Good start, but then it gets ruined
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.
View MoreThe movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
View MoreGreat example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
View MoreA cutesy cartoon featuring three sleepy children having misadventures on their shoe-boat in the sky, fishing for starfishes, catching comets, and trying to withstand the wind. Again, as with most of these Silly Symphonies, mot much of a plot - just musical scenes that is supposed to be charming to kids mostly. Adults generally would get some good laughs out of cartoons, but this one is strictly for the kids - nothing very entertaining about it. Grade C
View MoreThis is one of the Silly Symphonies series of shorts produced by Disney. There will be spoilers ahead:This is going to be somewhat familiar to anyone who knows the poem by the same title by Eugene Field. There isn't much of a plot per se, which makes it perfect for a seven minute cartoon. The gags are basic and somewhat repetitive, but the purpose of the Disney shorts in general and the Silly Symphonies series in particular was to stretch the animators' skills and abilities and work out the kinks, rather than flying blind when working on features. Some of what they did on shorts like this one stood them in good stead on Dumbo, Pinocchio and other features. Disney trained a whole host of animators, in-betweeners and others in the best "class" they could get, namely, actually working on the shorts to learn their craft.The three boys are seen in a wooden shoe, trying to fish for stars. The one in the pink sleeper keeps getting into trouble, falling overboard more than once. As fishermen, the boys have a lot to learn. they wind up getting tangled up in all sorts of ways, hooking themselves and each other. Having the hooks be candy canes is a cute touch.They wind up "catching" a comet in their net and getting hauled around until they bump into a rather jovial sleeping cloud, which blows them into another, less pleased sleeping cloud. The resulting windstorm sends them tumbling down into the ending of the short, which is cute, though predictable if you know the poem. I won't spoil it here if you don't. The short punctuates a running gag with the ending.This short is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set and is well worth having. Recommended.
View MoreYou'd be surprised at the quality of animation in this 75-year-old short. The ugly, cherub-like, children aside, the detail featured in this adaptation of Eugene Field's poem is of the sort usually seen in bigger budget features.Three kids fly though space in their giant wooden shoe while fishing for stars (or fish-stars, rather). They eventually hook a comet and are dragged into a storm cloud and fall back down to Earth where it revealed to be all just a dream.It didn't work for Boxing Helena or Dallas, but I'll accept it here. It's not a particularly famous cartoon, though it still holds up in many aspects today.
View MoreWynken, Blynken and Nod based on the classic poem, is a very relaxing and charming Silly Symphony. Forget the fact that it is a tad thin in terms of story, because everything else is so good.The animation is beautiful, the galactic background was truly stunning. Wynken, Blynken and Nod were absolutely adorable, forgive me for being a bit of a sentimentalist, but I wanted to reach into the television and give them a big hug. The beautiful title song brought some poignancy to the proceedings, and the incidental music throughout the entire short was just outstanding, with a real touch of classic romanticism. Overall, just beautiful. 10/10 Bethany Cox
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