Toyland Casino

In the 1920s and 30s, various studios tried creating their own versions of the Our Gang comedies--and most of them were pretty bad. This 1938 film appears to be a knock-off of the later Our Gang comedies--the ones that weren't nearly as funny and relied too much on kid talent shows. In fact, with "Toyland Casino" they don't even have a plot--just act after act singing and dancing. While this sounds pretty bad because of the lack of plot, it's worse because the kids are all a bunch of no-talents. It's no surprise that none of these kids went on to have big careers in Hollywood, as their singing was generally painful to hear. In fact, that is THE problem--the film isn't entertaining and is just painful from start to finish--sort of like if you are forced to attend some elementary school pageant where your kids aren't even performing! Just awful.