Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Michael_Elliott The Sunshine Makers (1935)*** (out of 4) Catchy animated short has a bunch of gnomes gathering up sunshine, turning it into milk and then passing it around to people so that they can be happy. One gnome ends up running across an unhappy man who lives in the dark forest with many other unhappy people. Soon the gnomes are trying to pour milk on them so that they too will be happy.I was surprised to see how much I enjoyed this film and I was even more shocked to see that it was rather catchy. This really comes across as a dark fairy tell where the happy people must venture into a dark area and try to make the bad people see why they should be good. Of course, the selling point here is that milk makes people happy. I thought the animation itself was quite good and I really liked the simple story and the song itself was very good and catchy.

Foreverisacastironmess I'm happy when I'm sad. No you're not! Eat molten bombs of sweet purification comrade!!! Ah the glorious cosmic incubator that is the mighty Sun, bringer of light, giver of life to all! Ahem, so..okay, there are such beautiful colours in this strange and wonderful short. I love the really old cartoons that feature merry gnome-like sprites, and I especially love the great animation gems of the 1930's, they're so unique in style and are so carefully and artistically constructed, there's a certain aesthetic to them that you just don't get from any other animations. And this one in particular has some very striking imagery and animated effects regarding the two polar opposite factions of gnome folk. I love all the crazy details in the machinery of the Smurf-like residents of..let's call it Sunnyville, as they harness and prepare the rays of the sun into an elixir to be delivered like so many bottles of milk! And all the richly Gothic gloom of the decrepit hamlet of the dark gnomes is just as well done and appealing in its own very different way. The shadows are terrifically done and are paid great attention to in the story. And I love the beautiful effect of the sunshine arrows that make sunlight appear wherever they hit, I think it looks downright amazing to say that this short is so very old! This really is one of the special old cartoons, I think it's all beautiful. I love the sky, the lighting, everything, this is just wonderful to look at. "Sunshine, sushiiine!" Oh, that song will stick in your ears for hours! But on the other hand the scene is so hilarious where the bad gnomes are singing(?) about how happy they are being sad! Apparently they were just begging for a hostile together and thorough brainwashing by the clan of the sun worshippers! There's something a little whoa and off about about the whole militarisation of sunlight in the story, the way the gnomes launch the sunshine artillery and drop the sunlight bombs, smiling all the while, and completely disregarding the choices of their grumpy downbeat cousins until they're completely *forced* to convert! That was so unfair! True they did attack first, but the majority of them appeared to be minding their own business, and I do think the happy-go-lucky guys went a little too far, I mean it was only one person who attacked, and they went all word war three and bombed them with sunshine till their grim landscape was absolutely no more and they were all happy-happy-happy!!! What a lesson to teach little kids - if someone disagrees with you, hurt them until they do! Positivety cannot be force-fed, and can a person be too happy? I would freaking-well say so! It's a little sickly-sweet in places, but what a great show, I loved it. I thought it had some pretty cool and scary ideas! It's a beautiful day as I write this, everything's so much nicer when the sun's out. Hey sun, you should come out more often, things are so much better when you're around!

mikeg994 In my humble opinion the old animated cartoons from the 1930's were some of the best that were ever made, and were more strange, imaginative, and charming than much of what followed.This has got to be one of the weirdest cartoons I have ever seen. Would that it were as simple as that to bring someone out of their depressive state. What is in that milk? Zoloft? The Sunshine makers were much happier and had far better weaponry, which did not kill but made the enemy happy even as it caused their tissues to become transparent and even glow.One wonders what influence the historical context may have had on this film. A pacifist dream? The onset of the "Great Depression" was certainly depressing. People were probably wondering aloud "If only there were more confidence, monetary and emotional." Perhaps the swamp men were investors? Or maybe the swamp men did not get enough calcium in their diet? And internationally the situation was bad too, with bad, depressing regimes in Germany and Russia, who were probably stockpiling poison gas.It is a shame you couldn't just bomb the currently worrisome miscreants in the Middle East with happy milk. Nobody would have to die, very little would be destroyed, and everyone would feel better after it was over. Now go pick up all that broken glass before someone cuts themselves.

ccthemovieman-1 I agree with the other reviewer here that this primitive-looking 70-year-old cartoon is more than what first meets the eye. I'm not saying it's any award- winner but it was intriguing. It would be easy to dismiss at first because of the unimpressive graphics and fairly poor quality print. It's probably very difficult to get a good print of this but I'm sure it would enhance the story.That story is a simple one of Hobbit-like creatures who seem to worship the sun and they bottle it in the form of milk, which they deliver around town. The scenes in them are in reddish-orange and white. The "bad guys" are in the woods nearby and they sing "We're only happy when we're sad." Their scenes are all in blue-and-white. Like Dracula figures, if sunlight hits them, it's not good for them. (Actually, it is because it changes them into laughing, happy people.)They try to sabotage of positive-thinking, cheery people. The second half of the story is the war between the two groups. One is flinging milk bottle and the other a poisonous gas.This is a fantasy story, pure-and-simple, not a comedy. It's not going to provoke many laughs, if any, but it different enough to be an interesting seven-and-a-half minutes. It also has an excellent message. Some people may say, act or think "I don't want to be happy," but deep inside nobody wants that. I believe that was the message here in this battle between "positive" and "negative" people.The cartoon was "brought to you" by the Borden Milk Company. Hmmm, that explains why milk was the "good" product.