Mickey Magicien

I completely agree with anyone who says Magician Mickey is one of the better Mickey Mouse shorts, if not the best. It is funny, enormously entertaining, and even after multiple viewings you can never grow tired of it. I do think the pace is a tad too fast, but other than that, it is all a delight to watch. Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney and Clarence Nash voice Goofy, Mickey and Donald(who is absolutely hilarious here) to perfection. The Technicolour animation is very fine, and the music score is lively. The plot is brisk and simply told, about Mickey performing magic tricks, Donald starts interrupting the proceedings and Mickey decides to humiliate him. This is clear evidence why I love this lovable trio of Toons so much. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Mickey is a master magician. He is utterly amazing. The problem is a heckler in the audience, Donald Duck. Mr. Duck is abusive and confrontational (really?). He begins to try to sabotage the act, but it only leads to greater and greater tricks where Donald becomes the victim. In true cartoon tradition, Donald will not let it go. It soon becomes a color extravaganza, with Goofy, the stage hand, getting his two cents worth in.

In this short, Mickey is performing magic tricks on stage while Goofy does all the behind the scenes work, even though all of Mickey's tricks seem to be for real.

But Donald, as usual, isn't convinced and causes a fuss with his loud sarcasm and shouting. Mickey quickly silences him by using his magic. Donald becomes part of the act and is humiliated in various ways. It's actually quite imaginative and much better than the usual Mickey cartoons.

If only Mickey (who only has one line here) consistently kept to this high standard. He really needs Donald to make him funnier than he is and it's pretty obvious in this cartoon that the laughs come from angry Duck.

This is a Disney cartoon that features three of its biggest stars: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. Mickey is a stage magician, performing all sorts of tricks from cards to rabbits, while Goofy is his stagehand. Sitting in the box in the audience is Donald, heckling at Mickey for what he thinks are childish tricks until Mickey uses his magic on him.

This is a hilarious cartoon short from start to finish and it is funny to see all three characters interact, especially how Mickey tries to counterattack the heckling Donald, resulting in endless funny scenes from Donald spitting our cards to shrinking to a size smaller than an egg. Goofy is his usual goofy self, trying to work all the gadgets without getting entangled in the stage ropes. You'll probably be roaring with laughter in how it all ends.

It's a show full of magic and misadventures - comical, delightful and fun for the entire family!

Grade A

"Mickey" is doing his best to entertain an audience with his magical trickery but "Donald" is sitting in his front row box determined to expose him as a shyster! He continually attempts to disrupt the act - but each time he is bettered by the increasingly irritated entertainer who eventually resorts to filling "Donald" with decks of playing cards so as to stifle his constant haranguing. This is an enjoyable comedy that has a duelling nature to it. The comedy is end-to-end for eight minutes of combative fun that uses magic (well conjuring and illusionism, really) as a conduit for the action that leads to a suitably messy ending that wouldn't have looked out of place in the "Sorcerer's Apprentice". Good fun!