OllieSuave-007
Mickey and Minnie host a dance party attended by a number of Disney characters - from Goofy to Carabelle Cow. While the guests dance, Mickey, Goofy and Horace prepare sandwiches and, afterward the snacks have been devoured, the band enters, Scott Joplin's Maple Leave Rag is played and everybody dances - until the police come to break up the party.There's plenty of fun in this cartoon short - lots of top-tapping bandstand-type music and plenty of crazy dancing and swinging. Loved Minnie's piano music. Lots of characters and plenty of fun! Grade B+
Robert Reynolds
This is an early Mickey Mouse short produced by the Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:There's no plot here, this is just what the title says it is, a party. A "whoopee party", to be specific. They were wild parties, plain and simple, with lots of drinking and raucous celebration. That's this short.It opens with lots of couples dancing. There is a lot of reused footage, so you see gags used multiple times. That's done to save time and money. Minnie and Clarabelle Cow are playing music, while Mickey, Horace Horsecollar and the early Goofy are fixing food in the kitchen.The bulk of the cartoon is everyone (and, at one point, virtually everything) dancing and having fun. Mickey and others get music out of the darnedest things, like window shades and mousetraps. There's some very good animation, a lot of it repeated.The ending is very good, so I won't spoil that here. It's in keeping with the general premise of the short and very funny.This short is available on the Disney Treasures Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Volume One DVD set and it and the set are well worth getting. Recommended.
rbverhoef
Walt Disney's 'The Whoopee Party' is about, well, a whoopee party. We see Mickey Mouse (voice by Walt Disney), Goofy (Pinto Colvig) and a lot of supporting characters dance on some music, created by Minnie Mouse (Marcellite Garner) behind the piano and again some supporting characters with other instruments. Once in a while some or all characters shout "Whoopee!"The black and white short is not that funny but it is entertaining. Sometimes it is hard to follow the action because the supporting characters keep making the same moves over and over again while Mickey or Goofy moves in front of them. Still, this animated short musical is filled with life. The music fits the action in a very nice way and the "whoopee" is good for a laugh.
boblipton
Walt Disney was having some problems getting paid by his distributor in this period. Eventually he would leave United Artists and settle in for the next twenty years at RKO. In the meantime, however, he would cut corners on his movies by having a lot of repetitive movements in some of his shorts. Here he tries to make use of the fact that many musical phrases repeat and that the supporting action could logically repeat. Still, the sharp-eyed viewer will notice it.In the midst of this, Pinto Colvig's voicing of the early Goofy (who had been introduced, in slightly different form in MICKEY'S REVUE the previous year) is a welcome touch. His manic laugh never quite repeats itself and adds a touch of novelty to every shot.
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