Donald makes a plastic airplane and both he and the audience
gets a product that is half-baked.
I say half-baked, because I really enjoyed the first part of
this short and not the second. I really
liked seeing Donald building his plane.
The music made with just the plastic instruments was upbeat, and the
animation perfectly timed to it. The
action was fast paced with Donald making different parts of the plane like the
tail, body, and motor at the same time. Also
the voice work of Doctor Butterfield was really good, furthermore he sounded
just as excited about explaining how to make the plane as Donald was about
building it.
Then we get to the second part where Donald is flying the
plane and it’s revealed that the plane melts in water and of course Donald is
heading into a rain storm. How plastic
melts in rain I don’t know, but cartoon physics I’ll let it pass. What follows is basically a repeat of one
gag: Donald trying to keep the plane together while Butterfield gives
commentary. The scenario allows for a
lot of really nice animation and some things I did enjoy like the helmet
melting into braids that Donald cuts off leaving him with a blond hairdo, and
when the plane is completely melted at the end and falls onto a garden and
crows fly through it, but again since it’s just one gag it becomes repetitive. Also Butterfield goes from being a guy excited
about the plane to giving snarky one liners and I just find it really mean
spirited. I don’t blame Donald at all for
melting the radio at the end.
So for me the first part of the short was really fun, enjoyable,
and upbeat. The second half while having
very nice animation is far less engaging.
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