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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

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.

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

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-

One of the best shorts at Disney, very good, highly recommend.