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Mickey Mouse Works (also known as Disney's Mickey Mouse Works) is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation featuring Mickey Mouse and his friends in a series of animated shorts. It is the very first Disney television animated series to be produced in widescreen high definition.
Why It Rocks[]
- First off, this show was the very first made-for-TV Disney cartoon series presented in HD.
- The character designs are perfect and nicely matches the current 1939 designs.
- Very great and unique voice acting, including from the main and recurring characters.
- Catchy theme music.
- The animation was a lot more appealing, compared to the classic Disney shorts.
- Just like The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse (which was released a decade after this), the show was even funnier and slapstick-driven than the Disney theatrical animated shorts while being faithful to the original cartoons they were based on, with it's slapstick violence and comedy sometimes giving you Heckle and Jeckle, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Tex Avery, Woody Woodpecker, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Pink Panther, Hanna-Barbera, Barney Bear, The Fox and the Crow, Toonsylvania, Little Audrey, and Popeye the Sailor ( 40's-50's Famous Studios cartoons only ),vibes as well.
- Many funny moments.
- Memorable characters, especially Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Pluto.
- It spawned the spin-off, entitled Disney's House of Mouse.
- Some of these episodes are later used in House of Mouse.
- The CGI-animated sequences are decent, in a favor to the success of Pixar's very first two feature films.
- Very nice running gags, such as the "Starring Donald Duck" title running gag of Donald Duck unsuccessfully attempting to steal the spotlight for himself.
- The musical-based Silly Symphony series returns, as the segment of the series, except this time they play out like Fantasia-esque nonverbal musical cartoon shorts featuring the major characters.
- Similar to Disney's other slapstick-driven animated series such as The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, Darkwing Duck and The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show ( though depending on your view ), this show proves that Disney can make wacky and zany cartoons with screwball comedy ever since they made theatrical cartoon shorts starring the likes of Donald Duck, Goofy, Humphrey the Bear, Chip & Dale and even Roger Rabbit !
- The art-style and backgrounds looks more appealing.
- Some good/decent short segments, such as:
- Mickey to the Rescue (which heroically started the show on a very high note)
- Maestro Minnie
- Donald's Dynamite
- Pluto Gets the Paper
- Goofy's Extreme Sports
- Von Drake's House of Genius
Bad Qualities[]
- Daisy Duck is extremely mean-spirited here as she was flanderized from being a kind, supportive, mature, and loving girlfriend of Donald to being a selfish, abusive, mean, bossy, spoiled, and obnoxious girlfriend.
- Baby Shelby is also downright mean-spirited and intolerable as he tries to cause all sorts of trouble for Donald Duck and Mickey and usually bullies them for no reason.
- Some very bad episodes, including "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto" (a mean-spirited Pluto cartoon), "Daisy's Road Trip" (a torture Mickey and Minnie cartoon) and Double Date Don (a Donald torture fest).
- Some of the humor can be hit-or-miss.
- It ended up being rated TV-Y. Because, this show is supposed aimed to tween and teens and was officially re-rated TV-Y7.
Reception[]
- It holds a rating of 7.2/10 on IMDB.
Trivia[]
- The series has yet to be released on Disney+.
- Roberts Gannaway, developer of this show, also developed Lilo & Stitchː The Series.
- While the series is the very first Disney television cartoon series presented in HD, the cartoons and show themselves were still produced in 4:3 full-screen aspect ratio. When the cartoons are shown as part of Disney's House of Mouse, the cartoons themselves have been cropped to 16:9 widescreen format.