I Love to Singa is a wonderful cartoon, and stands out as among the best of the Tex Avery shorts that I've seen. The animation is so beautifully drawn with the backgrounds and character designs very fluid. The colours are also very attractive, simple and colourful with a lot of warmth. The music is some of the catchiest I've heard for any cartoon, who cannot resist the title song, and is orchestrated in a way that is most appealing. Its energy is also to be admired. The story is never dull, and manages to be cute without being sappy and amusing without being corny. If there is anything also that I Love to Singa also excels at brilliantly is how good it makes you feel, if you watched it after a hard day it's guaranteed you'll have a smile on your face after. Simple the story is and it doesn't break much new ground, but it's hardly simplistic or predictable either. The writing is more sweet than funny, but the funny moments that I Love to Singa has are genuinely hilarious- love the scene when Owl Jolson butchers the song his parents wish him to sing- and it is difficult not to be touched by the many sweet ones that I Love to Singa has. The characters come close to making the cartoon too(their personalities are most engaging, even the disapproving parents), though the chief component that stands out is the music. The stuttering bird is a memorable character but Owl Jolson is the character that sticks in his mind the most. He looks cute and is too but boy is he funny too. The voice acting is terrific from all involved especially from Johnnie Davis as Owl Jolson's singing voice, it's refreshing to not have Mel Blanc doing the voices as a one-man show(coming from somebody who just adores Blanc, but it's nice to have something different from this time once in a while). All in all, as said in the review title I Love to Singa is a true classic in every sense of the word and is a unique one at that, even if you see it once you're likely never to forget it so much its staying power. 10/10 Bethany Cox
Review of I Love to Singa
