Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
Btexxamar
I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.
Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
OllieSuave-007
A very boring Silly Symphony cartoon where you see a host of arctic animals on ice blocks and shores, screeching and performing to various musical numbers. There's no plot, annoying sound effects, and unremarkable music. Animation was OK and the characters were nicely drawn, but the overall cartoon was a drag to watch.Grade D---
Hitchcoc
This is just one more of the lifeless efforts put out in the 30's. We are introduced to penguins, polar bears, and walruses, and, of course, a multitude of fish. Mostly, there is lots of dancing and little critical movement by the recurring characters. I guess the principle theme is survival. Once again we have the old food chain thing. Not horrible, but there were numerous similar presentations.
Robert Reynolds
This is a short from the Silly Symphonies series released by Disney. There will be spoilers ahead:In many ways, this short is basically just one of a dozen similar ones, where the short is differentiated by the locale. This is essentially Frolicking Fish in the Arctic with only a few minor variants. The animation is excellent and most of the gags are enjoyable. There isn't a whole lot of novelty here.The short opens with critters (mostly polar bears) frolic on ice floes. There's a polar bear cub which yips like a dog as it jumps from floe to older polar bear and then into the water.Then you see seals and a walrus or two and more dancing, frolicking and music. The best bit here is a seal trying the patience of a walrus enormously by using him as an instrument. We're treated to "singing" as well.We close with penguins, moving mostly in unison, save for one who's rather out of sync. Cute, but nothing special.This short is available on the Disney Treasures More Silly Symphonies DVD set and both this and the set are recommended.
Ron Oliver
A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.The denizens of the North Pole are engaged in ARCTIC ANTICS. The penguins, seals, polar bear, and even a large walrus are marching about, jumping & dancing & slapping their bottoms an amazing number of times...This black & white cartoon has an invisible plot and is basically an exercise in action/reaction animation. The Disney animators seem to know a curiously large number of posterior gags. Notice that the face of the polar bear cub enjoys a remarkable resemblance to that of Mickey Mouse.The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most interesting of series in the field of animation. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.