Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Lawbolisted Powerful

Pluskylang Great Film overall

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Hitchcoc We begin with Mickey being introduced as a lifeguard. He performs as seals and other sea creatures applaud. Enter Minnie. She is grabbed by the ocean's undertow and begins to flounder. Mickey risks his skin to save her. After she recovers she begins to cry. Mickey decides that music is the cure for her blues. Many of these early Disney films involved Mickey banging on various parts of animals. There is also a solo by a walrus that is quite entertaining.

Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) This is one of my favorite Mickey Mouse cartoons from 1929. In this short, Mickey has a job as a beach lifeguard. And while he was singing with seaside friends (the seals, the gulls, etc.), he spotted Minnie Mouse drowning. As it was his duty, Mickey came to the rescue. His seaside friends clapped and cheered, as he placed Minnie on the shore."Where am I?" was the distressed Minnie's words when she came too.; she began to cry. But fortunately, Mickey and the seaside critters put on a song-and-dance show to cheer her up.So my overall opinion is that I really love this cartoon. I also noticed in later cartoons, there was recycled animation from this cartoon.

Robert Reynolds This is an early Disney cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse. There will be spoilers ahead:This short is a puzzlement. It starts out looking like it might have a semblance of a plot-Mickey is a lifeguard who winds up rescuing Minnie. That's pretty much it for a plot, but even as thin as it is, it's more of a plot than many early Mickey shorts had.It looks almost as though a plot was intended, but they got stuck after Minnie is rescued, so Ub Iwerks basically animated about three and a half minutes of gags set to musical numbers to fill out the time. That's not the only oddity. Two gags early on received the "repeat three times" treatment, usually done so drawings can be used repeatedly to save time and money. It looks and feels like a "fulfilling contractual obligations" short. Even when Disney did that, it still comes off better than many other studios typical work.Along the way, we get a walrus "singing", the sight of Minnie wading in the surf in high heels and a daring rescue by Mickey of Minnie, among other things. Not too bad for a time filler.This short is available on the Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Volume Two Disney Treasures DVD set. The set is worth tracking down.

Ron Oliver A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.Lifeguard Mickey saves Minnie from the ocean's WILD WAVES. Such bravery surely deserves a musical celebration and a little romance.This enjoyable early black & white film has a plot propelled entirely by its lively soundtrack. Walt Disney supplies Mickey with his squeaky speaking voice.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.