Synopsis
A clip-show music video for the album of the same name and vintage. Includes 5 songs from the album ("Mousetrap", "Disco Mickey Mouse", "Watch Out For Goofy", "Macho Duck", "Welcome To Rio").
1980 Directed by David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen …
A clip-show music video for the album of the same name and vintage. Includes 5 songs from the album ("Mousetrap", "Disco Mickey Mouse", "Watch Out For Goofy", "Macho Duck", "Welcome To Rio").
Repurposing classic Mickey Mouse cartoon footage to capitalize on the disco craze doesn’t ever quite work as a film, and most of the songs are monotonous and bland (I can only imagine the full album is a bit of a chore to sit through; the video edit actually seems like an improvement). On the bright side, “Watch Out for Goofy!” is a banger of a song that could feature in any discotheque.
absolutely no need for this to go so hard or for mickey mouse to be this fucked up. it is 3am.
Not sure why I wanted to see this. I guess I was in the mood for disco music.
Mickey Mouse Disco is nothing more than a clip show of other shorts set to songs from titular album. Granted the music is pretty nice but since the rest is just scenes from other short films there isn't really any reason to watch this.
I can't possibly rate this but it's some next-level brainwashing. Disney pulled 7 minutes of animated footage from various decades-old cartoon classics and set them to newly recorded disco tunes. My favourite is the Village People rip-off "Macho Duck".
Not sure why this gets hate when editing a few Disney shorts into this coke-fueled 80’s disco romp is just about the coolest idea.
Grade: B
MK Ultra stopped using this record to torture people because once the subjects reached the 100th play, they began to mutate into strange non-human beings that looked like something from an H.R. Giger painting.
A great revisit thanks to fellow Letterboxd-er Crawlspace Dweller Matt.
Mickey Mouse Disco was attached to my childhood copy of The Black Hole (1979) and I watched this plenty - more than The Black Hole, actually.
Decades later I can still sing the songs and remember some of the clips in my head from those childhood viewings. Especially Macho Duck and Watch Out for Goofy- they still pop into the old noggin every now and then.
Revisiting this all these years later so much came flooding back. So happy to see this again.
Definite recommend