All the Cats Join In (1946)

Overrated and overhyped

Great Film overall

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Originally part of the movie Make Mine Music, this cartoon was released later on its own as a theatrical short. This was a sheer delight from start to finish. It's a creative, energetic cartoon with great Benny Goodman music. The gist of it is that we watch as a pencil draws some 1940s teens gathering together at a malt shop to dance to big band music. It's a very fun short that put a big smile on my face. Surprisingly, it's even got some sex appeal as the shapely teenage girl undresses in silhouette, showers, and towels off with her bare back to us. Pretty risqué stuff for a cartoon made in 1946. It's one of my favorite parts of Make Mine Music. See the entire movie if you can. If not, seek this particular short out and smile a few minutes of your life away.

Featured memorably in "Make Mine Music" this is one cool and jazzy cartoon. The animation is clever and sophisticated, with nice backgrounds and excellent movements. The story is good, even if it is really an example of a combination cartoon, but it works effectively.What makes this cartoon though is the wonderful soundtrack. I like this sort of jazz, there have been times when I have not liked it, but jazz like all the forms of music is like marmite you either love it or hate it. As I've said I loved it here, it sticks in your head even after a long while.Overall, this is a cool, jazzy(and catty)cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox

All right, Goodman was Big Band and not jazz and except for a few small pieces within, his music was rigorously orchestrated. But the thought of improvisation flows through this movie, from the hot, hot score to the fact that the characters and backgrounding are drawn just instants before they go into action -- sometimes to humorous effect when a girl is drawn at first with heavy thighs and sometimes with a tremendous amount of sexuality -- yes, this is a cartoon -- when the teenager comes out of the shower just as the towel on the towel rack is being drawn.It would all vanish within few years as the classically trained musicians who made jazz into Big Band got slammed by rising costs and then the rise of rock and roll. Enjoy the remnants here.

All the Cats Join In is a "cool" animated short with "hip" music! It shows how kids and/or cats used to interact back in the old days (being that this animated short was released in 1946). The music and the animation in "All the Cats Join In" will add a smile to any kids face. I therefore would highly recommend this "short" for kids and disney fans. You will see this cartoon on the Disney channel or by renting or purchasing Make Mine Music. So be a "cool cat" and watch "All the Cats Join In"!