'Mickey' jumps quickly from one silly scene to another, with the idea of being a comedy, but having so few laughs it feels more like drama. When the mean carer at the beginning is nothing but dominant and restrictive towards her it evokes sympathies, not laughs. With a complete lack of cleverness in the script then it falls solely on Mabel Normand's lively facial expressions to achieve this, but talented as she is, it is a bridge too far. Furthermore, her bright, energetic, cutesy performance doesn't sell tomboy to me at all - it doesn't sell to me that she has been raised by this insensitive man for most of her years - and it is either miscasting, misdirection, poor scripting or a combination of all three.
