Sea Salts

Donald Duck takes on the title of sea captain. He is friends with 'Mac' Bootle Beetle, and he tells of the time he and Donald were shipwrecked and how they spent time coping afterward.

Donald was pretty crafty in this one, always seemingly cheating Bootle out of his rations share, and then using him as bait for fishing. But, Donald does show his true friendship with the beetle when he brings him on board a raft in order to be rescued by a passing ship.

The animation is this short is full of color and splendor and the plot of the story takes us away from the more conventional and cliché Donald Duck shorts. Most importantly, Donald doesn't get the brunt of all the bad luck in the story and he seemingly ended up quite well at the cartoon's climax, aging gracefully and still spending time with Bootle.

It's a different Donald Duck cartoon, especially due to us seeing Donald at an "old age" for the first time I think, but it's a touching cartoon with a Donald free of any bad luck!

Grade A