Elmer Elephant (1936) Reviews

"Elmer Elephant" is almost oppressively cutesy, a trip through the jungles of African with anthropomorphic animals celebrating a birthday party for a tigress named Tillie. When she shows an interest and kindness towards Elmer, that leads to jealous amongst the rest of guests who torture him for being an "Other." This moment is particularly questionable since the guests seem to not include two of any animal - there's a fox, a bear, a hippo, a monkey and a cheetah. No matter, it's cute enough and lands its jokes well enough. But it's just all so light-weight. It's a decent enough entry in the Silly Symphony canon, but it's nowhere near the heavyweight that other cartoons under that banner are. Still, there are worse ways to spend roughly nine minutes.