Mickey Mouse

A few months ago my class went to Disney World for our senior trip and this program was nonstop rotating on one of the local channels. It took a few episodes for my friends and I to realize that this show is unlike anything that we have ever seen from the Disney company. Once we came to this understanding, we were laughing hysterically through every episode. This contains outlandish bizarre, humor that greatly differs from the feeble silliness of most other modern children's programs. The faces that characters make (an example being when Goofy removes the blindfold in "Potatoland", my favorite episode) are straight out of dementedly animated online videos such as the Hellbenders. These obscure, freakish faces in combination with the characters' brilliantly random lines gave me and my friends one of the most unexpected hilarious experiences ever. It might just be that we have a warped sense of humor and no one else finds it funny for the same reasons as us. I understand that this greatly strays from the classic Mickey cartoons and that may upset people. But when this show stands on its own, it is an excellent piece of art. The art design is fantastic and enjoyable in its simplicity. Like I said, the small moments are "brilliantly" random, for no one can just create a perfect idea for one off the top of their head. There is a expertise required to craft these sort of nonsensical lines or actions from characters, and this show has it on point. I deducted 3 stars because as a writer I feel that there is nothing exceptionally creative about the actual plots of the episodes. Spongebob Squarepants is the greatest cartoon of all time in my opinion(during seasons 1-3) and almost every episode in the first 3 seasons I believe is centered around a creative concept (such as a race for snails in which Patrick enters his pet rock). Many of the plots of the Mickey Mouse episodes are one-dimensional and probably took little effort to craft. Of course, all of the episodes are 5 minutes long and have almost no room to tell an actual story, but the writers could work around this limitation. "Potatoland" was one of the few episodes I can think of off the top of my head that had any potential to satisfy viewers who seek "intelligent" stories. So the show resorts to what many could call "stupid comedy", but it is one of the best at doing so. I'll end on a positive note, saying that this is simply one of the funniest shows I've seen in a long time.

I have to disagree with the negative critics here - if you know the personalities and zany spirit of the animators at Disney early on - these feel dead on. I can especially see Ward Kimball loving these.

This is *not* the Mickey and friends from the era where Mickey had been softened and made completely safe because he needed to be a protected corporate asset - these are the guys who were completely bonkers and stole people's hearts in the first place.

If you enjoy the *spirit* of the early cartoons, and can handle something classic being updated to fit with current times, then these are entirely delightful.

This is probably the show that made me laugh the most. Its setting in different places on the earth with improbably silly situations visualised in great slapstick humor is a whole lot of fun for all ages.

It is a stylised rendition which aims to look like the old cartoons and I found it welcome in our present day as a way to honour the roots of animation. The series still uses elements of CGI, but not in a way that sticks awkwardly out.

Some of Disney's well known characters frequently make cameos in the series, too. See it and you will experience cleverly made comedic situations with other beloved characters.

I find this series hilarious, and if you like great slapstick humor, it is a must see.

You don't expect a mega-monopoly company like Disney to do anything even a little bit far out, and they usually don't, but this excellent animation series dares to be silly and utilize a unique and beautiful (funny) art style. Actually it goes back to the roots of Disney animation because it's funny and not prudish and uptight like most Disney stuff quite soon turned into! (Ironically the creator of the series is named P.Rudish).

In my opinion this is the best thing they've done in a long time, it's so good it almost redeems Disney slightly for shutting down their traditional animation feature department. There's about ten episodes available on Youtube where I live and I laughed out loud several times in every episode and was amazed by the beautiful backgrounds and funny drawn characters. (I wonder when they will make the full series available in the Nordic countries).

This show is pretty funny and good some episodes are good but there are ones that make no sense at all... actually? But my favorite episode are ones that have good story and great arcs and ones I hate are ones with different languages cause I have no idea what the dialogue is and overall it's good.n.