"Here Today, Gone Tamale" is the title of this 6-minute Warner Bros cartoon from 1959 and as such a pretty bad choice as this film has nothing to do with tamale. I guess at this point, they just tried to get in every play on words they could come up with and here it does look a bit embarrassing. But this is really the only thing that is wrong with this movie. Freleng, Maltese and Blanc deliver quality like they usually do. The mice are hungry, but Sylvester won't let them on his Dutch ship full with cheese. So if the mice can't get to the cheese, then the cheese needs to get to the mice and this is where Speedy comes into play. I felt a bit sorry for Sylvester, because he really only wanted to protect his property here or follow orders, but with the cute ending it is fine I guess, also for him. As a whole, this was one of the better Speedy Gonzalez cartoons I have seen. Some of them are not that good or funny, but this one here delivers and I recommend it.
Review of Here Today, Gone Tamale
