GurlyIamBeach
Instant Favorite.
Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Candida
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
OllieSuave-007
This is a semi-sweet cartoon, with a parade cookies trying to choose their next king and queen. The story is cleverly done with nice animation and interesting-looking characters. The songs and music were so-so. The gingerbread man helping decorate the Cookie Girl was a sight reminiscent of that of Cinderella turning from rags to riches. And, clips of the kissing scene between the two cookies can be seen in promos of old Disney videos. Grade B-
Robert Reynolds
This is a color Silly Symphony produce by the Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:Like virtually all of the Disney shorts, this one is nicely animated and very well drawn. It's a beautiful cartoon. There are some nice touches here and some good characterizations, but the cartoon as a whole is, at best, average. It has more of a plot than a lot of Disney shorts and it starts out reasonably well. Somewhere along the way, it sort of peters out. I'd say it falls apart, except that it never really comes together, so it can't really fall apart.It starts with a cookie parade, with all sorts of cookies and other sweets. The hero of the short is walking along into town when he sees a girl cookie weeping and asks her why she's sad. She tells him she wants to be in the parade, but she has no nice clothes to wear.In the best part of the short, our hero makes our heroine a new hairdo from some caramel-like substance, makes her a new outfit from a cupcake wrapper and the creamy insides from various éclairs and makes her a float/carriage. He gets her in the parade and, predictably, she wins and is crowned queen.This is where the short loses steam and goes flat. There's a call to find the queen a king and we are "treated" to a series of rather bland and uninteresting performances from various cookies, cakes and confections (angel food and devil's food cakes, drunken rum cookies and the like) none of it terribly engaging. It's like cotton candy-it looks good, but it has little substance.The obvious ending happens, our hero becomes the king and it at least has a cute ending.This short is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set. The set is worth having and this short is worth a look at least once.
Shawn Watson
A bunch of living deserts and various candies and sweets parade down a candyland main street. A candy girl is upset because she has nothing to wear until some gingerbread dude slathers her in frosting so she can join the parade. The story somewhat lost me after that but I was still pleasantly distracted by the deserts on show. It's hardly a Cinderella story.The world created in the cartoon is certainly vivid and imaginative. The colors are bright and appealing, and might leave you craving candy afterwords. It kind of reminds me of the third level in James Pond II: RoboCod, or Watson's drug-induced nightmare in Young Sherlock Holmes.A rare silly symphony that manages to still work in the 21st century.
Foreverisacastironmess
Oh, this one is simply precious! I could not possibly think of any other word that so much describes my predominant feeling as I watched this confectionery Cinderella story! As a Silly Symphony, I think The Cookie Carnival has something of an advantage as a short. Most people love cute old-fashioned cartoons, and everyone loves candy! This short really can't lose because whoever watches it is bound to love one or the other. The only other thing that I've ever seen quite like it is in the Simpsons episode where Homer daydreams about the Land of Chocolate! Why does candy always look so good in cartoons? Dang! I love watching things that have that particular effect on the viewer, that make you hungry while you're watching them. My favourite sweet feature was the sweet roll red carpet. :Its flaws for me were that I found it, just maybe a little too sickly-sweet and almost childish, and some of the singing was on the lame side. I just mainly liked it for the visual candyland appeal. And, ahem, also, I didn't care too much for the obvious dirty joke with the éclair early on! :::2::: All of the characters in the Cookie Carnival are, well, cookies. Aww, poor sad cookie girl! I guess life's not easy anywhere... I love the bit where she undergoes her cakeover. Funny, the way she goes from being all flat with corners in her limbs to human-looking in one sugah powdered second. Apparently the human version was at the time considered Disney's first fully feminine character. And the artist went on to animate Snow White. I could see similarities between the two characters. The same lilting voice, same rosy cheeks. I love how the passion of the two lucky cookies melts the lollipop they hide behind to steal a kiss at the end. Sweetest love story ever... This cartoon is probably not to everyone's tastes, but for me the novel hook and sheer cuteness nevertheless make for one memorable incredible edible! If you begin to watch this expecting some great animated masterpiece, chances are you'll go home hungry. But if you watch it with an open mind and enjoy it for what it is, you'll have yourself a feast. Bon appetite!
