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"A Mickey Mouse Cartoon"
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Released by United Artists Pictures
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Released in 8mm form under the title "Mickey's Royal Battle."
A short clip of this cartoon was used in the Fox Films production "My Lips Betray."
From Jerry Edwards : An interesting cartoon - full of action and gags. One fun gag is when Mickey's donkey beats Goofy's horse in a fight. The horse hits the wall, causing the King's picture to fall right behind the horse's rear - a not-that-subtle message that the King is a horse's ass. Goofy is still listed as Dippy Dawg in this short. The only cartoon I can remember that Goofy played a villain. The King looks almost exactly like the character Old King Cole from the 1931 Silly Symphony "Mother Goose Melodies."
From Ryan : Mickey plays a medieval minstral riding his donkey through the countryside. Meanwhile up in the castle, we've go Princess Minnie who is being forced to marry Prince Goofy. Well the king gets sort of ticked off after she refuses and locks her in the tower (he was a pretty loving father, wasn't he?). The king is later shown being fed by the royal cooks and servants. In fact, he's being fed quite a bit of food that he doesn't need. Foods like roast beef (which is actually a whole cow on a plate) and chicken. Seriously, does anyone have that big of an appetite? I don't think he needs all that food, he's fat enough. All in all this was pretty good. Like all Disney shorts that feature the couple together, this one was quite predictable. You know Minnie will choose to marry Mickey.
From Bill : This was a pretty tame short for Mickey, villians wise. The story started off slow in the beginning; we got to see "Dippy Dawg" soon to be goofy in his development stages. This short had a lot of humor in it. I especailly loved it when Mickey was in the tree singing to Minnie, saying how he would rescue her so she would not have to marry that "baf-foon." It just sounded funny the way Mickey said it. The scene with all the food was funny, and even though Mickey had to fight "Goofy", there wasn't the major tension in this fight as with Pete. A cute short, and as always, Mickey get Minnie, as it should be.
From Baruch Weiss : I agree with Ryan on the king and all that food. Too bad they didn't have wight watchers back then!
From Gijs Grob : Mickey and the gang are staged in many different times and places in their cartoons. Yet, this is the first cartoon in which they are introduced as actors performing their parts. This idea of Mickey being an actor was first coined in "The Wayward Canary" (1932) and played out to the max in "Mickey's Gala Premiere" (1933). This cartoon nevertheless is played without any awareness of the public. Minnie is a princess forced to marry prince Goofy. Minnie refuses and is locked up in the high tower. Fortunately, there is minstrell Mickey to save her and to battle the evil prince. Like "Ye Olden Days" and "The Mad Doctor", this cartoon is partly a musical with lots of parts sung. It also contains a very anachronistic guillotine and an elaborately designed horse that shows the aspirations of the studio to master more lifelike designs and animation. Goofy, who is introduced as Dippy Dawg, is quite miscast here, playing the villain, who he acts out more silly than threatening. It seems that the animators didn't really know what to do with the character, so far only funny because of his typical voice. So, after this film they dropped him for more than a year.
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