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![]() More importantly, as I sat and watched these cartoons during a recent Disney cruise (where they pipe them into the rooms), I found myself laughing louder than I ever have before with a cartoon. But here, Mickey is a rather impish character-more like you'd see in the very, very early Mickey cartoons and not the sweet and 100% wholesome guy you'd see in the 1930s to today! While the art style takes some getting used to, I can look past the cheap look. Rarely did Mickey have any sort of edge-that was left to Donald and, sometimes, Goofy. ![]() Sure, I love the old cartoons but will quickly admit that Mickey's old cartoons were awfully sanitized-a bit too sanitized if you ask me. Imagine having episodes with a zombie Goofy, Mickey and Donald trying to hide their nudity, dogs urinating, bites being bitten off Mickey's ear and a lot of very un-Disney-like violence!! It IS shocking and I could see how a purist would blanch at such things. And, I can certainly understand WHY they felt this way because the characters were doing many things that would make Walt spin in his grave like a rotisserie. ![]() I can certainly understand WHY they felt that way, as the animation style is NOTHING like the classic Disney characters and it seems pretty cheap at first. They describe it as 'despicable, detestable, deplorable desecration of Walt Disney's early works'. One reviewer for this show clearly hated it.
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