Brilliant and touching

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

As a huge fan of classic Disney and as someone who likes a lot of their modern stuff(though there have been a fair share of misfires), Get a Horse was really delightful and while Frozen is a great film and one of their best since the Renaissance this short that preceded it was even better. The animation mixes black and white classic animation and colour CGI, with the crisp and fluid black and white and the colourful and vibrant CGI that moves more naturally than that on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse it not only looks great but it is very cleverly used as well. The soundtrack is lively and with beautiful orchestration and themes that you'll recognise immediately. The sound effects are well-incorporated, some from the very early stuff that are preserved quite well, and are not misplaced or bizarre-sounding. Get a Horse has humorous dialogue and a story that is from start-to-finish boundless fun and energy and it's as clever as the animation too. Just as good are the gags, they're reminiscent of classic Disney but there is also a very modern Disney vibe, so it will appeal to anybody, child and adult, regardless of where abouts they were born. All the characters engage, with a delicious villain in Pete and Mickey who has the kindly quality he has now and also the heroic character in the old classic Disney. Minnie is sweet as well, and it was great to see Horace and Clarabelle, two characters often neglected(or they were for a long time before House of Mouse came on the scene). The voices are fine too, though it was initially a tad odd hearing (modern) Pete voiced by someone other than Jim Cummings, like the sound the original voices are well-preserved. All in all, delightful and recommended without any hint of hesitation. 10/10 Bethany Cox

I watched this short for the first time today when it was included as a bonus feature on my 'Frozen' DVD. At first it looked like an old black and white cartoon (reminiscent of 'Steamboat Willie') that barely filled my screen but when Pete throws Mickey and Minnie out of the screen in another world, it became more colourful and filled my screen.The use of hybrid animation here is the asset that surprised me the most. While the black and white animation was smooth with a classical look, the CGI animation looked cheap for Disney but was bright and colourful. I liked how the antics of the characters combined with those in the audience, such as a lady's nachos being knocked over and Mickey answering an iPhone. It was funny when Mickey and other characters spun the screen around to replay Pete getting electrocuted and falling onto a gardening tool etc and also when Pete chased the characters around the screen and the cinema, thus causing their animation styles to alter.All in all this is a funny cartoon with a decent use of hybridity albeit its cheap-looking CGI. 8/10.

When me and my movie theatre-working friend went to watch Frozen at the place he works at, this cartoon short was attached to it. Begun in the old school black-and-white drawn phase with the original screen dimensions, when Mickey is thrown off the screen, he becomes a 3-D computer-generated color character filling the rest of the current outlines of the frame. And with that, the real fun begins as many tricks suddenly become possible with various ways of turning the screen-or frames-whichever way one wants it to go! I also was surprised that Walt Disney himself was credited with the voice of his famous mouse before finding out here that the studio not only used vintage tracks of his from previous cartoons but also those of Marcellite Garner for Minnie and Billy Bletcher for Peg-Leg Pete. I found most of the thing quite creatively funny so on that note, I highly recommend Get a Horse!

I have just come from a showing of Disney's FROZEN, for which this was a preceding short. However, from my viewpoint, I just saw this with a typical Disney Princess movie added on, because this is a fine little movie while FROZEN is just another Princess movie.Mickey, Minnie and the rest of the crew from 1928 go on a hay ride, where they meet Pegleg Pete... and Pete, fighting for Minnie, throws Mickey through the movie screen, where he is the modern Mickey, with red pants and three dimensions. The inevitable donnybrook extends through both media and even beyond, with references to intermediate Mickeys, until the point of the movie, the subtext, in between the situations and gags, became clear to me: Mickey remains Mickey, whether in the 1928 silent version, before he learned to whistle, or the modern, three-dimensional, full color version.With all the commercial issues of modern Disney movies, with all the brand extensions and can-we-make-sequels and how can we milk this idea for another ten million dollars, there comes a point at which some creative individual says "I have an idea". At that stage it's not commercial, it's not a multi-media franchise, it's just an idea. If it's a good idea, then the money men, essentially non-creative individuals (I should know. That's what I do for a living) will make enough money on it to pay the people with ideas and give them the chance to have more ideas. And the best idea they can have is "Let's do something the audience will enjoy." I enjoyed this one very, very much. I think you will too. Even if, or perhaps especially if you don't worry about subtext.