ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

nodogthebest Robert Clampett's "Porky's Poor Fish" is a point in Clampett's career where you can tell he just didn't care about what he produced anymore, and it really shows in this cartoon. A generic cat villain, loads of really bad, predictable puns (guess what pun they used for "Mussels"...and they used it twice as well), and a song number that just seems to pad out the cartoon to fill the time limit.Porky is also at his worst here. His only lines suffer from being the same bad, predictable puns like a lot of other things in the cartoon. He appears for a total of about 30 seconds! I'm guessing Clampett did this just to fulfill a contract or something similar.I'm only giving this 2 stars because I like Carl Stalling's score and there's some good animation in here as well. Otherwise, I'd say you should definitely skip watching this.

Tad Pole " . . . I'm a little pig," the swinish Porky tells viewers as he departs the screen halfway through this animated short, which can be found labeled as PORKY'S POOR FISH STORYBOARD REEL in the "From the Vault" section of the "Special Features" on Disc 4, Volume 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. We learn in the "Deleted Sequences" section appended to POOR FISH that catfish, dogfish, a turtle, and a crab all were axed from the final version of this Looney Tune (probably for use in some sort of gumbo dish). With all the creatures of the sea collaborating here to keep a cat from consuming a defenseless minnow, Warner Bros. seems to be anticipating the battle to save the World's Whales and Dolphins from Japan's Death Culture. (This recalls the scene from Oz in which the Wicked Witch of the West fails to electrocute Dorothy, so she orders Dot's dog Toto to be drowned in the river; Japan lost its quest for Asian Domination in World War Two, so it turned on Humanity's friendly Sea Mammal Friends and said "At least we can wipe you out!"). Japanese "scientists" outdo the Holocaust, Evolution, and Climate Change Deniers by alleging that that Star Trek flick that documents their assassination of the World's Last Whale is a Hoax. The only way that Porky Pig, with an assist from Captain James T. Kirk, can save our Mammals of the Seas it to Take the Pledge to only drive vehicles made by America's Big Two car companies.

Neil Doyle Some ingenious but corny gags involving flying fish that look like bomber planes and electric eels that light up to spell out warning messages play a huge part in the success of PORKY'S POOR FISH, but the pig himself is out to lunch.The shenanigans of a hungry cat with his eye on the fish store sets the pace for a fast-moving B&W cartoon with a number of sight gags (all pretty corny but fun to watch). The animation is good, although one misses seeing these sort of things in the vivid color used throughout most of the '40s and '50s cartoons.Not the funniest Porky the Pig, but it'll have to do--as seen on the Errol Flynn Signature Collection No.1.

ccthemovieman-1 Boy, the humor was corny back around 1940 but if you silly puns and such, it will make you laugh.Before this cartoon begins, we read that "This Screen Play is an adaptation of the World Famous Book "Twenty Thousand Leaks Under The Ceiling." Then we see a cat unsuccessfully chase a mouse followed by the graphic "Meanwhile -- The Shoppe Around the Corner." (Yes, it helps to know the movies of that day.)We see "Porky's Pete Fish Shoppe - Under New Mis-Management." Yup....the humor is strictly cornball. These corny signs are everywhere (i.e. ("Today's special: Little Shrimps with Big Mussels," "14-carat Goldfish," eels named "A.C. and D.C.," etc.) Actually, some of the puns with all the different kinds of fish are quite funny.The story occurs halfway through when that aforementioned cat walks by the fish show, after Porky leaves for lunch, sneaks in and thinks he's going to have a nice lunch himself. However.....In all, a pleasant cartoon that won't evoke a lot of big laughs but will have you smiling numerous times. It's a misnomer calling it a "Porky Pig" cartoon because he isn't in it for long. It was a feature on the Errol Flynn movie, Sea Hawk" DVD.