Mickey buys a boat kit, and enlists Goofy and Donald to help assemble it. The plans say, "so simple a child could do it", so of course, they have their share of troubles. But before long, they're ready to launch the Queen Minnie, with appropriate fanfare, at which time, all the collapsible parts collapse.
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Strong and Moving!
Lack of good storyline.
an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
Another classic Disney short teaming their three stars of the time: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy (with an appearance by Minnie at the end). This time the trio are trying to build a boat from some sort of kit. It's a real boat but it comes ready-to-assemble with instructions and everything like a toy or model boat. The boys naturally have trouble, particularly Goofy and Donald. It's a funny cartoon with lovely animation and jaw-droppingly beautiful Technicolor. Good voice work from Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, and Walt Disney himself. Not the best cartoon featuring these three but a really good one.
"Boat Builders" is a 7-minute cartoon from over 75 years ago and it features Disney's finest all in one short movie: Mickey, Donald and Goofy. And as the title already tells, the trio tries to build their own boat. Looking at Goofy's clumsiness, Donald's temper and Mickey not being the most skilled either, this can only result in trouble, or will they actually manage. In the end, it looks like they came up with something great and it is called Queen Minnie. Actually, I expected everything to collapse the moment Minnie hit the boat with the bottle. I thought this was a decent short film. Donald was a bit insignificant here, but Goofy may have had the best scene during his short but intense romance with a mermaid. Not among Disney's best, but worth the watch.
If Mickey, Donald and Goofy build themselves a boat ('so easy even a child can do it') do you REALLY think that by the end of the cartoon it is still going to be standing? Obviously not.Their usual lack of skill and ignorance for each other's well-being cause enough problems during the actual building of said boat but it is when Minnie christens the boat 'Queen Minnie' that all their hard work slaps them in the face.And who would have known that Goofy was dumb enough to think a figurehead is a real lady and fall in love with her.Mildy amusing.
A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.Folding-kit BOAT BUILDERS Mickey, Goofy & Donald attempt to put together their small ship with predictably disastrous results.Featuring first rate animation & a very funny plot, this classic little film reunites the three buddies in another cartoon not dissimilar to CLOCK CLEANERS (1937), their hit of the year before. Goofy & the Duck carry most of the show, with their voice artists - Pinto Colvig & Clarence Nash - giving topnotch performances. Voiced by Walt Disney, Mickey easily steps into the position of good guy & regular fellow. Miss Minnie has a quick cameo and sharp-eyed movie mavens will spot Horace Horsecollar & Clarabelle Cow among the crowd at the launching.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 will always pay off.