the audience applauded

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is a short in the Silly Symphonies series produced by Disney. There will be spoilers ahead:This is a rather uninteresting short. The animation is good and thee character designs are excellent, but the gags are disappointing and there's very little of this worth watching. There's one decent joke, a cameo by the Marx Brothers as the Marx Birds, but that lasts a few seconds.The short looks like it has something going for it toward the middle, when a parrot encounters a typewriter and a telephone, but it doesn't go very far. The attempt to inject some drama near the end by having a cat go after a baby bird could have worked, but it's too similar to the ending of The Spider and the Fly and comes off as inferior.This short is available on the Disney Treasures More Silly Symphonies DVD set. The set is worth looking for, but this short is for completists.

Because this short if chock full of nothing but shrill cheeps and squawks. It's enough to give a viewer a migraine! The actual plot does not come into play until the last two minutes of this seven minute short film.The visuals are nothing to hoot about either (pun intended, I'm so sorry, forgive me God). The backgrounds are sparse and barely existent. The animation is standard for the time with nothing to set it apart. The gags are dull, save a few (the kissing birds, the "Four Marx Birds", the cat's demise at the end, etc.).Unless you're a Disney completionist as I am, then The Bird Store (1932) is a Silly Symphony you should avoid.

This is another black & white Silly Symphony cartoon from Disney. Like the rest of the films in the series, it has characters dancing about to the music. The setting is, not surprisingly, a pet shop specializing in birds. And, I must agree with the other reviewer that found the first portion of the cartoon to be plot less, though I didn't mind this as much as they did--particularly because I actually liked some of the birds as they chirped. Plus, how can you hate when some of them look like the four Marx Brothers (yes, they had a Zeppo bird) and they chirp out a Marx trademark tune. Later, the plot turns out to involve an evil cat (aren't they all?) who invades the place--looking for an easy meal. The birds naturally run for cover until they can mount a counter-attack. Overall, it's one of the weaker films in the series but it still is watchable--particularly if you love old animation like me. Plus, it's a heck of a lot better than most of the cartoons the Disney competitors were releasing at the time.

'The Bird Store' is a plotless, black and white Silly Symphony. The first half is just scenes of different animated birds squawking out a melody. It doesn't take long for that to get pretty annoying, you'll be scrambling for the mute button. The second half centers on what happens when a cat wanders in to the bird store. The only thing I really found enjoyable here was the unique designs of some of the bird characters. I especially enjoyed the four birds made to look like the Marx Brothers. It's certainly not required viewing.