Fish Fry

I'm at a loss to understand just why this short was nominated for an Academy Award. It's cute, Andy Panda is somewhat less bland than usual and certainly worth watching. But there isn't anything terribly special about this one. Oh well. Check this one out anyway. The cat is hilarious, particularly when he tries to use logic to get what he wants: dinner. Recommended.

"Andy Panda" buys the last fish from the pet store and is taking it home - bowl on his head - when they are both espied by a fairly ravenous alley cat. Lunch thinks he, and various antics ensue as the cat tries to bamboozle the rather dim-witted panda before resorting to brute force to secure his dinner. The animation is all pretty standard fayre depicting cat trying to catch then cook the high speed, gravity-defying, fish whilst the fish (and the panda) try to outwit the cat using the street furniture and a big dog. It's watchable enough, but I doubt you'll ever remember it. There's not much frying going on, neither!

. . . would expect a picture titled FISH FRY to include a tasty recipe for preparing salmon on a cedar slab, or, at the very least, heating up some cod. However, this FISH FRY provides absolutely no incentive for culinary artists to break out their lemon juice. Rather than providing directions for filleting pike or subtracting bones from trout, FISH FRY merely depicts various shenanigans of cats and dogs. Given that pandas are more closely related to bears than blue gills, maybe a more appropriate title for this ill-named film would be something like BARELY THERE, or A THREAD-BARE TALE. Just don't call it such a misleading heading as FISH FRY.