keeps escaping Sylvester’s clutches, with Hector’s help. The premise is excellent, but the execution not so much.
I loved Hector here, he’s excellent. But others are not as great as usual with Tweety not being nearly as memorable. The first half is good, but the scenarios in the second half disappointed me, especially the ending is very weak. The movie is solid as it’s well crafted and well animated, but the humor could have been better.
A Street Cat Named Sylvester has a great premise, but the execution is only solid with the second half being inferior.
