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Best movie of this year hands down!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Friz Freleng's 'Gift Wrapped' is a decent entry in the lacklustre Tweety and Sylvester series. A Christmas cartoon set entirely in a house on Christmas morning, 'Gift Wrapped' adheres to some pretty standard and not terribly funny jokes involving dynamite and surprisingly effective toy guns. Such gags can be made fresh again with the right execution but in the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons Freleng always seemed content to just play them the way they'd already been played a million times before. The addition of Granny and a Bulldog to proceedings adds a little colour and Tweety is not excessively annoying this time round either but the main thing that saves 'Gift Wrapped' from being as weak as the worst Tweety and Sylvester shorts is the impeccably realised festive atmosphere which gives the cartoon a pleasingly cosy feel. I used to love seeing 'Gift Wrapped' at Christmas when I was young and that happy memory has not totally deserted me as I watch it again. But sentiment is not enough to make a great cartoon and 'Gift Wrapped' remains merely OK, a mildly enjoyable trip down memory lane which opens with its best moment ("You just ain't whistling Dixie") and then fails to live up to it.

When it comes to Christmas-themed cartoons, Friz Freleng's GIFT WRAPPED is my favorite. I can watch it innumerable times and laugh.It is Christmas Day and Sylvester is all excited. He opens a gift for himself and finds a rubber mouse and is angry. He then hears a voice singing and he sees that Granny, his owner, is getting a Tweety Bird. Sylvester then closes up the box with the rubber mouse and then he changes the tags so that he gets the gift wrapped cage with Tweety and Granny gets the rubber mouse.So starts another set of misadventures for Sylvester as Tweety, Granny and Hector The Bulldog stymie him from his required meat intake.Highlights? How about the RUMP-A-RUMP-A-RUMP music as Sylvester is the victim of a stick of TNT? Of course, the great Native American scene is one of the best. I love the part where Sylvester captures Tweety with his suction cup arrow and pulls him in and the music changes as Sylvester shakes some salt or pepper on Tweety and proclaims "Hmmm....Shish Kabob" while Tweety shakes his head from the spices falling on him.An absolute gem from Looney Tunes, one of their best ever. Granny is at her catty best. Teletoon Retro shows the uncut version when they air The Road Runner Show. Check this one out next Christmas and laugh away. Great fun.

This is another winner from the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Two, with fantastic artwork that captures the colorful Christmas setting magnificently.We open with a beautiful depiction of an old house under a snowfall. It's "the night before Christmas and all through the night...."Sylvester interrupts the calm narrative voice and spits out "oh, goody, Santy Clause has been here and I've been a good pussycat" as he admires all the gifts under the tree. He opens one of them and discovers a rubber mouse, which doesn't exactly thrill him. In seconds, he hears a bird singing "Jingle Bells." It's Tweety in his cage, gift-wrapped "to Granny." Sylvester switches tags and puts "to kitty" on the birdcage instead.Suffice to say, without spoiling anything, Sylvester is not in Christmas spirit, only wanting to eat Tweety, and when a big bulldog jumps out of another present and eats Sylvester, Granny has to keep on top of things or there will be nothing left of either Tweety or Sylvester.Granny sums it up best: "Land sakes alive: what a house!"

"Gift Wrapped" is an excellent Tweety/Sylvester/Granny cartoon for the Christmas season. If only Sylvester had behaved himself, he would have had a joyous, peaceful Christmas. Fortunately, in the end, Granny sees to it that there will indeed be peace in her household.Highlights: Sylvester's toy crane accidentally lifts up Granny instead of Tweety's birdcage. Granny ends the short by playing the organ and singing Christmas carols with Tweety (although Granny cannot sing very well); Sylvester and the bulldog try to sing along, too, but Granny has sealed their mouths shut with Christmas tree stamps. The bulldog hides himself inside a large gift box and mightily chomps Sylvester when he opens the lid! Sylvester poses as Geronimo (with hilarious stereotypical musical accompaniment) and Tweety poses as Hopalong Cassidy; Sylvester pulls the cork out of Tweety's pistol and gets blasted! For a great Christmas comedy short, I highly recommend "Gift Wrapped." For all his trickery, Sylvester just can't seem to outwit Granny, and it's funny to see all of Sylvester's schemes backfire on him.