Tiere im Hotel

Hey! - What do you know? It looks like sweet, little Tweety has got himself an ardent admirer.... Ahhh!... Now, isn't that nice!?

Well - That's not exactly as nice as it sounds since the "admiring one" is, in reality, Sylvester, the cat, who, of course, wants to make a nice, tasty snack out of our darling, little Tweety.

Anyway - Welcome to the Spinster Arms Hotel where nice, little old ladies regularly smuggle their pets into the building right under the nose of the stern, rule-abiding house detective (who soon finds out that he's being played for a total dupe).... Indeed!

Friz Freleng's 'Room and Bird' is one of the better cartoons in the largely dull Sylvester and Tweety series. One of the crucial elements that elevates most of the better Sylvester and Tweety cartoons is the addition of more characters to be involved in the chase. 'Room and Bird' features the standard Bulldog but more crucially it features a hotel manager who is determined to keep his establishment free of pets. This extra angle means that the characters have to occasionally break from the chase and sometime set their differences aside in order to evade detection. Also working in 'Room and Bird's' favour is Tweety's less irritating that usual performance. Freleng's Tweety has a tendency to be overtly cute and slow cartoons down with eyelash fluttering poppet-isms. In 'Room and Bird' there simply isn't time for this sort of filler material and Tweety actually gets to deliver quite an amusing punch line to the whole she-bang.

What's most funny about "Room and Bird" is the fact that Sylvester and Tweety are in neighboring rooms in a hotel where no pets are allowed, and the manager keeps suspecting that something's up...all leading up to what happens at the end! Truth be told, the hotel manager reminded me just a little bit of Mr. Hand in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", how he suspected everyone of breaking the rules. But that's just me. All in all, it's not a great cartoon by any stretch, but I just like the sight of seemingly lowly characters rattling authority figures (think "Animal House", and not just because of the animals here).

All in all, an OK cartoon. Worth seeing.

Whether it is one of their best is up for debate, not for me but it is one of the better ones. It does start off a tad slow, but it gets much better once the action accelerates right up to the great end.

The animation is fluid and colourful, the character designs are above average and the colouring is lavish. The music is also quirky and fun, the dialogue has evidence of the Looney Tunes wit and the sight gags and chases are energetic and very manic. Sylvester is as fun as ever, and Tweety is cute too. The dog is wonderful to watch especially when the action accelerates.

So all in all, a fun cartoon. 9/10 Bethany Cox

We're at the "Spinsters Arms" hotel which also has a "no pets allowed" sign outside, and we see Granny trying to enter without the house detective noticing she has a covered birdcage with her. "Don't worry, Tweety, I'll get you in somehow," she tells her bird.

Soon, another old lady is telling her pet, Sylvester, the same thing! (I guess I forgot about Sylvester's owner, whom you rarely see.)

Both old ladies are successful. Tweety is singing away in room 1001 and Sylvester, staying next door in 1002, hears him and thinks "meal." You know that the rest of the way is going to be the usual: how does the cat get the bird and, as usual, Sylvester comes up with some amazing ploys that are fun to watch beginning with an anonymous admirer's note.

The action really accelerates in this one as the old bulldog we see a lot is also at the hotel and a few other surprises, all making the house detective about lose his mind. Really funny stuff with chase scenes reminiscent of the old silent film comedies.