The basic plot for "Mickey's Mechanical Man" was very familiar to me, as I've seen it at least twice before in Three Stooges' shorts. While IMDb says that the plot to "Punch Drunks" (1934) was entirely written by the Stooges themselves, the film came out a year AFTER this Disney cartoon--making you wonder just how original their screenplay was. In addition, the Shemp Howard remade the film a decade later as "A Hit and a Miss". Watch the Stooges film--you'll see what I mean about the plots being virtually identical in many ways.
Mickey has built a robot who is a boxer. However, the robot isn't very good and everyone assumes the Kongo Killer (a gorilla) is going to win (where is PETA when you need them?!). However, Mickey has learned a secret--when his robot hears a horn, it goes crazy and becomes amazingly aggressive--to the point where it is almost impossible to stop.
The main difference between this decent but not exactly inspired cartoon and the Stooge short is that when Curly hears the song "Three Blind Mice", he goes crazy and is unstoppable. Otherwise, it's the same. I wonder, though, why repeat the Disney plot when it isn't very good in the first place?! It's only a so-so cartoon--and certainly not among the best Mickey made in this era.
Mickey has built a robot who is a boxer. However, the robot isn't very good and everyone assumes the Kongo Killer (a gorilla) is going to win (where is PETA when you need them?!). However, Mickey has learned a secret--when his robot hears a horn, it goes crazy and becomes amazingly aggressive--to the point where it is almost impossible to stop.
The main difference between this decent but not exactly inspired cartoon and the Stooge short is that when Curly hears the song "Three Blind Mice", he goes crazy and is unstoppable. Otherwise, it's the same. I wonder, though, why repeat the Disney plot when it isn't very good in the first place?! It's only a so-so cartoon--and certainly not among the best Mickey made in this era.