Funny Little Bunnies (1934) Online

Funny Little Bunnies is a very sweet, charming, whimsical and funny silly symphony, and a true easter treat. It is noticeably shorter than other silly symphonies, but that is not a criticism by any means. The animation is beautiful, with lovely pastoral colours, lots of blue and green shades and that was wonderful to see. The rabbit characters were adorable, then again, I love anything to do with rabbits. The music is also fantastic as expected with silly symphonies, if you do forgive the rather weak singing. The story, like the characters was very cute, and well told.

My verdict for this is to put it simply, a true easter treat. 10/10 Bethany Cox

A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.

The FUNNY LITTLE BUNNIES are energetically getting ready for Easter by making & decorating chocolate eggs, and, with the help of some friendly hens, hard-boiled Easter eggs.

A lively and extremely visual cartoon, with lots of bright colors (wonder if the animators got their paints from the rainbow, too, like the bunnies?).What the film lacks in plot it makes up in the imaginative way in which the treats are produced. It sounds as though Florence Gill supplied the voice for the hens. Major complaint is the unnecessary use of blind, cross-eyed & elderly gags - Walt should have known better.

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.

Contrary to the lighthearted mockery of my title, I really like Funny Little Bunnies. It's so damn ridiculously cute it's uplifting. The tone reminded me a lot of Cookie Carnival short, although there wasn't nearly as much candy! Even as a little kid, I never cared much for Easter. I liked the eggs, but I just never got the point or purpose of it. It's a purely commercial celebration. Now this particular Silly Symphony actually takes us inside the the magical land of Easter and the Easter bunnies as they prepare eggs and carve chocolate statues(keep an eye out for the "blackface" bunny! Yikes!), and everything is just oh so sweet-or, to be more precise, it's shoooo shhweeet!!! It's like some kind of great big rabbit rock festival! Well, there are rabbits, chocolate and chickens, which are three things I really love, and it did make me laugh a whole lot at one point, so for me there are lots of little pluses which add to the short's likability. The cheerfully brisk pace as the bunnies go about their various tasks brought to my mind the dwarfs of Snow White. I thought the idea of where the bunnies get their paint for the eggs was such a darling little concept! I like the bunny that prints a love-heart pattern on the eggs using his butt! My hands-down favourite part is when all the chickens are sitting atop the contraption and clucking to the beat as they lay their eggs! I found the clucking of the lead hen as she conducts the others to be totally hysterical. It's so much fun to watch I couldn't help tapping my foot to it! It's also just perhaps a little gross. People always say: oh, you'd never see me eating this or that part of an animal-well how about some eggs! It's probably too cutesy a Symphony for some to take, but it will guarantee a smile and a laugh out of you. If you'll excuse me I've got to hop along now, it's time for my carrot juice.

On a happy meadow, dominated by large rainbow arch, an army of bunnies are boiling a cauldron filled with chocolate, just like they do in real life. The cakes they make, along with other chocolate products, are carted-off for apparently human consumption. A group of hens are also apparently happy with their unfertilized ovums being boiled and painted for this purpose.

Other than this, there really ain't much going on in this cartoon. I kept waiting for it to get to a point or have something mildly interesting happen but there was nothing other than watching prance about while carrying out these mundane tasks.

Forgettable.

While Disney cartoons all too often have a great sense of propriety to them, as opposed to the Warner shorts that are loud, unapologetic and even considered vulgar at times by todays reactionary and revisionist censors. Disney has always been viewed as more boring and benign by most kids and as more sly and underhanded by many adults.

Taking that into consideration "Funny Little Bunnies" is whimsical Disney animation at its best and its unapologetically funny. I almost hate myself for writing that first paragraph because people, especially after they study film take these cartoons too seriously. They're called "Silly Symphonies" for a reason. That's what they are silly all things we find offensive today were a norm in 1934. That doesn't make it right it just makes it a fact.

Anyway, if you shut your brain off for eight minutes you'll have a really great time. The story is simple and humorous without being too dumb and the animation- which I suspect was done on 3-strip technicolor is beautiful.

I dare you to enjoy it

"Funny Little Bunnies" is an American 7-minute cartoon from 1934, so this one is already almost 85 years old. And for that it looks pretty good, not only because it is in color. You can see how much of an expert director Wilfred Jackson was in his field as his effort here is certainly way ahead of its time. I am not sure if I would call it funny, but it sure is full of little bunnies and different birds to who add to the fun perhaps. The music is okay, but no other components really comes close to the visual side. Some nice wit in here too and the exact contents make this a really good watch for the Easter holidays probably, but I would say that the impact during the rest of the year is so minimal that you don't wanna watch it past April or before March. So I can see why it got a decent little boost these days on the imdb star meter. It just fits in with the spirit right now. Admittedly, the comedy here may be a bit bizarre, maybe awkward at times even, but somehow it is still charming. It's fun how they could go so easily over the top back then and still easily get away with it. I recommend checking this one out, especially if you like or even love these old Disney cartoons. Also an interesting award it got looking at the political climate in the mid-1930s. See it.

This is an adorable little cartoon short from Disney, where dozens of bunny rabbits prepare for Easter by using their own unique, innovative and magical ways of making chocolate rabbits, decorating eggs and weaving baskets.

It's truly an innocent-filled cartoon to celebrate Easter, also filled with colorful animation, silly gags, sweet music and funny sound effects. I like the way the showed the rabbits gathering different shades of paint from the rainbow.

A great Silly Symphony for the family.

Grade A-

This is a roughly 80 year old animated short done as part of the Silly Symphonies series which Disney released. There will be mild spoilers ahead:

Like pretty much everything Disney released during Walt Disney's life, this is a visually beautiful cartoon. The plot (what there is of it) is basic-rabbits, hens and a few birds are busily working to see that Easter baskets are ready for Easter.

There's a fair amount of repetition here, as the same actions are shown more than once, as we see chocolate eggs and rabbits made, hens laying a prodigious number of eggs which are then boiled and decorated by the rabbits. Baskets are loaded, in assembly line fashion, ribbons tied on them by songbirds and baskets are ready for the big day.

This cartoon will be enjoyed by young children most especially. It's bright and cheerful and technically beautiful. A nice way to spend about seven minutes.

This short is on DVD on one of the two Silly Symphonies sets released as part of the Disney Treasures series, as well as on other Disney DVD titles and is well worth tracking down. Recommended.

This Silly Symphony answers the old question about where all of our Easter candy comes from...and it's apparently NOT the Hershey or M&M-Mars factories. In this short, you see tons of deliriously happy rabbits cavorting about making chocolate eggs, baskets and the like. It's all VERY happy...and also very plot-less. And, because there is tons of saccharine-like singing, it's the sort of film that might make older audiences suicidal!! But, for a very young audience it's great--with lots of color, TONS of cuteness and non-stop action. I noticed some other reviewer gave it a 10...well, I supposed it takes all types of people to make the world go round--and my type hates plot-less treacle. However, I can at least respect the nice animation--a hallmark of all of Disney's cartoons. So why, if I hated the cartoon, did I still give it a 4? Well, because relative to other cartoons of the day, this one is still pretty good--and practically all the competition was also making singing cartoons which would only appeal to very young children!