Three Blind Mouseketeers

If you've seen any random Tom and Jerry short then you've already seen everything that Three Blind Mouseketeers has to offer. The titular trio invade cabin or pantry of sorts patrolled by Captain Katt (who looks a lot like a beagle boy) that has laid a series of traps for said mice to blindly (pun intended) walk into. However chance is on their side and they bumble harmlessly through the room, much to the irritation of the cat.

Forgettable mayhem ensues, which inevitably leads to Katt stumbling through his own traps and hurting himself. Once this cartoon is over I doubt you'll ever think about it again.

"Three Blind Mouseketeers" comes across as a possible inspiration for the Road Runner-Wile E. Coyote cartoons, as the cat sets traps for the mice, who avoid them without realizing that they're in danger. Since I always preferred the Looney Tunes to any of the Disney stuff, I have to go with Wile E. Nonetheless, I did like that end sequence. In the end, the best version of "The Three Musketeers" is the 1973 and 1974 back-to-back movies directed by Richard Lester (they were planned for a few years earlier and Lester was planning to cast the Beatles, but that fell through and he assembled a different cast).

Anyway, this one's OK as entertainment. A piece of trivia is that Pinto Colvig, who did one of the voices, is best known as Goofy's voice.

This is a predictable, boring, and annoying cartoon starring three blind mouseketeers, who attempt to banish a cat from its quarters.

There's really nothing in this cartoon short that we haven't seen before. But, there is virtually no humor, unfunny slapstick stuff, unexciting scenes, and unremarkable characters. These three mice were not memorable and sang this really, really annoying song throughout the cartoon short. Their shouts of "one and one for all" were very cheesy.

Overall, this is clearly one of the worst Silly Symphonies.

Grade F

THE THREE MOUSKETEERS gives a cartoon spin to the Alexander Dumas tale of "all for one" as they have to use their combative skills with sword and derring-do to defeat a fat cat bent on their destruction. "My traps are set in every room, those cats are munchin' to their doom." Predictably, the mousketeers outmaneuver the traps either by remarkable luck or skill (or both) and the sleeping cat (who dreams about victory) is soon awakened by the rather boisterous musketeers as they congratulate each other on escaping his booby traps.

The rest of the cartoon is strictly a series of cat-and-mouse chases with the mice winning at every turn. The scene where one of them is hiding under a teacup is reminiscent of the later gag used for Lucifer in Disney's full-length "Cinderella".

Nothing really extraordinary here, although it's clear to see that the animation techniques were undergoing vast improvement by 1936.

The concept of this short film is a mix between the literary work The Three Musketeers and the children's song Three Blind Mice. The result is a good, quite entertaining short film, with good animation and good character designs. One thing that can be credited is that it seems that this short film had served as inspiration for the animated version of The Three Musketeers, which starred Mickey, Donald and Goofy. It is because of the similarity that the title of the short film has with the movie and the cat that tries to catch the mice resembles Pete. That makes this short film also something interesting to watch because it is in some way comparable to the animated feature film of Mickey and his companions. The truth is another interesting piece of animation that is worth watching out of curiosity. My final rating for this short film is an 8/10.