Top 10 Classic Mickey Mouse Cartoons
Happy Birthday, Mickey! It's amazing that this character has entertained many people for 88 years! So let's talk about the best classic Mickey Mouse cartoons!
Steamboat Willie is a cartoon that everyone is familiar with and seems to love! Released on November 18, 1928, this short is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, even though it was actually the third one produced. This was also the first Disney cartoon with synchronized sound! And of course, there's the iconic scene with Mickey steering the boat and whistling! This is such a great cartoon to introduce us to Mickey Mouse! It also introduced us to Minnie Mouse, so I guess they share the same birthday. I'm surprised they're not married yet. There's some clever humor in this! The parrot that makes fun of Mickey cracks me up every time! I also like how Mickey and Minnie use animals to make music! I'm not sure if this counts as animal abuse, but it's still funny! I've watched this cartoon over a hundred times! It never gets old! This will always remain a classic and is a great first appearance of Mickey Mouse!
Out of all the Mickey Mouse cartoons, this is probably the funniest! It's also the first one in color! It involves Mickey conducting a band that includes Goofy on clarinet, Clarabelle on flute, Horace on percussion, and two pigs playing a trumpet and a tuba. Unfortunately, the band has trouble focusing due to distractions. Donald also appears in this cartoon, and for some reason, he's the only character with dialogue. Donald wants to be part of the band by playing a flute, but Mickey doesn't let him, even though he's actually pretty talented. It's hilarious that Donald has so many flutes! This cartoon basically shows that playing "Storm" music will cause a tornado to arrive. The tornado wrecks everything and carries the band in the most hilarious way possible! The band continues to play as if they don't even care they're in a tornado! I just love that scene! One of the reasons why this cartoon is so great!
This was one of the first Mickey Mouse cartoons I ever watched! Mickey, Goofy, and Donald go on a road trip in a trailer driven by Goofy. Goofy driving a trailer - what could possibly go wrong? The characters do what people normally do in the morning: wake up, take a bath, and eat breakfast. But Goofy, being the goof that he is, stops driving to eat breakfast, causing the car to move on its own! He tries to get back behind the wheel, but the trailer gets unlatched from the car while Mickey and Donald are still in it. The whole scene with the trailer rolling away is just hilarious! It rolls over train tracks twice while a train is passing by, and they just barely miss the train. That's some clever and perfect timing! And what makes it funnier is Donald praying not to die! I love that! The trailer eventually makes it back to the car, almost as if nothing happened! I remember watching this cartoon a lot on a VHS I had. It was just so great!
Did I mention how much I love Fantasia? If I did, then I haven't mentioned it enough because Fantasia is just SO GOOD! My favorite segment from the movie is Night on Bald Mountain, but if I had to choose a second favorite, it would be The Sorcerer's Apprentice! What makes it so great is the music! I love how well it goes with what's happening on screen! Whenever something epic is happening in this short, the music gets more intense! Like when the brooms cause the place to be flooded! The visuals in this are also really good! That whole dream sequence with Mickey on a mountain doing sorcerer-type stuff was really impressive! This is another reason why Fantasia is the best Disney movie ever!
Mickey Through the Looking Glass! That's what I call it sometimes. In this cartoon, Mickey has a dream where he enters the mirror dimension. Not the Doctor Strange mirror dimension, but a dimension that just so happens to take place inside a mirror. In this world, he comes across multiple objects that have come alive. Also, Mickey eats a walnut and shrinks, kind of similar to Alice in Wonderland. Except, this came first. This cartoon is so weird that I can't help but enjoy it! I really love the cards! The way they are used in this short is so clever! I wish I could be in a world as bizarre as that!
Fun fact! I bought a Christmas ornament based on this cartoon! It plays music! Clock Cleaners is about Mickey, Donald, and Goofy cleaning a clock, hence the title "Clock Cleaners"! And of course, they have problems. Mickey has trouble getting a stork to leave, and Donald struggles to fix the mainspring since part of it just refuses to stay in place. The fact that it's alive and Donald getting furious with it is comedy gold! Goofy goes inside a bell, and one of the mechanical figures rings the bell, causing Goofy to go into a daze. This leads to him almost falling off a clock tower, only to be saved by cartoon physics. Each of the three characters struggles to do their jobs in very funny ways! These are the kinds of things people really like to see in cartoons sometimes!
Another one bites the dust! As a huge football fan, I really like this cartoon! And I have never seen Mickey play football before! This short doesn't have much of a plot. It's mainly about Mickey playing football with a team called Mickey's Manglers, and they play against a team called the Alley Cats. Goofy is the announcer, which is pretty funny! According to the title, Mickey's team wins the game, but it's still very fun to see how they managed to win! If you're a football fan like I am, then you might enjoy this!
Most people probably haven't heard of this one, but I really like it! Mickey works at a construction site, and his boss, of course, is Pete. As usual, Pete is the antagonist. Later on, Minnie comes to bring Mickey his lunch, but unfortunately, Pete steals Minnie from Mickey. Mickey then gets into an awesome fight with Pete to save Minnie! The relationship between Mickey and Minnie in this cartoon is really good! It shows just how much Mickey cares about Minnie! Not only that, but there are some pretty clever gags as well! Mickey pushes a wheelbarrow through the construction site and isn't aware of his surroundings but manages to avoid getting hurt purely by luck! This is a gag that a lot of cartoons have done, and it can still be pretty funny!
Let me just get this out of the way. Yes, there are two versions of this. The original came out in 1934, and the remake came out in 1941. But both of them are practically the same, except that one is in black and white and the other is in color. Anyway, Mickey and his friends put on a benefit show to entertain some orphans. This includes Donald performing Mary Had a Little Lamb, Goofy, Clarabelle, and Horace doing acrobatics, and Clara Cluck singing. This is also the first time we see Mickey and Donald together in a cartoon! We also get some very funny slapstick from Donald! The only problem I have with this short is Clara Cluck! I hate her so much! I honestly don't know why, but she has always made me angry! But aside from that, this is a pretty good cartoon!
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I watched this cartoon for the first time recently, and I really liked it! Mickey puts on a magic show, but Donald tries to sabotage him. Donald ends up being a part of Mickey's tricks, and yes, the ways that Mickey performs magic tricks on him are hilarious! There's a part where Mickey shrinks Donald, shoots him out of a gun into an egg, cracks the egg causing liquid to pour into Mickey's hat, and then pours the liquid out of the hat, and Donald is back to normal! Donald is basically tortured throughout this cartoon, but he actually deserves it! Mickey is definitely an amazing magician!
The first Mickey Mouse cartoon where Mickey actually speaks, and he's voiced by Walt Disney himself! Definitely a classic.
This was originally Mickey Mouse's first appearance.
To be honest, I don't know why this one isn't in the Top 10. It should be, considering it had a very good remake years later.