Robert Reynolds This is an early color short in the Silly Symphonies series produced by the Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:The animation in this cartoon is beautifully done, but there isn't very much beyond that to the short. A baby is sung to sleep and winds up visiting Lullaby Land, which looks pretty much as you might expect-trees with pacifiers and powder puffs, animated potty chairs with a chamber pot joke (which happened fairly often in 1930s Disney shorts) and diapers with safety pins on parade and so on.The short veers off into the "Forbidden Garden" and, briefly, the short looks like it might just turn interesting, but it's just more of the same types of gags, only with things which "will hurt baby that he mustn't touch". Baby starts a FIRE! by playing with matches and one of the better bits arises from three smoke-inspired demons which are the most interesting part of the short.The Sandman finally puts baby to sleep and the dream mercifully ends, to be followed shortly by the end of the cartoon.This short is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set and the set itself is worth getting.

Guy Burns Typical quality-animation from the 1930s Disney studio, but the baby-centric story is the big let down. The cartoon is full of diapers, safety pins, potties, a bare bottom, lullabies and sugary songs. There really is little of lasting interest here.I've just been told by IMDb that I need at least 10 lines to get this review published. I can't really say much more about the cartoon. It's not worth too much extra comment. I will say, however, that on the DVD there is a section called "Leonard Slatkin Favourites" or something similar. This cartoon is not among his picks. Now, given that the CD is populated by minor Silly Symphonies (there are only two or three of the recognised classic Silly Symphonies), Leonard obviously thinks this one is fairly dismal.

TheLittleSongbird Not one of my favourite Disney Silly Symphonies but still a very good cartoon. It is a little too sugary cute, but there is much to compensate. Visually, it is amazing with some surrealistic images seen with the dance of the boogie men, backgrounds and colours that still look absolutely beautiful and the baby's character features are real in alternative to exaggerated. The music is wonderful also, catchy and appropriately dreamy. Add to that colourful characters, a story that is refreshingly different in the sense that it is a whole new creative world rather than a real situation or a fairy-tale like world and fast pacing and we have a fun and thrilling cartoon. Not a favourite, but recommended definitely. 8/10 Bethany Cox

ArchObler A beautiful cartoon, where all the elements of a baby's world are blown up to epic proportions in his dream. Not only entertaining, but it's also marked by a certain nostalgic quality in this modern disposable diaper world. **** out of ****