Sylvester has a nervous breakdown over his repeated failures to catch Tweety. So he goes to see a psychiatrist who specializes in animals. This provides for a lot of clips from previous cartoons to be used as flashbacks to show Sylvester's failures. Avid fans might be put off by this 'clip show.' But the clips shown are all good ones. Some of these include "Gift Wrapped," "Tweety's Circus," and "A Street Car Named Sylvester." The new material with the psychiatrist is amusing. Loved the crazy ending. Didn't see that coming. Sylvester & Tweety fans might find this a nice refresher. At any rate, it's a pleasant way to pass the time.
4 Reviews
This is one of many Looney Tunes . . .
oscaralbert16 June 2018
Warning: Spoilers
. . . carefully crafted by the eponymous Warner Bros. cracked team of Animated Shorts Seers (aka, The Looney Tuners) to warn we Americans of (The Then) Far Future about our upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti. As noted elsewhere on this page, TWEET DREAMS seems on the surface to be just a cheap recycling of material from many previous Looney Tunes to make a quick buck at the contemporary box office, However, if you dig a little deeper, you'll find that each of the snippets thrown into an awkward seemingly meaningless TWEET DREAMS jumbo back when the 1950s were expiring now cover all the major low lights of the current Putin Administration "To a Tee." As "Granny" knits "Sylvester's" tail into a sweater, what citizen of the 21st Century cannot help thinking about "Stormy Spaniels"? When the feline forces a worm onto a fish hook at gunpoint, how could you better predict a "reverse Robin Hood" tax "cut" in which the Mob in Washington steals from the Poor to give to the Rich? If this is not explicit enough for us, Sylvester is later shown BEING STRANGLED BY AN ELEPHANT, the historic symbol for Putin's Party. And finally, when "Dr. Milt Towne" literally flies out the window, what could better predict Don Juan's eventual flight to "Self-deport" (or defect) to the Kremlin?
Sylvester and the psychiatrist
TheLittleSongbird19 June 2018
Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes, Hanna Barbera and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons. As said many times, actually appreciate it even more now with my knowledge of animation styles and individual studios and directors being wider and broader.
'Tweet Dreams' is not one of Friz Freleng's best overall, though it's hardly a misfire, and there are better Sylvester cartoons. To me though, it is still very entertaining and above average that captures the spirit of classic Looney Tunes very well, though the Sylvester and Tweety clips in the flashbacks are much stronger in animation quality and humour than the new footage. It is a middling Sylvester cartoon, around low middle as far as his outings with Tweety goes, and the same goes for Freleng.
Is 'Tweet Dreams' a perfect cartoon? No. The story is pretty simplistic and predictable, most of it is flashbacks shown in clip form strung together (so if anybody considers the cartoon a "cheater" it is understandable), and budget limitations and time constraints is sometimes evident in some roughness here and there in the new footage, it's great in the clips though.
There is a lot to enjoy though. The plot is fairly standard but has tremendous energy and enough freshness and amusement to keep one interested. The cartoons featured in the flashbacks in clips are terrific and not treated cheaply surprisingly, it helps that a few of them (especially 'Gift Wrapped' and 'Tweety's Circus') are some of the best of Sylvester and Tweety.
While not quite hilarious in the new footage (the cartoons referenced in the flashbacks are hilarious when the material is especially great), the gags are at least fun and amusing, with lively timing, while the dialogue has a good amount of sharpness and wit. Liked Sylvester and the psychiatrist together, they are a funny pair and there is also heart to their relationship. Likewise with the classic pairing of Sylvester and Tweety, regardless of what people's perception of Tweety is (like him personally)
Tweety in the cartoons referenced is amusing and avoids being too cutesy, though Sylvester has a stronger personality. The most interesting and funniest character is Sylvester, he takes the laughs to very funny effect and is suitably cunning but one roots for him too. The psychiatrist is also fun and the ending is wonderfully crazy.
Generally, the animation could have been so much worse considering the period. It is very colourful and there is lots of fluidity and detail here.
Am more of a Carl Stalling person myself, but Milt Franklyn's music is full of energy and lush and clever orchestration, while not quite enhancing the action that Stalling did so consistently brilliantly Franklyn's music always added a lot.
Mel Blanc very rarely put a foot wrong, he was an unequalled master at giving individuality to more than one (often multiple) character, always sounded like he was having fun and never phoned it in when his material was weak. As ever he is outstanding and clearly was enjoying himself a lot, helped by that his dialogue allowed him to do so.
Overall, above average. 6/10 Bethany Cox
'Tweet Dreams' is not one of Friz Freleng's best overall, though it's hardly a misfire, and there are better Sylvester cartoons. To me though, it is still very entertaining and above average that captures the spirit of classic Looney Tunes very well, though the Sylvester and Tweety clips in the flashbacks are much stronger in animation quality and humour than the new footage. It is a middling Sylvester cartoon, around low middle as far as his outings with Tweety goes, and the same goes for Freleng.
Is 'Tweet Dreams' a perfect cartoon? No. The story is pretty simplistic and predictable, most of it is flashbacks shown in clip form strung together (so if anybody considers the cartoon a "cheater" it is understandable), and budget limitations and time constraints is sometimes evident in some roughness here and there in the new footage, it's great in the clips though.
There is a lot to enjoy though. The plot is fairly standard but has tremendous energy and enough freshness and amusement to keep one interested. The cartoons featured in the flashbacks in clips are terrific and not treated cheaply surprisingly, it helps that a few of them (especially 'Gift Wrapped' and 'Tweety's Circus') are some of the best of Sylvester and Tweety.
While not quite hilarious in the new footage (the cartoons referenced in the flashbacks are hilarious when the material is especially great), the gags are at least fun and amusing, with lively timing, while the dialogue has a good amount of sharpness and wit. Liked Sylvester and the psychiatrist together, they are a funny pair and there is also heart to their relationship. Likewise with the classic pairing of Sylvester and Tweety, regardless of what people's perception of Tweety is (like him personally)
Tweety in the cartoons referenced is amusing and avoids being too cutesy, though Sylvester has a stronger personality. The most interesting and funniest character is Sylvester, he takes the laughs to very funny effect and is suitably cunning but one roots for him too. The psychiatrist is also fun and the ending is wonderfully crazy.
Generally, the animation could have been so much worse considering the period. It is very colourful and there is lots of fluidity and detail here.
Am more of a Carl Stalling person myself, but Milt Franklyn's music is full of energy and lush and clever orchestration, while not quite enhancing the action that Stalling did so consistently brilliantly Franklyn's music always added a lot.
Mel Blanc very rarely put a foot wrong, he was an unequalled master at giving individuality to more than one (often multiple) character, always sounded like he was having fun and never phoned it in when his material was weak. As ever he is outstanding and clearly was enjoying himself a lot, helped by that his dialogue allowed him to do so.
Overall, above average. 6/10 Bethany Cox
Join the 6/10 bandwagon.
lukeneedssand26 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Honestly a lot of people could fault this cartoon a lot for being a package-feature and somewhat lazy, and I completely understand that. But this cartoon does it so much better than even some bugs bunny cartoons. The plot seems more cohesive and progressive, and you feel like your laughing and watching a story unfold before your eyes. This is more of a sylvester only cartoon more than anything, and I like seeing the perspective of sylvester with more text than usual. The parts I think do work is the sylvester Jr clip, (however that just makes me want a sylvester jr and tweety cartoon), It works and doesn't go on for two much. The part that doesn't work is the transition from the Vet to "I decided to go strolling in the circus" because that feels quite lazy to me, and maybe the part from sandy claws goes along for a little too long as well.
However I can't undeniably hate it, and it's definitely not among the worst of any of the looney tunes, and feels like an earned Package feature.
However I can't undeniably hate it, and it's definitely not among the worst of any of the looney tunes, and feels like an earned Package feature.
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