Boring, long, and too preachy.

Beautiful, moving film.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It is always interesting to see Warner Brothers cartoons featuring characters that are not the classic ones we know and love and are iconic in animation history.'Three Little Bops' is one of the finest examples of an animated masterpiece. It is so well made, so fun, so energetic and so cool with phenomenal music and impeccable timing that that the story is a slight one, and basically a gags matched to music experience, is completely forgotten while watching. Proof that when it comes to Warner Brothers animation, one does not need the likes of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck present to make it a good cartoon, with 'Three Little Bops' being on par with the best of their cartoons (high praise indeed and to me warranted).As to be expected, the animation is great with beautiful colours and meticulous detail. The characters are drawn well with smooth movement. The music is phenomenal (being a music/gag-oriented cartoon, this component being good was essential to as whether the cartoon would work), making one sing along, tap their feet and get up and dance and it is just so infectious as well.Furthermore, there is just so much energy and the gags are impeccably timed and often extremely funny and always clever.Here, the characters are a joy. Especially the wolf, the funniest and most interesting character. Stan Freberg does a wonderful job here, some of the best work he ever did.In conclusion, so much fun and so cool, a masterpiece (not a word often thrown around lately for me). 10/10 Bethany Cox

Jazz, 1950s style, takes precedence in this cartoon of the "The Three Little Pigs" who are jazz musicians. They're good, too, on sax, drums, piano with a bass handy, if needed. The whole cartoon is told in song, with Stan Freberg doing his best to sound jazzy as he sings the story. It actually sounds more like very early rock 'n roll.The story is basically a hip-dressed wolf who enters the club, hears the pigs and wants to join in with his trumpet. The pigs are nice guys and can't say "no" but when the wolf starts blowing his horn, well, it ain't' good. As Fregerg sings, "The three little pigs were really gassed; they never heard such a corny blast."The pigs tell the wolf, "We've played in the West; we've played in the East, we've heard 'the most,' but you're 'the least!' They escort the wolf out. He winds up blowing the house of straw down!This happens in several places as the pigs entertain elsewhere, each time the wolf coming in and getting thrown out for his horrible playing until the pigs finally build a place made out of bricks ("made in 1776" - each line is rhyme in this cartoon.)It's this kind of dialog and singing (along with the dress-ware of the musicians) that makes this cartoon just a huge hoot to watch and hear. I loved it! It was different from anything else I've seen on these Looney Tunes collections. I felt like I was in a jazz club back in the '50s or at a Bill Haley rock 'n roll concert. This is one cartoon I will play over and over.

"Three Little Bops" is one of my favorite Warner Bros. cartoons, and not just because I am a jazz musician. This cartoon, under the direction of Friz Freleng, is a delightfully funny jazz adaptation of the Three Little Pigs story. The three pigs play some hard-driving swing music that cannot be resisted by anyone wishing to dance, but the trumpet-blowing Big Bad Wolf repeatedly tries to sit in uninvited, and he proves he can't play worth beans. After getting kicked out of the first two jazz clubs (made respectively of straw and sticks), the wolf succeeds in blowing them down with his trumpet. Since he cannot blow down the third club (made of bricks), he tries to blow it up with a TNT keg, and he ends up blowing himself up instead. While burning inside a cooking pot in Hades, he is finally able to play the trumpet satisfactorily! So many things about this cartoon are funny: the musical narration throughout, as well as the rhythmic dialogue of the pigs and the wolf (all vocal characterizations well-performed by Stan Freberg); the wolf dancing, turning pages in the music, and playing the trumpet badly (a challenge for the great jazzman Shorty Rogers); the piano-playing pig forming a square to indicate the quality of the wolf's trumpet playing; the numerous sound effects created by different instruments; the crowd of people all in sync on the dance floor; the wolf in a marching band uniform pounding a bass drum and in a woman's coat playing the Charleston dance on the ukulele; and the wolf finally playing a fine jazz trumpet solo while boiling in a pot in Hades.Friz Freleng was a music lover, hence he incorporated music as a vital component in his cartoons. "Three Little Bops" is a definite musical gem in the Warner Bros. cartoon library, and I must highly recommend this film for all fans of cartoons and music.

This is a jazzy little cartoon, taking the Three Little Pigs and making them a Jazz combo, consisting of a guitar, drums and piano. The Big Bad Wolf wants to join in on a jam session. He's really bad and a square, so the Pigs tell him to scram. The cartoon focuses on his attempts to join in. The music is great, the narration is sung (by Stan Freberg) and the ending is excellent. The crowd goes wild and the land saw much rejoicing! They just don't make 'em like this anymore! Great cartoon and more than worth your time. Highly Recommended.