Good concept, poorly executed.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Mickey brings Pluto to a stuffy society dog show and has the temerity to enter his pooch. Not surprisingly, the judge is less than impressed with Pluto, though the dog ends up proving his worth when there is a fire and Pluto comes to the rescue. Throughout the entire 1930s, the Disney Studio consistently made the best looking cartoons. Not only was the quality of animation the best in the industry, but they had an exclusive contract for several years for the use of Technicolor...true color...while the other studios generally made black & white films or films with primitive two-color systems (like Cinecolor). So the fact that "Society Dog Show" looks so darn good comes as no surprise whatsoever...folks came to expect excellence like this!What you have is an excellently animated cartoon with a nice, enjoyable story...the sort of thing that helped to make Pluto a favorite for decades. Well worth seeing.

In this Disney cartoon, Mickey takes Pluto to a dog society show, where he has to compete with dozens of dogs (and their owners) with their noses up in the air. Pluto makes contact with future girlfriend Fifi, and later ends up saving her from a fire carelessly started by a photographer.There's some funny chemistry between Pluto and Fifi and I like the way how Mickey tries to fit in with all the high-society people. There's not too much slapstick comedy or humor in this cartoon short, but there's a nice superhero scene when Pluto goes on to save Fifi from the fire (it has always bothered me how the photographer who started the fire was the first who cowardly runs away without helping anybody after the fire started to spread).It's a predictable cartoon, but it's still pretty funny to watch.Grade B

I'm not sure if I ever really loved Pluto all that much as a Disney character even as a kid, but I probably liked him. I'm not too keen on him nowadays. He doesn't really look anything like a dog, he looks more like a sad grizzled old man! And he's so nasty and always barking at cute little animals and everything. It makes me laugh when Mickey or someone'll ask if he's hungry and he'll kinda pant/say "yeah, yeah!" I also find really funny the big yowl he makes when something will bite his tale! Anyway the point is, for me this is the best Pluto cartoon and I really like him in it, and I've always loved it. The structure and formula of this one is so classic Disney y'know? Like their classic template formula. You really feel sorry for Pluto in the first half when he and Mickey look all scruffy compared to the other dogs and owners, Pluto's unrequited love for the snobby girl dog, and the embarrassing way Pluto acts and gets them thrown out. But then Pluto saves the day and gets the girl, so it's the classic from the worst of places to the best of places kind of tale. I like the design of Mickey Mouse the best as he appears in this. This is the last ever short he appeared in with little black dots for eyes 'ya know. To me I found the cartoon a little slow for most of the first part, but then it takes off spectacularly when the fire bursts out Pluto's riding a flaming unexpected makeshift roller-coaster on skates! I just love all the action and momentum of that part, it's just exiting and brilliant! Not to mention the animation of the fire and everything looks amazing. That's what I love in my Disney cartoon shorts, something that'll grab you like that or tug at heartstrings. I love this one a lot, it starts out slow, but by the end it rocks! Pluto gets to be a real hero... Thank you.

For reasons unknown, Mickey enters Pluto in a dog show. He sprays the poor dog with an unholy amount of perfume and drops a can on the ground. The can rolls away and Mickey disappears after it. That gives Pluto time to flirt with a cute little girl dog, Fifi.Well, Pluto attacks one of the show's judges and, understandably, him and Mickey are tossed out. Mickey straps some roller skates on Pluto and, next thing you know, the building housing the dog show is consumed in flames. It's up to Pluto to use his skates and bravery to try and rescue Fifi.Every second of this cartoon is nonsense and I continue to be amazed at what is so darn fascinating about Disney's shorts. Sure, Walt was fantastic at overseeing some wonderful full-length animated features. Sadly, that magic and creativity were consistently trashed when it came to producing shorts. 1/10