Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Vimacone Clampett's 1939-40 entries are frequently dogged by fans and historians for bad jokes, frequent re-use of animation and unoriginal ideas.This entry is considered by many to be one of the most unoriginal shorts he did. It's pretty much THE DAFFY DOC (1938) with a new spin, only Daffy doesn't appear. The title card is a still image from the title card of aforementioned short. The opening scenes of the hospital and the cat patient trying to operate on Porky are also lifted from the former.The Schlesinger staff must have had an affection for Rochester, Jack Benny's sidekick. He frequently appears or is alluded to in Clampett's cartoons from this time-frame. Although drawn in the stereotypical black face style of the day, he's always depicted as an endearing character. Nonetheless, Rochester's scenes as an alphabetical elevator operator were usually cut from television prints, making showings very short.Look for a cameo of the prototype Bugs Bunny in the opening scenes. This would be the last appearance, in release order, of Bugs in his embryonic stage.While not a favorite of many fans, I've always had a liking for this short. It's primarily nostalgia for me.

TheLittleSongbird Bob Clampett's cartoons often were high in energy and fun and displayed a uniquely wacky visual style that one can recognise immediately. Porky Pig is often likable and amusing, if at times overshadowed by characters with stronger personalities.'Patient Porky' is not quite among Clampett's masterpieces, and Porky has also been in better cartoons. However, it is still enormously enjoyable stuff, Clampett's imaginative visual and wacky directing style is all over 'Patient Porky', and works brilliantly.The animation is excellent. The blacks, whites and greys look absolutely beautiful, even nearly 80 years on, while also rich in detail and high in imagination. Carl Stalling's energetically high-voltage, luscious, rousing, dynamic and action-enhancing music score and inspired arrangements of pre-existing music shows off his genius. The lyrics in the more musical moments will make one laugh out loud.It is an exceptionally funny cartoon as well, with some wonderfully cornball lines and names, some pretty inventive and brilliant kinds of illnesses and symptoms and shows a view of being in a hospital in a hugely entertaining but somewhat nightmarish way. Porky's screen-time is not large but he is still memorable and fun plus you do feel sorry for him.Likewise the supporting characters are very colourful, the elevator operator is a racial stereotype, and a not particularly subtle one, but not in a way that's overtly offensive. The voice acting is terrific, with Mel Blanc once again showing the second-to-none ability to bring different personalities and voices to several characters.Overall, not a masterpiece but still great. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Lee Eisenberg One of the many relics from the days when Porky Pig mostly appeared in black and white cartoons, Bob Clampett's "Patient Porky" does contain a racial stereotype (in the form of an elevator operator). As in "The Daffy Doc" two years earlier, an excessively eager physician tries to operate on Porky (in the earlier one, it was doctor wannabe Daffy Duck).Having seen many of Porky's cartoons from his debut until the US entered WWII, one can see that the studio usually cast Porky in rather sedate, pedestrian roles: fireman, pilgrim, bullfighter. Therefore, this one was pretty much representative of the era. "You Ought to Be In Pictures" may have been the one exception. Porky's roles got really cool once Chuck Jones started directing him regularly after WWII, frequently casting him as a foil to Daffy's craziness.Anyway, this one isn't bad. Worth seeing maybe once.

Op_Prime This was an all right Porky Pig short. Most of the jokes were not really stale and it had some really funny stuff here. The whole story is kind of interesting, not really at all boring. It wasn't excellent, but it was good. Thumbs up.