Get a Horse! (2013)

To me, this movie is perfection.

best movie i've ever seen.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I am very much in support of short films getting into cinemas, even if it mostly occurs either as part of festivals, or as large studio projects which accompany a main feature film; so it is cheering how many people would have seen this short film ahead of the film Frozen – albeit as they would have seen it as a free cartoon rather than having their eyes opened to the world of short film as a form. Anyway, this short opens in the frame size and animation style of the 1930's cartoons, with a simple scene of Mickey and Minnie Mouse heading out on their wagon, only for the "wave of the future" to come up behind them in the form of Peg-Leg Pete in his motor car, and start to make trouble.Watching this short without any knowledge of what it does is quite a lovely experience, because just as you start to accept the rather small square image in the middle of this larger screen, suddenly the 4th wall gets broken and we have action occurring within the theatre itself as well as back inside the 1930's cartoon. It is cleverly done so that the animation transitions between modern CGI style, and black & white drawings, as the characters move between the sides of the screen. I also enjoyed the way the screen itself moved and was affected by the action – I really am not interested in watching films in 3D, but it would have been fun to see what this played like if you were not expecting it.The action itself is a good lot of slapstick and, while I wasn't roaring with laughter throughout, I found it consistently amusing and fun, which is all I was really looking for. Perhaps understandably it won the Best Animated Short and, as much as I prefer that the big players do not dominate these smaller categories, I don't begrudge Get a Horse! because it is cleverly done, and delivered with a lot of energy and cheer.

This short was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short (and probably should have won). There will be spoilers ahead: This short is a remarkable piece of work and probably the best short Disney has done in the last 30 years. This is a blend of old and new Disney animation styles and themes. An excellent addition to the Mickey Mouse canon. I have to talk about the short itself.The plot is deceptively simple. Mickey and a bunch of the old time characters (like Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow) are going on a hayride. Mickey has a fascinating dispute with his pants and then climbs on the hay wagon, to be joined by Minnie Mouse.Pegleg Pete comes up on the wagon and behaves like Pete, trying to kidnap Minnie. That's when things get interesting, as Pete uses Mickey and Horace as a bludgeon until he tears a hole in the fourth wall and color is born. Mickey and Horace wind up on the other side of the screen and things start getting nuts. Horace hits the snack bar and "borrows" someone's cellphone. Mickey turns Horace into a plane to try to get back at Pete with predictable results.Then Mickey starts discovering nice little things to do with the screen and to Pete as a consequence, amusing Minnie and everyone else in the process. The short is totally crazy at this point. They don't just break the fourth wall, they obliterate it and fun is had by all (except Pete).Archival audio is used to have the original voices for Mickey, Minnie and Pete appear in the short and it's very effectively handled. This short is an extra on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Frozen. The short is well worth watching. Most highly recommended.

Get a Horse! is a fantastic short film with a quick but very enjoyable storyline filled lots of fun and colourful characters.I really enjoyed the mix of the old fashioned black and white animation and the CGI animation that is used in every animated film that's made today.The film showed before Frozen,and it really got me in to the Disney spirit and got me excited for the feature film.Ir was great seeing the very lovable Mickey Mouse for the first time in years on the big screen once again,and this was a very interesting way of bringing him back.All in all,Get a Horse is a great short film that Disney fans will love. Mickey and Minnie Mouse go on a wagon ride,but Pete gets in the way when he tries to once again kidnap Minnie.

When I first heard of this project, I couldn't help but instantly get hyped up. And when I found out the twist, that of Mickey stepping out of his black-and-white world into a color 3D realm, I got even more tense waiting to see it. When I did, I was pleasantly surprised at how the idea was executed. What I got was a hilarious, creative animated short that says that Disney's still got it. The jokes that poke fun at modern society, like Horace walking up wearing a Captain America shirt while using a smartphone and eating popcorn and Milk Duds, are pure gold and the meta-related humor is used in very funny ways to humiliate Pete. The animation on both sides of the screen are fantastic and the best way to see it is with 3D glasses, which gives the short a sense of depth. All in all, this is a must-see cartoon, great for fans of Disney, animation geeks and the general public.