Alicia I love this movie so much

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

TheLittleSongbird I may be biased as I love Disney and grew up with their cartoons, movies and shows, and still love most of them now. Mother Goose Goes Hollywood is an example of Disney at its finest. It is beautifully animated, colourful and fluid as animation should be with thankfully no ugly over-exaggerated character features, and as usual the music is energetic, dynamic and helps to enhance the action. The story is simple, but the revelation was the concept, so clever to incorporate big Hollywood names of the time into nursery rhyme characters. The whole in-a-book structure was also inspired. But the real delights of Mother Goose Goes Hollywood are the caricatures themselves and the jokes. The caricature of Stepin Fetchitt may amuse some, but annoy others(I didn't mind it), and while harmless the gag where the pie hits Katharine Hepburn turning her black-face can be seen as politically incorrect but the scene where the gag comes from is a great one anyway so I didn't mind that either. The running gag may be Katharine Hepburn trying to find her sheep, but I didn't think it was the best one. Even better were the MGM Lion Parody, WC Fields being heckled by Charlie McCarthy, the Marx Brothers(minus Zeppo) as the Fiddlers Three and the Simple Simon Piemen scene with Laurel and Hardy. Plus if you love the 1935 film Mutiny on the Bounty, you will be delighted at Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh saying "It's mutiny, but I love it". As for the caricatures, I don't think I have seen a cartoon with so many caricatures and so cleverly incorporated, Hugh Herbert, Charles Laughton, WC Fields, The Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Greta Garbo, Zasu Pitts and Clark Gable, and that's not even all. I also noted the brief appearance of Donald Duck jumping out of the pot in the Joe Penner sequence, and the well-choreographed swinging dance at the end. All in all, incredibly clever and enormous fun, one of Disney's finest. 10/10 Bethany Cox

MartinHafer I am not one for "political correctness" and don't think any film should be banned just because it offends. However, because of some offensive imagery of Blacks in this cartoon, you're not likely to find it except on the Internet. However, before you rush off to find it, I warn you--not so much because of the racially insensitive material (and it is offensive) but because the movie itself is pretty insipid and unfunny. Just a couple years earlier, Disney made a similar film that was littered with cartoon images of famous actors (MICKEY'S POLO TEAM), but it was a good bit funnier and more likable. Plus, this time it all seems a bit more forced. If you do see this cartoon, don't see it because it's anything special--see it because it's a good case of a film that has been shelved because of changing tastes and mores.

Robert Reynolds Back in the 1930s and 1940s, various animation departments (chief among them being Warner Brothers) made cartoons that used caricatures of well-known celebrities (movies stars, principally) as characters. This is the best of Disney's efforts and was nominated for an Oscar. The main problem with this cartoon is that, unless you not only remember your nursey rhymes, but are reasonaby up on movie stars and movies of the 1930s, you miss quite a bit of the humor. Still holds up reasonably well after more than 60 years. Recommended to any movie buffs and/or someone reading Mother Goose for whatever reason.

Ron Oliver A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.MOTHER GOOSE GOES Hollywood when a collection of animated celebrities spoof the characters in wacky interpretations of famous old Nursery Rhymes.Aided by excellent voice artists, the Disney animators get to display their caricaturing talents in this very enjoyable cartoon. This was not as easy as it looks, melding the personality of the celebrity with the persona of the Nursery character and leaving them both recognizable. And it gets even more complicated than that. In the 3 Men In A Tub sequence, the celebrity is also spoofing a famous movie role they've played (Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh in MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, Spencer Tracy as Manuel in CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS & Freddie Bartholomew as David COPPERFIELD). That Disney was able to pull off these characterizations in the space of only a few seconds speaks volumes for the high level of expertise attained by the Studio.Movie mavens will love spotting & naming each animated celebrity. Others will have a difficult time, since many of these stars are now rather obscure. Here, for the record, is a listing of the celebrity spoofs: Katharine Hepburn as Little Bo Peep; Hugh Herbert as Old King Cole; Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx as the Fiddlers Three; Ned Sparks as the King's Jester; Joe Penner as the King's Servant; Donald Duck as himself; Charles Laughton, Spencer Tracy & Freddie Bartholomew as the 3 Men In A Tub; W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty; Charlie McCarthy as himself; Stan Laurel as Simple Simon; Oliver Hardy as the Pieman; Edward G. Robinson & Greta Garbo in See Saw Margery Daw; Wallace Beery as Little Boy Blue; Edna May Oliver, Mae West & ZaSu Pitts as the trumpeters; Clark Gable as the flautist; George Arliss as the saxophonist; Joe E. Brown & Martha Raye as the jitterbug dancers. Apparently, unedited versions of the cartoon also feature 'appearances' by Fred Astaire, Cab Calloway, Eddie Cantor, Stepin Fetchit & Fats Waller.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.