Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Michael_Elliott Pigs in a Polka (1943) ** 1/2 (out of 4)This Looney Tunes short takes the Three Little Pigs story and sets it to classical music.Yeah, the additional of classical music is really the only thing that separates this from the countless other versions of the story. The Disney version is without a doubt the best that has ever been done and this one here really can't compete with it. With that said, the idea of having the story set to classical music was a rather clever idea but I just don't think it really paid off in regards to entertainment. This is far from a bad movie but at the same time there's really nothing good here or anything that would make you want to watch this over the more traditional versions.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . for PIGS IN A POLKA doesn't seem to be trained in Warnology, let's examine this WWII Era animated short from that perspective. When this cartoon was produced, America's Number One ally against Hitler--Russia--was at the top of nearly every U.S. church's Weekly Prayer List. But Warner, often looking forward 50 or 75 years ahead of its time, smelled a Russian Rat, and its name was Vladimir "Mad Dog" Putin. During the 1940s and 1950s Warner produced at least a dozen feature and short projects warning us of Putin's advent, and PIGS IN A POLKA falls into that category. The Big Bad Wolf character here, of course, represents Putin, with its incessant Russian Kick Dancing. The endangered pigs symbolize the World's Winter Olympic Athletes being lured to Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Olympiad. Since Putin's Homophobia became the predominant theme of the build-up to these Games, Warner suggests that the bare-butt cross-dressing Little Pigs #1 and #2 are Gay. The only Oinker wearing bottoms, Little Pig #3, tries to convince his two fellow athletes to boycott Big Bad Wolf\Mad Dog's Fun & Games. But America ignored Warner's warning, like it usually does, leaving Putin free to dope up the Russian Olympians for the next couple Olympic Games (though they're banned from this week's World Indoor Track & Field Championships), and bomb most of the Doctors Without Borders Hospitals in Syria, to boot.

Lee Eisenberg I remember that I first heard Johannes Brahms's "Hungarian Dances" in "The Great Dictator", when Charlie Chaplin is shaving the guy to the tune of that song. For "Pigs in a Polka", the Termite Terrace crowd continues its tradition of mixing classical music with wacky images, and they do a great job with it. OK, so "Three Little Pigs" is one of the easiest stories to spoof (they later applied music to it again with "Three Little Bops"), but how can you not like how the cartoon came out here? Probably the most eye-opening aspect is how, far from being a triad of warm, cuddly brothers, the pigs have some conflicts. The smartest one - who built his house out of bricks - doesn't like how his siblings take an irresponsible attitude towards everything.Among other things, we have to remember that these cartoons were not created for children. What they portray requires some knowledge of world history and culture. As it is, I've long considered it honorable that these cartoons could teach children about classical music (much like "What's Opera, Doc?" could).All in all, a very enjoyable cartoon short.

ccthemovieman-1 "This is our interpretation of the familiar tale of 'The Big Bad Wolf And The Three Little Pigs.'" An announcer is telling this to an audience, of which we are privy. He adds this story "is set to the delightful music of Joann Brahm's 'Hungarian Dances.'"So that's what we get: this fairy tale set to music. The announcer, butchering Brahms' name, is funny, but not a lot of other things are in here. In fact, that might be it. What you mainly have here is a cartoon in which the actions of the people, from walking to dancing and prancing to the wolf chasing the pigs all is set to the music. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer humor in my cartoons. This was not something I'd watch again.