The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a hard-edged story about honoring your commitments. This is because what exactly happened to the kids at the end was always kind of vague. For all we know, the Piper was a pedo or fed the kids to a dog food company! But since this is a cartoon for kids and comes from Disney, they weren't about to allow the story to go that way!
The artwork was okay--not up to the standards of many of the better Silly Symphonies but still much better than the competition. The faces of the characters (especially the kids) are very simple--with little character. And, like some of the Silly Symphonies, this one has quite a bit of singing--a definite minus. But what bothered me is, as I said above, the stupid need to make this tough story happy--with the children all being taken to Toy Land AND the little kid who could barely walk being carried into this wonderful world by the nice Piper (in the original, he could not keep up and was left behind). All in all, not a bad cartoon--but it played too fast and loose with the original story to be of more interest.
The artwork was okay--not up to the standards of many of the better Silly Symphonies but still much better than the competition. The faces of the characters (especially the kids) are very simple--with little character. And, like some of the Silly Symphonies, this one has quite a bit of singing--a definite minus. But what bothered me is, as I said above, the stupid need to make this tough story happy--with the children all being taken to Toy Land AND the little kid who could barely walk being carried into this wonderful world by the nice Piper (in the original, he could not keep up and was left behind). All in all, not a bad cartoon--but it played too fast and loose with the original story to be of more interest.