i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The movie is so and so excellent that instead of 10 it would give a 28.

I'm 58 and am seeing this movie for the first time. I can't wait to show it to my grandchildren and my mother who is 84. This is Shirley Temple's last role as a child superstar. It flopped at the box office but so have many others like It's A Wonderful Life that have come back to become great classics. The Blue Bird is a beautiful fantasy film with a great cast and characters. I love the story line and life's lessons learned. The sweet music so typical of the 30's and 40's films pulled at my heartstrings too. If you love the golden oldies you will love The Blue Bird.

You wonder if the folks who came up with the idea of making "The Blue Bird" were either psychotic or they were deliberately trying to make the public hate Shirley Temple. After all, through most of the 1930s, she was adored--mostly because she played the sweetest child imaginable. However, here in "The Blue Bird" she plays a nasty and selfish, whiny little jerk! Why, oh, why?! And, on top of that, the film is an obvious copy of "The Wizard of Oz"--but with none of its charm.The film begins in a black & white world where a brother and sister (the oddly named Tyltyl and Mytyl) are walking about town with a bird that they obtained illegally. When they return home, Mytyl (Temple) complains and basically tells her parents that they and her life sucks. I would have slapped her ('don't tell me I don't love you, you little brat') but I guess America was not ready to see their sweetheart get slapped. Instead, they put up with it--as if she is some obnoxious child star having a tantrum and the cast is too afraid of her power to say no. Later, the children go to bed and have a weird dream--and the film becomes Technicolor. A fairy soon arrives and sends them on an adventure to find the Blue Bird of Happiness. This adventure is a bit like doing acid, as it gets REALLY weird. First, their dog and cat come to life to accompany them. Then, they visit a variety of places--such as a visit to spend a bit of time with dead grandma and dead grandpa (this part is VERY maudlin to say the least and the old folks mostly talk about how horrible it is to be forgotten!!), then to stay with some hedonists (Mr. and Mrs. Luxury) who are very selfish as well, the land of unborn babies (what?!?!) as several other adventures that, simply put, are not interesting. And, in the end, the children learn a lesson that 99.9% of the audience KNEW she'd learn by the end of the film.There really is not much to like about this slickly produced but otherwise dreadful film. My wife commented, rightfully, that watching this film was just painful! I would add it lacked fun--the biggest problem in any sort of children's film. The story is bizarre (and not in a good way) to say the least. None of the characters are likable--and Shirley least of all. I do like Tylette (which sounds like 'toilet')--the evil cat played by Gale Sondergaard. She is a bit humorous and is not meant to be likable. Oh, and although the film was expensive and colorful, the fire sequence looked amazingly cheap. Overall, a HUGE mess--and a film you won't soon forget. Best for its camp value as opposed to entertainment value. I have seen the Soviet-American version of the 1970s. It's not good but as least has more likable kids--a major plus. Actually, I think that the silent version from 1918 is also bad--but probably the best of the three I've seen. Not exactly a glowing endorsement, I know.

"The Blue Bird" is an excellent study in how not to make a children's movie, and stands in stark contrast to "The Wizard of Oz". While many of the elements are the same, the execution is uneven and disengaging. Shirley Temple does a good job, but none of the supporting cast seem up to the task of really selling the fantasy world in which the children find themselves.While I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt for children's films, even my 8-year old daughter pointed out some of the inconsistencies and plot holes, including the fact that while the fantasy of the "Blue Bird" occurs as Shirley sleeps (similar to the "Wizard of Oz"), when she wakes up, her younger brother has also had the same dream and "shared" the experience.