Fowl Weather (1953) User Reviews (4)

"Oh you better hide, spaghetti, or the chickens will get you."

[utgard14 · 8/10 · 27 December 2014]

The Sylvester & Tweety cartoons, like the Road Runner & Coyote cartoons, typically follow a set formula. Sylvester tries to overcome various obstacles to eat Tweety and hilariously fails at it. It's a formula that works, more often than not, but if you've seen a lot of them it can seem repetitive. This is a very good one that didn't feel repetitive to me. This story takes place on Granny's farm as she takes a trip into town, leaving bulldog Hector to guard Tweety. Sylvester, of course, takes advantage of the fact that Granny is away to make his move towards grabbing Tweety.

Beautiful animation, lively music, and great voicework from Mel Blanc and Bea Benaderet. Lots of funny gags and lines. Tweety is very cute but underrated as a character who is funny in his own right. For example when Sylvester is sneaking up behind him dressed as a scarecrow, Tweety stops singing and says to the audience "What's the matter? Something going on behind my back?" If Bugs or Daffy did that, it would be received differently by those who dismiss Tweety as the Looney Tunes equivalent of an Ewok. But he was a well-written and fun character with the required intelligence and occasional mean streak one needs to survive in the Looney Tunes world. But, yes, he was adorable and my favorite scene in this was when he found the worm and called it spaghetti, then put a rock on top of it to hide it from the chickens. Too damn cute. A great short for fans of Sylvester and especially Tweety.

Perhaps the key moment in this brief cartoon from . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 9 December 2017]

. . . those Prophets Without Peer, those Prognosticators Par Excellence, Warner Bros.' Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, The Looney Tuners) comes about 2 minutes, 54 seconds into FOWL WEATHER when Sylvester Cat--clearly representing Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin's White House Sock-Puppet-in-Chief, Don Juan Rump--winds up a mechanical Toy Soldier to launch an attack upon Tweety Bird, representing We Mostly Unarmed True Blue Loyal Patriotic Normal Average 99 Per Center Silent Majority Progressive Union Label Legally Unprotected Citizens. Sylvester's shenanigans with the soldier forecast how Rump will intimidate many spineless U.S. space-fillers to vote for Chaos and Treason after hearing Rump's hints, innuendos, and outright threats about having 224 U.S. Generals and Admirals on Standby to launch America's first Banana Republic Military Coup if Hillary, STILL the People's Choice by a whopping four million votes plus, had the Audacity to Hope that Democracy could prevail against the Putin\Rump Crime Cartel. Warner Bros. blows up Sylvester\Rump with a grenade 5:20 into FOWL WEATHER, symbolizing Special Prosecutor Bob Mueller's courageous pursuit of American Values, against the Corrupt Job-Killing Corporate "Conservative" Communist KGB Traitor Oligarchical Highly Treasonist Billionaire Quisling Fellow Traveling Basket-of-Deplorables Crowd. Sylvester\Rump finishes FOWL WEATHER painted yellow and awaiting his drowning in a tiny cage, as Tweety Bird shows his fangs with predatory feline growls, presaging the Coming Purge of ALL the Putin\Rump enablers as they're stripped of their citizenship (not unlike Benedict Arnold), as well as their ill-gotten Wealth, Property, Assets, Funds, BitCoins, Corporations, and Weaponry under America's Civil Forfeiture Laws, and plunked down upon that iceberg the size of Delaware floating off the coast of Antarctica.

One of the better Sylvester and Tweety cartoons

[TheLittleSongbird · 9/10 · 27 June 2011]

I do like Sylvester and Tweety, and while there is the odd cartoon of theirs that doesn't completely work(ie. Catty Cornered) I do like their cartoons in general. While I prefer Hyde and Go Tweet, Red Riding Hoodwinked, Tweet and Sour and Tweety and the Beanstalk, I consider Fowl Weather one of their better cartoons. Perhaps it could have been a minute or so longer so that there was a little more interaction between Hector and Sylvester, but I really enjoyed everything I saw. The animation is of fluid and lively quality, and the music by Carl Stalling is typically energetic. The cartoon goes at a brisk pace, while the fun dialogue and hilarious sight gags, the best being Sylvester disguising himself as a scarecrow to catch Tweety and it backfires and the Foghorn Leghorn-lookalike rooster courting Sylvester disguised as a chicken, make the story even more entertaining than it is. Tweety is quite good especially at the end, but Sylvester is the character that makes the cartoon, while Hector also has some great moments particularly the envisioning of his execution and Granny is seen as both dotty and tough. Mel Blanc's voices are superb as usual. Overall, great fun and one of the better ones of this set of cartoons. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Great and Underrated

[lukeneedssand · 10/10 · 26 August 2021]

I really like this cartoon. I remember watching it on television a long time ago and I've always remembered it since. I finally found it again, and I have to say its probably in my top 5 tweety and sylvester cartoons. I just can't really fault this cartoon in any way. It's not just nostalgia either, it's quite good from an older perspective. The gags especially are fast, quick witted, and have very good comedic timing, some of Frelengs best to be honest. Everything is sped up so fast that it feels like quintessential looney tunes.

Not quite sure why this hasn't been released on Dvds very much, Its very strong.

Underrated.

10/10.