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To me, this movie is perfection.

How sad is this?

Good movie but grossly overrated

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

There is really not too much to see here, just a bunch of birds working through the beat of whimsical music. There were a few clever sound and visual effects, but not much in exciting entertainment value. The only exciting sequence is when a group of birds tries to save a chick-let from a hawk.Grade C

This is an early Silly Symphonies short produced by Disney. Even though there isn't that much to this, there will be spoilers ahead:This may be the template for a plot-less cartoon. There's no plot here, most of the gags are recycled and the animation is really the only thing to this cartoon.This short shows various types of birds moving to music. The best part from the first half of the short is a peacock strutting around, eventually spreading its plumage, only to get a raspberry from a little duck.The last three or so minutes of this attempts to inject some drama by having a chick taken from a farm by a predator bird. Another bird sees the chick get grabbed and calls out reinforcements. The birds get into a flying formation (a "Vee") and take off after the predator.They ultimately rescue the chick, which reunites with its mother hen by calling out, "Mammy!" and there's a happy ending.This short is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set. The set is worth tracking down.

There's not much story to this very early black-and-white cartoon. It's just more of an animation showcase featuring birds going about their business - singing, preening, paddling etc.One of the baby ducks even says "meep meep", long before Warner created the famous Roadrunner. A hawk (or vulture or something) swoops down to steal a chick for dinner, but as usual cartoons never portray the bloody carnage of real life so the bird eventually flies off with an empty tummy.The sound design and music give the short a little extra dimension, though other than that it is way to primitive to have any sort of lasting appeal.

This black & white Silly Symphony cartoon is exactly the sort of cartoon I completely hated as a child. Instead of edgy or funny characters, it was chock-full of cutesy animals--tons of sweet birds. In addition, it had LOTS of music--with the animals all swaying to the music. In other words, it was practically plot-less. Only later in the film when a clichéd 'evil' bird attacks is there any action, as the nice birds all band together to thwart evil. Sheesh! What a boring cartoon!! Although I adore early Disney cartoons, occasionally they came up with a lame one here or there...and this is certainly one of them. Unfortunately, this sort of saccharine was pretty popular with other cartoon makers in the 30s--particularly the Harmon-Ising cartoons. When I was a kid, they showed them on TV a lot and all my friends and I hated them. Fortunately, they have mostly been shelved in favor of better toons. Don't you and your kids deserve better? By the way, I noticed a score of 10 for this cartoon. While I totally respect the other reviewer's right to score it this high, they give 10s to all Disney cartoons. I, on the other hand, am more demanding and grouchy when it comes to these shorts. I've given a few 10s and 9s to some Silly Symphonies--so I am not impossible to please!