That was an excellent one.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Mickey once again sells his best intentions to get a date with the fickle Minnie. He has a rival in Pete and Minnie doesn't seem to have any hesitation spending time with him. There are some funny dance things, especially when Mickey puts a balloon in his pants after stepping all over Minnie's feet. This is a pretty minor offering with little new produced.

This is one of Mickey's first cartoons, he and Pegleg Pete fight for Minnie's affections to go out dancing. In an unusual move, Mickey gets quite the share of bad luck in the story, unlike many of his other cartoons where he ends up being the hero or the goody two-shoes.Minnie gets mad at Mickey in this one a lot, so, it's quite interesting to watch. The dance numbers were pretty catchy as well. Not an extremely funny cartoon though, but, one with an interesting plot.Grade B-

This is an early Disney short featuring Mickey Mouse. There will be spoilers ahead:The dynamic in this one reminded me of the Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto dynamic from the early Popeye Flieschers, where Olive was just as likely to pick Bluto as she was Popeye. Minnie is rather fickle in this one, often for tolerably obvious reasons. Mickey openly displays jealousy and it colors his behavior.The visual gags are quite good here and Mickey's personality is quite different from the one he's best known for to most people. He's a self-absorbed and inattentive clod at points here and it's hardly surprising that he loses out to Pete (who's no prize himself here, but better behaved than Mickey for a change).Pete has his own moments of crude and obnoxious behavior, but they aren't as obvious and pronounced as Mickey's. Minnie, for her part, isn't above petty choices, as she first chooses Pete because he has a car versus Mickey's horse-drawn cart, only to abandon Pete rather rudely when his car falls apart. Not exactly an example of charm and consideration herself in that regard. Mickey winds up on the short end of the stick here.This short is available on the Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Volume 2 Disney Treasures DVD release and is well worth tracking down. Recommended.

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.Mickey & Pete both vie for fickle Minnie's attentions at THE BARN DANCE.This humorous little black & white film is propelled largely by the soundtrack; music mavens will recognize 'The Old Grey Mare,' 'Mendelssohn's Spring Song' & 'Pop! Goes The Weasel' among the tunes played. This very early Mouse cartoon shows one of the rare instances in which Mickey loses to Pete in the game of romance.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.