Lucybespro
It is a performances centric movie
Hattie
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Allissa
.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . during this 1900s Looney Tune, MILK AND MONEY. Viper literally slinks around in a crooked, serpentine fashion, slithering up on hard-working U.S. Citizens to filch everything they have. By representing this Outrage as an unquestioned "given," Warner Bros. is suggesting that nothing can be done to combat the One Per Center Fat Cat Skunks because these villainous vipers have "Rigged the System" by Corrupting Congress with a few pennies from their Billionaire Cash Hordes of Wealth to legislate Anti-Social, Inhumane Outrageous "Laws" to protect and shelter the Greed of the Few over the Need of the Many. Though a Deus Ex Machina (that is, God from the Clouds in the guise of a Horsefly, aka, a Miracle) saves Porky's Family Farm for the time being at the end of MILK AND MONEY, everyone knows that the Filthy Rich Trumpsters have booted 94% of American Farmers into city slums (or The Grave) since MILK AND MONEY was released. The "Snowball Effect" documented here by the Looney Tuners forecasts that soon ANY potty-mouthed vile billionaire will be able to waltz into Our White House to Lord it over We-the-99 Per Cent because the love of money is the root of all Evil, and Evil is Self-Perpetuating.
slymusic
Directed by Tex Avery, "Milk and Money" is not a bad Warner Bros. cartoon featuring an early version of Porky Pig, voiced not yet by the great Mel Blanc but by the not-so-great Joe Dougherty. Dougherty apparently could not say one line without heavily stuttering, and this proved to be a bit of a damper for the character of Porky. Anyhow, Porky and his pop live on a farm, and Porky is forced to get a job in order to save the farm from foreclosure. (You wouldn't really do that to Porky and his dad, now, would you, Mr. Viper?) "Milk and Money" is not a great cartoon, but there is one scene I find amusing. Porky's poppa claims that things are looking dark, and the screen itself begins to darken, but Porky suddenly tells his dad to look on the bright side, and the screen becomes brighter.Our friend Hank Horsefly has a thing about biting rear ends, but he ultimately turns out to be quite helpful for Porky and his horse.
ccthemovieman-1
This was really, really enjoyable, with tons of good stuff all wrapped up in eight minutes. You get over-the-top characters and story, good humor and great artwork. In other words: about everything you want in a cartoon.The characters are "Porky Pig," Porky's father, Porky's horse "Dobbin," "Hank Horsefly" and "Mr. Viper" (the snake). The latter is there to claim the mortgage on the pigs' house and farm if the old man doesn't fork over the cash by a certain time. This was a familiar theme in movies and cartoons - and a sad fact of life - in the 1930s. Anyway, you know things will turn out all right for Porky and his dad. It's HOW this happens this is funny. The material is outrageous, with a lot of things happening and Hank Horsefly plays the key role.This is done beautifully in black-and-white and restored nicely by the Warner Brothers folks who have presented us, so far, with five volumes of Golden Collection DVDs. I haven't seen the fourth volume but this Fifth volume features some of these older black-and-white cartoons and some of them are great.
Lee Eisenberg
I notice that the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons often made a point of portraying what was going on in the world when they were made. One example is Tex Avery's "Milk and Money". Porky Pig and his father own a farm, but their snakelike banker threatens to take it away from them if they don't pay. Of course, Porky has a few tricks up his sleeve...even if they happen by accident.I suspect that they didn't intend for this cartoon to be a "Grapes of Wrath"-style lesson about the Great Depression, but it does sort of come out like that, what with the sinister banker trying to take their farm, as happened to so many people during those miserable years.Overall, a worthwhile cartoon.
