One of the worst movies I've ever seen

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

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

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Here we have an 8-minute cartoon by Tex Avery early in his career. He was actually not even 30 when he made this. The animal characters are owls this time, not too common in the world of animation and cartoons. Father Owl is a renowned classical musician and is delighted to see baby owls with talent for opera, violin and flute see the light of day. However, owl number 4 seems to have a talent for jazz and no teaching lessons in more traditional singing make a difference. So he chases him out of the house. Really over the top, mother Owl is right. And then everything goes as expected: the little owl shows up at a talent show and impresses the juror so much that he gets first prize. Father Owl comes to the event too with the rest of the family and everybody bonds again and the little owl is allowed back into the family. The animation is fine for almost 80 years ago, the music is okay and the story isn't bad either, but very generic. Yet there is nothing somewhat impressive or surprising in this short film and it just vanishes into the mass of cartoons made in the 1930s and 1940s. Nothing stands out here. Not recommended. Avery certainly got better with age.

. . . but whooooooever thought that owls were humorous in the first place? I suppose it IS refreshing to find a cartoon from the 1930s in which Mel Blanc is not supplying nearly ALL the voices. According to this page, you have Billy Bletcher, Tommy Bond, Johnnie Davis, Joe Dougherty, Bernice Hansen, and Martha Wentworth supplying the voices of the primary members of the I LOVE TO SINGA cast. Though I must admit none of these names rings much of a bell in my head, I assume that they denote a half dozen DIFFERENT people and not just six degrees of Mel. An essential aspect of this parody's target, the feature film THE JAZZ SINGER starring Al Jolson from nine years earlier, is pretty much glossed over in this spoof, which is too bad in a way. A cartoon owl in Blackface could have been a hoot. Jolson himself would have been in big trouble if Hitler successfully added America to the Third Reich, and in Michigan alone he had Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Father Charles Edward Coughlin (a.k.a., "Hitler's priest") on his side. Possibly when I LOVE TO SINGA was made in 1936, with Hitler so much more powerful than in 1927, the cartoon's producers were afraid to risk being on the Gestapo's hit list in the near future by making light of the double whammy of combining Jewishness and Blackness into one character as the more courageous Jolson did in the source material.

This animated short was just so unbelievably adorable! The little Owl Jolson was so incredibly cute and likable, being one of the most endearing characters ever made in all the history of animation.The song used in this short was very catchy and pleasant to hear, while the plot of this animation was highly entertaining.The animation is flawless, with very cute and appealing designs, beautiful sceneries, fluid movements and a lovely use of colors."I love to Singa" has all the charming qualities from many of the classic cartoons of the Golden Age of Animation, being a very enjoyable short for all the family.

This is probably the cutest little short I have ever watched - the main star of this Tex Avery episode, a little owl called Owl Jolson (spoof on Al Jolson) is probably the cutest animated character I have seen - apart from WALL.E, perhaps. This is what makes this short so memorable. The singing from Owl Jolson and the rest of the music in this short is very good, another thing that makes this short worth watching. This animated short starts with two owl parents, the mother sitting on eggs and the father pacing around the nest wearing the carpet out. Finally, the four eggs hatch. Out of the first one comes an beautiful opera singing owl chick, whom his parents adore. Out the second egg comes a very good violin playing owl chick, whom his parents also adore. Out of the third egg hatches a melodious flute playing owl chick. His parents adore him as well. Out of the forth egg - comes the parents' horror, an owl chick who sings jazz! His father does not understand him and ends up throwing the poor chick out...I recommend this beautiful, entertaining, quite funny and VERY cute short to anyone who has enjoyed Looney Tunes and to anyone who likes music, including jazz. Enjoy "I Love to Singa"! :-)