Hop, Look and Listen (1948) User Reviews

Another good cartoon with Sylvester but not Tweetie

[Mightyzebra · 8/10 · 25 June 2010]

Don't get me wrong, I love Tweetie, but I'm so used to associating Sylvester with Tweety that I find it good to watch cartoons with Sylvester and different characters once in a while.

This particular Looney Tunes episode features a joey kangaroo, in a zoo, who manages to hop out of his mother's pouch, out of the zoo cage and into the big wide world. After one or two scrapes with humans, the joey arrives at Sylvester's house, where the cat is using a fishing rod to pick up mice (yes, very strange...). Finding the place where the mice live, the joey tugs on Sylvester's line and soon he's up against one big mouse!! At least, he thinks it's a mouse...

I enjoyed this episode because of some of the remarks from Sylvester, the very cute joey and the way the cartoon turns out in the end. The episode was quite slapsticky and predictable in places but I liked it all the same.

I recommend this episode to people who love Sylvester, to people who like a mixture of slapstick and verbal jokes in Looney Tunes and to people who like Looney Tunes in general. Enjoy "Hop, Look and Listen"! :-)

Nice and entertaining

[TheLittleSongbird · 8/10 · 27 June 2011]

While I am not the biggest fan of the Sylvester vs.Hoppity cartoons, there have been some that I have liked very much and Hop, Look and Listen is one of them. Sure some of the cartoon is very slapsticky and predictable particularly in the middle and Sylvester's character animation lacks consistency here. However, the colours and backgrounds are very nice and colourful, and I loved the quirkiness and energy of the music. Sylvester has some very witty and funny quips, and Hoppity the baby kangaroo is very cute and has the more entertaining visual moments towards the beginning. Mel Blanc does a fine job with the voice characterisations and he always did. In conclusion, a very nice and entertaining cartoon. 8/10 Bethany Cox

"I never thought just being a pussycat could get so complicated!"

[utgard14 · 7/10 · 11 September 2015]

For my money, the best Sylvester cartoons which didn't have Tweety are the ones with the character who makes his debut in this cartoon, Hippety Hopper. For those who don't know, Hippety Hopper is a young kangaroo who is mistaken by Sylvester for an extra large mouse. Robert McKimson, director of this short, created the character and would find some clever ways to rework the same jokes over the years so they stayed funny. This first one is pretty simple and not the best of the bunch but it is good. Hippety escapes from a zoo and makes his way to Sylvester's house, where the cat is terrified by the sight of "a giant-sized mouse." Mike the bulldog gets in on the act and forces Sylvester to try and fight the mouse, due to "professional pride." The animation is colorful with well-drawn characters and backgrounds. The music is upbeat and jaunty. The legendary Mel Blanc handles the voice work and does a fantastic job, as always. The dialogue and gags are funny and the characters are likable. A must-see for Sylvester fans.

This sports short tells what can happen . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 17 November 2015]

. . . when one side gets over-confident. In the Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" HOP, LOOK AND LISTEN, a penguin-colored house cat and a gray side-yard dog make up the home team. An Unweaned Kangaroo (just escaped from Mama's pouch and the zoo) stands in as the Lone Visitor. Yet the baby marsupial prevails over the defending champs at every turn. (Clearly, "Hippety Hopper" enjoys a few genetic advantages, like the last couple dozen Boston Marathon winners.) Cat and dog are forced here to retreat in disarray. Today's sports pages are full of similar instances of hubris. Take the Green Bay Packers, for instance. They won the first pair of Super Bowls ever staged back in the 1900s, and started this fall's season with six straight triumphs. Sunday they hosted a Detroit Lions bunch which has NEVER gotten a whiff of a Super Bowl; which was sporting a dismal 1 - 7 mark; and which had not prevailed over the Packers in Wisconsin since Millard Fillmore occupied the White House. Yet "The Pack" cracked at the prospect of rolling over this "Gimme," just as the cat and dog quailed at what they mistook for a giant mouse. As Sylvester and the Packers can tell you, sometimes the "mouse" roars!

Fly-fishing for mice actually makes a lot of sense, as demonstrated by . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 4 June 2021]

. . . Sylvester Cat in HOP, LOOK AND LISTEN. Mice are notorious for bolting down their food. For instance, if you give a mouse a cookie, he'll eat the rest of the batch in an instant. Therefore, when this sneaky rodent scarfs down a baited hook, he's quite likely to be snagged to the quick deep down. With any luck, when the line is yanked out, the mouse's mud vein will be extracted, too, with the rest of his guts. Many diners have complained about having a bad experience when they tried to serve broiled mice under glass. Such carping is almost universally due to a failure to remove or a botched job of excising little Mickey's mud vein.

Typically tepid McKimson effort

[archiveguy · 5/10 · 22 October 2000]

Though there are some funny Sylvester vs. the kangaroo shorts, this really isn't one of them. In fact, the best parts are when the kangaroo wanders around town before the cat even shows up. Plus, Sylvester looks particularly mangy here.