Broken Toys

So visually this is a big improvement over 1930's "Midnight in a Toy Shop", the other Silly Symphony to feature animated toys, and is very richly detailed, but I personally don't really enjoy it any more than that short, I think it's a little on the weird side! To say it's about walking talking toys, it doesn't have all that much fun and wonder to it, I didn't care for the sequence in which the eyeless doll is given new baby blues in a kind of mock operation procedure that I found bizarre and vaguely macabre rather than cute, and that also goes for the part where the toy soldiers are replacing their lost limbs, the way it was done with them marching in and out with makeshift limbs and crutches wasn't too hard to make the connection to real life warfare victims getting patched up, is this fun for a short about singing toys? Enjoyable and well animated but not exactly inspiring work in my opinion.. I liked the animation the best, and how much personality was put into each of the toys, and the details of how they were broken in different ways, and it's sweet how the sailor doll rallied all the toys to get out of the dump together to fix themselves and guide them to a new home at an orphanage where they would be loved by children again. It's an interesting idea for a short and a nice message of pulling yourself together and carrying on, literally in the case of these guys! I've seen much better, but it's still another cute and entertaining Symphony, if a little heavy handed in some areas. X