To me, this movie is perfection.

good back-story, and good acting

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

'GET A HORSE!': Three Stars (Out of Five)A Disney animated short film that debuted in theaters before the blockbuster 'FROZEN'. The movie is 6 minutes long and is both computer animated and hand-drawn. It's also in black-and-white and color and was released in both 3D and regular 2D versions (like the movie it plays with). It was directed by Lauren MacMullan and features archive voice recordings of Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse! It's the first Mickey Mouse cartoon since 1995's 'RUNAWAY BRAIN' and tells the story of Mickey going on a wagon ride with his friends (Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow) when the antagonist Peg-Leg Pete attacks them. Mickey and Horace are thrown out of the movie world (and into the theater) where they fight Peg-Leg by flipping the theater screen (and rotating gravity inside the movie). The film is amusing and fun and very reminiscent of classic Mickey Mouse cartoons. Should be nostalgic for fans of the iconic Disney character and entertaining for new (younger) viewers as well!Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAefz9rzS5w

. . . currently coupled with FROZEN, "GET A HORSE" is a winner in its own right. With its ever-quicker transitions from black & white old-style Stick Figurish type 'Toons to a full-color cartoon environment of more full-figured characters, this 5-minute, 56-second exercise in sophisticated animation not only keeps the viewer entranced, but also guessing what might happen next. Though the bullies in attendance may find Minnie's torture of Peg-Leg Pete beyond the pale, people of this ilk are the single American subgroup that currently is lucky to have even ONE leg left to stand on. Now that Disney has purchased the Marvel Comics movie money-making machine, it is no surprise to find an instance of cross-marketing here, as one of these retro characters is wearing a CAPTAIN AMER!CA T-shirt. However, product placement aside, this short tops messages to turn off your cell phone and ads to buy $40 worth of pop, candy, and popcorn at the concession stand any day of the week.

I have just come from a showing of Disney's FROZEN, for which this was a preceding short. However, from my viewpoint, I just saw this with a typical Disney Princess movie added on, because this is a fine little movie while FROZEN is just another Princess movie.Mickey, Minnie and the rest of the crew from 1928 go on a hay ride, where they meet Pegleg Pete... and Pete, fighting for Minnie, throws Mickey through the movie screen, where he is the modern Mickey, with red pants and three dimensions. The inevitable donnybrook extends through both media and even beyond, with references to intermediate Mickeys, until the point of the movie, the subtext, in between the situations and gags, became clear to me: Mickey remains Mickey, whether in the 1928 silent version, before he learned to whistle, or the modern, three-dimensional, full color version.With all the commercial issues of modern Disney movies, with all the brand extensions and can-we-make-sequels and how can we milk this idea for another ten million dollars, there comes a point at which some creative individual says "I have an idea". At that stage it's not commercial, it's not a multi-media franchise, it's just an idea. If it's a good idea, then the money men, essentially non-creative individuals (I should know. That's what I do for a living) will make enough money on it to pay the people with ideas and give them the chance to have more ideas. And the best idea they can have is "Let's do something the audience will enjoy." I enjoyed this one very, very much. I think you will too. Even if, or perhaps especially if you don't worry about subtext.

When I first heard of this project, I couldn't help but instantly get hyped up. And when I found out the twist, that of Mickey stepping out of his black-and-white world into a color 3D realm, I got even more tense waiting to see it. When I did, I was pleasantly surprised at how the idea was executed. What I got was a hilarious, creative animated short that says that Disney's still got it. The jokes that poke fun at modern society, like Horace walking up wearing a Captain America shirt while using a smartphone and eating popcorn and Milk Duds, are pure gold and the meta-related humor is used in very funny ways to humiliate Pete. The animation on both sides of the screen are fantastic and the best way to see it is with 3D glasses, which gives the short a sense of depth. All in all, this is a must-see cartoon, great for fans of Disney, animation geeks and the general public.