Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "The Pet" is a 12-minute cartoon from 1921, so this one is already 95 years old. It is an entry to American animation pioneer Winsor McCay's "Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend" series and it's possibly the best one. I was tempted for a while to give this one a 6 out of 10, but I will say shortly why I decided not to. Of course, this is a black-and-white silent film still. There are two stories in here. The frame includes a man and woman lying in bad and the man has eaten a rarebit (a toast full of baked cheese, I had to check that) before sleeping and we get to see his nightmare that resulted from the meal. His woman takes in a tiny pet and keeps feeding it until it becomes bigger. Bad news is it won't stop growing and at the very end it is about as big as a dinosaur and wreaks havoc in the city. I liked the way the creature looked I must say, but I also think that the story is so simple that it is almost not enough for over 10 minutes. I also did not like the way they got back to reality at the very end showing us the couple, but only very briefly. Nobody says something, nobody does something and the film is over. This is a very early example of a dream sequence in film, something that is used very frequently nowadays. All in all, it was a good cartoon for its time I guess, but I would only recommend it to film historians because there are indeed some flaws in here.

Michael_Elliott Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet (1921) *** (out of 4)Winsor McCay classic that makes you feel that the filmmakers of THE LOST WORLD and KING KONG might have been influenced by this. A husband brags about eating a delicious rarebit but this food always gives him weird dreams. In the dream, the wife takes in a cute animal and soon after it just keeps eating and eating while getting bigger and bigger. The thing eventually grows to the size where it begins to terrorize the city. McCay made three different "Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend" films in 1921 and this here is certainly the best of the bunch. One could argue the creative issues seeing as how all three were pretty much the same story with different dreams but this here is so creative that you can't help but fall for it. The entire film has a very bizarre atmosphere working for it and a lot of credit has to go to McCay for coming up with such a strange looking animal. It's part pig, part dog and part teddy bear but it's certainly something impossible to forget. I thought the animation was a major step up from his previous films and just check out the scene where the animals is eating what appears to be beans off the floor. Just pay attention to the way the pile goes down as the creature eats them. Fans of McCay will certainly want to check this one out but fans of the surreal and bizarre should enjoy it as well.

MartinHafer While this cartoon isn't as innovative as some of Winsor McCay's earlier works (such as LITTLE NEMO and GERTIE THE DINOSAUR), this later McCay film is still quite impressive when seen today. Compared to other early animations, it is a real treat because the shading and backgrounds are so well made and show a lot of care. Plus, the story is really weird and it also packs a lot of charm. As a result, here in the 21st century, it STILL is pretty watchable and exciting to watch--at least for Cinephiles and history lovers (like me).By the way, his "rarebit" films have all seemed to imply that eating cheese causes bad or at least weird dreams! I gotta check it out and see if he was right!

boblipton Based on McCay's cartoon strip, DREAMS OF THE RAREBIT FIEND, this concerns a tiny creature that eats everything and grows until it threatens the entire city. A seminal work, its influence shows up in Heinlein's novel THE STAR BEAST, Tex Avery's KING SIZE CANARY and in the final sequence of KING KONG! Bizarre and brilliant!