brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Another song and dance Silly Symphony, this time featuring swinging monkeys in the jungle. Other creatures join in the fun as well, including hungry crocodiles. The monkeys' run-ins with other animals such as a leopard and snake were pretty funny as well. Over than that, another simple, average cartoon.Grade C+

This short is part of the Silly Symphonies series done by Disney. There will be spoilers ahead:This is a short primarily about the courtship of two monkeys clearly in love. There's a brief bit early on with a group of monkeys dancing and two parrots dancing, but the bulk of the cartoon relates to the adventures of the monkey couple.Crocodiles enter roughly midway through the short, themselves dancing briefly and one crocodile emerges to bring a bit of drama into the short as a threat to the monkeys, who move from one potential hazard to another. They come through all their misadventures intact and the short ends happily, as these shorts tend to do.This short is available on the Disney Treasures More Silly Symphonies DVD set. This short and the set are well worth having. Recommended.

Monkey Melodies is no Skeleton Dance, but it is an improvement on El Terrible Toreador, The Merry Dwarfs and Cannibal Capers and has more interest to Arctic Antics and Frollicking Fish. The story is a familiar set up, but everything is done in a lively manner. Complete with niftily choreographed dancing, energetic music, crisp pacing and likable, engaging characters, the main positive asset about Monkey Melodies is the animation, not just fluid and smooth but also one of the more detailed Silly Symphonies in terms of animation such as with the water effects and the dancing through the treetops. All in all, very enjoyable from an animation perspective and one of the better early efforts from the Silly Symphony cartoons. 8/10 Bethany Cox

A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.It's a jolly day in the jungle and the various & sundry simians are making MONKEY MELODIES. Two amorous little banana eaters allow their monkeyshines to lead them into unexpected danger...A pleasant black & white cartoon, with considerable action/reaction animation. As its title implies, the plot is largely driven by the tuneful soundtrack. This is possibly the only place you'll ever find a spoof of minstrel shows performed by crocodiles.The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most interesting of series in the field of animation. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.