It amazes me when I start to read the reviews of some of these Walt Disney shorts where the comments obviously took longer to write than watching the actual cartoon. I guess that's a tribute to the wonderful work the studio put out during it's early years. This one features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, with Mickey taking a bit of a back seat allowing his co-stars to do the heavy lifting. Donald fends off hungry seagulls as a pelican grabs his lunch, while Goofy finds himself on the wrong end of a harpoon cannon. Upended on a rope suspended over a sleepy whale, he eventually finds himself looking for a way out as the whale gives chase to Donald and wrecks their ship! Through it all, Mickey remains silent with his own problems fending off a boomerang-ing pail of water. Funny how these cartoons manage to maintain a sense of timelessness about them. With perhaps minor updates, the picture looks as fresh as if it were made quite recently.
Review of The Whalers
