Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Michael_Elliott Babes in the Woods (1932) *** (out of 4) Fun and great to look at Disney cartoon has a brother and sister wondering into the woods where they meet some elves but they're tempted by a house made out of candy and once inside they're kidnapped by the evil witch. This here is an alternate take on the Hansel and Gretal tale and for the most part it's highly entertaining. The film has some very charming moments but there's also some rather dark moments that I'm sure scared the heck out of kids back in 1932. There's a lot of great things about this short but the highlight has to be the actual animation and the colors used. I was really shocked at how wonderful the colors looked because you really could pass this off as a film that was made a decade ago let alone back in 1932. I really loved the look of the candy house and the various colors that are on full display. Another great use of color comes towards the end as the witch slowly begins to turn to stone. Speaking of the witch, she's quite creepy here and manages to be very memorable with her wicked spells. One highlight has the boy being turned into a spider and then it hits you that the various other creatures in the room were also children at one time.

Robert Reynolds This is an early color short in the Silly Symphonies series produced by the Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:This looks to be an early dry run to see if adaptations of fairy tales were possible. There are echoes of the future in here, most specifically Snow White. The witch in particular resonates with the feature film to come five years later.The story is a spin on Hansel and Gretal. It would be much better but for a curious decision (and I can't imagine it was an accident, as only the children have this problem). Their eyes are purely pupils, smallish black dots, rather than proper eyes, as with the gnomes and the witch. It gives them dead eyes and hence little personality, which is a mistake when they are technically the leads. It's a pity, because the good animation and other qualities are lessened a bit by dead eyed leads with no character.The short starts with the two leads finding a group of gnomes and the opening is cute is familiar. The entry of the witch on her broom ends the fun and the gnomes wisely scramble for the safety of their tree homes. Hansel and Gretal are too large to get in and foolishly get on the witch's broom for a ride. She shows them a cottage made of candy and gingerbread and the obvious happens, with a change.Instead of eating children, the witch changes them into bugs or animals. She changes the boy into a spider, turns a cat into stone, but is interrupted by the gnomes on a rescue mission.There follows a typical fight sequence found in a lot of Disney shorts from the early 1930s. There's a nice touch with the gnomes riding geese and throwing pumpkins which appear as if by magic in their hands. They basically rout the witch while the boy and the girl restore the other children and ultimately turn the witch into stone.It's scary and charming by turns, apart from the one glaring flaw. The short is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set and it and the set are worth finding. Recommended

MartinHafer In the 1930s, Disney was the top studio for animation. The quality of their work was without equal and the public adored them. So, I have no animosity against Disney cartoons of this era. However, I must admit that a few of their cartoons were NOT so wonderful and a small number were, despite GREAT animation, still very bad cartoons. This is the case with "Babes in the Woods"--a completely sub-par and creepy cartoon indeed.This short begins with two Dutch-looking children with hollow, soul-less eyes running about--lost in the woods. They happen upon a group of gnomes that look like little Santas. However, after all their cavorting about, an evil witch arrives. She kidnaps the kids and tries to eat them and the kids respond by murdering her--but it's in self-defense! Then, all the forest creatures celebrate and the film ends. On top of everything, the music in this bizarre mess is terrible. Apart from nice animation, there really is nothing worth seeing in this weird and uber-creepy short film.

Shawn Watson Two horribly animated children are skipping through the woods until they become frightened of everything from branches to bunnies. They discover an elf village and end up playing with them before an evil witch lures them to her candy cane house where she has other kids in captivity, only they're turned into various nasty creatures.The kids break free, rescue the other victims and encase the witch in concrete or something, which ends up in the creation of "The Witch Stone".I wasn't charmed by Disney's version of this Brothers Grimm tale. The animation wasn't that good and without the Disney trademark of anthropomorphic animals it just felt awkward.