Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Hitchcoc There isn't much to engage us here. It is indeed springtime when all the flowers, insects, birds, and so on emerge. What this cartoon shows us is the food chain as each small element comes out with happiness and hope, only to be swallowed up by something bigger and stronger. If you think they are cute, you will see them sadly devoured. The animation here is pretty cheap and there is little movement.

Foreverisacastironmess Oh my I am gonna come off as such a crabcake in this review, because I'm afraid that this short really doesn't work for me at all. It's not very fun, it doesn't have any real charm that I could see, and I know it was only the third ever Silly Symphony to be put out and it was all still very much a work in progress as far as the quality and very art of the animation was concerned, but the sound is just awful. As the creatures dance around there is so much tinny klop klop klopping noise that just to me sounded horribly cheap and brutal, like someone is tapping a pan with a teaspoon, it just doesn't sound good at all. I also don't like the more weird unnatural touches like when the caterpillar separates its body segments and the stretchy limbs of the bird, that kinda thing is much more Fleischer than Disney. And I know it was perfectly mild but I really didn't like the animals eating each other, and it wasn't like they all come back alive and well at the end either. I mean I get that in their own way the animators were probably trying to show what really happens in nature from the animals that they doubtlessly observed, but I didn't like that! Thank goodness it didn't become a regular thing! I didn't mean for this to be so negative but I'm only being honest. In fact I've been getting back into these shorts a lot lately, but this is as poor a short as I remembered it, I'd rank it among the series' worst. Most of what is in it was later done again more effectively in later Symphonies like "Flowers and Trees", and even the 1930 "Summer" short. And much like Summer it feels more like a depiction of the animal life of a swamp environment than anything to do with Spring, apart from the opening flowers and hatching chicks at the beginning. It's not even remotely a good tribute to the first season. So to me at least the third time is not always the charm. Oh well, it's still a part of the rich evolving tapestry of a series that had far greater animated wonders yet to come... Not their best!

Robert Reynolds This is a Silly Symphony from Disney. There will be spoilers ahead:There really isn't much of a plot here, it's simply a series of gags loosely strung together, although a few of them can be grouped together as examples of the food chain in action, as various bugs and amphibians get eaten by some other critter.In addition, there are a few nice bits, like a tree and some other flora reacting to a rainstorm, culminating in lightning striking the tree, with fascinating results.Lots of dancing and moving around to classical music selected by Carl Stalling, the music and animation pair up reasonably well overall.This short is available on the Disney Treasures More Silly Symphonies DVD set, which is well worth getting. Recommended.

MartinHafer Back in the early days of Disney Studios, the company made a huge number of so-called 'Silly Symphonies'. These cartoon shorts did not feature the usual Disney characters like Mickey or Donald but were musical shorts featuring lots of new and not so cuddly characters. A few were actually quite dark--such as skeletons, demons and in the case of "Springtime" animals that spend a lot of the film eating each other--and not in a cute way! The film is a musical that shows animals cavorting about in the springtime--but this fun is interrupted when some frogs eat each other and then they are eaten by a bird--only to be regurgitated! Pretty weird stuff and clearly the sort of time many would be surprised today to see when they hear that it came from the same people that brought us Goofy and Bambi! Worth seeing if you are an early animation nut.