A Knight for a Day Reviews

WWII was a particularly rough era for the Disney studio. Short on funds and with many of their more ambitious features having to be tabled due to limited resources, they often took shortcuts in animation. Most of their features were slap-dash affairs in which a bunch of random shorts were put together as package films -- Fun and Fancy Free, Saludos Amigos, etc. It cut costs because it meant a lot of time and effort could be placed into something that had to only last about a half hour.

Their shorts weren't immune from this cost-cutting either. And "A Knight for a Day" features some pretty obvious cuts in the background animation. The story is endearing, entertaining and filled with gags that work very well and make you smile if not laugh aloud. Of course something starring Goofy should be expected to do no less. Unless you somehow have an aversion to Goofy, in which case, I don't want to know you. And if you somehow don't like him, best to avoid this short altogether as it features him playing every single role. It gets its laughs and has a lot of fun with silly, puny character names, but I don't know if it ranks amongst the greatest of Goofy's shorts. It's certainly funny and entertaining, and, by God, that goes a long way already.