This is a cartoon in the Mighty Mouse series produced by Terrytoons. There will be spoilers ahead:
Mighty Mouse cartoons follow a formula. There are two principal concepts. One is Mighty Mouse being called on to save a group of mice from a threat, typically involving cats. The other has Mighty Mouse in a melodramatic plot line, generally saving Pearl Pureheart or her equivalent from Oil Can Harry. This cartoon is in the first group.
A bunch of mice are celebrating Hallowe'en, singing and marching around. The celebration goes well until the arrival of a witch and her cat. The witch wants to catch a bunch of mice for her cat to eat. The mice actually do fairly well in the beginning in fending off the attacks of both witch and cat, but the inevitable happens and the mice call for Mighty Mouse to rescue them. If they didn't, it wouldn't be much of a Mighty Mouse cartoon, now would it? Mighty Mouse comes to the rescue, though there's the brief bit of false tension created when Mighty Mouse is temporarily unable to do anything. But he ultimately triumphs over witch and cat. That's the inherent weakness of these shorts-Mighty Mouse must always win, so the conclusion is a given. The only question is how he'll win, not if he'll win. But the pacing is good, a fair number of the gags are funny and its a fun short, even though it's predictable.
Worth watching.
Mighty Mouse cartoons follow a formula. There are two principal concepts. One is Mighty Mouse being called on to save a group of mice from a threat, typically involving cats. The other has Mighty Mouse in a melodramatic plot line, generally saving Pearl Pureheart or her equivalent from Oil Can Harry. This cartoon is in the first group.
A bunch of mice are celebrating Hallowe'en, singing and marching around. The celebration goes well until the arrival of a witch and her cat. The witch wants to catch a bunch of mice for her cat to eat. The mice actually do fairly well in the beginning in fending off the attacks of both witch and cat, but the inevitable happens and the mice call for Mighty Mouse to rescue them. If they didn't, it wouldn't be much of a Mighty Mouse cartoon, now would it? Mighty Mouse comes to the rescue, though there's the brief bit of false tension created when Mighty Mouse is temporarily unable to do anything. But he ultimately triumphs over witch and cat. That's the inherent weakness of these shorts-Mighty Mouse must always win, so the conclusion is a given. The only question is how he'll win, not if he'll win. But the pacing is good, a fair number of the gags are funny and its a fun short, even though it's predictable.
Worth watching.