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6/10
Pig up
Prismark1030 December 2013
Although the Shrek films seems to have finished that does not mean the end of the various spin offs.

The Pig Who Cried Werewolf is a 6 minute 3D short made for Halloween directed by Gary Trousdale.

It is very much meant to ape the Disney shorts. It features the Three Little Pigs who find themselves in trouble when they ignore the warnings of the paranoid one Heimlich. He has concerns about their new neighbour, the wolf who takes on a sinister human form during a full moon.

The film is rather fun and subverts the werewolf films and yet invokes those Gothic European fairy tales.
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6/10
fun with the pigs
SnoopyStyle23 January 2017
Heimlich is brought home by his piggie friends Dieter and Chef. They're tired of his snooping around which resulted in a broken leg the last time. Wheelchair-bound Heimlich gets suspicious of the Wolf moving in next door but nobody else wants to hear it. In the moonlight, the Wolf turns into a big fat woman out to cook the three little pigs. The Wolf warns them to leave before he turns into her again.

This is a fun Halloween idea but it doesn't really wrap up. It has a bit of fun with the side characters and their relationships. It kinda works but only up to a point. The story needs a solution to Wolf's change.
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4/10
Mediocre new 3 pigs movie
Horst_In_Translation25 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
"The Pig Who Cried Werewolf" is an almost 5-year-old animated short film written and directed by Gary Trousdale. He made some of these little Shrek-related movies, but his by far most known work is still the 1990's classic "Beauty and the Beast". Anyway, this one here is an obvious spoof of Hitchcock's "Rear Window". A wheel-chaired pig suspects that the lady living next door is actually the big bad wolf in drag. The other 2 pigs do not take him seriously and pay the lady a visit in order to prove there is no danger there. Maybe not the best idea. I personally thought this short film wasn't really funny. It was wild, chaotic and over-the-top, but there is nothing memorable in here in terms of either animation or action. Not recommended, unless you are a huuuuge Shrek fan.
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8/10
Entertaining
mitsubishizero24 August 2019
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A simple premise that's done pretty well. The twist is pretty interesting on the usual werewolf transformation and it's done in a funny way. It's also a nod to the Alfred Hitchcock movie Vertigo in terms of the "Spying on the neighbor" motif. In fact that's what got one of the pigs in the hospital which puts him at odds when he tries to warn his two brothers. If you like short films then you'll definitely enjoy this because it's pretty entertaining.
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10/10
Spooky!
AnnaPagrati22 October 2021
Such a spooky little mini! It was so cute & beautiful, perfect for watching on Halloween, plus it's only 6 minutes! If you love the Shrek franchise, you should definitely watch it!
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