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CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) Even if the title "Mickey's Polo Team" could make you think it is. This is a color cartoon from Disney 1936, so it had its 80th anniversary last year. To put it in perspective that it's maybe easier to imagine is that this was the year when Hitler held the Olympic Games in Berlin three years before WWII. Director is prolific Disney animator David Hand and this film he made here is a tribute to some of the biggest stars of the 1930s. Admittedly, it is difficult for me to think of a more boring sport than polo really, but these characters make it somehow worth checking out. Mickey despite being the title character is really insignificant here though, even the Wolf has more material with his blowing scene and this scene also shows right away that several familiar faces are also in the stands. But Donald has a couple baity scenes and the film stars steal the show otherwise. I liked that the animals look exactly like (or symbolize) the characters sitting on them, not just Donald's, but especially when it comes to the silent film stars like Laurel, Hardy or Chaplin of course too. Anyway, I maybe do not really like this film that much because of the action because after all it is really just polo still, but I think it is a nice tribute to its era and also includes a lot of worth by today's standards and helps this generation and future generations in not forgetting who these icons were, like in my case already I had no idea who they guy with the blond curls was. Shame on me, I guess. I highly recommend these slightly under 10 minutes, one of 1936's finest.

Shawn Watson I've never seen humans drawn so ugly. Not so much the Polo players like Laurel and Hardy (I always like them) but more the spectators in the audience. I don't know who that huge-headed, bulbous-eyed guy was supposed to be but he freaked me out.Anyways, it's Disney stars vs Real Actors in this Polo match (A rather odd choice of sport. Was it popular in the '30s?) and nothing really funny happens. Sure there are a couple of clever moments but, like far too many Disney toons, it's all a set-up for everything to come crashing down.Vividly animated as it may be, it's still a bit too boring and doesn't hold up against Looney Tunes when it comes to hijinks.

Robert Reynolds This is possibly the second-most caricature laden short (after Mother Goose Goes Hollywood) that Disney ever did and they aren't just playing polo, either. Half the fun is spotting familiar faces (cartoon characters and caricatures of celebrities), while the other half is watching the strangest polo match ever put on celluloid! Every time I've seen this one, I wonder what various celebrities thought of this one, if they saw it at all, particularly what Clark Gable may have thought! Very visual, with the gags principally being sight gags and the Disney principals taking a back seat to the caricatures. Well worth watching. Most recommended.

baz-15 one of the better 1936 mickeys. mm hardly appears in it though, the main player is donald duck as he battles it out with harpo marx, and he swallows the ball and becomes a target for the rest of the players. The laurel and hardy characters are spot on and overall the animation is a treat. Available on dvd now along with all the mm 1935-1938 shorts.