The cartoon is fairly amusing, but nothing notable by itself. In the 1930s there was a serious polo playing group out of the Hollywood movie set. It included Walt Disney (it also included Spencer Tracy, of all people, and Will Rogers). Odd that such a kind of upper class sport became so popular in the movie colony. In any case, Disney made this 1936 cartoon showing a polo match between a Disney team of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, the Big Bad Wolf, and Goofy, against a "star team" of Laurel & Hardy, Harpo Marx, and Charlie Chaplin. The Western star, Jack Holt, is the referee.
Disney enjoyed doing cartoons with caricatures of various stars of the day. Here he includes other figures in the viewing stand. Among them are Clark Gable (who is sitting with the amorous Claribel Cow, a long forgotten Disney cartoon figure who was usually teamed with Horace Horsecollar). Gable keeps getting bothered by Claribel, and eventually blushes red when she kisses him. The Three Little Pigs are in the stand next to Shirley Temple. Their appearance leads to a pleasant kind of sequel to the earlier Disney cartoon classic. Eddie Cantor, Harold Lloyd, Edna Mae Oliver (who is annoyed by Oswald the Rabbit), W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Charles Laughton (dressed up as Henry VIII) are also in the bleachers.
The humor of the bulk of the cartoon is not the greatest the Disney studio ever concocted, but it is better than average. The different polo players are riding animals that resemble them (Harpo is on an ostrich; Ollie is on a tremendously fat horse, whose face has a Hardy scowl on it, and a smudge of a mustache, Chaplin's horse is like Charlie in appearance (even bow legged), and Stan's has a head of tousled hair and a silly grin. Even Holt's horse looks like Holt.
We see incidents like Harpo and his ostrich (when they seen the other players charging them) putting their heads in the earth; or Hardy having trouble remounting his horse with "assistance" from Stan; or Charlie deftly turning his horse a quarter to the left by use of his cane on the goal posts. Donald Duck (who gets into a kind of fight with Harpo - which he loses) swallows the polo ball and keeps trying to avoid the other players. As for the Big Bad Wolf, he is heckled by his old enemies, the pigs (now aided by Shirley). But now they are not in the third pigs' brick house, but in a wooden stand. The Big Bad Wolf stops his playing, turns and blows the portion of the stand apart, causing the pigs and Shirley to hide from him. It's somewhat nice to know that here Disney actually gave an ironic follow-up to a previous cartoon for a change.
A pleasant and enjoyable cartoon, it is not one of Disney's greatest works but it is worth looking at.
Disney enjoyed doing cartoons with caricatures of various stars of the day. Here he includes other figures in the viewing stand. Among them are Clark Gable (who is sitting with the amorous Claribel Cow, a long forgotten Disney cartoon figure who was usually teamed with Horace Horsecollar). Gable keeps getting bothered by Claribel, and eventually blushes red when she kisses him. The Three Little Pigs are in the stand next to Shirley Temple. Their appearance leads to a pleasant kind of sequel to the earlier Disney cartoon classic. Eddie Cantor, Harold Lloyd, Edna Mae Oliver (who is annoyed by Oswald the Rabbit), W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Charles Laughton (dressed up as Henry VIII) are also in the bleachers.
The humor of the bulk of the cartoon is not the greatest the Disney studio ever concocted, but it is better than average. The different polo players are riding animals that resemble them (Harpo is on an ostrich; Ollie is on a tremendously fat horse, whose face has a Hardy scowl on it, and a smudge of a mustache, Chaplin's horse is like Charlie in appearance (even bow legged), and Stan's has a head of tousled hair and a silly grin. Even Holt's horse looks like Holt.
We see incidents like Harpo and his ostrich (when they seen the other players charging them) putting their heads in the earth; or Hardy having trouble remounting his horse with "assistance" from Stan; or Charlie deftly turning his horse a quarter to the left by use of his cane on the goal posts. Donald Duck (who gets into a kind of fight with Harpo - which he loses) swallows the polo ball and keeps trying to avoid the other players. As for the Big Bad Wolf, he is heckled by his old enemies, the pigs (now aided by Shirley). But now they are not in the third pigs' brick house, but in a wooden stand. The Big Bad Wolf stops his playing, turns and blows the portion of the stand apart, causing the pigs and Shirley to hide from him. It's somewhat nice to know that here Disney actually gave an ironic follow-up to a previous cartoon for a change.
A pleasant and enjoyable cartoon, it is not one of Disney's greatest works but it is worth looking at.