Blue Bird
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Movie Reviews of Blue Bird
Movie Review: Wonderful movie for kids of all ages
Summary: 5 Stars
This Shirley Temple movie is wonderful for all ages. It's very positive message is that we all need to find the happiness that is in us. Happiness can not come from things or people outside of us. There are a couple of scenes that could be scary for little people, so, mom & dad might want to watch it before they show it to the little ones. Of course, if they watch tv very much, nothing here should make them bat an eye.Movie Review: Please vote for Blue Bird to be released on DVD!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've never seen this film, but I've seen clips of it!
It looks like a good film, and I've heard it's simular to the story of 'The Wizard of Oz!', which is a film I love!
Please vote for this film to be released on DVD, because the video format is different to the British format I've got!
Movie Review: Lovely Adaptation of Maeterlinck's Classic Play
Summary: 5 Stars
Curly Shirley Temple lends her dimpled, pouty-mouthed winsomeness to the tale of a young girl and her brother(Johnny Russell)who live in Austria/Bavaria during the Napoleanic Wars.
It is Christmastime of 1808, and young Mytyl is a selfish and unhappy woodsman's daughter whom we first encounter illegally trapping a bird in the King's forest. An opportunity to show kindness to an ailing neighbor (Sybil Jason), is discarded, as is an opportunity to accept kindness from a doorman outside the home of a wealthy family who offers cookies to the youngsters.
The family's problems stem largely from Mytyl's ingratitude for what she has. Her mother(Spring Byington) expresses her frustration with Mytyl's attitude. But family problems reach a critical point when the children's father(Russell Hicks) is called to arms to help hold Napolean's forces at bay.
At this low but critical ebb, the children are awakened in the middle of the night by a knock on their front door; it is the Fairy, Berylune (Jessie Ralph) who tells them that they must find the Blue Bird, the symbol of true happiness. She zaps them into their clothes, and then changes their faithful dog, Tylo (Eddie Collins, who lived just long enough to see the film's release) and conniving cat Tylette (Gale Sondergaard) into humans to provide them with escorts for their journey, and then presents them with light (Helen Ericson, who is as bright as she is benevolent).
The intial part of their journey is to the Past, represented in the form of a graveyard, where soon enough, their deceased paternal grandparents(Celia Loftus, and Al Shean) are revived, and the children recall joyous times at their home with a little song and dance along the way.
After their brief visit back in time, they rest by the roadside, and the cunning Tylette suggests the children search for the Blue Bird in the land of Luxury-a visit she will enjoy more than they will. They are greeted by the fashionable Mr. and Mrs. Luxury (Nigel Bruce and Laura Hope Crews) who comically slide down the balcony to greet them. There, they get a valuable lesson in what the lives of the rich children towards whom Mytyl had earlier expressed envy are really like. Materialism, class- consciousness, and the emotionally distant relationship with their elders make them yearn for the warmth and comfort provided by their parents. Despite Tylette's efforts to sabotage them, they escape. Mr. Luxury is sympathetic to their need to do so.
As Tylo and the children rest, Tylette goes to the woods to summon the trees of the forest to settle scores with their father, the woodcutter, who has chopped down so many of them, by summoning the natural disasters of the woods to destroy the children. I found the most memorable part of that episode to be the tragi-comic performance of Alice Armand's Weeping Willow. The costumes of the actors representing the various types of trees were brilliantly created.
After Tylette is justly condemned by her own treachery, Tylo and the children escape disaster and travel safely to shore, where Light guides them to the Kingdom of the Future. History students will recognize this as a foray into February of 1809, where among others, they meet the unborn Queen Victoria and soon-to-be-born Abraham Lincoln,whose onscreen time is accompanied by noble-sounding chords featured at other such moments of stateliness or anticipation of greatness in other movies produced by Fox. A bouncy, sweet little Ann E. Todd informs the brother and sister of a future joy for their family, and a future sorrow... Her greeting of her future siblings is expressed in a slow, sweet waltz that is both happy and wistful-sounding. Mytyl and Tyltyl witness impish little ones trying to be born before their time as well as the impending tragedy of soulmates who will not find each other during their time on Earth.
Soon, the children are home again, ready to make this Christmas Day, a happier one, to right a few wrongs of the previous day, and to be blessed with some important good news of their own.
At the end of this tale-which is every bit as lovely as its MGM counterpart, "The Wizard of Oz" , but which in some ways has more depth--we find Mytyl content to make the most of her circumstances, and through her new attiude towards life, to be more of a blessing to others rather than a burden.
Movie Review: wonderful movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I have enjoyed this movie for many years. Yes Shirley plays a spoiled kid, and she doesn't sing or dance, but that does not take away from the beauty of the story. I would highly recommend this movie for kids and adults alike, of course adults with a child like heart will enjoy more. War breaks out daddy is drafted
the children are sent to find the blue bird of happiness. The children are sent by a fairy and MAny things take on human form to give their side of things. The loyal dog the sly and selfish cat. (Not a movie if your a cat lover) Light takes on human form and guides them, trees take on human form. It is a delightful show.
Movie Review: becks bluebird review
Summary: 5 Stars
once i recieve my video The bluebird i put it in straight away hoping to see if it was indeed as good as i remebered from my childhood. I have to say yes it was i was not dissapointed at all .It still captured me the same way as when i was a child and i really enjoyed it thank you amazon for helping me find this rare movie I was very grateful to finally find somwhere i could get this childhood favorite from.