Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Michael_Elliott Alice's Egg Plant (1925) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Alice and Julius are running a very successful egg planet and their luck just got even better when an order of 5000 eggs come in. The only problem is that the chickens have gotten together and agreed to go on strike demanding shorter hours and smaller eggs. ALICE'S EGG PLANT was the only film in the series that had Anne Shirley playing the role of Alice. She filled in for this one film and it turns out that it's one of the best. To be fair and honest, she's certainly not the greatest thing in the film but she's certainly nice in the part. The best thing about the film is its story, which manages to pack in a lot of laughs and the entire thing just has a very creative feel to it. This includes the fact that the chickens go on strike during a very funny sequence. Another highlight happens when three of the eggs are stolen and Julius must battle a snake to get them back. Fans of this series will certainly love this and even if you're not familiar with the films you should enjoy it too.

John T. Ryan OF the 10 or so ALICE IN CARTOONLAND Series Cartoons which we have seen, this one rates pretty high on the ratings chart. Of course it must seem to be very primitive to the uninitiated viewer; and certainly it was that way! BUT it also provides us with a glimpse at the yet un-emerged talents and quality of style which would indeed be the Disney Hallmark. For example, it is most insightful to be able to calculate the rapid rise in the sophistication and complexity that became the typical animated cartoon short or cartoon feature in only about a dozen years. The difference is like the proverbial night and day.ALICE'S EGG PLANT (Walt Disney Productions/Margaret J. Winkler Distributors, 1925) has a great deal of fun in it. There is a great deal of that interplay between Alice # 2 (Anne Shirley) and her vast herd of funny animals; but in this one, we have a few twists and turns that were out of the ordinary.THE Egg Plant in the title is not the popular Mediterranean vegetable; but rather a plant as in a building or complex devoted to production of a particular item or consumable food stuffs. In short, young Miss Alice has a Chicken Farm, specializing in Egg production, rather than the Poultry end of the business.WHEN Alice and her right hand 'man', her cat, Julius, receive a rush order for 5,000 eggs; they must decide on a plan for stepping up production as they find their work force of hens has been influenced by "Little Red Henski, from Moscow, Russia"; who now has them 'On Strike!' The day is saved when young Miss Alice hits upon the idea of staging a 'Cockfight' between two Roosters on the farm. This would be with gloves; conducted strictly under Marquis of Queensbury Rules. They would charge an admission of egg and were successful up to a point. The trouble began when………….(We'll never tell!)WE find it indeed interesting that the central theme of this one reel cartoon of 1925 was that of Labor Relations and the corruption of any legitimate Labor Movement by agents of Comintern (Communist International Movement). We don't say this because there weren't such problems right here in the good old USA as well as the rest of the World; for there were most definitely were many such major upheavals during this period. It's just that it seems to be an odd subject with which to tickle our funny-bones.IN its own little way, ALICE'S EGG PLANT remains a curious example of an irony that was born in the early Hollywood Animation scene. Possibly there had never been such a mixture of serious business of World Economics and Political unrest with the totally fluffy nonsense of a Theatrical Cartoon. AND just think of how this simple, little nearly forgotten Cartoon relates to Today's World; what with some of our top Political Candidates having such decidedly Socialistic leanings and the emergence of a Guy like 'Joe the Plumber' as a sort of counterbalancing Folk Hero.WE guess that some things never change, right Schultz? POODLE SCHNITZ!!

tavm Since there's a summary the tells the whole story, I'll just mention a couple of gags. Since the fight's admission is one egg, Julius refuses to let someone who's not a chicken (I think he's a bear) come in. This bear proves he can lay an egg by, when Julius is not looking, takes one from the hanging scale above the cat and removes it from under him as Julius looks back puzzled! As the puzzled cat looks back inside the entrance, a snake balances an egg on his head before eating one. He then eats two more before the cat catches him and squeezes the eggs out of the snake! Highly amusing animated cartoon. Worth seeing if you're an enthusiast of early Walt Disney.

Damon Fordham This very early Walt Disney effort from 1925 is a real knee-slapper, especially for pop-culture historians.It starts off as a typically amusing 1920s style cartoon, with funny gags involving the animals' anatomy doing improbable and crazy things (the cat using his tail as a whip to get the lazy hens back to work). But things get REALLY wild when a Communist Rooster (yeah, you're reading this right) called "The Little Red Henski of Moscow, USSR" comes to town. The Bolshevik Bird then gets (literally) on his soap box and agitates the chickens to go on strike against Alice and her cat! How does it all end? Trust me, it's even more bizarre than what I've described so far! If this all sounds crazy and outrageous in print, wait til you see it on film! You will pound the floor laughing at this one!