OllieSuave-007 This is a one funny Disney cartoon, featuring Donald Duck and Pluto, that delivers laugh-out-loud comedy. A day of boating goes awry for the two characters, delivering some very hilarious results, from Donald grappling with the boat engine to Pluto getting himself tangled with a spring. The facial expressions from the two characters were just classically comical and the gags were just clever - from Pluto doing the jig with the spring to Donald creating a zipper-line in the sand with his boat. Just pure fun here!Grade A

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Put-Put Troubles" is a short film that celebrated its 75th birthday just a couple days ago and it sounds like a golf-related film to me, but nope, it's actually about boats. In these 7 minutes we watch Donald and Pluto have struggling with all kinds of stuff. Or maybe not as Donald is basically struggling with his boat and Pluto with a resilient spring. Smart move by Pluto though not to get into Donald's boat. The frame is pretty similar here to other Disney cartoons. In the beginning we see the two protagonists together, but for almost everything apart from the end, the two basically do not interact with each other, but each deliver their own brand of comedy. Nonetheless I have to say that this was not as funny as I hoped it would given Pluto and Donald were already established and beloved film stars by the days of World War II. Maybe it's the combination that did not work as Pluto is usually together with Mickey and Donald with the Newphews. All in all, I hoped for more. Not recommended.

Shawn Watson Donald and Goofy go to some lake for a quite day of sitting around in a boat. Have you ever know of any of Donald's attempts at nice days to work out? Well, this time round the torment is not all that imaginative.First of all Goofy swallows a frog (about the billionth time Goofy has swallowed something that drives him crazy) and is bothered by a nasty spring while Donald's outboard motor either won't start or rips the ramshackle boat apart.It's only slightly imaginative and the mayhem slightly inspired. Donald's done better than this and the only real laugh comes right at the end.

Ron Oliver A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.Donald hopes for a quiet day in his motorboat with Pluto, but PUT-PUT TROUBLES will soon put an end to that aspiration.Fine animation and good gags highlight this little film, which was one of only a handful to team The Duck and The Pup. The exigencies of the plot, however, keeps them apart most of the time. Clarence "Ducky" Nash supplied Donald's unique voice.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.