The Three Bears (1935)

** (out of 4)

Goldilocks stumbles into the home of the three bears and I think you know the rest. Ub Iwerks made a lot of these fairy tale adaptations where he took familiar stories and then added his own twist to them. Like so many others, this one here features some very good animation but the stories are just so lacking that it's hard to get too involved in them. The biggest problem here is that Goldilocks is rather annoying and I'd argue mean as well. She really does a number on the bear's home so it's hard to care or feel too much for her. Even the three bears are rather bland and forgettable. The one saving grace is the animation but even that can't completely save this one. It's mildly entertaining at best.

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Playing hide-and-seek with her dog, young Goldilocks scampers away into the woods and stumbles upon a lovely little house. Unbeknownst to her, a family of bears live there. The bears, however, have gone to do something in the woods. Goldilocks spills their food, breaks their furniture, and generally creates havoc in their house, before settling in for a nap in the one remaining usable bed. What she doesn't know is that the bears are coming back, and when they get back.......

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