It is a shame, because to me their cartoons generally were very enjoyable(though of course with some better than others) and I've never minded Tweety.
The Jet Cage is certainly not all bad. Milt Franklyn scored half of the cartoon before his sudden death and his contribution while nowhere near his best work, his music has been livelier rhythmically before, is lovely, his scoring is beautifully and vibrantly orchestrated and meshes well with the action. The gag with Tweety tricking Sylvester into letting go of the flaps is well-timed and quite funny, and there are two good lines, that of the crow and Sylvester's final line. June Foray also does a great job as Granny, despite not having very much. And The Jet Cage does try to do something different conceptually, the basic story itself is rather tired and formulaic but the idea is unlike anything else we've seen with Sylvester and Tweety before and it does boast some imagination.
Bill Lava's music contribution, which can be heard for the last two and a half minutes, is a real disappointment. Whereas Franklyn's music was melodious and quirky Lava's is rather lifeless and discordant and these two completely different styles of composition have a really jarring and quite ugly effect. The animation is also not particularly great, some colours are nice but others look a little flat and the drawing looks rough and really lacking in smoothness, like with Granny's character design here. Although the concept was great and occasionally imaginative, it wasn't enough to stop the cartoon from feeling rather tired and predictable(both story and pacing), while outside of two lines and the letting-go-of-the-flaps gag the humour wasn't all that memorable or funny and would have benefited from some sharper timing. The characters have also been much better written, Sylvester has been funnier and more interesting but he does at least try to inject some energy while Tweety is just a plot device with no standout material and Granny is wasted. Even Mel Blanc, one of the greatest voice artists of all time, sounded off, not sounding as if his heart was properly in it(he actually sounded really disengaged as Tweety) and his voice sounded oddly deeper, which was odd considering how consistently he voiced Sylvester and Tweety for 15 years up to that point.
Overall, rather lacklustre and possibly Sylvester and Tweety at their weakest(before seeing this least favourite was Tom Tom Tomcat). 4/10 Bethany Cox
The Jet Cage is certainly not all bad. Milt Franklyn scored half of the cartoon before his sudden death and his contribution while nowhere near his best work, his music has been livelier rhythmically before, is lovely, his scoring is beautifully and vibrantly orchestrated and meshes well with the action. The gag with Tweety tricking Sylvester into letting go of the flaps is well-timed and quite funny, and there are two good lines, that of the crow and Sylvester's final line. June Foray also does a great job as Granny, despite not having very much. And The Jet Cage does try to do something different conceptually, the basic story itself is rather tired and formulaic but the idea is unlike anything else we've seen with Sylvester and Tweety before and it does boast some imagination.
Bill Lava's music contribution, which can be heard for the last two and a half minutes, is a real disappointment. Whereas Franklyn's music was melodious and quirky Lava's is rather lifeless and discordant and these two completely different styles of composition have a really jarring and quite ugly effect. The animation is also not particularly great, some colours are nice but others look a little flat and the drawing looks rough and really lacking in smoothness, like with Granny's character design here. Although the concept was great and occasionally imaginative, it wasn't enough to stop the cartoon from feeling rather tired and predictable(both story and pacing), while outside of two lines and the letting-go-of-the-flaps gag the humour wasn't all that memorable or funny and would have benefited from some sharper timing. The characters have also been much better written, Sylvester has been funnier and more interesting but he does at least try to inject some energy while Tweety is just a plot device with no standout material and Granny is wasted. Even Mel Blanc, one of the greatest voice artists of all time, sounded off, not sounding as if his heart was properly in it(he actually sounded really disengaged as Tweety) and his voice sounded oddly deeper, which was odd considering how consistently he voiced Sylvester and Tweety for 15 years up to that point.
Overall, rather lacklustre and possibly Sylvester and Tweety at their weakest(before seeing this least favourite was Tom Tom Tomcat). 4/10 Bethany Cox