Gulliver Mickey Reviews

I don't really know what to make of this one.... It's not bad, just incredibly odd. And, honestly, Mickey takes on an angrier tone here that just doesn't sit well with his predominant characteristics of sweetness, an everyman type who was a little bit shy, but goodhearted.

Mickey tells his nephews a story about how he was shipwrecked once and the story is just a reworking of Gulliver's Travels but with Mickey put into it instead. Granted, in some of his earliest cartoons he was portrayed as mischievous and a little bit naughty, but he takes on a bullying persona here that doesn't mesh well when taken into context with the breadth of his short-films and branding.

Like pretty much anything Disney does it's gloriously animated, and the sea forming a fist to grab Mickey and toss him like a gambler throwing dice is a humorous and nice touch. There isn't much that's actually funny in this, but it's smoothly animated and not awful. Not very good, just very, very odd.