Mickey's Trailer (1938)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Goofy, Mickey Mouse, and Donald Duck live in a mobile home. Goofy is the absent-minded driver.This is a classic Disney cartoon. The colors are bright. The characters are iconic. The animation is pure. It is simple fun at its best.

It does not happen too often that Mickey, Goofy and Donald show up in the same cartoon, but this one here is among the exceptions. Same goes for the fact that Disney scored Oscar nominations for pretty much everything back in the 1930s and 1940 in the animated short category, but not for this one. Still, 75 years later, it's among the company's more known cartoons. Goofy's riding the van singing a hilarious version of "Comin' round the mountains", Mickey's chilling and enjoying the view and Donald is, of course, sleeping. It quickly turns into an entertaining animated road-movie (there can't be too many of these) and my favorite scene is probably the three at the table eating melons, corn and more.As a whole, I recommend this short film. It's not among my favorite cartoons from the era, but the fact how big Disney was in quality and quantity back then shouldn't diminish those films that weren't among the very best. It's still absolutely worth a watch, not only to animation enthusiasts.

I love Disney, their films, Silly Symphonies and shows. Mickey's Trailer is for me one of their all-time greats. It has a clever opening sequence, and the ending is wonderfully ironic. The animation is excellent, the characters are drawn well, the backgrounds are solid and the colours are vibrant and still look beautiful, while the music is that of true energy. The dialogue amuses, but the sight gags and gadgets are what drive the cartoon, the sight gags are hilarious and clever and the gadgets are well-incorporated. The characters are their engaging and likable selves, Mickey is charming, Goofy is clumsy yet lovable and Donald is wonderfully cantankerous. The voice acting from Walt Disney, Pinto Colvig and Clarence Nash is wonderful too. All in all, brilliant and in my eyes a classic. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Disney in the late 1930s did animated shorts like no one else did them. Warner Brothers was after the visual gag and creating continuing characters, while MGM was interested in making visually pretty cartoons and mostly one-shots, with few recurring characters. For Walt Disney, shorts served a couple of primary purposes: one, they kept the Disney name and his principal characters before the public and two, most importantly to Disney, they were a good testing and training ground for new animation techniques, so he could make the feature films as close to perfect as possible. In this short (a fantastic cartoon in its own right), the visual gags are great, but the timing on everything has to be perfect or it won't work. You can see the seeds of things Disney did later in features like Dumbo and Bambi in shorts like Mickey's Trailer, which serve as dry-runs while being great works in and of themselves. Some of the best bits ever done were done for these shorts just to see what worked and what didn't. Magnificently animated. Well worth watching. Most highly recommended.