I know many people will not watch this for many reasons. The excuses range from "I Hate Black and White Movies", "I Do Not Like Old Movies" ,"I herd this was stupid", "I never Herd of this", and so many others.Well this film is "Dated" but its also part of its charm. This film stars "Laurel and Hardy" and it is a delightful surprise. Think of this film as the inspiration for the "Shrek" films.In this film A woman is about to lose her home. Stannie Dumb (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy), live in a shoe (as in the nursery rhyme There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe), along with Mother Peep (the Old Woman), Bo Peep (Charlotte Henry), a mouse resembling Mickey Mouse (and actually played by a live monkey in a costume), and many other children. The mortgage on the shoe is owned by the villainous Silas Barnaby (Henry Brandon), who is looking to marry Bo Peep. Knowing the Widow Peep is having a difficult time paying the mortgage, Barnaby offers the old woman an ultimatum – unless Bo Peep agrees to marry him he will foreclose on the shoe. Widow Peep refuses, but is worried about where she'll get the money to pay the mortgage. Ollie offers her all the money he has stored away in his savings can, only to learn that Stannie has taken it to buy peewees (a favored toy consisting of a wooden peg with tapered ends that rises in the air when struck with a stick near one end and is then caused to fly through the air by being struck again with the stick). He and Stannie set out to get the money for the mortgage from their boss, the Toymaker (William Burress). But Stannie has mixed up an order from Santa Claus (building 100 wooden soldiers at six feet tall, instead of 600 soldiers at one foot tall) and one of the soldiers, when activated, wrecks the toy shop. Stannie and Ollie are fired without getting the money.I don't want to tell too much more but truest me the film is fast paced and its never boring. Give it a try!

Delightfully surreal fantasy here, which I give thumbs up to on all fronts, even to Laurel and Hardy, which I normally snub my nose at. Here, while they are first billed, they're not on screen all the time, Instead, we get the goings on in Toyland, with Bo Peep, the old woman in the shoe, the three little pigs etc. The story involves some codger named Barnaby trying to get Bo-Peep any way possible. But Ollie and Laurel won't have any of that! Weird cinematography, stranger characters (what was with that Mickey Mouse?) and odd songs... Plus, the whole thing was (my copy at least) in strange computerized color. LOVE LOVE LOVE

The experience of watching this movie is worse than water boarding. The CIA should use this movie when they are interrogating terror suspects. There's only so much of 'Babe's in Toyland' a human being can take before he/she has a total psychological break down.I can't imagine anything worse than having to watch this movie again.As much as this may sound like a flippant, exaggeration - I am being absolutely, honest and quite serious. The fact that this movie has scored this high here on IMDb may at first seem to be a sociological mystery, yet there is a clear explanation for it.There are two types of people that like this movie - 1. Those that are unfairly rating it (giving it a good rating) due to unconscious positive associations from their childhood past. 2. Drug users who like to trip out on it while under the influence of psychoactive substances. It is absolutely terrible. The humor is beyond dated. The cinematography is a joke. 'Babes in Toyland' belongs in a museum - not in our living rooms during Christmas. Please, let's not torture our young ones with this movie over the holidays. The world is tough enough as it is for them. They deserve better than this.

The old woman who lived in a shoe is about to be thrown out onto the cobbled streets by Barnaby, the tight-fisted landlord. But he will forget about the money she owes him if she allows him to marry her daughter Bo Peep. Therefore it's up to Stan and Ollie to foil the old miser's plans. This, however, leads to more trouble as Bo Peep's boyfriend is framed for killing one of the 3 little pigs and exiled to the underworld. Can Stan and Ollie prove his innocence and save him? This is without doubt one of Laurel and Hardy's finest films. The comedy and slapstick are at their best, Barnaby is excellently nasty and it all has a real fairy-tale/dark fantasy quality to it. The icing on the cake is the grand finale. You really feel like you want to get up and march along with those toy soldiers. Superb.