Sylvester the Cat and the Creamy Tree

Sylvester the Cat and the Creamy Tree is a 2010 film combining live-action and animation. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Based on the first two chapters of the book Sylvester the Cat    by Eric Carle, it is the only Sylvester the cat production released under Chris Sanders' supervision. It was later added as a segment to the March 2016 film The Many Adventures of Sylvester the Cat. Music and lyrics were written by Elton John and Tim Rice). Background music was provided by Christophe Beck.

Plot
The story opens with Sylvester going through his morning exercise, during which he accidentally rips the stitching on his bottom. After repairing his torn rump, Sylvester goes to his pantry for some breakfast, but finds he is fresh out of cream. He hears a baby baboon stops by and decides to climb the creamy tree, but while climbing the branch he's standing on breaks and he falls, landing in a gorse bush. Needing help, Sylvester heads to Kurt's house. Sylvester gets Kurt's magical blue balloon to try to get the creamy from the creamy tree. He rolls himself in a muddy puddle to disguise himself as a little black raincloud, and then uses the balloon to float up next to the tree. Once he reaches the baboon tree he takes a giant handful of cream with baboons still in it. He eats the cream then spits out the baboons, one of which is the queen baboon who gets kicked into the mud below. The queen baboon proceeds to bite Sylvester's tail which jams his rear into the tree. A now scared Sylvester admits to Kurt Von Trapp these are the wrong sorts of baboons and the angry baboons end up pushing him out the tree and chasing Sylvester and Kurt. The two barely manage to escape the angry swarm by diving into the mud puddle.

With cream still on Sylvester's mind, he heads to Wags' house. Wags invites Sylvester in for lunch (despite being aware of the cat's vast appetite), originally intending to give him a small drop of the stuff. However, this doesn't fill Sylvester's stomach all the way and he eats out every last bit of cream available in Wags' house, which causes his bottom to grow extremely fat. Sylvester thanks Wags and eats leftover cream on his stomach, before trying to go out the front door which he came in through, but becomes stuck because of his now over-sized bottom, which has become too fat to fit through the door. Wags attempts to free Sylvester, pushing hard on his larger bottom, but when he does Sylvester's bottom just becomes fatter. As Wags runs off to fetch Kurt for help, Blu flies over and sees the predicament Sylvester is in, declaring that an expert is needed, which Bugs claims to be. Bugs offers to free Sylvester using dynamite but Sylvester refuses.

Wags returns with Kurt Von Trapp and Pumbaa in tow. They unsuccessfully try to pull Sylvester out. Eventually, Kurt decides that Sylvester will just have to wait to get thin again. Wags is forced to make the best of a bad situation, when he decides he doesn't want the cat's ginormous bottom sticking out of his door, including disguising it as a elephant head, and placing furniture on it, but Sylvester sneezes (from honeysuckles that Chomper gave him earlier) and causes the antiques to fall off. Wags eventually finds out that Sylvester's bottom growing in fatness has caused it to become very comfy. Wags decides to use him as a chair, with his legs as arm rests and his obese-but-comfy bottom as a cushion.

One night, while Sylvester is asleep, Bugs pops out of the ground once again. This time, he is taking a break from the "swing shift" which he is working. Bugs is carrying a lunchbox with him. One of the things Bugs is snacking on is a jar of cream, and Sylvester manages to prevent Sylvester getting a lick and sternly insists that nobody feeds the cat.

A few days later, Wags wakes up and and sees that Sylvester's fat bottom has now shrunk slightly, meaning it is now possible to pull him out. Wags gets Kurt who gathers Dorothy, Pumbaa, Blu, Chomper, and Bugs and they all pull on Sylvester from outside the house while Wags frantically pushes Sylvester from inside. Finally Wags (fed up with all the delay) charges into Sylvester, which sends him out of Wags' front door and shooting into the air (knocking the others down in the process) until he lands headfirst in the hollow of the creamy tree, getting himself stuck again and scared the baboons away. The gang runs after him, and Kurt tells Sylvester that they will help him get out again, but Sylvester tells them to take their time now he has an ample supply of cream to eat.

Voice cast

 * Jeff Bergman as Sylvester
 * Paul Field as Wags
 * Joe West as Kurt Von Trapp
 * Jesse Eisenberg as Blu
 * Jeff Bergman as Bugs
 * Cannon Young as Chomper
 * Carolyn Ferrie as Dorothy
 * Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa
 * Danny Mann as The Baboons (uncredited)
 * Frank Welker as The Baboons (uncredited)
 * Dee Bradley Baker   as The Baboons (uncredited)
 * Tim Allen as The Narrator

Songs

 * "Sylvester the Cat"
 * "Up, Down and Touch the Ground"
 * "Rumbly in My Tumbly"
 * "Little Black Rain Cloud"
 * "Mind Over Matter"

Sylvester the Cat featurettes

 * Sylvester the Cat and the Creamy Tree (2010)
 * Sylvester the Cat and the Blustery Day    (2012)
 * Sylvester the Cat and Sulley Too (2014)
 * Sylvester the Cat and a Day for Pumbaa (2018)