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7/10
Eats Are West is another Felix the Cat cartoon that was pretty amusing
tavm15 December 2008
Warning: Spoilers
Felix is starving. He goes to The Tea Room where-with the help of the question mark over his head-he drinks some tea from the restaurant sign which is in the shape of a tea bowl! That gets him chased out by the owner so he next encounters a billboard sign that advertises Mammy's Flap Jacks with the Mammy showing her plate of such on there. Felix takes those literally from there leaving the woman to chase him! The cat-through an exclamation mark and using the flap jacks as wheels-then rides an escape from her before then using an exclamation point from his head and using one of the gate wood he crashed in to fly away. Still hungry, he finds a Pony Express rider and steals the food from there which doesn't make the cowboys happy as they find him in the bag which results in a violent skirmish. He then takes a rope and makes it into a horse which then deteriorates into just string from being ridden so much! Having now gotten away he runs into some Indians (the Native American kind) and is now a target for food as one of them is tired of just soup! During the fight, Felix uses his guns to literally take one squaw man to pieces! After escaping there (by an arrow that hit his tail), he finds a wooden store Indian and shoots holes in it before getting arrested. The end. The beginning with the tea drinking and the taking the flap jacks from billboard was pretty amusing before the not-so-funny action sequences abounded. Then there was the rope-becoming-horse and Indian-cut-to-pieces bit that wonderfully surprised me near the end that saved the cartoon for me. So for that, I'm recommending Eats Are West for Felix fans.
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5/10
Mammy loses her flapjacks...
planktonrules28 January 2017
I have seen many dozen of the early Felix the Cat cartoons and because I am missing a few, I am glad I got the new DVD from Alpha Video and the collection of John Carpenter, as it featured several shorts I haven't been able to find elsewhere.

This Felix the Cat cartoon does not have added sound effects-- something that was done to many of the silent cartoons though there is added music. This is a plus here because the Felix cartoons are sometimes hellishly bad once they had the sound effects added! Just having a musical score is a good thing, believe me!

In this installment Felix steals some pancakes from a 'Mammy's Pancake Mix' sign. While this is pretty funny in some ways, the racist depiction of black folks is problematic when seen today. To avoid her, Felix travels to the wild west--but his problems only get worse with cowboys and Indians constantly shooting at him.

Overall, this is just an okay short--funny at times but often just seeing him getting shot at IS the joke. Not bad but a bit below average for the Felix series.

By the way, you see a swastika on one of the Indian teepees. DON'T freak out--this symbol is thousands of years old and was used by Indians in India as well as in the United States. Relax!!
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