BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . were an actual Religion worthy of tax-exempt status, or a dangerous cult to be banned from America, PORKY IN EGYP+ proves. The Looney Tunes crew clearly takes the latter side of this discussion, showing that the unintelligible call to "morning prayer" ACTUALLY is an invitation to illicit gambling, liaisons with streetwalkers of uncertain sex, and all manner of foreign decadence. (I'm just reporting what's documented on the screen: watch PORKY IN EGYP+ for yourself if you need further sordid details about masochistic public displays, bamboozled Western tourists, and so forth.) Porky searches for that "still, small voice of solitude" in the desert, but a hot sun makes our porcine friend hallucinate bag-piping camels and worse. No famous Americans such as Daniel Pearl were beheaded in the Mideast during the six or seven decades after PORKY IN EGYP+ broadcast Warner Bros.' warning against U.S. travel to this hostile region. Obviously, the past 20 years have seen Porky's Complaint increasingly forgotten or ignored. PORKY IN EGYP+ should be mandatory viewing for any American contemplating travel to Djibouti, Dubai, or Dearborn.

TheLittleSongbird I love the Looney Tunes cartoons(well a vast majority of them anyway), and while he is not one of my favourites I do like Porky Pig. Porky in Egypt is not one of the best, as the first two minutes or so are rather standard with not much that is funny and the story doesn't really go anywhere, but it is fun. It does have an oddball nature, which people may love and others may find themselves perplexed, for me there were times throughout where I was one or the other. This said, the animation is great with the black and white looking beautiful and everything looks fluid, I especially liked what was done with Humpty Bumpty's nightmarish vision. The music has some authentic flavour while having the manic characterful energy often distinctive in Looney Tunes. The humour has Bob Clampett written all over it, and it all feels fresh and witty with the gags cleverly timed. Porky is endearing here if a little bland compared to Humpty Bumpty the camel, who bags all the best moments that help to make him one of the best supporting characters of any of Porky's cartoons. Mel Blanc is excellent as always in his vocal characterisations. Overall, not one of Porky's best, but fun especially for Humpty Bumpty. 7/10 Bethany Cox

phantom_tollbooth Bob Clampett's 'Porky in Egypt' is among the strangest and most unsettling cartoons you'll see in your lifetime. While early Porky Pig shorts could sometimes tend toward the cutesy or pedestrian, Clampett's were usually crazy, frenetic balls of energy, the like of which only he could pull off. Released the same year as his much lauded classic 'Porky in Wackyland' and his lesser praised but no less classic 'Porky's Party' and 'Porky and Daffy', 'Porky in Egypt' is the nuttiest of the lot. As is often the case in these early Porky cartoons, Porky gets star billing but very much plays second fiddle to another character, in this case a camel named Humpty Bumpty! Venturing out into the desert alone, Porky is surprised when his camel is suddenly struck by sun-induced desert-madness. The insane antics of the camel then completely take over the picture, resulting in a bravura tour-de-force of jaw-droppingly mad animation in which Humpty Bumpty snaps from wild pose to wild pose, howling in paranoia one minute and playing some inexplicably produced bagpipes the next! Any early hint of a plot is forsaken in favour of sheer Clampett lunacy as the camel and Porky battle their own mental states in a barren, featureless landscape. Creepy, bizarre and funny in a stomach-twistingly unsettling way, 'Porky in Egypt' never ceases to amaze me. I remember the first time I saw it, I wasn't entirely sure that it had really just happened! But happen it did and I'm truly glad that's the case. I highly recommend this oddball cult classic. Whether you enjoy it or not, it's certainly a cartoon that you'll never forget not matter how hard you try.

slymusic "Porky in Egypt" is unfortunately not one of the better Porky Pig cartoons directed by Bob Clampett, although it IS abundant with Clampett's characteristic zaniness. Porky misses out on a guided tour of Egypt, so he grabs a camel and embarks on his own tour, during which the hot sun gets the better of the twosome and causes them to go completely insane. As interesting as this sounds, the main problem with this cartoon is that is doesn't really go anywhere.Despite its weaknesses, "Porky in Egypt" still contains a few memorable moments. The opening scene depicts a group of Arabs solemnly chanting and then abruptly shooting craps, after which we see an ostensibly beautiful harem girl who then reveals her hideous face! Porky's camel is quite funny as he 1.) hunkers down on all fours and declares to Porky his craziness with the heat, 2.) performs a Scottish jig, and 3.) imitates humorist Lew Lehr with his line "Camels is the cwaziest peoples!" We can always count on Bob Clampett for the wildest, weirdest animation possible, but "Porky in Egypt" is simply a silly cartoon that misses its mark. The sight of one particular fire swallower with pins, needles, and swords stuck through his body is painful to behold.