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Mjeteconer Just perfect...

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

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

OllieSuave-007 This is another funny Donald Duck cartoon, where he is a delivery boy trying to deliver a mysterious package on Friday the Thirteenth, unbeknownst to him that the package contains a bomb. He hilariously runs into tabooed objects, like a ladder and a black cat. Plenty of slapstick fun here and a mysterious, film-noire feel to the plot.Grade A

Lee Eisenberg In 1939, both Warner Bros. and Disney released a pair of particularly gritty cartoons. Warners released "Thugs with Dirty Mugs", about a group of cat gangsters - one resembling Edward G. Robinson - going around committing crimes. Disney released "Donald's Lucky Day", in which Donald Duck has to deliver a package on Friday the 13th. Unbeknownst to him, this package contains a bomb that a pair of gangsters are sending to someone (they call the intended target a rat, implying that he's a member of their gang who told the police about them*). Complications arise when a black cat crosses Donny's path.It's not any sort of great cartoon - I always liked the Warner Bros. cartoons better than the Disney ones - but it's interesting to see a Disney character in a gritty story for a change. It figures that it would be the temperamental Donald as opposed to the overly nice Mickey.*Al Capone once said "Never trust a cop. You never know when he might go straight."

TheLittleSongbird Hearing the upbeat music and reading the title, you'd think that Donald's Lucky Day is what we associate usually from the Donald Duck shorts. Actually, it's not what we expect but to me that was refreshing. Donald's Lucky Day doesn't see Donald losing his temper, and for Disney and Donald it is darker and more eerie than the title and opening music lets on. Again, none of these are bad things but actually quite a refreshing change. The animation is still the vibrant and detailed animation style we are familiar with and love, yet also has a more eerie and somewhat film-noir sort of look to it. A great touch was to have the gangsters at the beginning in shadow and we never see their faces, that was creepy and added further to the suspense. The music as always is just as wonderful, right from the catchy opening credits, the jaunty enhancement in the more humorous scenes and some haunting but not too obvious scoring in the more suspenseful ones. Coming with Donald's Lucky Day is a great story with a fair bit of humour, suspense and tension. The humour is good, with the fantastic bit where Donald gets buried in fish being the highlight. Donald is on top form, always a strong lead character he really shines as he battles his own superstitions and how he struggles with them is the short's strongest asset I feel. Clarence Nash's voice work is impeccable. All in all, a Donald Duck classic, different but incredibly well done in all respects. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Shawn Watson No Jason Voorhees is not out to kill Donald but it IS Friday the 13th and Donald is a messenger-boy who must deliver a suspicious package to number 13 on 13th street. Inside the package is a bomb set to go off at midnight by a couple of unseen thugs. Who they are and why they want to blow up someone else is never know. What this cartoon focuses on is Donald's conflict with a black cat who has crossed his path.Yes, you can pretty much figure out that Donald is going to lose his tempter and go mad, delaying delivery of the package and risk blowing himself to smithereens. But the color pallet of this short is dark and noir-ish and is a welcome difference from the usual sunny atmospheres Donald finds himself in. A better than average Donald Duck cartoon.