7/10
One-note cartoon saved by good animation
6 November 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This is an early Mickey Mouse cartoon produced by the Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:

This is a very simple, basic cartoon. Mickey is training a robot to box against a gorilla (The Kongo Killer). Mickey times the robot by playing a piano and the robot is rather uninspired until Minnie blows her car horn, at which point the robot goes amok, busting a safe, punching through a wall poster of the gorilla (and the wall it's hanging on) and going outside, knocking itself out. Minnie revives it with here horn and it goes careening off to the arena, punching wildly and furiously.

Once the fight starts, the robot reverts to being tentative and uninspired. The gorilla has no such problem and basically mauls the robot, turning him almost into a junk pile. As the referee is counting him out, Minnie remembers her horn, gets it and blows it, again reviving the robot, to the point where it mops up the ring with the Kongo Killer. The robot wins in the best scene in the short. The end makes up for the somewhat slow pacing in the beginning of the short.

Tis short is available on the Disney Treasures Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Volume Two DVD set. This short is worth watch at least once.
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