Alice Cans the Cannibals

During the mid-1920s, Walt Disney gained his first taste of fame with his Alice shorts. In these films, Alice (Virginia Davis) interacts with a cartoon world and the pictures are quite charming. However, despite enjoying many of these pictures very much, occasionally Disney had a dud...and "Alice Cans the Cannibals" is a dud in many ways.

The film begins with Alice and a cat that looks pretty much exactly like Felix the Cat. Why? Because Felix was the biggest cartoon star of the day and Disney copying him is akin to studios that copied Mickey Mouse in the late 20s and early 30s. The pair end up in Africa and the natives are all cannibals....and highly politically incorrect ones to boot.

In addition to these problems, the story also reuses a lot of the cels...repeating them many times in order to make the film as cheaply as possible. Overall, a disappointing and particularly enjoyable short....proof that even Walt Disney could make a poor film.

So easy to be very critic about this short animation. But the smiles inspired by it , the profound political incorrect scenes and the silly solutions + repetitions of scenes are good bricks for a nice animation, loving more the poor Felix than young Alice and being just seduce by absurd of story.

In fact, it is only a historical atefact , an early Disney , nothing demonstrationg , offering only cheep fun and this being just enough .

So, unfair to compare with other films from Disney univers , to hope to much from it or imagine it more than a sort of sketch for a couple smiles and a Sunday afternoon.