. . . they snort and snicker in snide derision, which sounds quite a bit different than a sincere belly laugh. Bill W., my closest metallurgical expert, told be that a 1936-era magnet capable of behaving like the one featured in DONALD AND PLUTO would necessarily have to be larger than the meteoric rock which wiped out the dinosaurs. A lodestone of such dimensions would not physically fit inside the entirety of Pluto or even the home he and Donald are trashing, let alone in the narrower confines of the beleaguered mutt's intestinal tract.
8 Reviews
Opposites Attract
Hitchcoc31 March 2019
Donald appears to be an already incompetent plumber. But when he gets lazy and uses a magnet to get things, he unleashes a set of metal missiles. Pluto is there, just being a dog, but he is soon dragged into the loudmouthed duck's craziness. Every magnet joke imaginable is employed.
Donald's first disaster outing.
CuriosityKilledShawn28 May 2004
As we all know, whatever Donald Duck sets out doing at the start of any cartoon, by the end everything in the vicinity, be it house, car, shop, work, will be destroyed and Donald will be left fuming.
Here, Donald is working on plumbing in his basement, using a magnet to pick up objects from the floor. Pluto becomes curious to the magnet's strange powers and mucks around with it. Soon enough he's swallowed it and scrambles around the house trying to get it out, eventually tying up Donald in the shenanigans.
Cue running from flying knives, walking on the ceiling (including one moment when Donald bizarrely defies gravity) and general mayhem in which Donald's house is left in ruins.
It's what we expect and love about Donald.
Here, Donald is working on plumbing in his basement, using a magnet to pick up objects from the floor. Pluto becomes curious to the magnet's strange powers and mucks around with it. Soon enough he's swallowed it and scrambles around the house trying to get it out, eventually tying up Donald in the shenanigans.
Cue running from flying knives, walking on the ceiling (including one moment when Donald bizarrely defies gravity) and general mayhem in which Donald's house is left in ruins.
It's what we expect and love about Donald.
Lots of magnet action!
OllieSuave-00727 May 2015
This is the first cartoon featuring Donald Duck and Pluto together. While Donald does plumbing work in a housing complex, he drops a large magnet and Pluto accidentally swallows it. As a result, it causes all sorts of metal objects to move around Pluto. What results are hilarious scenes after the other as it is funny to see metal objects come to life and seem to surround poor Pluto.
The stubborn alarm clock that corners Pluto is a hilarious scene, as well as the most intense one of all - all the sharp kitchen utensils including forks, knives and a cleaver chasing the dog around and around the house. With Donald caught in the mayhem as well, it's nothing short of physical comedy and Donald doing what he does best - trying to get himself out of frustrated situations! It's a great cartoon - funny for the adults and kids!
Grade A
The stubborn alarm clock that corners Pluto is a hilarious scene, as well as the most intense one of all - all the sharp kitchen utensils including forks, knives and a cleaver chasing the dog around and around the house. With Donald caught in the mayhem as well, it's nothing short of physical comedy and Donald doing what he does best - trying to get himself out of frustrated situations! It's a great cartoon - funny for the adults and kids!
Grade A
A great Donald/Pluto short, with Pluto stealing the show
TheLittleSongbird27 August 2012
I have always loved Disney shorts, and I have always loved Donald for his hilarious temperament and Pluto for his cuteness and energy. Donald and Pluto is great, the two's chemistry is rather limited here together, but both of them are great fun. Donald is not quite at his best, where he finds himself easily frustrated, but the parts where he walks on the ceiling and ends up in the washing machines are very funny. Pluto though is the one who steals the show, just by doing what he is famous for. He is cute, he is energetic but he is also fun and all within his actions. The animators do a great job in not just his animation but putting personality in it as well. The animation is wonderful, the backgrounds are sumptuously coloured and the house and furnishing make you wish you lived in it. The music is both beautiful and characterful, and the gags mostly focusing on Pluto and the magnet are inventive and make their mark. The story may feel a little routine in places like the Pluto causing chaos ending(still funny though), but the crisp energy and gags make it interesting as well. Clarence Nash's voice work as Donald is impeccable as always. Overall, a great short, beautifully animated and a lot of fun. Donald has his moments and is a delight but it is Pluto who steals it. 9/10 Bethany Cox
Fun with magnets
jimjo121620 June 2017
While Donald tries to fix the plumbing, Pluto swallows a powerful magnet and finds himself being chased around the house by various metallic items, which are magnetically attracted to his tail end.
Although notable as Donald Duck's first solo outing since gaining popularity as a supporting player in Mickey Mouse cartoons, this is really a Pluto cartoon. The entire short is built around exploring the comic possibilities of a dog with a magnetic behind, and the animators come up with some wonderful gags. The irascible Donald eventually finds himself on the wrong end of the destructive hijinks, and more hilarity ensues as he chases Pluto while wielding a metal pipe wrench. A lot of fun.
Although notable as Donald Duck's first solo outing since gaining popularity as a supporting player in Mickey Mouse cartoons, this is really a Pluto cartoon. The entire short is built around exploring the comic possibilities of a dog with a magnetic behind, and the animators come up with some wonderful gags. The irascible Donald eventually finds himself on the wrong end of the destructive hijinks, and more hilarity ensues as he chases Pluto while wielding a metal pipe wrench. A lot of fun.
I feel sorry for both Pluto and Donald Duck in this magnet torture cartoon.
crosswalkx5 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I have seen this cartoon and I didn't like the animal cruelty towards Pluto the Dog. I didn't like what the magnet did to Pluto the Dog.
Donald Duck is struggling to fix the leaky pipes and uses a super strong magnet to get his hammer but he drops it on the floor and Pluto the Dog accidentally swallows a magnet and is chased by alarm clock and then chased by sharp kitchen knifes. He causes Donald duck to get caught in the washing machine. Donald Duck chases after Pluto the dog and the dog breaks through the window door, Donald Duck and Pluto gets electrocuted and breaks through a window, then they both fall down in the cellar door, the magnet finally comes out of Plutos body but it gets caught around Donald's neck and gets him trapped on the furnace and then his tools get pinned on Donald Duck and the clamp tool closes his beak tight and Pluto licks Donalds face and it ends on a cliffhanger.
While there were some funny moments with Donald getting his face squirted by water, falling in the tub of water and Donald Duck getting trapped in the machine washer roller. Struggling to get his hammer free from Pluto. I felt sorry for Donald when the magnet got stuck around Donalds neck and pinned him against the furnace with the tools and the clamp tool shutting his beak.
I didn't like the cartoon showing animal cruelty towards Pluto the dog, with the alarm clock attacking him or kitchen knifes attacking him. Pluto finally got the magnet out but I didn't like the ending very much as it ended on a cliffhanger.
There should be a cartoon sequel where Pluto the Dog gets help and has someone free Donald Duck from the tools that have trapped Donald Duck and get rid of the magnet by heating it up and destroying it.
I would rather watch "Window Cleaners" 1940 instead since it's a better cartoon to watch. But this cartoon is very painful for me to watch and I have mixed feelings about this Donald Duck cartoon.
Donald Duck is struggling to fix the leaky pipes and uses a super strong magnet to get his hammer but he drops it on the floor and Pluto the Dog accidentally swallows a magnet and is chased by alarm clock and then chased by sharp kitchen knifes. He causes Donald duck to get caught in the washing machine. Donald Duck chases after Pluto the dog and the dog breaks through the window door, Donald Duck and Pluto gets electrocuted and breaks through a window, then they both fall down in the cellar door, the magnet finally comes out of Plutos body but it gets caught around Donald's neck and gets him trapped on the furnace and then his tools get pinned on Donald Duck and the clamp tool closes his beak tight and Pluto licks Donalds face and it ends on a cliffhanger.
While there were some funny moments with Donald getting his face squirted by water, falling in the tub of water and Donald Duck getting trapped in the machine washer roller. Struggling to get his hammer free from Pluto. I felt sorry for Donald when the magnet got stuck around Donalds neck and pinned him against the furnace with the tools and the clamp tool shutting his beak.
I didn't like the cartoon showing animal cruelty towards Pluto the dog, with the alarm clock attacking him or kitchen knifes attacking him. Pluto finally got the magnet out but I didn't like the ending very much as it ended on a cliffhanger.
There should be a cartoon sequel where Pluto the Dog gets help and has someone free Donald Duck from the tools that have trapped Donald Duck and get rid of the magnet by heating it up and destroying it.
I would rather watch "Window Cleaners" 1940 instead since it's a better cartoon to watch. But this cartoon is very painful for me to watch and I have mixed feelings about this Donald Duck cartoon.
Two Toons In Trouble
Ron Oliver21 April 2003
A Walt Disney Cartoon
While attempting to fix a plumbing problem, DONALD AND PLUTO run afoul of nearly every hazardous object in the place.
This little film has some very funny moments, although there is not much actual interplay between the two characters. The Pup's struggles with a large magnet dominate the cartoon, while the Duck's temperamental reactions to the plot are a definite delight. Clarence Nash provides Donald with his unique voice.
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & 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 comic 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 childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.
While attempting to fix a plumbing problem, DONALD AND PLUTO run afoul of nearly every hazardous object in the place.
This little film has some very funny moments, although there is not much actual interplay between the two characters. The Pup's struggles with a large magnet dominate the cartoon, while the Duck's temperamental reactions to the plot are a definite delight. Clarence Nash provides Donald with his unique voice.
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & 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 comic 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 childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.
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