Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

TheLittleSongbird Tex Avery was, and is, one of the greatest and most talented animation directors there was with an immediately recognisable visual style (for example you can recognise his character designs anywhere). Also an example of a director where even his lesser efforts have some entertainment value and are interesting enough.'A Gander at Mother Goose' is not one of his best. Some gags do work better than others, with some of them feeling too rushed and short, almost like throwaway one-jokes. Avery also works better when wilder and more elaborate, 'A Gander at Mother Goose' is solidly paced and it is interesting to see Avery take on a cartoon made up of takes on fairy-tales and nursery rhymes but it is a style that doesn't entirely suit him or play fully to his strengths. It is certainly enjoyable, but for Avery it's also a little bland.However, there is no denying that the animation is amazing, rich in detail, high in imagination and vibrantly colourful. Same with the music, which sounds wonderful, is orchestrated very cleverly with an ability to be dynamic with the action and there is so much energy and character. Also liked the jazzy arrangements of pre-existing material.While the gags were variable, there are gags where Avery's style really does shine and are also incredibly funny. The Big Bad Wolf, Jack Be Nimble and that surprisingly daring Humpty Dumpty gags come off best. The characters are lively enough, and there is nothing to complain about the vocal talents.Overall, enjoyable with amazing animation and music, plus any Tex Avery cartoon is worth a peak even if just for interest value, but for Avery, who works better when wilder and more elaborate, it's also a little bland and inconsistent. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . or an Anti-Broads Tirade. Among the notable rears exposed during A GANDER AT MOTHER GOOSE are Humpty Dumpty's bare buns (mooning viewers after his "great fall"), Jack-Be-Nimble's flaming posterior, and America's Guardian Bald Eagle, who pulls Hiawatha's arrow from his bottom. On the other hand, Mistress Mary displays an ugly attitude toward agriculture, Snottily Proclaiming that gardening "stinks;" Jill seems to be a total tart, leaving Jack covered with hickeys on the hill; Miss Muffet has enough facial deformities to scare her spider away; and the morbidly obese but not-so-old Lady Living in a Shoe seems to be the not-so-bright sex slave of a particularly lazy yet very fertile skinny bald guy. It's all enough to give the Big Bad Wolf bad breath. This early example of on-screen, mid-story Product Placement (for Listerine) leaves one wondering how much GANDER GOOSE producer Leon Schlesinger may have pocketed here in the form of Payola.

slymusic "A Gander at Mother Goose", directed by Tex Avery, is a wonderful Warner Bros. cartoon that essentially has no plot. Instead, it presents a series of clever comic spin-offs of classic children's fairy tales. You wouldn't expect anything less from the wacky Warner Bros. cartoon studio! My favorite moments from "A Gander at Mother Goose": I love Carl Stalling's jazzy music score during the opening credits, as well as Humpty Dumpty's butt joke, as well as the dog's reaction to receiving a tree after wishing on a star, as well as the Big Bad Wolf slobbering the words "huff" & "puff" and overreacting to the pigs' insistence that he use mouthwash.One final point regarding the Jack & Jill sequence in this cartoon. It reminds me of the lyrics to a song: "Jack and Jill went up a hill, / Jill came down with a twenty-dollar bill!"

Robert Reynolds This is a cartoon that was made in a format Tex Avery wasn't always successful with-a series of loosely connected blackouts, which are little comic set-pieces. Avery didn't always do these well because each distinct piece had its own setup, joke and punchline, usually requiring more dialogue and a slower pace than Avery liked to use. This one works better than others he did because the gags are funnier and there are some sight gags here that have Avery written all over them (in Humpty Dumpty and Jack Be Nimble particularly) and the pacing is a little better. As I said, this type didn't really suit Avery very well. One sub-class of this type Avery did have success with, though, and it was the travelogue cartoons, I suspect because they were parodies of the often mind-numbingly bland and sophorific travelogues that were popular in the 1930s and 1940s, thus making them sitting ducks for the antic lunacy that was Avery's long suit. Decent, but not up to his better work. Worth watching once. Recommended for Tex Avery die-hard fans (like me).