Edgar Allan Pooh . . . were an actual Religion worthy of tax-exempt status, or a dangerous cult to be banned from America, PORKY IN EGYP+ proves. The Looney Tunes crew clearly takes the latter side of this discussion, showing that the unintelligible call to "morning prayer" ACTUALLY is an invitation to illicit gambling, liaisons with streetwalkers of uncertain sex, and all manner of foreign decadence. (I'm just reporting what's documented on the screen: watch PORKY IN EGYP+ for yourself if you need further sordid details about masochistic public displays, bamboozled Western tourists, and so forth.) Porky searches for that "still, small voice of solitude" in the desert, but a hot sun makes our porcine friend hallucinate bag-piping camels and worse. No famous Americans such as Daniel Pearl were beheaded in the Mideast during the six or seven decades after PORKY IN EGYP+ broadcast Warner Bros.' warning against U.S. travel to this hostile region. Obviously, the past 20 years have seen Porky's Complaint increasingly forgotten or ignored. PORKY IN EGYP+ should be mandatory viewing for any American contemplating travel to Djibouti, Dubai, or Dearborn.

TheLittleSongbird I love the Looney Tunes cartoons(well a vast majority of them anyway), and while he is not one of my favourites I do like Porky Pig. Porky in Egypt is not one of the best, as the first two minutes or so are rather standard with not much that is funny and the story doesn't really go anywhere, but it is fun. It does have an oddball nature, which people may love and others may find themselves perplexed, for me there were times throughout where I was one or the other. This said, the animation is great with the black and white looking beautiful and everything looks fluid, I especially liked what was done with Humpty Bumpty's nightmarish vision. The music has some authentic flavour while having the manic characterful energy often distinctive in Looney Tunes. The humour has Bob Clampett written all over it, and it all feels fresh and witty with the gags cleverly timed. Porky is endearing here if a little bland compared to Humpty Bumpty the camel, who bags all the best moments that help to make him one of the best supporting characters of any of Porky's cartoons. Mel Blanc is excellent as always in his vocal characterisations. Overall, not one of Porky's best, but fun especially for Humpty Bumpty. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Lee Eisenberg One of Bob Clampett's many surreal cartoons has Porky Pig on vacation in Egypt, where he misses a tour. Boarding a camel, Porky travels through the desert, but the oppressive heat sends the camel into full-scale dementia! How funny to think of an American going to a foreign country expecting a really easy time, and this befalls him! Yes, "Porky in Egypt" mostly looks like a place holder in between the really great cartoons that in 1938 (aside from "Porky in Wackyland", others included "Daffy Duck in Hollywood"). But I still find it funny. And if I may say so, people often treat the desert as the least tolerable climate, but if you've ever experienced a hot humid climate such as the southeastern US, the desert actually feels quite nice.Anyway, worth seeing.

clem-5 A slightly inferior companion piece to the stunningly brilliant "Porky in Wackyland", the first two minutes of this cartoon are fairly standard (though good) Warner Bros pre-WW II animation fare. Then: the camel freaks out, succumbing to that "desert madness", and the proceedings get totally out of hand. Some of the best cartoon mania anywhere (and surely one of the sources to the rumor that all early animators loved hallucinogenics). Alas, to the best of my knowledge, the camel never followed up his star turn in this one.