Bardlerx Strictly average movie

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "The Flying House" is a 1921 11-minute short film that has its 95th anniversary this year. it was made by American animation pioneer Winsor McCay back then and it is of course a black-and-white silent film. The story is similar like in the man's other "Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend" entries, at least early on. Somebody eats a rarebit and has a very bizarre dream as a consequence. This time, it is a woman who dreams (because of high mortgages) that her husband flies away with her. But not in a balloon or airplane, he uses their house. And they don't fly just to the next beach, they fly to the moon and meet somebody there who is not so happy about his new guests. The moon really was used quite a bit in these very old films as target destination. I personally must say that this is not my favorite film from the Rarebit trilogy, but for 1921, it wasn't bad of course and I wonder how much this one here inspired the makers of "Up" perhaps. All in all, I recommend the watch only to the most hardcore animation lovers.

tavm Watching The Flying House, I couldn't help but think that many of the sequences of the house spinning around up and down was just Mr. McCay showing off as I believe if the couple's home was really doing that they would've been really dizzy! This must've been the first time there was an animated depiction of space with the earth and moon moving side-by-side. Also love the detail of the gas engines with all the wheels pulling all the pulley gadgets constantly and the final sequence where we see a rocket about to explode on the moon instead destroying the house leaving the couple spinning around before they start to fall hastening the woman to wake up...Fascinating if less known of Winsor McCay's animated shorts, this Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend entry certainly keeps on its toes in movement and, through written balloons, dialogue. Highly essential viewing for any animation history buff.

MartinHafer This is one of the coolest early animations I have seen and probably the most enjoyable here in the 21st century of all the McCay films. Unlike his early LITTLE NEMO and GERTIE cartoons, this one is 100% animated and have marvelous animation and exquisite backgrounds. Sure, it's black and white and is a silent film, but for its time it was a terrific film--one that is about as good as you can find at that time.Like the other "Rarebit" films from McCay Studios, this film just goes to show you that the recent commercial about cheese IS correct--"Behold the power of cheese"! All feature people eating cheese and then having bizarre dreams. This flying house one is just amazing and a lot of fun. The lady who partook of the cheese dreams that her husband uses his genius to make their house fly!! And, after buzzing around the Earth for a while, the house leaves orbit and heads out to space--being highly reminiscent of the Georges Méliès film LE VOYAGE DANS LE LUNE. A wonderful and timeless piece of history--not to be missed.

Snow Leopard "The Flying House" is a creative and interesting feature from Winsor McCay's 'Rarebit Fiend' series. It has a little less outright comedy than some of his other features, but it is an intriguing movie in a couple of other respects. Most particularly, the dream sequence here is much more of a story than are the dream sequences in the other surviving features from the series. More than that, it's an interesting dream that follows a very believable 'dream logic' of its own.The dream in this one has a man responding to the threats of a mortgage company with a most unusual plan that could only work in a dream. But rather than simply use the idea of "The Flying House" for a few laughs, McCay takes it through a series of episodic events that recreate pretty well the strange chains of events that happen in our dreams. It really adds some interest, even beyond the opportunity to see McCay's usual creative details and skillful animation.