I've been watching a bunch of the current Mickey Mouse shorts (beginning in 2013) lately, and I am super in love with them. I recently wrote a little bit about the '30s Mickey Mouse cartoons that I love so much because of their fluidity and expression (and especially their use of sinister themes and characters), but I wanted to talk about how great the shorts are that we get right now.
The third in the first series of these shorts is '
Croissant de Triomphe' - a story set in Paris and involving a perilous transportation of croissants. This, alongside others, would mark the start of a geographic element for several of these shorts which makes for one of my favourite things about the series. The fact that Mickey & Co. speak French and other languages in a few of these episodes is a nice touch, and it's astonishing the amount of love, care, and incredible design that so clearly went into making each location stand out and look right.
There's such an attention to detail spanning the shot design, the character design (which implements a modern version of the classic forms of characters beautifully), and the backgrounds. I love the colours, the textures, and the vibrant sense of movement present in every episode.
The humour is also well-written and charming, featuring plentiful examples of inventive and surprising slapstick alongside perfect silly character moments, and sometimes ingenious and surreal concepts (
like a short in which Mickey misplaces his ears - the use of sound in this one is great).
Overall, I'm astonished by how gripping and enjoyable these shorts are, and it's really inspiring to see such an experimental and fresh series for Mickey and his friends that still manages to maintain many of the best elements of the classic cartoons. I highly recommend these.
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