Toy Time (1931)
*** (out of 4)
This animation film shows a lot of imagination and especially when you consider it's basically just a mice versus cat type of story. The film takes place at Christmas time as a mouse and his girlfriend decide to go out and look at presents in the home and it doesn't take long for the mean cat to show up. I really thought this short featured some good imagination and especially during an early sequence where the mouse is trying to get a piece of cheese off of a trap so he has to use a way around getting caught. Things really turn fun once the cat shows up and the mice have to use various gifts to try and fight it off. This here leads to some really good stuff including a blown up cat that helps put everything to an end. The male mouse has a strong resemblance to Mickey Mouse so I'm a little surprise that Disney didn't have an issue with this. The animation style was quite impressive and really dragged you into the fun of the situation. The copy of this that I viewed came from a TV print with the title THE TOYLAND CAPER.