If we don’t have a good time, do we get a refund?
Of course we don’t as Donald himself discovers in this short.
The penny arcade is there to steal your
money by literally nickle and diming you until you have no change left. It’s also there to traumatize the audience I
mean what the hell is going on with that title card? It’s this wide gaping maw with the title written
in it. I think they guy is supposed to
be laughing, but it’s just coming off as creepy to me. And the mechanical face over the penny arcade
that we open on is not helping matters.
The short itself also isn’t all that impressive. Seeing some older technology like the
kinematoscopes is nice, and a bit of the old risqué Disney with Donald looking
at what basically amounts to a dirty picture, with Daisy and the veils. Also Donald managing to shake the claw
machine to, almost, get all the prizes, looks really nice it terms of his
movements. I think the main problem I
have is that Donald has no one to play off in this short. It’s just the machines malfunctioning as the
only gag and I quickly grow tired of it.
Donald for me works best when he has someone else to work off of like
his nephews, or Chip and Dale, or Pete it allows for greater contrast than we
get here. Whether the conflict is
deserved or not depends on the short, but it usually leads to stronger
reactions from Donald, and watching him lose his temper is one the key points
of Donald’s charm as a character. The
most we get here is him going red faced and breaking the control stick off the airplane
simulator.
Donald is basically doing a one man show with one gag and
that along with the creepy title card and the puppet face leaves me underwhelmed.
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