The Cookie Carnival (1935) User Reviews

So much sugar

[CuriosityKilledShawn · 6/10 · 3 September 2013]

A bunch of living deserts and various candies and sweets parade down a candyland main street. A candy girl is upset because she has nothing to wear until some gingerbread dude slathers her in frosting so she can join the parade. The story somewhat lost me after that but I was still pleasantly distracted by the deserts on show. It's hardly a Cinderella story.

The world created in the cartoon is certainly vivid and imaginative. The colors are bright and appealing, and might leave you craving candy afterwords. It kind of reminds me of the third level in James Pond II: RoboCod, or Watson's drug-induced nightmare in Young Sherlock Holmes.

A rare silly symphony that manages to still work in the 21st century.

Sweet Treat

[Christmas-Reviewer · 8/10 · 23 June 2019]

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A fun little short, Not exactly a Christmas Cartoon but there is candy cane's so its a pass. In this story the cookie queen needs a king but she cries to a stranger about having nothing to wear. So the stranger makes her a dress for the party and its off to the carnival.

Beautifully drawn and animated, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts

[llltdesq · 6/10 · 2 November 2014]

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.

A semi-sweet cartoon.

[OllieSuave-007 · 7/10 · 27 May 2018]

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-

Leaves you craving for cookies and sweets afterwards!

[TheLittleSongbird · 10/10 · 22 September 2009]

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

Delightful Disney Cartoon

[Ron Oliver · 10/10 · 20 August 2000]

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.

This animated short is bound to make many if not most . . .

[cricket30 · 5/10 · 3 September 2021]

. . . viewers irate, angry and shooting mad. (These emotions are especially likely to be elicited if people watching THE COOKIE CARNIVAL are diabetic, or caring for a diabetic family member--or, worse yet, a survivor of a loved one who passed away due to this dread condition.) Just being exposed to THE COOKIE CARNIVAL's sugar fest is probably enough to push a pre-diabetic individual over the edge into full-blown diabetes. What kind of Public Enemy would foist such unhealthy fare off upon America? Doubtless a Number One!

Cleverly Created

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 11 February 2019]

There were several of these cartoons that create a village or a culture based on some aspect of life, be it bugs or pastries or in this case, cookies. One of the female cookies is sad because she has no chance to win the top cookie prize, so a young male cookie recreates her using all the frosting and stuff lying around. In the process, we get to see a whole bunch of different cakes and cookies strut their stuff. Well done an colorful.

Sweet!

[Foreverisacastironmess123 · 8/10 · 5 July 2012]

Oh this Silly Symphony is just precious, it's a confectionery Cinderella story that could be the most visually appealing and adorable one of them all! As a Silly Symphony I think The Cookie Carnival has something of an advantage because most people love cute old-fashioned cartoons, and everyone loves candy! The only other thing that I've ever seen quite like it is the Simpsons episode where Homer daydreams about the Land of Chocolate. Why does candy always look so good in cartoons? I don't know what it is, I love watching things that have that particular effect on the viewer, that make you hungry while you're watching them. My favourite edible feature was the sweet roll red carpet. Its just maybe a little too sickly-sweet for some and some of the singing was on the shrill side, but I just mainly love it for the impressive visual candyland appeal. Everything except for the quick naughty joke with the éclair.. All of the characters in the Cookie Carnival are, well, cookies. And after undergoing a cakeover, one of them goes from being all flat with corners in her limbs to human-looking in one sugah powdered second, which at the time was apparently considered Disney's first fully feminine character, with the artist later going on to animate Snow White, and you can see faint similarities between the two. I love how the passion of the two lucky cookies melts the lollipop they hide behind to steal a kiss at the end, it's surely the Sweetest love story ever! This cartoon is probably not to everyone's tastes, but for me the novel hook and sheer eye catching cuteness make it very memorable and endearing indeed. A sweet sweet super lovely little animated gem of the series - Bon appetite! 🍪 💖