Mickey's Polo Team
Mickey's Polo Team
NR | 04 January 1936 (USA)
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Mickey Mouse and his friends face off against a team of celebrities in a polo match.

Reviews
Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!
Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
SnoopyStyle It's a polo match that pits Movie Stars vs Mickey Mousers. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harpo Marx, and Charlie Chaplin are the movie stars. Mickey leads The Goof, Big Bad Wolf, and Donald Duck. There are a myriad of movie and cartoon characters in the stands.This is an animated colored short. Its greatest value is that it's like a time capsule of the Golden Age of Hollywood. It has many of the classic Disney characters and the old Hollywood stars of that era. It's also a load of fun.
TheLittleSongbird One of my personal favourite Disney cartoons without a doubt. I have always had a soft for the Disney cartoons, and Mickey's Polo Team is no exception. Apart from Donald and Goofy looking cruder than they do usually, though not as much as On Ice, the animation is colourful and fluid(Big Bad Wolf is the best animated of the characters), and the music is typically energetic and action enhancing. The story is simple, but goes by quickly with not a dull moment. As with Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, the gags and the characters are the real stars of Mickey's Polo Tem, plus it was really interesting to see Disney's characters and caricatures of famous stars of the time playing polo. I enjoyed seeing Mickey(though he doesn't get much to do), Goofy, Donald, Clarabelle Cow and Big Bad Wolf, as well as caricatures of Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Harpo Marx, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Robin. Stars of the likes of Peculiar Penguins, Who Killed Cock Robin and The Golden Touch can also be seen. The gags overall are not as clever or as hilarious as Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, but there is still much to enjoy. The best of the laughs come from Laurel & Hardy(reminiscent of their films but still very funny) and Donald(very outlandish), though it was interesting to see Charlie Chaplin with his cane rather than a polo stick and the Clark Gable vs.Clarabelle Cow moments are amusing, likewise with Harpo. Overall, simply great. 9.5/10 Bethany Cox
theowinthrop The cartoon is fairly amusing, but nothing notable by itself. In the 1930s there was a serious polo playing group out of the Hollywood movie set. It included Walt Disney (it also included Spencer Tracy, of all people, and Will Rogers). Odd that such a kind of upper class sport became so popular in the movie colony. In any case, Disney made this 1936 cartoon showing a polo match between a Disney team of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, the Big Bad Wolf, and Goofy, against a "star team" of Laurel & Hardy, Harpo Marx, and Charlie Chaplin. The Western star, Jack Holt, is the referee. Disney enjoyed doing cartoons with caricatures of various stars of the day. Here he includes other figures in the viewing stand. Among them are Clark Gable (who is sitting with the amorous Claribel Cow, a long forgotten Disney cartoon figure who was usually teamed with Horace Horsecollar). Gable keeps getting bothered by Claribel, and eventually blushes red when she kisses him. The Three Little Pigs are in the stand next to Shirley Temple. Their appearance leads to a pleasant kind of sequel to the earlier Disney cartoon classic. Eddie Cantor, Harold Lloyd, Edna Mae Oliver (who is annoyed by Oswald the Rabbit), W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Charles Laughton (dressed up as Henry VIII) are also in the bleachers.The humor of the bulk of the cartoon is not the greatest the Disney studio ever concocted, but it is better than average. The different polo players are riding animals that resemble them (Harpo is on an ostrich; Ollie is on a tremendously fat horse, whose face has a Hardy scowl on it, and a smudge of a mustache, Chaplin's horse is like Charlie in appearance (even bow legged), and Stan's has a head of tousled hair and a silly grin. Even Holt's horse looks like Holt.We see incidents like Harpo and his ostrich (when they seen the other players charging them) putting their heads in the earth; or Hardy having trouble remounting his horse with "assistance" from Stan; or Charlie deftly turning his horse a quarter to the left by use of his cane on the goal posts. Donald Duck (who gets into a kind of fight with Harpo - which he loses) swallows the polo ball and keeps trying to avoid the other players. As for the Big Bad Wolf, he is heckled by his old enemies, the pigs (now aided by Shirley). But now they are not in the third pigs' brick house, but in a wooden stand. The Big Bad Wolf stops his playing, turns and blows the portion of the stand apart, causing the pigs and Shirley to hide from him. It's somewhat nice to know that here Disney actually gave an ironic follow-up to a previous cartoon for a change.A pleasant and enjoyable cartoon, it is not one of Disney's greatest works but it is worth looking at.
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.
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