Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Lovebirds (or swallows or bluebirds -- at first I thought they were owls) enter a form domestic bliss indistinguishable from human domesticity, except for it taking place in a birdhouse in this Terrytoon.The one matter worth noting is that the whole thing takes place in pantomime, save for occasional chirping. That, I suppose, adds a certain cleverness to the proceedings, a decade after the silent era of cartoons had ended. However, the situation comedy of the matter is workaday, so that we are supposed to simultaneously applaud its wit for making the birds like people and the people they are like being trite in their concerns. I find neither likely.