Get a Horse! (2013) Reviews

• Wonderful

  utgard142015-09-09

  A blast from the past as Mickey Mouse and friends deal with the lascivious Peg-Leg Pete in this respectful and loving tribute to Walt Disney's early Mickey Mouse cartoons. It's done with a delightful mix of hand-drawn black & white animation in the style of those early cartoons and modern CGI color animation, still holding true to the original models of the characters. I love that they also used some archival audio from Walt, Billy Bletcher, and Marcellite Garner. Frankly, it's the best Mickey short in decades. I've always enjoyed the first Mickey cartoons a lot. The character has long since become the poster child for corny but this short hearkens back to a time when he was fresh, playful, and funny. Kudos to Lauren MacMullan and co. for this creative and clever short that mixes the present and the past in a way that should bring smiles to the faces of young and old alike.

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• Mickey's new adventure is a creative knock-out!

  richard05952013-11-05

  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.

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• One of the best Mickey shorts!

  trooper57832015-04-25

  When I first heard there would be a new Mickey cartoon, I was extremely hyped up and what really got me into it was the fact that it would feature Uncle Walt's archival recordings as Mickey Mouse, and it would mix hand-drawn animation with CGI. When I finally saw it, I was very pleased with the outcome. The comedy is genuine with the imaginative slapstick we loved in the classic Mickey shorts, no gross-out gags whatsoever. It even includes a few pop culture visual jokes like the Apple ringtone and Horace's Captain America T- shirt(usually, it would ruin animated adaptations of the beloved classics *AHEM* The Lorax, but here it worked cleverly). The visuals are also groundbreaking, it is fantastic what they do with combining two different animation mediums. Overall, Get A Horse! was an adorable, hilarious, and faithful short that celebrates the history of the mouse we all know and love in so many inventive ways possible.

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• Absolutely brilliant short

  lisafordeay2015-03-17

  I seen this in the cinemas before Frozen(Disney's highest grossing animated movie of all time btw) was shown and its also on the DVD as well so if you wanna see it be sure and check it out. The short is about Mickey and the gang who are in black and white in a cinema room and Pete is after Mickey. Of course the short then gets turned into CGI form and switches from CGI to Black & White once Pete is after Mickey's friends and they too end up in CGI form as well. Bottom line this was a brilliant short as it has the man himself Walt Disney as the voice of Mickey Mouse and all the old school actors as the other charcthers. What I like about this is like I said the blend of Black & White and CGI animation thrown into the mix. The humor was great,the concept was great overall I really enjoyed this short. 7/10

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• Superb - traditional and innovative at the same time

  neil-4762013-12-19

  A small, square, black and white image introduces us to 1930 Mickey Mouse, out for a day's cart ride with his friends until Pegleg Pete drives up behind them in his car, intent on spoiling their fun. Get A Horse! is the short film which accompanies Disney's 2013 animated feature Frozen, and is reason in itself to go to the cinema. Because this is not an original 1930s short although, when it starts, you would swear that it was. The soundtrack is partially made up of extracts from 1930s shorts (Walt Disney voices Mickey once more!), and the style is absolutely authentic: not only is the look of the thing spot on, the film is also full of sight gags which would have been totally at home in a short from that period. And then widescreen, colour and 3D are introduced, but essentially as further sight gags. These technical anachronisms are used creatively to enhance this wonderful little film and, in so doing, they show Disney Animation Studios once more exercising the creativity for which they were once renowned. This is one of the best uses of 3D I have seen at the cinema. This is an enormously enjoyable short.

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