Three Little Bops
Three Little Bops
NR | 04 January 1957 (USA)
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Three hip, Little Pigs are travelling entertainers, moving from straw to wood, to brick nightclubs, playing swinging tunes for high-class, "with it" crowds, but an uncool Big Bad Wolf keeps intruding on their act with with his "corny horn" and uses it to blow their nightclubs down when they throw him out- until they are playing in their brick club and the Wolf tries a more drastic, explosive method for destroying the "House of Bricks".

Reviews
Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
TheLittleSongbird It is always interesting to see Warner Brothers cartoons featuring characters that are not the classic ones we know and love and are iconic in animation history.'Three Little Bops' is one of the finest examples of an animated masterpiece. It is so well made, so fun, so energetic and so cool with phenomenal music and impeccable timing that that the story is a slight one, and basically a gags matched to music experience, is completely forgotten while watching. Proof that when it comes to Warner Brothers animation, one does not need the likes of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck present to make it a good cartoon, with 'Three Little Bops' being on par with the best of their cartoons (high praise indeed and to me warranted).As to be expected, the animation is great with beautiful colours and meticulous detail. The characters are drawn well with smooth movement. The music is phenomenal (being a music/gag-oriented cartoon, this component being good was essential to as whether the cartoon would work), making one sing along, tap their feet and get up and dance and it is just so infectious as well.Furthermore, there is just so much energy and the gags are impeccably timed and often extremely funny and always clever.Here, the characters are a joy. Especially the wolf, the funniest and most interesting character. Stan Freberg does a wonderful job here, some of the best work he ever did.In conclusion, so much fun and so cool, a masterpiece (not a word often thrown around lately for me). 10/10 Bethany Cox
JohnHowardReid Why this absolutely brilliant 1957 "Looney Tunes" entry was not nominated for an Academy Award, I'll never know. In a 1992 television viewers' poll, it was deservedly voted one of the best twenty cartoons in the whole Warner Brothers' repertoire.For once, the UPA cartoon style isn't employed by the Warner artists simply because it's flavor of the month, but because it's highly suited to the subject matter. The backgrounds and the character animation all perfectly compliment the up-beat vocal.No matter how many times you watch and listen to "The Three Little Bops", repeated viewing does little to lessen the impact of its cleverly off-beat visual and verbal humor.
slymusic "Three Little Bops" is one of my favorite Warner Bros. cartoons, and not just because I am a jazz musician. This cartoon, under the direction of Friz Freleng, is a delightfully funny jazz adaptation of the Three Little Pigs story. The three pigs play some hard-driving swing music that cannot be resisted by anyone wishing to dance, but the trumpet-blowing Big Bad Wolf repeatedly tries to sit in uninvited, and he proves he can't play worth beans. After getting kicked out of the first two jazz clubs (made respectively of straw and sticks), the wolf succeeds in blowing them down with his trumpet. Since he cannot blow down the third club (made of bricks), he tries to blow it up with a TNT keg, and he ends up blowing himself up instead. While burning inside a cooking pot in Hades, he is finally able to play the trumpet satisfactorily! So many things about this cartoon are funny: the musical narration throughout, as well as the rhythmic dialogue of the pigs and the wolf (all vocal characterizations well-performed by Stan Freberg); the wolf dancing, turning pages in the music, and playing the trumpet badly (a challenge for the great jazzman Shorty Rogers); the piano-playing pig forming a square to indicate the quality of the wolf's trumpet playing; the numerous sound effects created by different instruments; the crowd of people all in sync on the dance floor; the wolf in a marching band uniform pounding a bass drum and in a woman's coat playing the Charleston dance on the ukulele; and the wolf finally playing a fine jazz trumpet solo while boiling in a pot in Hades.Friz Freleng was a music lover, hence he incorporated music as a vital component in his cartoons. "Three Little Bops" is a definite musical gem in the Warner Bros. cartoon library, and I must highly recommend this film for all fans of cartoons and music.
Robert Reynolds This is a jazzy little cartoon, taking the Three Little Pigs and making them a Jazz combo, consisting of a guitar, drums and piano. The Big Bad Wolf wants to join in on a jam session. He's really bad and a square, so the Pigs tell him to scram. The cartoon focuses on his attempts to join in. The music is great, the narration is sung (by Stan Freberg) and the ending is excellent. The crowd goes wild and the land saw much rejoicing! They just don't make 'em like this anymore! Great cartoon and more than worth your time. Highly Recommended.