SunnyHello Nice effects though.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "The Sour Puss" is an American 7.5-minute cartoon from 1940, so this one is already over 75 years old and it united the legendary Clampett, Foster and Blanc in another Porky Pig work that is in black-and-white like most of the others starring Warner Bros' and Schlesinger Studios' prime time pork. But sadly, this film is once again evidence that Porky just wasn't up to the challenge of being a main protagonist. He is pretty likable (I guess) and harmless and lacks shades compared to Daffy and Bugs and here he loses his main role quickly to his cat. But the gags were too rare and also not good enough to really make me enjoy this one. Plus half the film was over before we actually see them at the lake. And then they aren't really fishing either. Porky is seen once only during the trip and he stands there warning the cat from a shark. Could you imagine that if Donald went fishing with the nephews? OR Mickey with Pluto? Anyway, back to this one here: The cat keeps the film from being really boring. And so does Mel Blanc whose voice acting is once again top-notch and he is always so reliable to deliver, even in mediocre works like this one. It's not a failure for sure, but very mediocre and forgettable in my opinion. I give it a thumbs-down.

ragpap93 Now that's a cartoon all wacky and stuff. Is this a great cartoon or what? Eh! Could be. A cat goes a hunting instead of a dog. The bird in the cage looks like a canary so is this Tweety's origins. Is Tweety suicidal? They kept it simple and changed a few cliche's that other cartoons of that era had. The gags were all similar yet somewhat unique. So why only 7 out of 10. I cannot explain it. Maybe it started just a little slow but by the end of the short it made me wish there was more. Overall though really good. I'm watching loony toons in chronological order so I hope that they used this cartoon as a base to measure how the other shorts are.

cricket crockett . . . most of the 30,000 or 40,000 Gun Deaths happening in our American Homeland annually are Mercy Killings\Suicides (though the U.S. Congress, in its willfully belligerent ignorance, has OUTLAWED any scientific study and official quantification of this Balm of Bullets). Suicide-by-Gun is the main focus of a Looney Tune titled THE SOUR PUSS. One of the financial section headlines Porky Pig reads from Page 4 of the June 20, 1940 DAILY BLAST says "Share-holder shoots self." Financial Ruin is always a leading motivator to blow one's brains out in Real Life, especially during a Great Depression such as the one on-going in 1940, when SOUR PUSS was released. Shortly after this headline is shown, Porky's canary remarks, "Now, I've seen everything!" and immediately self-destructs with a bird-sized revolver, reflecting the fact that boredom--like financial ruin--can be taken care of with that personal firearm that half of all Americans keep loaded and ready in their nightstand drawer, next to their sleeping pills. But what about our Poorest Fellow Citizens, among the most likely to suffer chronic pain from an incurable condition, yet lack the resources to afford a dependable six-shooter? Please join Porky Pig in supporting your local chapter of BANGS (Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps) Today!

Robert Reynolds This is a black and white Porky cartoon where Porky is basically an extra, with the dominant characters being a lazy cat and a demented fish. Because I want to discuss some of the details, this is a spoiler warning: The first couple of minutes of this is great, with Porky deciding to go fishing and then asking his sleepy and lazy cat to guess what they will be having for dinner. The cat then imitates several animals, including a very funny chicken, only to have Porky top him by pantomiming a fish! Imagine, if you will, a cartoon pig pantomiming a fish. To say that the cat greets this news with enthusiasm would be an understatement. He's bouncing around the room and ends up kissing a mouse, who doesn't take it very well (to say the least). Unfortunately, the next bit kind of stops the momentum by having a "counting fish" gag that isn't all that funny.Out fishing the next morning, they meet a fish who is the lunatic prince of all fishdom. He basically dominates most of the rest of the short, giving both Porky and Sour Puss no end of heckling and abuse and periodically looking directly at the screen as if addressing the audience and making some hilarious remark, as the more manic versions of Bugs and Daffy would do, early on in their existence.The ending is very funny and I won't really spoil it except to note that the very end finishes with a parody of Lew Lehr, a comic who would have been very familiar to audiences at the time, but isn't a household name at this point.This short is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 4 and is well worth watching. Recommended.