Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

OllieSuave-007 This is a very nice cartoon featuring two birds rejoicing over the birth of their three hatchlings. They are taught to sing and fly, yielding some funny reactions from the father bird. One hatchling wanders away from the nest and gets into some misadventures with grasshoppers, a rattlesnake, and a swarm of bees. The animation and music in this short were just great, and the voice-overs of the birds by actors Marion Darlington and Purv Pullen were just brilliant. A wonderful story about the birth of spring, free-spirit of nature, and the serenity of the day.Grade A

Robert Reynolds This is an early color Silly Symphonies short produced by Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:This one starts predictably, as birds (for the most part in pairs) build nests and sing. One pair is awaiting three eggs about to hatch. The third little bird is more adventurous and that gets him in one problem after another in this. It starts early, with a nice bit of foreshadowing, as he tries to eat a bee early on.Their father is trying to teach them how to fly. The first lesson is less than successful and mama and papa bird rescue the first two, but the third one gets separated and the stays separated so as to have some fun. There's a cute encounter with a couple of grasshoppers where the little bird learns a lesson of sorts. Then comes a sequence with hummingbirds, which is beautifully animated.Next come the obligatory dramatic encounter, this time with a snake trying his best to show the bird what it's like to be at the wrong end of the food chain. The end result is amusing, if somewhat predictable.Fleeing the snake, the little bird meets up with a beehive and is chased by a swarm, with colorful results. Mom and dad save him and the rest from Junior's mischief. Junior, far from chastened, shows his audacity, whereupon the father bird does what is necessary.This short is available on the Disney Treasures More Silly Symphonies DVD set and it and the set are well worth having. Recommended.

TheLittleSongbird This is very sweet and memorable. The animation is stunning and the music is lovely, though the chirping can give you a headache. The title character is adorable, so sweet and likable. The other characters, including the very scary serpent, are all well done.Birds In the Spring is very thin in plot, however the animation and most of the music compensates, as well as the title character.It really has this sentimental value to it, and very sweet and nostalgic. While not my favourite silly symphony ever, and it does have its flaws, it is definitely memorable, and worth the look. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Ron Oliver A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.The BIRDS IN THE SPRING are kept busy building nests & hatching their eggs. One particularly adventurous young fledging wanders from home, tangles with a frightful serpent and brings back a swarm of angry bees. Papa Bird has a forceful way of showing his displeasure...Not much plot in this little film, but it did give the Disney animators an exercise in animating comic birds.The SILLY SYMPHONYS, 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 Symphonys the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonys, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonys 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 SYMPHONYS; they had run their course & served their purpose.