Review of Autumn

Yes I'm afraid that for me this is an entry in the series that just doesn't have all that much to it and doesn't have all that much to love. It's quite plain and boring, just various poorly-designed animals gathering food for their winter hibernation to a jaunty theme, but I personally didn't find much charm to be had in their frolicking. The animation really isn't very good, all of the horrid backgrounds are practically bare, and the violin-heavy music is warbly and out of tune, it's overall bland and not very fun, nothing about it stands out to me. It's forgivable though because they were basically just starting out with the very art of animation and there were to be many twists and turns... So I just class these poorer early Symphonies as clumsy first steps. A few of the smaller details are nice, like the leaves flying everywhere and the reflections of the ducks on the water, and I did like how it was actually set during Autumn, which arguably is something that couldn't be said for the Summer and Springtime shorts! I also liked when it started to snow and the ducks flew away because it at least changed up the dull tempo for a moment. There's nothing substantial in this short though, it's pretty lacking in my opinion, no gem and no favourite of mine. A most unlucky seven...