Springtime (1929)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This is the third Silly Symphony, and the first dedicated to the seasons (the others being Summer, Autumn, Winter).In Springtime there are some animals and flowers that dance celebrating the spring, but then a storm arrives. After the rain, near a pond, they all dance to the Dance of the Hours.In this short animals have a starring role; two ladybirds, a caterpillar, a crow's family, two cute grasshoppers, some turtles used as drums, a spider that uses his web like an harp, some dancing frogs and a stork. But there are also, at the beginning, few trees and some dancing flowers, and a tree that washes himself with the pouring rain.The strange thing of this short is that every creature dies after his performance; the caterpillar is eaten by the raven, the grasshoppers swallowed by the frog, the frogs are the stork's lunch, and in the end, the stork is swallowed by a giant puddle.In the end it's a nice short, and it's a must-see for all animal lovers. Featuring Grieg's ''Morning Mood'' and Ponchielli's ''Dance of the Hours''

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.

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.

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