Spider-Ham battles Doctor Crawdaddy as he pursues his food. The biggest question is what's in the hot dog. It's a sarcastic pun-filled Looney Tunes style cartoon. It's fun until it deteriorates into chaos. I can never unhear John Mulaney as Spider-Ham.
16 Reviews
Look out! Here comes the spider-pig.
Pjtaylor-96-13804411 August 2019
'Caught In A Ham (2019)' is clearly inspired by golden era animation, particularly the 'Looney Tunes' shorts. Its humour - and, to an extent, plot - come from either its sight-gags or its puns, both of which are fired fast and loose in a 'see what sticks' sort of way. Luckily, most of it sticks, especially when it comes to the visuals. The piece is vivid, energetic and enjoyable. It gets a little odd in its final movement, breaking the fourth wall in some immersion-reducing ways, but ultimately sticks the landing. It's a pretty fun time. 6/10.
He's right here
TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews21 September 2021
Peter(Mulaney, actually sounding like he belongs in this sort of thing) is swinging through the city, eating a hot dog(just... try not to think about it), when he's grabbed by a villain, and threatened with a laser...
This is featured on the DVD for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It's basically a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Spider-Ham, which makes perfect sense, considering the titular character here. You'll recognise many traits of those, if you're familiar with them. Lots of in-jokes, puns, meta stuff, etc. They even imitate the simple style of animation from those. It's so short, and moves so fast, always changing exactly what's going on, that you don't have time to get frustrated with the visual quality. That was my experience, anyway. The voice acting is quite good. I'd be happy to watch something like this that was substantially longer.
Other than the joke about the contents of the food Porker eats, there is nothing objectionable in this. The violence is silly, not upsetting. I recommend this to any fan of the movie itself. 7/10.
This is featured on the DVD for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It's basically a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Spider-Ham, which makes perfect sense, considering the titular character here. You'll recognise many traits of those, if you're familiar with them. Lots of in-jokes, puns, meta stuff, etc. They even imitate the simple style of animation from those. It's so short, and moves so fast, always changing exactly what's going on, that you don't have time to get frustrated with the visual quality. That was my experience, anyway. The voice acting is quite good. I'd be happy to watch something like this that was substantially longer.
Other than the joke about the contents of the food Porker eats, there is nothing objectionable in this. The violence is silly, not upsetting. I recommend this to any fan of the movie itself. 7/10.
Pretty uninspired
bob the moo22 September 2019
Spider-Ham was one of the multiverse version of Spider-Man who appeared in the main film, and I found this short film on YouTube. Unfortunately where the film captured the imagination by its creativity, control of tone, and swiftness, Caught in a Ham seems half-done and a bit obvious. The inspirations of the short are clear, and the character is not taken beyond the one-liners he has in the filme - one-liners that worked as such, but when they are the focus of the film they do not make the same impact. The short is in the style of Looney Tunes and modern cartoons, but it is always the copy, and doesn't manage to use them as reference points.
Jokes are mostly obvious, and the disconnected character of Spider-Ham is not as funny in context of his universe. A shame then, because the main film was so good and the character was a fun one, but this is uninspired stuff.
Jokes are mostly obvious, and the disconnected character of Spider-Ham is not as funny in context of his universe. A shame then, because the main film was so good and the character was a fun one, but this is uninspired stuff.
A morsel to taste
patrickfilbeck7 July 2022
This animated short, released as part of the DVD release of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" (2018), is a fun little treat that definitely manages to stage the absurd and cabaret Spider-Ham character better, more true to the original and with more stylistic confidence than the overly-praised film, for instance, whose name can be found on the DVD cover. For a four-minute short, the story is adequate, if not loaded with new ideas. By now, viewers know enough about breaking the fourth wall, and the wacky nature of what is shown can be found in almost every mediocre cartoon by now; but also in a lot of good ones. "Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham" is at the lower end of the good cartoons with this gimmick. The voice acting, already known from the feature film to which this cartoon is a tie-in, is solid, though not outstanding. All in all, 4 minutes that you can definitely have a look at once. Time is not wasted with this one.
An amusing four-minute short
r96sk9 March 2021
An amusing four-minute short, which serves as a prequel to 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'.
John Mulaney returns to voice the titular character, to good effect - there are a couple of nice gags in there. Animation is sweet, too. It's obviously not necessary, but 'Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham' is good nevertheless.
John Mulaney returns to voice the titular character, to good effect - there are a couple of nice gags in there. Animation is sweet, too. It's obviously not necessary, but 'Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham' is good nevertheless.
Caught between a pig and a hard place
Horst_In_Translation8 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
"Caught in a Ham" is an American English-language animated short film from 2019. Writer and director if these 4 minutes is Miguel Jiron, who worked in the animationd epartment on the recent Oscar-winning Spider Man aniimation movie, and for this one here he is the man in charge as writer and director. Not his very first work, but certainly his most known thanks to the connection to the famous film it is a little spin-off from. Or should I say spid-off? Well, that one would probably not be as funny as the plays on words involving Spider-Ham and Peter Porker, especially the last one is pretty hilarious. I have not seen the Oscar winning spidey movie, so I cannot talk about connections or anything, but to me this one really felt very inspired by these old Warner Bros cartoons from the Golde Age of Animation, not only because the title screen (Goldfinger anybody?), but also because of the slapstick and comedy. That scene when they switch places after their verbal duo is so Looney Toons with Bugs vs. Elmer or another antagonist. Anyway, there are a few other references to other movies and television shows in here, not gonna go into detail about that much, so I won't spoil the fun for you. sadly, finding these is perhaps the only fun attached to this movie I really had. It is fast, but not really as entertaining as I hoped it would be. The Spider Pig character sure looks hilarious on the pic here, but he is not as great the way he was written here. The story is also rather fast than funny and a plot is virtually non-existent. I did not enjoy this one enough for a thumbs-up. Only watch if you really adored the Spiderverse. I thought it got considerably worse in the second half and the hotdog jokes feels old pretty quickly too. Still the first half was better than the second half. As a whole: Don't watch!
Pretty weird...and worth seeing.
planktonrules26 March 2019
"Caught in a Ham" is a special feature included with the DVDs for "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse". The film is only 4 minutes long but is well worth seeing. It's because for the non-comicbook fan watching "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" they've never been exposed to Peter Porker, also known as Spider-Ham. He's only in the film a bit here and there...and the short allows you to see the sort of world this Looney Tunes-like character lives in and where he's a hero. Overall, funny, well made and a must see if you get the DVD for the feature film.
Spider-Ham Caught in a Ham
auskooper17 December 2023
I feel like Spider-Ham Caught in a Ham is a good spin on Looney Toons. I find it as a good addition to Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse. It focuses on Spider-Ham in his universe right before he got brought into Miles's universe (Earth 1610). It is meant to be funny and it delivered. I feel like there should be a show about Spider-Ham. He's so like a Looney Tunes character and should have a show like Looney Tunes. The show can show his origin more in detail. That's at least my opinion and can give an idea to the producers of the Spider-Man related content at Sony if they're reading this. I feel like this Short's alright and hope there will be more like this to come out of the Spider-Verse franchise.
It's one and the only one worst short animation I've ever seen so far.
XueHuaBingYu2 June 2019
What did I just watch? This short film is so terrible. I love Spiderman. I really do. But some spiderman animations are really bad. This one is the worst among I've seen so far. What makes this one so bad? Here goes the list.
- The animation is terrible. Because of great animation skill, I feel dizzy while watching this one.
- The story is also terrible. I don't even know what this is all about.
- The voice acting skills are bad.
Hilarious
gostuffawesome5 October 2019
Just wasting ur time!
fuadgulla19 August 2019
I thought it was good before i watch this, but at the end i was like OH My god!! Are u serious?
Be true i have no idea what it was talking about , finally I'm thankful because it was too short and didn't waste too much time from me 💔
Rip Off of Looney Tunes
RevvedReview18 February 2023
This felt more like theft than an homage to Looney Tunes. There was no coherent plot, it was just a constant stream of jokes. Yet ever joke was obviously lifted from a golden age era cartoon, with some Animaniacs references as well. The Animaniacs references were the large kiss, acting like a psychiatrist, the wacky pacing (though Animaniacs largely borrowed elements from class Warner Brothers cartoons, they did them in a new fresh style with coherent plots.]
I was personally offended that they lifted Duck Amok, my favorite Looney Tunes episode, in an unoriginal and unfunny fashion.
The villain was less than 1 dimensional. Probably the filmmakers couldn't get the rights to an actual Spider-Man or Spider-Ham villain.
I was personally offended that they lifted Duck Amok, my favorite Looney Tunes episode, in an unoriginal and unfunny fashion.
The villain was less than 1 dimensional. Probably the filmmakers couldn't get the rights to an actual Spider-Man or Spider-Ham villain.
Spider Tunes
guisreis7 March 2023
Spider-man into the Spider-verse is one of the best superhero films ever, a brilliant animated feature movie, and the best Spider-man movie so far. One of the most charismatic and curious characters presented there was Spider-ham. Therefore, I am very pleased to watch this excellent and very short spin-off. Spider-ham: Caught in a Ham is very amusing and smart. It has that charming vintge look of Looney Tunes (together with a Dexter Lab and a Popeye-like food can) but also plays with contemporary design. The story is a mashup of 60's Batman & Robin, Bugs Bunny (with a Porky Pig shape) and Spider-man into the Spider-verse multidimensional issues. A touch of dark humor makes it clear that it aims adults, although children may love it too. Let me grab a hot dog.
So funny!
AnnaPagrati31 August 2021
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