OllieSuave-007 This is a semi-sweet cartoon, with a parade cookies trying to choose their next king and queen. The story is cleverly done with nice animation and interesting-looking characters. The songs and music were so-so. The gingerbread man helping decorate the Cookie Girl was a sight reminiscent of that of Cinderella turning from rags to riches. And, clips of the kissing scene between the two cookies can be seen in promos of old Disney videos. Grade B-

Robert Reynolds This is a color Silly Symphony produce by the Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:Like virtually all of the Disney shorts, this one is nicely animated and very well drawn. It's a beautiful cartoon. There are some nice touches here and some good characterizations, but the cartoon as a whole is, at best, average. It has more of a plot than a lot of Disney shorts and it starts out reasonably well. Somewhere along the way, it sort of peters out. I'd say it falls apart, except that it never really comes together, so it can't really fall apart.It starts with a cookie parade, with all sorts of cookies and other sweets. The hero of the short is walking along into town when he sees a girl cookie weeping and asks her why she's sad. She tells him she wants to be in the parade, but she has no nice clothes to wear.In the best part of the short, our hero makes our heroine a new hairdo from some caramel-like substance, makes her a new outfit from a cupcake wrapper and the creamy insides from various éclairs and makes her a float/carriage. He gets her in the parade and, predictably, she wins and is crowned queen.This is where the short loses steam and goes flat. There's a call to find the queen a king and we are "treated" to a series of rather bland and uninteresting performances from various cookies, cakes and confections (angel food and devil's food cakes, drunken rum cookies and the like) none of it terribly engaging. It's like cotton candy-it looks good, but it has little substance.The obvious ending happens, our hero becomes the king and it at least has a cute ending.This short is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set. The set is worth having and this short is worth a look at least once.

TheLittleSongbird This imaginative and absolutely delightful silly symphony indeed leaves you craving for cookies and sweets. The animation is beautiful, with stunning backgrounds and fine character animation. When I saw those cakes my mouth was watering, and I was literally like, "gimme, gimme!" There is also some wonderful music; almost the whole silly symphony is told in song, but you don't really care because this is just a sheer delight. The lead characters are great, the scene when the gingerbread boy transforms the girl was such a creative moment. The girl very sweet, and the gingerbread boy(voiced by the wonderful Pinto Colvig) is so likable, that I think he wholly deserved his award at the end of the short. Overall, just delightful! 10/10 Bethany Cox

Ron Oliver A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.A hobo gingerbread man helps a sweet young thing become queen of THE COOKIE CARNIVAL. Varied male desserts now vie for her attention, but who will she select to be her king?An excellent example of the wealth of imagination Disney was developing. Cookie & dessert motifs abound throughout this cartoon. That's Pinto Colvig, normally heard as Goofy, who voices the gingerbread man. And who wouldn't love to see more of Miss Jello?The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most interesting of series in the field of animation. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.