I have always been a fan of Disney and especially of Donald Duck. Donald for me is at his best when he is in and reacting to real life situations gone badly wrong. Donald's Vacation is one such cartoon, and also one of his best most exciting examples. The animation is full of vibrant colour and looks very clear and crisp, and the music has its usual energy, adding so much to every gag. Donald is still likable, even when he's temperamental and frustrated and the animals remind me a little of the cute woodland critters in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Speaking of the gags they are hilarious and very well spaced-out, moving the simple but fun storyline. The beginning is perhaps the least effective part of the cartoon mainly because it is not as buoyantly-paced as the other scenes, but still works due to the pastoral colours and the gags with Donald's legs sticking out of the kayak and the fish managing somehow to get in his guitar. I love even more Donald's fight trying to unfold his chair as it shows his classic frustration, and the scene with the Chip and Dale-like chipmunks trying to steal his food, and wearing a cupcake as a dress or eating their way into a pumpkin to make a face in it, is a lot of fun. But it is the ending with the bear that makes Donald's Vacation especially so compulsively watchable, even for a Disney cartoon, with the silhouettes in the waterfall and riding on top of the bear, it is the very definition of classic. All in all, a truly great Donald cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox