Alice's Egg Plant (1925)

Excellent adaptation.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Alice's Egg Plant (1925) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Alice and Julius are running a very successful egg planet and their luck just got even better when an order of 5000 eggs come in. The only problem is that the chickens have gotten together and agreed to go on strike demanding shorter hours and smaller eggs. ALICE'S EGG PLANT was the only film in the series that had Anne Shirley playing the role of Alice. She filled in for this one film and it turns out that it's one of the best. To be fair and honest, she's certainly not the greatest thing in the film but she's certainly nice in the part. The best thing about the film is its story, which manages to pack in a lot of laughs and the entire thing just has a very creative feel to it. This includes the fact that the chickens go on strike during a very funny sequence. Another highlight happens when three of the eggs are stolen and Julius must battle a snake to get them back. Fans of this series will certainly love this and even if you're not familiar with the films you should enjoy it too.

Since there's a summary the tells the whole story, I'll just mention a couple of gags. Since the fight's admission is one egg, Julius refuses to let someone who's not a chicken (I think he's a bear) come in. This bear proves he can lay an egg by, when Julius is not looking, takes one from the hanging scale above the cat and removes it from under him as Julius looks back puzzled! As the puzzled cat looks back inside the entrance, a snake balances an egg on his head before eating one. He then eats two more before the cat catches him and squeezes the eggs out of the snake! Highly amusing animated cartoon. Worth seeing if you're an enthusiast of early Walt Disney.

This very early Walt Disney effort from 1925 is a real knee-slapper, especially for pop-culture historians.It starts off as a typically amusing 1920s style cartoon, with funny gags involving the animals' anatomy doing improbable and crazy things (the cat using his tail as a whip to get the lazy hens back to work). But things get REALLY wild when a Communist Rooster (yeah, you're reading this right) called "The Little Red Henski of Moscow, USSR" comes to town. The Bolshevik Bird then gets (literally) on his soap box and agitates the chickens to go on strike against Alice and her cat! How does it all end? Trust me, it's even more bizarre than what I've described so far! If this all sounds crazy and outrageous in print, wait til you see it on film! You will pound the floor laughing at this one!

Alice and her cat, Julius, must deliver 5,000 eggs to fill their largest contract ever. The rub is: A disgruntled hen has organized the hen house into being a union shop, and everyone is going on strike! OK Interesting enough. The real joy is the interaction between the live action little girl and all of the animated characters. In the opening credits a line says "BY WALT DISNEY" and "AN ALICE COMPANY".