"The Little Whirlwind" is an American Disney cartoon from 1941, so from the days of World War II and already over 75 years old. At 8.5 minutes, it is slightly longer than they usually were and this one features Mickey Mouse in color going up against the character in the title, a little whirlwind who is symbolic for the weather which gets windier and windier by the minute when Mickey is in charge of cleaning and restoring order to Minnie's yawn. If he succeeds, he gets a delicious cake. But the whirlwind has other ideas and even mocks Mickey on one occasions with all the colorful autumn leaves that are brought to life and keep trolling the world's most famous mouse. Sadly, this one here does not really add to the popularity. Sure it looks good, but so do many other 1940s cartoons. Story-wise and especially in terms of comedy, it falls relatively flat most of the time. The more interesting moments include Mickey wildly moving his ears trying to impress Minnie and on one occasion you see Mickey displaying his upper teeth in the most unusual manner where you'd ask yourself if he is really a rat. So yeah I like Mickey and Disney, but this one here is not a winner. Not too surprised not too many remember the director anymore, Riley Thomson, which also has to do with his untimely death of course, and Thelma Boardman who voices Minnie is fairly forgotten nowadays too in contrast to Disney who once aggain voices Mickey himself. I give this short a thumbs-down and cannot share the praise from some of the other reviewers. Skip the watch.
Review of The Little Whirlwind
