Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It was PLANE CRAZY, It was a silent film made several months before Steamboat Willie was made, They didn't release it before as they couldn't find a distributor because at the time Disney was poor as Oswald was owned by Universal until 2006. When they found a distributor for S.B. Willie (United Artists), they released Plane Crazy into theaters a few months after, But Steamboat Willie still wasn't the second, The Gallopin Gauncho was the second, for similar reasons and a similar fate the cartoon was released a few months after Steamboat. Steamboat Willie was the third. But however, Steamboat was Pete's First Appearance, as well as Clarabelle Cow (as Fob)MADDOX COX, OVER AND OUT!

After believing for years that Steamboat Willie was Mickey Mouse's debut,I was surprised to discover that Mickey had made his debut in a Silent cartoon which had sounded added a few months later,which led to me getting ready to take a plane ride with Mickey.The plot:Reading a book on how to fly,Mickey gets a group of farm yard animals to help him build a plane.Getting set for take off,Minnie walks pass the plane,which leads to Mickey grabbing Minnie and putting her in the plane.Looking forward to kissing Minnie as they fly in the sky,Mickey soon discovers that it is harder to fly than he expected.View on the film:Secretly made whilst co-director (along with Ub Iwerks-who drew 700 animation drawings a day for the film!) Walt Disney was still working for Universal,Disney and Iwerks display an amazing sense of daring energy in their animation style,with the directors brilliantly using first person shots to let the viewer see things from Mickey's pov.Keeping the story sweet and easy,Disney and Iwerks make the film fly by with charming visual gags from Mickey using the animals to keep his plane running,to Mickey trying to get Minnie to give him a saucy kiss.

This is technically the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, having released a few months before Steamboat Willie. Here, Mickey builds a plane and takes Minnie Mouse (also her first appearance) for a joyride. But, the high-flying journey doesn't go near as Mickey plans as the plane sores to unbelievable obstacles and heights, leaving the two to fend for themselves.Ub Iwerks did a great job animating the cartoon. While it does appear dated by today's standards, the cartoon does represent classic animation and true talent - none of these CGI stuff that we see in today's animated features.Not a whole lot to the story, but it's an adventurous little tale nonetheless and is one of the more exciting black and white cartoon shorts from Walt Disney. It's a fine way to start off Mickey Mouse and his many adventures in years to come.Grade B+

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.With Charles Lindbergh as his hero, Mickey Mouse has gone PLANE CRAZY.Mischievous Mickey is determined to get in the air in this very early Mouse cartoon. Animator Ub Iwerks is responsible for most of the visual shenanigans which fill the little film. The bovine with the ponderous & perilously vulnerable udder is an early incarnation of Clarabelle Cow making her film debut.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 storm of naysayers, 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 always pay off.