Mickey joins the army, and the mice fight the cats!
Relatively slow paced in my opinion.
Strange like many of the early Mickey cartoons, though interesting!
Some amazing perspective shots which clearly mark the work as a product of Ub Iwerks' incredible mind!
Some clever gags, my favourite being Mickey running out of machine gun bullets and using piano keys instead, to musical effect!
Musical Mickey almost always seems to have a handy piano at hand!
I think the best thing about this is the wonderful pastoral world of early Mickey Mouse. The universe, though sometimes scary, is wonderful all the same. This also makes me see what people are talking about when they say that the early Mickey Mouse cartoons have very insubstantial two-dimensional characters at best. In my opinion, Steamboat Willie was great, The Karnival Kid even greater, and everything else I've seen from this era really pales in comparison! The Karnival Kid is just such an incredible outlier for such an early work (only the ninth animated Mickey Mouse cartoon, just two after this one), it's strange to me that it took so long to reach that level of quality once again. I've honestly never seen one better, though for reference, I still have not seen any Mickey Mouse cartoon beyond 1933! I await what's ahead with excitement!
6.7/10.