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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The first short to pair Sylvester & Tweety was also the first short to win an Oscar for Warner Bros, breaking the streak MGM had going thanks to Tom & Jerry. Which is interesting because, in some ways, the Sylvester & Tweety series was very similar to Tom & Jerry. At least in terms of the basic structure of a cat chasing after a cute little critter. Also, the cat being named Thomas and the human woman who scolds the cat and hits him with a broom are other similarities in this first entry. Obviously there's much more to both series that separates them but there seemed to be something about this premise they both had in common that pleased Oscar voters back then as Tom & Jerry won a bunch of them and Sylvester & Tweety won a couple.The story here is pretty basic. Sylvester (called Thomas here) catches Tweety outside in the snow. But before he can eat the bird, his owner catches him and brings adorable little Tweety inside. This doesn't stop the cat, who tries repeatedly to get at the bird with comical results. Tweety is much more aggressive (and Jerry-like) in defending himself against Sylvester in this first short. This is a good start to a series that would get much better once Sylvester developed his own personality and Tweety's was fleshed out some more. As it is, it's a funny short with nice animation, music, and voicework. I'm not sure it deserved the Oscar win but the Academy probably wanted to give a win to someone besides MGM or Disney that year and WB's Looney Tunes were screwed out of wins many other times.

There are better Looney Tunes cartoons than the Sylvester and Tweety series but the series is still entertaining and nice to watch. Sylvester and Tweety are not among Looney Tunes' greatest duos, but at least their duo makes sense and doesn't feel odd(unlike Daffy and Speedy). Tweetie Pie signals their debut together- having been seen before solo- and it is a great one and one of their better cartoons. The cruelty of Sylvester/Thomas' owner is a turn-off point, the one character here who you dislike from the get go, but that's a personal nit-pick above all else. The animation is vibrant and detailed and with plenty of bounce, both Tweety and Thomas/Sylvester well and recognisably drawn and Thomas/Sylvester's facial expressions are expressively done. Carl Stalling's music not only is orchestrated beautifully but rhythmically it bursts with character and it gives great energy to the action. It's not just it sounding nice and that it's action-enhancing but also how well it accompanies the gestures and expressions of the characters and even the sound effects too. The dialogue is sharp and the gags while not surprising are made funny, in some instances hilarious(especially the one with Thomas/Sylvester trying to fly up to the cage via an electric fan), by the interactions between the duo and Thomas/Sylvester's facial expressions. Which like with Wile E. Coyote induces some of the laughs on their own, I don't think the fireplace gag would have worked quite so well without his reaction to that he was burning. Tweetie Pie is violent but actually not in a sadistic or bizarre way that it churns the stomach like the Gene Deitch Tom and Jerry cartoons did. Tweety has the cute- but not too sickly sweet- persona that he is now famous for but he also has shades of the anarchic personality that was given to him in the Bob Clampett outings. But Thomas/Sylvester makes the biggest impression, not just because he has the funniest moments but you also root for him, and this is in general not just here. He may have a different name and be fatter but the voice and the catchphrase are unmistakable. The two work great together and as aforementioned at the beginning of the review their chemistry makes sense, plus as usual Mel Blanc voices superbly. All in all, a great debut for this bird and mouse duo, one of their best if not their very best. 9/10 Bethany Cox

"Tweetie Pie" is an excellent Tweety/Sylvester cartoon with interesting origins. Prior to the making of this film, director Friz Freleng paired Sylvester with a woodpecker in a couple of cartoons and decided that he was ultimately going to replace the woodpecker with Tweety. Eddie Selzer, who somehow became the head of the Warner Bros. cartoon department at this time, insisted that Freleng use the woodpecker, but Freleng held his ground and insisted on using Tweety. As Freleng later recalled, the argument persisted to the point where he gave Selzer his pencil and walked out, telling him to do the cartoon himself! Selzer later coaxed Freleng to return to the studio and make the cartoon the way Freleng intended, using Tweety. Freleng did, and the irony of it all is that the resulting cartoon, "Tweetie Pie," won an Academy Award!(In this particular cartoon, the big, ugly cat who ultimately became known as Sylvester is named Thomas, and Tweety's name is actually spelled T-W-E-E-T-I-E. Since I always like to be true to character names, I shall refer to these two characters as Thomas and Tweetie.) Highlights from "Tweetie Pie" include the following. While Thomas comes down the chimney, Tweetie grabs a hugs pile of logs and lights a fire; although it's predictable, Thomas' reaction to his rear end ablaze is funny! Thomas saws a hole in the roof over Tweetie's birdcage, but the cage remains still and Thomas comes tumbling down with the roof! (It may actually be funnier to freeze-frame this scene on your DVD player so as to witness Thomas' horrified reaction while falling from the roof.) Thomas covers Tweetie in a drinking glass, so that Tweetie's yelling, cymbals, bass drum, and trumpet cannot be heard; he gets out of his predicament soon enough, though. Thomas attaches an electric fan to his waist, thereby flying him in the air so as to reach Tweetie's birdcage, but his plan backfires when he looks below and sees Tweetie about to pull the plug; Carl Stalling's accompanying music brilliantly accentuates Thomas shaking his head and Tweetie nodding his head."Tweetie Pie" is such a great cartoon! In this film, Tweetie actually has larger jowls and is much more of an active tomboy (as introduced in a few earlier cartoons by director Bob Clampett) than he is in his later cartoons directed by Friz Freleng. You can find "Tweetie Pie" on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2 Disc 3, with an additional commentary by filmmaker Greg Ford and a brief audio clip of Friz Freleng.

This is not only the first Sylvester and Tweety short but the first Warner Bros. animated short to win an Oscar! The Oscar was well deserved and long over-due. I must point out that perhaps Friz Freleng's inspiration for this duo was Tom and Jerry. In a way this short resembles the first Tom and Jerry short. However this short is WAY better then the first Tom and Jerry short! Also if you think about it Sylvester and Tweety are basically Tom and Jerry's competition but in my opinion there is no winner! Now what I find unique about this short is that the characters are already fully developed! Then again this isn't the first Sylvester or Tweety short. They had already been introduced before. However, this is the first short where Tweety is fully developed. While Sylvester however, is a unique character cause since his first appearance he was already fully developed. 4(****)out of 4(****)stars