Funny Little Bunnies

A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.

The FUNNY LITTLE BUNNIES are energetically getting ready for Easter by making & decorating chocolate eggs, and, with the help of some friendly hens, hard-boiled Easter eggs.

A lively and extremely visual cartoon, with lots of bright colors (wonder if the animators got their paints from the rainbow, too, like the bunnies?).What the film lacks in plot it makes up in the imaginative way in which the treats are produced. It sounds as though Florence Gill supplied the voice for the hens. Major complaint is the unnecessary use of blind, cross-eyed & elderly gags - Walt should have known better.

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.

This is an adorable little cartoon short from Disney, where dozens of bunny rabbits prepare for Easter by using their own unique, innovative and magical ways of making chocolate rabbits, decorating eggs and weaving baskets.

It's truly an innocent-filled cartoon to celebrate Easter, also filled with colorful animation, silly gags, sweet music and funny sound effects. I like the way the showed the rabbits gathering different shades of paint from the rainbow.

A great Silly Symphony for the family.

Grade A-

One of the best shorts at Disney, very good, highly recommend.

On a happy meadow, dominated by large rainbow arch, an army of bunnies are boiling a cauldron filled with chocolate, just like they do in real life. The cakes they make, along with other chocolate products, are carted-off for apparently human consumption. A group of hens are also apparently happy with their unfertilized ovums being boiled and painted for this purpose.

Other than this, there really ain't much going on in this cartoon. I kept waiting for it to get to a point or have something mildly interesting happen but there was nothing other than watching prance about while carrying out these mundane tasks.

Forgettable.

This Silly Symphony answers the old question about where all of our Easter candy comes from...and it's apparently NOT the Hershey or M&M-Mars factories. In this short, you see tons of deliriously happy rabbits cavorting about making chocolate eggs, baskets and the like. It's all VERY happy...and also very plot-less. And, because there is tons of saccharine-like singing, it's the sort of film that might make older audiences suicidal!! But, for a very young audience it's great--with lots of color, TONS of cuteness and non-stop action. I noticed some other reviewer gave it a 10...well, I supposed it takes all types of people to make the world go round--and my type hates plot-less treacle. However, I can at least respect the nice animation--a hallmark of all of Disney's cartoons. So why, if I hated the cartoon, did I still give it a 4? Well, because relative to other cartoons of the day, this one is still pretty good--and practically all the competition was also making singing cartoons which would only appeal to very young children!