It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

There's not much story to this very early black-and-white cartoon. It's just more of an animation showcase featuring birds going about their business - singing, preening, paddling etc.One of the baby ducks even says "meep meep", long before Warner created the famous Roadrunner. A hawk (or vulture or something) swoops down to steal a chick for dinner, but as usual cartoons never portray the bloody carnage of real life so the bird eventually flies off with an empty tummy.The sound design and music give the short a little extra dimension, though other than that it is way to primitive to have any sort of lasting appeal.

I do enjoy the Silly Symphonies, having grown up with most of them, and I even would call some of them masterpieces. Birds of a Feather is not one of the masterpieces to me, but it isn't a piece of whatever either. For the first half of the cartoon the action is cute yet uneventful. The second half picks up the pace, and while not exceptional by all means there is signs of a story. I did like that in a sense, but in terms of the cartoon itself it was rather uneven, Birds of a Feather preferably should've been plot less the whole time or had a story throughout, two halves that had one or the other didn't completely mix for me. Some of the sequences of the first half are also rather slow-moving and basically just birds dancing and chirping to the music. However, the music is truly lovely, the birds are cute and the dancing while not much standout-worthy is well-choreographed. But the best asset was the animation, fluid and smooth with some very well done sequences, such as the opening part with the swans on the lake, the- different-bird-on-every-limb sequence, the birds flying in formation and dive bombing the hawk, how the peacock displays its feathers and the sophisticated idea of a group of baby chicks weave in and out of the mother hen's legs. Overall, nothing really special, but the animation and music are worth looking out for. 7/10 Bethany Cox

This black & white Silly Symphony cartoon is exactly the sort of cartoon I completely hated as a child. Instead of edgy or funny characters, it was chock-full of cutesy animals--tons of sweet birds. In addition, it had LOTS of music--with the animals all swaying to the music. In other words, it was practically plot-less. Only later in the film when a clichéd 'evil' bird attacks is there any action, as the nice birds all band together to thwart evil. Sheesh! What a boring cartoon!! Although I adore early Disney cartoons, occasionally they came up with a lame one here or there...and this is certainly one of them. Unfortunately, this sort of saccharine was pretty popular with other cartoon makers in the 30s--particularly the Harmon-Ising cartoons. When I was a kid, they showed them on TV a lot and all my friends and I hated them. Fortunately, they have mostly been shelved in favor of better toons. Don't you and your kids deserve better? By the way, I noticed a score of 10 for this cartoon. While I totally respect the other reviewer's right to score it this high, they give 10s to all Disney cartoons. I, on the other hand, am more demanding and grouchy when it comes to these shorts. I've given a few 10s and 9s to some Silly Symphonies--so I am not impossible to please!

A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.It is a beautiful day, and the BIRDS OF A FEATHER of the forest & farmyard are romancing their mates and tending to their young. That is, until a rapacious raptor comes on the scene & carries off a baby chick...This black & white cartoon is another example of how important music (often classical) was to the Symphonies.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.