Best movie of this year hands down!

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This is a very touching cartoon and it was made during the depths of the Depression. The ending scene saves the cartoon but still leaves you with a tear in your eye.

SOME HAVE MADE the comparison between Charlie Chaplin's 'Little Tramp" character and Walt Disney's rodent creation 'Mickey Mouse. Where there would doubtless be at least some influences, no where is it more obvious than in this cartoon short, MICKEY'S GOOD DEED.THE SETTING WAS the city, it is Christmas and a down on his lucky is trying desperately trying to eek out a meager existence by performing " Come All Ye Faithful" on his bull fiddle. Accompanied by Pluto, for moral support, things aren't going so well as the Depression Era crowds seem to lack the Spirit of the Season. After some time, his tin cup has been filled with old nuts & bolts; rather than the coin of the realm.CHANCING UPON THE house of a rich anthropomorphic pig-man character, Mickey agrees to sell the man Pluto; enabling him to render aid to a destitute cat mother and her large and equally brood. The Mouse takes the ca$h from the man's butler and treats the family to a Merry Christmas, all quite anonymously. He leaves and sobs for the loss of Pluto in his life.MEANEWHILE, BACK AT the Mansion, the wealthy Pig Daddy (done up in the best tradition of a Frank Capra rich man)rapidly tires of the bratty Pig Boy's rough and bratty behavior toward Pluto. After first casting the dog out into a snow pile, the father proceeds to give the bratty child a much needed spanking.BEING DISPATCHED FROM the house in such rapidity, Pluto fails to notice that he has the Christmas turkey attached to his tail. When he meets up with the quite depressed Mickey, who is roasting a sole hot dog over a campfire, the two are joyfully reunited.THIS PARTICULAR CARTOON Short manages to provide us with good portions of both the pathos and the belly laughs; both in proportional amounts. To this we have the added delight of a sort of Christmas Greeting from Walt and the whole crew.NOTE: The shawl clad Mother Cat is the same feminine feline who abandons a basketful of kittens on Mickey's doorstep in MICKEY'S ORPHAN'S (1931) the previous year.

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.MICKEY'S GOOD DEED on Christmas consists of selling his old pal Pluto to a wealthy family and using the money to provide a family of impoverished kittens with a joyous Holiday.This charming little film is a real Yuletide treat. Pay attention to the details which make it special. Notice the photo on the wall which shows that Pegleg Pete is the father of the diminutive felines. That's Jimmy Durante being spoofed by the jack-in-the-box in the mantle stocking. Walt Disney supplies Mickey with his squeaky speaking voice.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.

Mickey Mouse and his dog, Pluto, are playing Christmas-carols. Nearby, a spoiled brat wants a dog for Christmas. Mickey sells Pluto to the spoiled brat, and uses the money to buy Christmas-presents for a poor family. These are the kind of movies that made Disney the leading cartoon-creating company in the world, and is worth seeing over and over again, and is a warmhearted classic that everybody will love. 10/10