Blue Bird
by Walter Lang
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Actor: Eddie Collins, Gale Sondergaard, Nigel Bruce, Shirley Temple, Spring ByingtonDirector: Walter Lang
Brand: Fox Home Entertainment
Cinematographer: Arthur C. Miller
Editor: Robert Bischoff
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer: Gene Markey
Writer: Ernest Pascal
Writer: Maurice Maeterlinck
Writer: Walter Bullock
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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DVD Review: Shirley Temple's Very Own Acid Trip!
Summary: 4 Stars
MGM originally wanted Shirley Temple to play Dorothy in the classic, "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), but Twentieth Century Fox wouldn't let her out of her contract (rumor was also that Ms. Temple could not sing like Judy Garland). Instead, in a blatant copycat fashion, Ms. Temple's studio released "The Bluebird" (1940); her own version of "The Wizard of Oz". In this version, however, Shirley Temple plays Mytyl, a bratty, selfish German girl who is the blackest contradiction of a `good little girl'. To compliment the story, Mytyl has a younger brother named Tyltyl, adding an unnecessary 'Hansel and Gretel' touch.
With their father about to go to war on Christmas, the family becomes despondent. Mytyl reluctantly goes to bed only to wake up in a world of color (sorry, no tornadoes here). A magical fairy with a technicolor drape tells Mytyl and Tyltyl that they must seek out the `bluebird of happiness'. An amazing `Glenda, Good Witch' look-alike named "Light" (I'm not kidding) guides them on their journey. Their now humanized faithful dog and sneaky cat accompany the silly trio.
The group visits scary graveyards and the `past' to see the ever-so-grateful dead grandparents, which starts the whole "It's a Wonderful Life" cliché. After appreciating how much they miss their overwhelmingly saccharin dead grandparents, the young children experience Mr. and Mrs. Luxury, only to discover that these pompous fat oafs don't represent happiness after all. In a trek through a forest (another `Wizard of Oz' parallel) trees talk and conspire against humans who only want to cut and destroy them. The children find themselves witness to a lightning storm that forces them on a run through a gigantic forest with lightning scorched burning trees falling all around them. This particluar scene is quite a visual achievement considering the period in history. Escaping by boat over a pond, they find themselves in the world of the future, where they find young toddlers and other children waiting to be born in a cloud filled world of bliss. It is there that they meet the future scientists, teachers and lovers of the world. It's an unearthly world of souls as anxious to be born as orphans wanting to be adopted. There is one nice touch of despondent young soul mates that know they will never be together again as they are destined to be born at different generations.
"Light" tells them she must go and they will find the bluebird of happiness on their own. Suddenly, waking up in their beds again, Mytyl and Tyltyl greet their mother with uncharacteristic gratitude and find that their father won't be going to war after all. The following is the actual dialogue at the end of this film.
Mummy Tyl: Your daddy got up at daybreak and made a cage for your
bird. Do you like it?
Mytyl: Oh, Tyltyl, look! My bird, look whats happened to it! Its
blue! Its the blue bird!
Daddy Tyl: The blue bird?
Mytyl turns and looks DIRECTLY into the camera and says to the audience: "We looked everywhere for it, and all the time it was right here!"
Right here in your own backyard? Now where was Auntie Em???
The film is very pretty to look at, but the characters are one-dimensional and the scenes seem to be written overnight, clumped together in a linear manner to justify Shirley Temple and the special effects. There is one song and dance number that is completely out of place. It's shamelessly stunning to see the similarities between "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Bluebird". There's no wonder this film flopped despite the Oscar nominated special effects. It almost, almost makes you wish that the ferocious forest fire had engulfed and destroyed Mytyl, Tyltyl and the entire film.
Description of Blue Bird
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?MPAA Rating: G
?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 88 minutes
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