Title: Move over Disney
Product review: I'm not the first person to say this, but this version of Babes in Toyland has often been compared to the Disney version, and for the most part the verdict is favorable to the Laurel & Hardy film. And for the most part, I have to agree, now having seen the uncut, unedited version presented here. This is some of Laurel & Hardy's best work. Disney studios obviously studied this film because so many bits of this and that were lifted from it. The march of the toy soldiers is an amazing peice of stop-action work considering that it was done in the 1930's, and almost seems to have been lifted frame by frame by Disney. Of course, in all fairness, MGM's "mouse" is an obvious parody of Mickey, and the three little pigs, plus their theme song, are most certainly Disney's. But Stan and Ollie are in fine form, and very, very funny, and that's what most of us are there for.
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