The Hockey Champ
The Hockey Champ
NR | 28 April 1939 (USA)
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Donald shows his nephews the moves that won him his hockey trophy. But the boys have a few moves of their own.

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Huievest

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

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ThedevilChoose

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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Hattie

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

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Cody

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

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Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)

"The Hockey Champ" is an American 7-minute cartoon from 1939, so this one is from the year WWII began and almost 80 years old, maybe even older depending on when you read this review. If the names King and Nash don't make it obvious to you already that here we have another Disney cartoon, then the moment you see Donald really should. The first minute is about his figure skating talent, but the moment the nephews enter the picture, it quickly all becomes about hockey and for European audiences I maybe should say "ice hockey". The most baffling thing is how talented the usually clumsy and incompetent Donald really is on the ice here. Who'd have guessed. The rest is basically about the three boys annoying and pranking their uncle, but there is never really any fun or wit in terms of the comedy to be found in here. It may be as fast as you think from the title, but yeah well I did not find it entertaining at all. The animation is of course as good (maybe even better) as you'd expect from that era of cartoon filmmaking and that makes it the short film's best aspect. Shame. I normally love the Donald/nephews cartoons a lot more than this one. Even during the days of Christmas/winter, it is only a mediocre watch, perhaps because the nephews are bullies here really. Donald may be a showoff, but that justifies none of their actions. I cannot even recommend it to the big Donald Duck fans (they've seen it already anyway I suppose), as I am one of this group too and I didn't like it. My suggestion is to skip this one. Not recommended.

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OllieSuave-007

In this Disney cartoon, Donald takes his nephews to a game of hockey, but Donald says that they know nothing about the sport, touting his own champion self. Donald wins the first round with his nephews and then gets a little cocky and blindfolds himself while taking his nephews on a second game. However, the kids get a little to aggravated and hits Donald around like the hockey puck itself.I first saw this animated short as part of Disney home video collection called "Kids is Kids," which my mom used to rent for me when I was a little kid. Even has a kid, I didn't like this one much as I thought the characters didn't really get a long and were too mean-spirited toward each other. While, the humor might some little kids laugh a lot older kids or adults probably fine this one not-so-entertaining.Grade D

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ccthemovieman-1

Donald Duck is out by himself, skating on his pond having a good time when his three little kids come racing out onto the surface, ready to play hockey. Donald is arrogant and tells the kids they know nothing about the game, they he will have to show them. He takes them on: one and against three, and kills them. He hams it up so bad it's embarrassing - the ultimate showoff. He rubs it in afterward, too. The kids are not happy. Donald then offers to play the kids again, this time blindfolded. That turns out to be a mistake as they beat him around like a hockey puck. This animated short is really for little kids, and no one else. The humor might make them laugh a lot but I doubt older kids and adults wound find much funny. I know I didn't.

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Ron Oliver

A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.Donald, THE HOCKEY CHAMP of Duck Swamp, gets himself into trouble when he brags of his prowess on the ice to his Nephews.This enjoyable little film boasts fine animation & a funny storyline. Early on, Donald does an impression of Norwegian skating queen Sonja Henie, a big movie star at the time, even replicating her trademark tiptoe ice dancing. Clarence "Ducky" Nash supplies the unique voices of Donald & the Nephews.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.

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