Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot are characters from Warner Bros. that appeared in 4 short movies between 1952 and 1958 (they also made cameo appearances in other series but I will limit here to the series where they are the protagonists). The movies are different but the stories always involve Marc Anthony, who is a big brown bulldog protecting and being affectionate to Pussyfoot, a small black and white kitten.

A little parenthesis here: I didn't know about Marc Anthony before looking for and watching these shorts (I probably could have watched this on TV as a kid but I can't remember), but Pussyfoot is a common stationery character here where I live (I don't know if she is like that in USA). So I was pretty surprised to find out that she had her own animation series but at the same time I am disappointed that this duo didn't appear in a TV series or full length film.

Anyway, back to the main topic. Since the movies feature the same characters, similar story and are short movies I'll talk about them in this same section.

n the first short, Feed the Kitty (which is pictured here), Marc Anthony finds Pussyfoot in his yard and tries to scare her off but she wasn't scared of him and instead he ends up loving her (who wouldn't?) and brings her home as a pet. The whole short is about Marc Anthony trying to hide the cat from his owner who is tired of tidying up his messes at the house. In my opinion this short is the most charming of the 4 and also my favourite, so I wholeheartedly recommend it.

The second short, Kiss me Cat, is about Marc Anthony trying to prove to his owner that Pussyfoot can hunt a mouse so that she can stay in the house. Even though I disagree that kittens can't hunt just because they are cute (these people never saw a tiny angry furry thing) it has some pretty fun scenes.

The third short, Feline Frame-up, features another Warner's character, Claude the cat. I'm gonna straight up say that I didn't like this short at all and is pretty stupid (Tom and Jerry's level of stupidness). In this series I think that Claude also belongs to the human couple, alongside Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot, because the episode begins with Claude kicking Pussyfoot off her bed and the rest of the film is about Marc Anthony trying to avenge Pussyfoot/deliberately hurting him. Did Claude was being a jerk kicking Pussyfoot off her pillow? Yes, but does this justify the gratuitous cartoon violence toward cats? No. Anyone who owns more than one cat knows that they can fight a lot, especially because of sleeping places, but it's like a sibling fight and Marc Anthony fighting back to Claude would be the same as a mom hurting one of her kids because they fought. So I wouldn't recommend this short.

The fourth short, Cat Feud, has Hector the Bulldog instead of Marc Anthony and Claude the Cat. The story is a mix of the 1st and 3rd shorts, it starts with Hector finding Pussyfoot in a construction site (I assume he is a guard dog), trying to scare her, loving her and protecting her. Then appears Claude, this time as a hungry stray cat, that tries to steal Pussyfoot's lunch and as, you probably guessed, Hector assaults him. I don't have much more to say about this short than that I didn't like and wouldn't recommend it.

Overall the pair Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot is great (it was even referenced in the Pixar's Monsters SA movie), the art is beautiful as expected of the era and the OST is ok-ish but I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with these animators for enjoying a cat being assaulted on TV. So, do yourself a favour and watch only the first two shorts.

Note: Marc Anthony also appears alone in one short and both make cameo appearances in other shows but my point here is cats as main characters so I didn't cover these.

This short movie is part of Disney's Silly Symphony, which is a series of short animation movies each featuring charming music (the title is pretty much self-explanatory). Since this movie is only 7 minutes long there isn't much to review without spoiling everything, but I'll try.

The story is about three little kittens that were abandoned in a snowy night right in front of someone's lawn, then they managed to get inside the house without anyone noticing and do what every kitten knows best, wreak havoc! Despite this stupid beginning the kittens have an almost happy end, the OST is pretty good and the kittens are cute, but I recommend it? No, I'm pretty sensitive when it comes to portrayal of cats in the media so if a cat is hurt/mistreated I don't like it and even though it's mild I didn't like some stuff that happened on this short. So, I'd only recommend it for completion purposes.

The Robber Kitten is another episode of the Silly Symphony by Disney. This episode is really short, so the review will be shorter as to not spoil everything The story is about Ambrose, a humanoid kitty that wishes to be a robber and doesn't want to take a bath, so He runs away from home (he also calls himself Butch for some reason). Since it's a Silly Symphony, it features a song, this time with lyrics.

I think that Ambrose design was cute, even though I don't like humanoid cats very much, except his glove's hands (it's weird how he is the only character in this short that isn't fully clothed). But if you were to replace him with a boy, it'll have no difference in the story since he just behaves like a human instead of a cat (even the part that he doesn't want to bathe). The song was alright (I didn't like it much), and the art is good. The only The weird part is how Ambrose's mom is literally a woman with a cat head, she doesn't have a tail, and her arms are furless, so she is really weird and ugly. Otherwise, is a decent short with a moral at the end.

The Three Little Kittens is a short cartoon made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adapted from the nursery rhyme of the Three Little Kittens who lost their mittens. The short won the 1940's Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

The story is about the three little kittens that, after having lost their mittens are sent straight to bed by their mother without milk (dinner, I suppose), so they decide to go on a trip to the Milky Way, where everything is actually made of milk. The short has a narrator singing about the situation where the kittens are (just like other old Cartoon shorts like Silly Symphony) and has some scenes that it shows the cartoon as part of the pages of a book, to make It looks more like a nursery rhyme, I think. The art is also lovely and the kittens look very cat-like, even though they're humanoid cats.

I think that this short is lovely; it's the best that I've seen since I started this review page and I recommend it (I totally get why it won an Oscar).

The Alley Cat is a short by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that stars a male black cat named Butch and a female white cat named Toodles Galore, which you may recognize has recurring characters of Tom and Jerry Cartoon. This short was their debut.

Breaking the usual pattern of my reviews here, I'll start saying that I do not recommend (unless you like Tom and Jerry, but if you Like Tom and Jerry, you wouldn't like cats given how he is mistreated in the series), and the review will contain spoilers. The story starts with Butch, an alley cat, trying to seduce a Toodles, a rich cat that lives in an apartment and has a butler. The Butler gets annoyed by the constant meowing of Butch (that sounds like Donald Duck for no reason) and constantly sends their bulldog to chase him down, but Butch always outsmarts the dog until a moment when the butler accidentally hits the dog and his dog starts to chase him. Butch went to the house with Toodles, and they dance together, the end. The butler also managed to ruin the house. while trying to chase off Butch.

The good point of this short is that the cats get a good ending and that Toodles likes a cat instead of a mouse (just like in Tom and Jerry, which is weird and doesn't make any sense, but this isn't a review about Tom and Jerry, so I'll resume my complaining here lol). The bad part is everything else; it's the owner's fault (the butler) that a male cat is wooing his cat and he should have spayed her to prevent this, also it makes no sense to try to hurt another cat when you already have one, so he is a hypocrite. At least he got his just deserts in the end (which is the reason I didn't give it a lower score).