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Film Title: Three Little Pigs

 Best for ages: 6 and up.

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Year Released: 1933

Rated: G (US)

SYNOPSIS

Click Here Everyone knows the story of The Three Little Pigs, one built a house of stray, the other sticks and the other built a big brick house. The first two pigs made fun of the third pig for working all day to make a brick house, he told them they will be coming to his house when the big bad wolf comes around, and sure enough he does, and blows their houses down. The two little pigs make there way to the third little pigs house and hide in the solid brick house, where they send the big bad wolf back to the woods where he came from. This DVD also features another short called The Big Bad Wolf, which is the whole Little Red Riding Hood story with the Three Little Pigs involved. Other shorts on the DVD include Three Little Wolves, Lambert The Sheepish Lion, Chicken Little, Three Blind Mouseketeers and Elmer Elephant.

VIOLENCE/GRAPHIC CONTENT/language

   The Three Little Pigs has a few things of concern for parents.  I did a little experiment and let my two year old daughter watch this one. She knows the story, because I've read it to her. I found that she was not bothered much when the wolf was chasing the pigs and grabbing them by their tales, but she got upset when the pigs would hit the wolf in the face or pull the carpet out from under his feet and he would fall. What really made her get upset was when the wolf went down the chimney and landed in a pot of turpentine which sent him flying back up the chimney and running back off into the wood. I simply explained to her that is he was ok, just hurt his bottom, and she seemed to understand.   Other things I noticed was the in the beginning of the short tow of the pigs talk about what they will do to the wolf when they see him, saying they' skin him alive and make shotgun motions towards the screen. Other than that its your typical animated violence.

    The Big Bad Wolf I also let my daughter watch, after viewing the Three Little Pigs she got the idea that the Big Bad Wolf was the bad guy and that he was sneaky. When she first saw him again she said that wolf is bad, and laughed. This short is probably just as dumbed down with animated violence as Three Little Pigs was. We have the wolf locking Grandma in her am war, and tricking the three little pigs and Little Red Riding Hood so he can catch and eat them. He salivates when he sees them and misleads them. But in the end, they stick popcorn in his pants and hot coals and send him running while his bottom burns and popcorn flys out of his pants.

   Three Little Wolves starts off with a lesson on how to carve a pig, where the big bad wolf is holding a knife to a diagram of a pig and the three little wolves are learning. They throw a rock at the wolf and all sing and dance as the big bad wolf gets upset. When the wolf goes off, one of the little pigs grabs a gun and come running only to have a bunch of apples fall on his head as part of a joke played on him by the other two pigs. As always the wolf tries to trick the pigs by dressing up as someone. He tricks two of the pigs back to his hideout where the wolves get ready to prep the pigs to eat them. The pigs get scared and run, but are jumped by the little wolves who chase them with a meat clever and beat on them and hog tie them to be cooked. But as always the third pig comes to the rescue, gun in hand before the other two pigs are cooked and carved up. Before the big bad wolf is about to put the pigs into the fire, the third pig shows up with a new invention meant to take care of the wolf, in which the wolf is subject to a major beating by the invention, and is even tarred and feathered. He then fires his gun at the little wolves and they go running.

   Lambert The Sheepish Lion starts off with a stork running into a tree. We see a bunch of baby lams run off to their parents and then a small lion cub runs to a mother sheep that does not have a young one. There really is not much violence in this one at all, but the baby lion is treated as an outcast by the other sheep because he is different. He tries to pick playful fight with the sheep but they beat him up and toss him in the air. As Lambert becomes older, the sheep still pick on him even ramming him in the bottom into a pond. But when the big bad wolf comes hunting for sheep Lambert is at first scared, but as his mother is about to be dragged away as a meal for the wolves and the other sheep go run and hide at the fearful sounds of his mothers screams, as she is cornered on a cliff.  Lambert's lion instincts kick in and he goes after the wolves throwing one off the cliff and sending the others running for the hill's He is then accepted by the other sheep and is honored for it.

   Chicken Little starts off with a large rooster smoking, while others drink and gamble. They all drink, smoke and have a good time dancing. On the outskirts of the coop, a Fox is looking for a meal and had found his way into the coop, As he looks around we see a gun on the famers porch. The plots his way into the coop by blowing cigar smoke at Chicken Little and bumping him on the head. Chicken Little's yo-yo hits him in the face. As he explains that the sky must be falling the elder roaster takes a board with a star on it, throws it over the fence where it hits the fox in the head revealing a bump. A bunch of drunk ducks spread a rumor that fox tells the ducks, about the sky falling. The elder chicken is hit in the head with a star. The fox tricks all the roosters and chickens into a cave where the film cuts to the fox eating a chicken bone, It ends with a shot of a chicken bone graveyard and the fox with a stuffed belly.

   Three Blind Mouseketeers shows three blind mouse with swords in hand practicing their sword fighting skills. They go looking for cheese where a evil cat has set up a bunch of mouse traps for them.  The mice come very close to being killed by the traps but manage to avoid them at the very last second. They collect their cheese and drink wine, while the cat dreams of firing a cannon at them, and then is hit in the head with the corks. Frustrated the cat tries to catch the mice by putting bowls over them and stabbing them with a knife. He is then poked in the face with a sword by one of the mice. One of the mice gets his tale caught in a floor board and is about to be taken out by the cat, but he falls into a table where he is hit multiple times with corks from the wine bottles and becomes a victim if his own mouse traps and ends up going though a window.

   Elmer Elephant is another short about acceptance. We see at a birthday party Elmer gets cake blown into his face while the others laugh at him. As he sits down other animals make fun of him by impersonating him then beating him up, even throwing him down a hill though a fence where a bunch of coconuts fall on his head. Elmer is upset because his trunk is so big that he wanders off and tries to make his trunk smaller. But after befriending a giraffe with a long neck he learns to except his trunk. All the kids who make fun of him are then in a lot of trouble when a fire breaks out at the party, and little flame people attack everyone even the fire dept. monkeys. In come the animals with oddities, along with Elmer who puts water in his trunk and puts out the flames. As a little tiger girl is about to fall to her doom Elmer saves her with his big trunk, and of course at the end the two share a kiss on the lips.

OVERALL VIEWS

   I know I'm repeating myself with all six of these Classic Disney shorts Discs, but like I said these cartoons were produced in a time where there was no MPAA to monitor the movies, and cartoons could show anything like smoking, drinking and fighting. With this Disc however I did let my two year old daughter watch the first two shorts to see what her reaction would be to them, and while she seemed to enjoy them some of the things that were done to the big bad wolf did scare her a bit, so it's safe to say that young kids might not understand that animated violence won't hurt the cartoons but will hurt them. I still recommend that you only show these discs to children over the age of six or seven. Despite some of the violence in the cartoons they are Disney classics and should not be forgotten.

   The DVD includes seven classic Disney shorts and the Disney Fast Play feature, English, French, and Spanish Subtitles are also available on the disc. The Disc also come with a collectible Litho Print.

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