5/10
Apart from a parrot, a cat and a celebrity cameo, there's nothing to recommend this one.
12 October 2014
Warning: Spoilers
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.
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