In honour of
Valentine’s Day I’m taking a quick look at this Donald Duck short. That despite its title doesn’t actually have
a lot of love in it.
First off I
think the look of the short is nice with its bright colours and the 1890s
design style, once you get past the fact that Donald with hair makes him look
like the 50s Scrooge McDuck. The animation
is great, at this point in the studio’s history Disney really have character
animation down, with Donald’s walk cycle at the end and a nice use of angles
when Donald is being chased by the cannon ball, and when Chip and Dale are
throwing apples at him.
Speaking of
Chip and Dale boy they really are jerks in this short. Normally Donald does something to the
chipmunks to earn their wrath and deserves his comeuppance. Here all he did was look dorky while riding a
bicycle. So their antagonizing of him
seems really mean spirited and I honestly wish the film had just ended with
Donald riding off to Daisy’s after getting the upper hand on the
chipmunks. Here they did something wrong
first so I think them getting their comeuppance is warranted.
So the plot
of the short if you want to call it that is a bit iffy, but as I said the
look and animation is great and I love the music too. The lyrics are fun and I love how the music weaves
through the short and charges, like how the melody speeds up when Donald is
being chased into the water fountain.
Also the little bit of voice work in here is good too.
All in all
it is a really good short subject I just wish it had ended with Donald riding
his Chip and Dale powered bicycle to Daisy’s instead of having Daisy berating
him and taking Chip and Dale inside, thus leaving Donald with nothing since I honestly
don’t think he did anything wrong.
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