Rescue Dog (1947)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Rescue Dog (1947) *** (out of 4)Pluto is working in the Arctic when he decides to take a walk. He crosses a frozen pond when he sees a whole in the ice and inside that hole is a playful seal. The seal begins to follow Pluto who doesn't want anything to do with him. RESCUE DOG isn't a classic Disney short but it's certainly cute enough to make it worth watching to fans of Pluto. There's not any spoken dialogue here and there's still no problem with the entertainment level because there's just so much nice action going on. This includes Pluto constantly trying to get away from the seal and a good (but dark) moment where he finds himself trapped under the water. There are certainly enough laughs to make this worth watching.

Cute Disney short with Pluto as a mountain rescue dog, a job usually reserved for St. Bernards in cartoons. Pluto's biggest problem in this one is keeping a seal from stealing the cask of brandy he wears around his neck. After fighting off the playful seal for awhile, Pluto finds himself in need of rescue, with only the seal around to help him. It's a fun little cartoon. Nothing extraordinary but pleasant and enjoyable. The animation is lovely, with rich colors and well-drawn characters and backgrounds. I'm a sucker for a good animated snowscape and this one is just gorgeous. As with many Pluto cartoons, it probably plays better for little kids. But there's joy to be had here for those of us who are still kids at heart.

What a lovely cartoon! Not one of my immediate favourites of the cartoons starring Pluto, but still classic entertaining stuff with a touch of cuteness. The story is a tad routine but kept afloat by the crisply timed humour, Pluto's energy and the fact that Salty the Seal is simply adorable. Not to mention that, although Pluto has had more effective foils(ie. Chip 'n' Dale), these two are very amusing together. The animation has been of slightly smoother quality in other cartoons with Pluto, but the colours still look beautiful. The music is jaunty, dynamic and makes what's going on on screen even more effective.Overall, a lovely cartoon, cute and funny. 9/10 Bethany Cox

A Walt Disney PLUTO Cartoon.RESCUE DOG Pluto is not at all amused when his precious keg of brandy is turned into a plaything by a friendly seal.Here is another in a long list of cartoons in which Pluto encounters a much smaller creature and is typical of all the rest - ordinary animation & a few good laughs. Although undeniably cute & frisky, this was to be Salty the Seal's only appearance in a Disney cartoon.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.