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AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Robert Reynolds This is a Silly Symphony from Disney. There will be spoilers ahead:There really isn't much of a plot here, it's simply a series of gags loosely strung together, although a few of them can be grouped together as examples of the food chain in action, as various bugs and amphibians get eaten by some other critter.In addition, there are a few nice bits, like a tree and some other flora reacting to a rainstorm, culminating in lightning striking the tree, with fascinating results.Lots of dancing and moving around to classical music selected by Carl Stalling, the music and animation pair up reasonably well overall.This short is available on the Disney Treasures More Silly Symphonies DVD set, which is well worth getting. Recommended.

MartinHafer Back in the early days of Disney Studios, the company made a huge number of so-called 'Silly Symphonies'. These cartoon shorts did not feature the usual Disney characters like Mickey or Donald but were musical shorts featuring lots of new and not so cuddly characters. A few were actually quite dark--such as skeletons, demons and in the case of "Springtime" animals that spend a lot of the film eating each other--and not in a cute way! The film is a musical that shows animals cavorting about in the springtime--but this fun is interrupted when some frogs eat each other and then they are eaten by a bird--only to be regurgitated! Pretty weird stuff and clearly the sort of time many would be surprised today to see when they hear that it came from the same people that brought us Goofy and Bambi! Worth seeing if you are an early animation nut.

TheLittleSongbird I really loved this Silly Symphony. Why? Everything is good about it. First of all, there is stunning black and white animation, that after all this time, doesn't look at all dated. Second, is the appealing characters, then again, I love all the characters in all the Silly Symphonies; they never fail to bring a smile to my face. Third, is the music. Now I look out for this element, every time I review a film, cartoon or TV programme on IMDb. Most of the short contained wonderful classical music favourites like Morning from Peer Gynt by Grieg and Dance of the Hours from La Giaconda(also used in Fantasia) by Ponchielli. All in all, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Bethany Cox

Ron Oliver A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.It is SPRINGTIME at the marsh, and the joy of the season is causing the various birds & bugs to dance about rapturously and eat each other up...This black & white cartoon is basically an exercise in action/reaction animation. The Disney artists seem to have an unending supply of posterior gags, often rather vulgar. The tuneful soundtrack with its familiar themes pushes the action along - most notably Ponchielli's `Dance of the Hours,' which would be showcased to great effect eleven years later in the Studio's FANTASIA.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.