Porky's Naughty Nephew

Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes, Hanna and Barbera and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons. Actually appreciate it even more now through young adult eyes, thanks to broader knowledge and taste and more interest in animation styles and various studios and directors.

Have a lot of appreciation and admiration for Bob Clampett, with a visual and humour style so distinctive and easily recognisable. His early work was very variable but when on top form and in his prime the best of his work was great and even more. 'Porky's Naughty Nephew' is not one of Clampett's best by any stretch. It is a decent cartoon though, even if there are funnier, wittier and fresher cartoons from him, and did see some of Clampett's unique style all over it and being at ease with the material.

While not quite one of my favourite Looney Tunes characters (prefer those with consistently stronger, funnier and interesting personalities) Porky has always been very easy to like. 'Porky's Naughty Nephew' is another example of being a good representation of them both, if not among the best efforts of either.

Porky is likeable and not too underused, though he doesn't have the strongest of material and is slightly bland. It is slight and predictable at times, outcomes are not hard to figure out.

Regarding the characters, Pinky steals the show, he is a brat and one of the most brutal ones in Looney Tunes history (perhaps even animation) but he is also hilarious and not a hard character to forget.

By Clampett standards, 'Porky's Naughty Nephew' is one of his most anarchic and wackiest late 1930s cartoons, if not him at his most imaginative or funniest. This is meant in a good way, this was his style which didn't always come through enough in his early pre-peak cartoons but 'Porky's Naughty Nephew' showed that he had it in him early on.

Mel Blanc is outstanding as always. He always was the infinitely more preferable voice for Porky, Joe Dougherty never clicked with me, and he proves it here. Blanc shows an unequalled versatility and ability to bring an individual personality to every one of his multiple characters in a vast majority of his work, there is no wonder why he was in such high demand as a voice actor. Bernice Hansen is also excellent.

Animation is excellent, it's fluid in movement, crisp in shading and very meticulous in detail, plus it is very imaginative. Ever the master, Carl Stalling's music is typically superb. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it.

Even though violent and brutal as heck, 'Porky's Naughty Nephew' is lightning-speed energetic that one at times forgets the slightness and predictability of the story, and is also incredibly inventively timed and hilarious. The funniest and most interesting material comes from Pinky by far.

In conclusion, brutal but incredibly well made and so much fun. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Thanks, but no thanks. I really did not prefer this short. It lacks something that made so many of the others funny and fun to watch. It's not very amusing at all. This is one of those shorts I think we could have all done without.

Though this cartoon is about Porky Pig and his (horrible) baby nephew, there are a few characters created for the show in this episode and what some may consider to be a cameo appearance of Daffy Duck (even though he is brown with a yellow beak here), he appears when the race starts.

Porky, his little nephew and several other cartoon characters (mostly animals) have arrived for a swimming competition by a beach. Porky is "relaxing" on the sand before the competition and his nephew is either playing absent-mindedly with a spade and sand, or irritating Porky on purpose. When the race starts, Porky is eager to have a good time and win after his rotten afternoon, but will he..?

Personally I did not agree with the previous reviewer - sure, it is not the best cartoon in the world, but I still liked it. I quite enjoyed this cartoon, not for watching the humour, but for watching the old style of cartoon (although unlike many of the period it is one that all of us can still relate to). I also liked the simple animation style and the character of Porky, he may ignore his nephew somewhat, but he behaves as appropriately as he can when he knows the piglet is misbehaving.

I recommend this to people who like Porky Pig and old Looney Tunes cartoons. Enjoy "Porky's Naughty Nephew"! :-)

To quote Bobby Boucher's mother, "That pig is the devil!". Yes, Porky has taken his god-awful nephew to the beach and the little pig turns out to be horrible...which means the cartoon is also entertaining as you watch Porky being tormented by the brat!

Following about half the film where the brat torments Porky, the story changes to a race in a very strange lake (it has a shark and a starfish!). Naturally, the evil nephew figures into all this.

The cartoon is fun simply because it's fun watching Porky getting tormented. But the animation of the nephew is oddly inconsistent and poor. Overall, I'd give this one a 7.

By the way, I have no idea why but late in the film the man you see is supposed to be Eddie Cantor.