Disturbing yet enthralling

Best movie of this year hands down!

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

. . . for Clues about what MAY have motivated Steve Paddock to embark upon the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. History, need one look any further than THRU THE MIRROR? Psychiatry long has taught us about the "Irresistible Impulses" sometimes laid down in the brains of susceptible individuals (not unlike "ticking time bombs") by the subliminal programming messages fiendishly embedded within some mass market products. Exactly 7:15 into THRU THE MIRROR, Mickey Mouse begins mowing down scores of "playing cards" (all of whom have tiny human faces, arms, and legs) first Machine-gunning them with a fountain pen, then blowing them away with a fan. By 7:49, the only thing that you hear are frantic cries of "Help! Help! Police!!" Mickey's violent, unprovoked attack on the Little People "playing cards" (what better symbol for a crowd of tourists in Las Vegas?) did NOT come from the mind of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS author Lewis Carroll. Rather, it stems from Walt Disney's demented id! Since I don't have access to very many Disney cartoons, please help me in screening the whole deplorable mess in order to inform the FBI of the specifics about the NEXT attack upon America. (After all, it's your Civic Duty!)

Fun Disney take on Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass." Here Mickey Mouse falls asleep reading that book, then his spirit leaves his body and goes through a mirror. On the other side of the mirror is a wacky version of Mickey's house where the inanimate objects have come to life. A lot of really cool trippy stuff follows that I don't want to spoil for you. Needless to say it's awesome to watch, especially for the time in which it was made. The animation is top-notch (it was Disney, after all). The characters and backgrounds are all well-drawn and the action is excitingly realized. Love the music, too. Fine voice work from Walt Disney. This is as wacky and creative as it gets for 1936 and I can't imagine anyone not having a good time with it. Just a fun cartoon from start to finish.

Paramount Pictures came out with a theatrical version of "Alice in Wonderland" in 1933, an all black and white production featuring many of the principal players under contract to the studio. This cartoon followed by two years, Walt Disney's take on how Mickey Mouse might have reacted if he went through the proverbial looking glass. The animation, color and creativity are quite good, and I'm always astonished by how professional some of these offerings are considering the era in which they were made. Making the 'King' jealous, Mickey dances with the Queen of Hearts, resulting in a dueling match, while the dance of the cards is a visual treat! It's really a fun story, and bound to delight one and all today, even if it's eighty years old.

This was made in the golden age of Disney animation (1935-1940). It involves mickey's adventures as he goes 'thru' the mirror and enters a world where inanimate objects are alive. there are many impressive bits. for example the scene where mickey eats a nut and is transformed in size is brilliantly done. there is a lot of dancing in the cartoon, mickey dances with a top hat and a pair of gloves and does a dance routine with some playing cards, and then there is a busby berkley type dance thing involving the cards. the climax involves mickey being chased by hundreds of cards and it is fantastic. you have to hand it to the artists who worked on this, it is a great cartoon. other superior mickey mouse cartoons include: the band concert(1935); mickey's garden(1935); clock cleaners(1937); moving day(1936); the sorcerer's apprentice (from fantasia (1940) ).