No More "Piddies"? No more Tweety! Root 4 Sylvester

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2002)

POSSIBLE SPOILERS. If I watch future Sylvester & Tweety cartoons, I'll be very tempted to root for Sylvester after the way little Tweety disregarded poor Eddie Valient's life for the sake of a "Dis wido piddy went to market" game! LOL. Doing it to Sylvester the cat would be one thing. At least he was trying to harm him, so it would be easier to justify the actions. Eddie was just trying to save himself after walking through the wrong door. I think a good poetic justice on Tweety would be the "Adult Swim" treatment. Tweety is put so at the mercy of Sylvester that only Eddie Valient save his butt.
Though I am largely being tongue & cheek & I thought the whole feature was funnier than all get-out, I think there is still some food for thought. Namely that Tweety Bird was a character we grew up believing we should be sympathetic towards when he's being stalked by Sly. One of the things that made the violence & misfortunes in the W/B cartoons easy to laugh at is that they were usually just desserts visited upon the trouble makers. Unlike some of the Walter Lance(Woody Woodpecker ect.)features, which I think I remember as being a little more malicious.
All the Sigmund Froid aside, I think I can pretty well mirror what the reviewers before me said. This brought mixed animation & comedy to a new level. Like Back to the Future before it-to use an old cliche- it was a laugh a minute.
In a very real way, it was a coming full circle of the classic cartoons. It wasn't just for kids, it was for adults who remembering these toons from childhood. It capitalised on many of the gags in a way that's easily funny to adults. OBTW, my understanding of many of the W/B cartoons were intended to be as adult-funny as permissible for a child-friendly cartoon for the standard of the time.