Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Foreverisacastironmess One day under the briny deep many playing and prancing fish buddies find themselves beset by the pitiless slimy menace of the dreaded local mean octopus, who just can't bear to see them having a good time until he is rather gruesomely squished by an anchor and is totally dead, the end! Well there sure isn't much to this one, just pretty unappealingly designed fish and a few other sea creatures just dancing and doing their actions in time to the cute old timey music, which was what most of these earliest Symphonies were really, they were just interested in playing it safe and weren't quite ready to try out making short animations that were a touch more substantial. The grungy old look of this, to me instantly feels way more Max Fleischer than Walt Disney, and the sound was really grating and horrid to me. The most enjoyment I got out of it were some of the lovely details of the sea floor environment and the 'murky' shimmer effect which constantly drifts across the screen, I thought that was some sharp stuff for the time. I think the most impressive animation was done on the swirling tentacles of the octopus, they're all in motion at once and it was very well done and meticulously detailed. Sight gag wise it was pretty thin but I did like when the fish were rising on the bubbles that the much larger fish was burping out, that was something inventive. So this short is nothing particularly special, it's of interest mainly to fans and completionists of the early Disney cartoons. It's cute, but toss this old guppy back! X

Hitchcoc There's not a lot to recommend this one. With a musical score and some percussion, we go to the bottom of the sea and watch a series of sea creatures cavort. There are mostly fish jigging around. We also get a creative lobster and an octopus. Like so many of these, we have coordinated dance sequences featuring the stars of the show. It is interesting but gets old quite quickly.

Robert Reynolds This is a short in the Silly Symphonies series done by Disney. There will be spoilers ahead:This is basically "Cute sea creatures dancing and playing around under the sea". You see fish, starfish, lobsters among other critters dancing and playing music beneath the waves. The best of these scenes is a lobster playing a harp.There are a couple of attempts to introduce drama with an octopus trying to catch cute little fish and it might have been a better short if there'd been more of this and less frolicking.This is a very nice short visually and the animation is very good, but it's disjointed and has no real point. This was often the case with early Silly Symphonies shorts, but I get a feeling of "been there, done that" with this one and the gags aren't quite capable of carrying the short in the total absence of any real story.This short is available on the Disney Treasures More Silly Symphonies DVD set and the set is worth getting.

MartinHafer In the late 1920s, Walt Disney started a series of cartoons labeled "Silly Symphonies". These shorts did not feature the usual Disney characters but consisted of various animals or bugs (in most cases) moving about to the music. While the style is pretty antiquated compared to later cartoons, they're pleasant and a lot better than the competition--who started copying Disney with similarly named shorts (such as Merry Melodies and Happy Harmonies)."Frolicking Fish" is pretty typical of these films in many ways. While it is odd that it features fish, the rest is pure Silly Symphonies. Cutesy creatures dance about and frolic. However, the fun is cut short when an evil creature (in this case an octopus, but in others it's a cat or bear or bird or some other nasty) appears and wants to do harm to the super-cute folks of the sea. Fortunately, the fish it pursues is pretty handy and the day is saved....huzzah! Overall, while not terribly original, it's pleasant and easy to watch.