Mickey's Eleven (1927) User Reviews

A Decent Effort For an Early Short In The Series. Spoilers!

[stimpy25 · 7/10 · 17 October 2006]

This is a decent little short from the early days of "Rooney" :) in it he and his pals play a game of football. at the start of this short they are just playing for fun. but than Stinky Davis as always has nothing better to do with his time & spies on McGuire & the Gang. so he decides to play a few pranks on them. comedy ensues. & than in the last half of this short Stinky & his gang of misfits decide as always to cheat on the game of football. but in the end Mickey & the gang wins the game as always because they play fair & don't break the rules when a simple game of football occures. a decent effort for a short.

it's one of the first "Mickey McGuire" Shorts that was released. & this one is on DVD IF you can find it. over all i recommend it. i'll give it a

7/10 it's also NOT a bad silent film.

The movie not only was silent, but I am pretty sure the theaters would have been silent as well when they showed this one.

[planktonrules · 3/10 · 1 August 2018]

During the late 1920s to 1934, Mickey Rooney made 78 Mickey McGuire films. While they were based on a comic strip, "Toonerville Trolley", they films were especially influenced by the success of Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies....and quite a few production companies made faux Our Gang films....most of which were just not very funny.

Here in "Mickey's Eleven", Mickey Rooney is back and, as was often the case, sporting a derby and chomping on a cigar. However, something is odd about the plot in this one...because there really isn't one. Instead, lots of little things happen...and which all add up to nothing particularly funny or memorable. In fact, a couple of the gags are pretty lame--such as painting a football like a watermelon so that black kid would be sure to catch it (uggh!) as well as the pottery....which when it hit became powder. Overall, a very weak Mickey McGuire comedy...because there is no comedy.

Mickey Himself

[boblipton · 5/10 · 29 January 2019]

Mickey Rooney stars in this two-reel comedy as Mickey (Himself) Maguire, the pint-sized, cigar-smoking kid. He leads ten of his friends in playing football against the bigger kids, even though, as the titles tell us, he doesn't need them to win; it's just the rules that require the others.

It's based on Fontaine Fox' Toonerville Trolley comic strip, and at this point, the movie series had not shed its origins. There are references to the Powerful Katinka and some adults who suffer as a result of the hijinks.

Like others in the series, it has suffered from age. Jokes include painting the football like a watermelon so the Black kid will catch it, and there are plenty of mechanical gags. Even so, it's a pleasure to see Rooney this early in his career, starring.