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Fun Donald Duck cartoon short with Donald clashing with Chip n' Dale. The title, which has nothing to do with Fritos I assure you, refers to the chipmunks' love of popcorn. You see, Donald tricks the boys into shoveling the snow from his sidewalk. They sneak into his house to get even and discover Donald's popcorn. Soon the chipmunks are stealing the popcorn with Donald in pursuit. A funny little cartoon with nice animation and lovely colors. The music is lively and exciting. It's nothing groundbreaking but good old-fashioned entertainment for young and old alike. Other studios put out some classic cartoons back in the day but there was always something special about Disney.

This is not a bad little cartoon that will get you enjoying a bowl of popcorn at night. Donald pops some popcorn on a winter's day after shoveling snow off his walkway, tricking Chip 'n' Dale into shoveling snow on his walkway instead of the snow on their tree branch. So, the chipmunks sneak into Donald's house and help themselves to some popcorn. What results is more of the same vs. battles, with the characters tricking and humiliating each other. It's quite funny at times and, as always, the animation is great.

Donald gets the brunt of the bad luck in this one, again, but it's not as bad as some of the other cartoons.

Grade B-

Donald has finished shoveling snow off his walk, but has one again engaged in one-upsmanship with Chip and Dale. After some sparring, he goes in the house and makes popcorn. The two rodents decide to get theirs, so they invade his house and steal his popcorn. From then on it is a whole new winter scene. Pretty good action.

Donald Duck shovels the snow off his porch and walkway. Rather, he tricks Chip and Dale into doing it. His work accomplished, Donald decides to reward himself with some freshly made popcorn. The the two little fellows figure they've earned it.

It's always fun to watch Mr. Duck. Lose out to the cute chipmunks and his own temper. Disney's staff gets a lot of gags out of a simple set of circumstances that make this a funny cartoon three quarters of a century later.

I have always loved the Disney shorts, and Donald Duck is one of my favourite ever cartoon characters. Corn Chips is a classic from him and Chip 'n' Dale the chipmunks. Donald is very funny and cantankerous and Chip 'n' Dale cute and antagonistic, managing to work with Donald as well as they did with Pluto. The story is routine like with a few other shorts of theirs, but is a lot of fun and crisply paced regardless. The animation is beautifully done, Corn Chips is energetically scored, wittily written and very funny in the visual gags, with part when chip and dale say bye bye when they take Donald's bowl of popcorn out the door and thank you when he tips his head up into the bowl being the best. All in all, a classic, and reminds me of the good old days with Disney. As often as I do revisit the silly symphonies and Disney classics on video and on youtube, I can't help missing the good old days and wish they'd come back and replace the (on the most part) predictable, unfunny overacted situation comedies that we have now. 10/10 Bethany Cox