Mickey Cuts Up (1931)

Simply A Masterpiece

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

This is a fun Mickey and Minnie cartoon, where they tend to their yards while singing and dancing to some very catchy and toe-tapping tunes. It makes you feel cheerful and happy enough to join in the song and dance.There's also some slapstick fun when Pluto chases a cat with a lawnmower tied to his tail, trimming ahead as he ran. Very fun stuff here!Grade A

This starts out with Mickey mowing the lawn. What we don't see at first is that Pluto is pulling the lawn mower. As our mouse friend does his yard work, Minnie is planting and enjoying flowers. Things go amiss when a black cat shows up. First he attacks Mickey who is in a birdhouse fooling around. Then Pluto gets into the act. By the time everyone is done, the is massive destruction of property. Pluto's natural pursuit of the cat is at the center of it. The animation is pretty good and the story is interesting.

This is an early Disney short featuring Mickey Mouse. There will be spoilers ahead:This is another short long on music and short on plot. It's really a series of set pieces driven by gags. The scene where Minnie does a duet with a bird is very nice. It's triggered by Mickey playing "barber" to a shrub.There's more than one run in with a cat, which causes no end of trouble later on. Though this starts out with Mickey mowing his lawn (Pluto's actually harnessed to the mower and is technically doing the work) most of this is Mickey flirting with Minnie, with a few really good gags.What energy there is to this is supplied by a hungry cat which makes a couple of mistakes, thus setting up a good bit of the action here. It's a recipe for disaster and laughs. Pluto and cats typically don't see eye to eye and this short is no exception. Cat + Dog + lawnmower=mayhem.This short is available on the Mickey Mouse In Black and White Disney Treasures DVD set and is well worth tracking down. Recommended.

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.MICKEY CUTS UP while mowing the lawn, playing with Miss Minnie and enjoying the day until a black cat upsets Pluto...This humorous little black & white film has its minimal plot pushed largely by the musical score, which includes `Shine' and `Ain't We Got Fun.' Mickey may be the only one in the world who can flirt with his girl while riding on top of a lawnmower pulled by a dog. Walt Disney gives the Mouse his squeaky voice.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & 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 comic 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 storm of naysayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.