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"A Mickey Mouse Cartoon"
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Released by United Artists, Inc.
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From Jerry Edwards : Mickey and the gang's playing is so catchy that the furniture, household items, and even the cops (sent to quiet the noise) get caught up in the revelry. I enjoy how the dancing is very sedate until the food is served. Everyone stampedes for the food - then the party speeds up. I also enjoy the ending scene when the cops arrive. You are led to believe the cops are going to break up the party, only to find the cops have joined in the merriment. The often censored scene of the matches dancing and striking themselves - resulting in their black faces - also has them saying "Mammy!"
From Ryan : I don't care too much for this short, but I certainly do not hate it. Some funny scenes were where Mickey slices ham like he's playing a violin and where Goofy tickles Clarabelle with a party favor. She gets even though, she takes a boxing glove with horseshoes in it and puts her party favor in that. Then she punches Goofy with it and he lands in the fishbowl where the fish end up tickling him. I did notice that the scene with the dancing pig was recycled from the 1930 short "The Shindig."
From Lee Suggs : Ah, 1932 when Mickey ruled the world. Nineteen thirty-two was the worst year of the Depression and the American people NEEDED to feel good. Mickey Mouse was the man (I mean the Mouse) for the job. Fourteen Mickey shorts were made in 1932, the most ever created in one year. They include Mickey at his manic best ("The Klondike Kid") and my two favorite shorts "Touchdown Mickey" and the greatest Mickey short of all time "Mickey's Good Deed". "The Whoopee Party" is a good example of Mickey's spirit during this era. Despite his obvious poverty Mickey manages to throw together a wonderful party, with food, dancing and fun, fun, FUN! My favorite scene is when Mickey dances with the FULL figured pig because no one else is dancing with her. Everyone is having so much fun that soon the food, the furniture, and even the police (who arrive in force to break the party up) join in. This high energy short is short on dialog, but long on sight gags and pure FUN.
From Juan F. Lara : With its huge cast of rubber-hose style characters it was easy to see why they picked this cartoon to show [on House of Mouse.] And this is what I call a cartoon! Just enough plot to set up the premise: Mickey and Minnie throwing a party. It's a short, it didn't need any more plot. Instead the music determined what action happened onscreen. And the short had great music, very danceable. Character movement and the timing of any gags precisely followed the rhythm set up by the music. So everything flowed very smoothly.
And the makers came up with very imaginative ways to make characters and objects move. People could snake through the crowd if they're skinny, or beat like a drum if they're fat. Furniture could come to life and dance with the people without disrupting the rhythm one bit. That hatrack and chair sure had some great moves.
For variety they even threw in a couple of plot points. Dippy Dawg and Clarabelle Cow exchanged pranks in a hilarious face-off where they showed personality. Then suddenly near the end a paddy wagon of cops showed up to spoil the fun, but I LOL'ed at what really happened. I was never bored at any moment.
From Chris Peralta : I have seen The Whoopee Party on The House of Mouse on the disney channel and give the cartoon an 8 out of 10. The music was great but the comedy was only helped when Goofy and Clarabell Cow get into a dual.
From Rebecca : "The Whoopee Party" is certainly high-paced and fun, featuring the typical shindigs seen in black and white Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts from the 30's. Clarabelle Cow and Goofy (called "Dippy the Goof" in this cartoon) serve as the main sense of comic relief with their antics.
From Bill : This was a fun short. Mickey is great on the action shorts or the shorts with lots of music! I always liked the music Walt Disney put into most of the Mickeys. This one had no real plot, just Mickey and Minnie giving their friends a great party with lots of food and entertainment. One of the funniest scenes was when the food was ready, All the guests just piled on and grabbed what they could then settled down to party some more. All the characters contributed equally which made this short very enjoyable. The 1930's rubber hose animation maybe by today's standards is crude, but I think it gives the classic shorts a look that computer generation could never match, and I think that there was more heart put into making them during this time.
From Gijs Grob : In 1932 consistent storylines where reintroduced with a remarkable success to the Mickey cartoons (for example 'The Barnyard Olympics' and 'Touchdown Mickey'). In this era the musical cartoon "The Whoopee Party" with its total lack of story seems to be quite old-fashioned. It contains numerous earlier used elements: a public dancing, Minnie singing behind the piano and alive inanimate objects (although the latter feature was more common practice in the Fleischer cartoons of that time). Nevertheless, the sheer fun with which everything is executed, makes this cartoon a delight to watch. In this cartoon Goofy gets the looks he would maintain until his redesign in "On Ice" (1935). He's more than just a silly laugh now, but he's still more weird than likeable. 'The Whoopee Party' contains some nice effect animation of confetti and flying feathers. It also reuses some animation of Clarabelle Cow dancing and mooing from 'The Shindig' (1930).
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