Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip (1940) User Reviews

Very enjoyable

[TheLittleSongbird · 8/10 · 12 April 2012]

I have always loved Disney and Mickey Mouse, so Mr Mouse Takes a Trip seemed like an ideal cartoon to watch. And it is a lovely and very enjoyable cartoon. There is nothing extraordinary about the story, I knew how it was going to end for example, but it is still interesting and briskly paced. The animation is wonderful, looking at how sumptuous the colours and how fluid the background art are you can really tell a lot of work and care went into this. The music has a lot of energy, while the cartoon amuses too with Pete getting the best laughs. Mickey is as likable, Pluto is as cute and Pete is as rapacious as ever. Walt Disney and especially Billy Bletcher voice Mickey and Pete impeccably.

All in all, a very enjoyable Mickey Mouse-Pluto-Pete cartoon. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Cute

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 29 December 2010]

Mickey is shown getting ready to board a train. However, he's told that he cannot take the dog aboard, so he spends much of the cartoon trying to sneak the mutt on the train. Unfortunately, Pluto barks and makes a nuisance of himself and the conductor, Pete, is always one step away from discovering the animal. But, again and again, Mickey and Pluto manage to avoid his grasp. In the end, they are caught AND Pete manages to catch them.

All in all, a pleasant but rather unremarkable Mickey short. Like all shorts from the late 1930s, the animation is great (with wonderful colors and lovely details that practically scream 'quality') and the story brisk and enjoyable.

Train troubles

[Horst_In_Translation · 6/10 · 16 November 2017]

"Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip" is a 7.5-minute cartoon from 1940, so this one is over 75 years old and was released during the early stages of World War II already and looking at it, you will probably see how old it is because it really looks this way too. The title gives away that this is a Disney production of course and Walt himself is lending Mickey his voice here. The rest of the cast and crew also worked on many other Disney films, some classics as well. But back to this one here: The story is basically that Mickey is not allowed by the conductor brute to take Pluto on the train, but the two belong together, so Mickey hides his dog in the suitcase. When the conductor finds out (and I am glad he does because stupid main antagonists) suck, a real cat-and-mouse (and dog) chase starts through the entire train and back where Mickey manages repeatedly through the help of costumes to get away from his follower. But he is only successful temporarily. The ending was still good though and helped me in forgetting my criticism that honestly this one single story was not enough even for under 8 minutes. All in all, it is a close call, but I think the positive is more frequent than the negative here and that's why I give out a positive recommendation to cartoon lovers. Everybody else can maybe skip it though.

A fun Mickey Mouse cartoon on the run!

[OllieSuave-007 · 9/10 · 8 November 2015]

This is a funny Mickey Mouse cartoon on the run, literally, where he takes a train from Burbank to Pomona. The conductor, Pete, won't let him Pluto on as no pets are allowed, so Mickey hides him in his suitcase. What results is a journey of hiding from Pete and, later, a hilarious cat and mouse game.

It's funny stuff from start to finish, with poor Mickey being terrified of Pete to Pluto trying to disguise himself in human's clothes to escape the burly and intimidating conductor. I remembered this cartoon fondly from my childhood; the thought of Pluto having his suitcase full of dog bones was pretty neat.

It's a neat one featuring Mickey and Pluto - adults and kids will enjoy!

Grade A

A Mouse Tale On The Tracks

[Ron Oliver · 10/10 · 17 November 2002]

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

MR. MOUSE TAKES A TRIP by train from Burbank to Pomona - a distance of about twenty-five miles as the elephant flies - but Pluto's presence on board causes a major confrontation with the conductor.

This very enjoyable little film is a tip of the straw hat to the classic screwball comedies of the 1930's, with their wild antics often set on board trains. Superior animation and quick pacing keep the action moving right along. Pete is perfect as the villainous conductor. Can there be any doubt that the unseen female he twice upsets in the lower berth is none other than Clarabelle Cow?

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.

Parts of the recording session for this brief cartoon . . .

[cricket30 · 6 March 2022]

. . . can be found as an "Easter Egg Bonus Feature" on the main menu for Disc One of Mickey Mouse in Living Color Volume 2, released May 18, 2004. Just fool around with the directional controls until the cane below Mickey and Pluto toward the lower left-hand corner is highlighted white, then press "Enter." This fairly static 11 and a half minute film begins with Billy B., the voice of "Pete," riffing by himself, but Walt D., the voice of Mickey, joins him after 4:08 (including Leonard M.'s 27-second introduction). Walt wears a suit, white shirt and long tie, but Billy sports just a blazer, grey shirt--and he's tie-less!

This film needs to be awarded high marks for being so . . .

[oscaralbert · 8/10 · 9 March 2022]

. . . controversial. The DVD upon which I watched it gives it the equivalent of the dreaded "black box warning." It's not hard to see why this precaution was deemed to be necessary. Spelling out each and every deplorable detail evoking such corporate caution just plays into the hands of those attempting to turn a quick buck on sensational material. Certainly no one would question the fact that this cartoon is inappropriate for children. Could a well-balanced adult survive a viewing without being fundamentally harmed? That's a risky proposition.

According to even the official Diitzie apologist . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 5/10 · 9 March 2022]

. . . the key word of dialog during MR. MOUSE TAKES A TRIP is "How." This dense disclaimer dude introduces MOUSE's deficient drivel initiating a new generation of American Youth to the niceties of disparaging our First Inhabitants. This fraudulent spokesperson never lets on that experts consider Warner Bros.' animated output 89% less racist than that of the D rabble. Even Popeye, Betty B. And Superman's Flashy Brothers are rated as four times more culturally sensitive than the Rodent Ranch. And what kind of train conductor will bellow "No dogs allowed," but admit rats, mice and other disease-spreading pests without batting an eye?

Many Americans have been befuddled wondering . . .

[pixrox1 · 4/10 · 30 October 2017]

. . . how folks such as Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, Lee Harvey Oswald, Ted Bundy, John "Il Duce" Wayne, John Wayne Bobbitt, John Wayne Gacy, and Donald Trump nurtured such a strong disrespect for Authority. One need look no further than Disney Cartoons. Starting with "Steamboat Willie" in the 1920s, these subversive vehicles of insidious Mass Corruption have taught America's Young & Impressionable Minds the "Joys" of Anarchy. Consider MR. MOUSE TAKES A TRIP, for instance. It pictures Anti-Hero Mickey as a Nihilistic Scoff-Law, starting out his Crime Career with sadistic pet abuse (no doubt inspiring Jeffrey Dahmer and so many other Disney Copycat Serial Killers). Arch-Fiend\Founder Walt follows this up by having his diminutive rat "star" conduct a primer on pathological prevarication, no doubt lapped up during his Reform School Cartoon Night by a young White House Squatter Trump. This vermin Mickey Mouse then launches upon a series of assaults against beleaguered law enforcement personnel, interrupted only by his own sudden whim to impersonate the police. When parents of Today's school shooters ask themselves, "Where did we go wrong?!" there's doubtless a depraved Disney Toon or two at the root of their Problem Child!

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip features a Mickey Mouse as a Native American stereotype

[crosswalkx · 5/10 · 28 November 2022]

I have seen this Disney cartoon on Disney Channel and also on the Mickey Mouse DVD cartoon. However, when I watched it on Disney Plus. I noticed an outdated Native American stereotype moment when Mickey Mouse who sneaks Pluto his dog on a train. Only to be discovered by Pete the conductor who chases Mickey mouse and Pluto on a train. At one point Mickey Mouse dresses, up like a Native American Sioux Chief stereotype and talked like a Native American chief stereotype.

Mickey Mouse did escape and jumped off the train to Burbank California with Pluto.

How did this outdated Mickey Mouse cartoon get approved on Disney Plus and not have a label warning? There are label warnings for Disney films like Peter Pan but not Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip 1940 or Pinocchio 1940 which features Native American stereotype moments.

Hopefully the Disney Plus company will start putting out a label warning for Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip. I understand that classic Walt Disney cartoons features Native American stereotypes like Goofy Californy 'er Bust or Donald Duck Put Put Troubles, or films like Pinocchio 1940, Peter Pan 1953. Since Walt Disney and his team of animators seemed obsessed with Native American stereotypes back in his day when he was alive.

It was interesting watching Mickey Mouse and Pluto escape the train conductor but the Native American stereotype moment on Disney Plus is now insensitive for the current American audience and I feel mixed on the Native American chief stereotype moment since I'm partially Native American from the Mohican tribe. Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip needs a label warning disclaimer right away on Disney Plus.