Pluto and the Armadillo (1943)
Mickey and Pluto make a short stopover on a South American flight. Mickey throws Pluto's ball into the jungle, and he chases it but it looks exactly the same as an armadillo that's rolled up into a ball. This, of course, greatly confuses Pluto for a while. But he eventually makes friends with the armadillo. He chases the critter into a cave right behind his ball, and rips the ball apart thinking it's the armadillo, which makes him very sad until the armadillo shows up again.
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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Good concept, poorly executed.
Don't listen to the negative reviews
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
This is quite the boring Pluto short - basically, a narrator tells the story about Mickey and Pluto vacationing in Brazil, where Pluto tangles with an armadillo, who seemed to be smitten with Pluto. However, as with all things irregular with Pluto, the dog grows suspicious with the animal and chases it away. But, when he thought he hurt the poor thing, Pluto cries over it. This happens often in other cartoons of his - Pluto cries over things he was tormenting in the first place; he doesn't seem to know what he wants. Grade D--
Pluto and the Armadillo admittedly is not one of my favourites, the story and some of the gags are very routine stuff and Mickey is just a cameo here which is a shame after seeing him in being much more than that in his early work(often he was either heroic, energetic, expressive or affecting or both, and I loved seeing those sides to him). However, Pluto is a lot of fun to watch and he has always been a strong enough to carry a Disney short, and the armadillo is very cute. There's even a funny moment where it has a very I beg your pardon? look after being called an odd-shaped basket by the narrator. The animation is bright and colourful, and the music is characterful and beautifully orchestrated. The narration is thoughtful and amusing. The emotional part where Pluto starts crying because he thinks he had killed the armadillo is very poignant. So all in all, it is a very nice short without being truly exceptional. 8/10 Bethany Cox
This was quite informative, at least first two minutes, as we are given facts about the armadillo It was pretty interesting, too.The setting is Belem, Brazil, where we next see another species, "tourista Americano," deplane for a quick stopover. Actually we see two: Micky and Pluto. The dog sees a ball nearby (the armadillo forms that shape while protecting itself) and begins playing with it. Soon, the ball is the nearby jungle and it begins to cause Pluto all kinds of problems.That's basically, the gag in here: Pluto trying to deal with this strange creature who looks like a hard rubber ball, but is alive. The armadillo spends much of the cartoon batting her little eyes at Pluto, winning him over. It gets a little too repetitive.What you usually get with these old Disney cartoons is something to please the little kids, is mildly amusing for adults and looks good with bright, clean colors. This one was strictly for the little ones.
A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.It is PLUTO AND THE ARMADILLO he encounters that provides the excitement during Mickey's brief stopover in Belem, Brazil.This is one of the many films in which Pluto gets to interact with a small critter of some sort. The gags are routine. That's Brazilian star Carmen Miranda that The Pup spoofs for a few moments with the fruity headgear. Mickey's appearance is little more than a cameo.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, Peter Pan and Mr. Toad. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.