. . . "I'd walk a mile for a Camel." MICKEY IN ARABIA attempts to answer the then-burning question, "Yeah, but would a rodent scurry a furlong for a two-humped dromedary?" After 47 politically incorrect "jokes," one kidnapping and 361 bullets fired, this animated short seems to answer the query of its premise affirmatively. However, who REALLY knows how many grains of sand it takes to make a desert?
5 Reviews
The usual running around.
OllieSuave-00728 April 2018
An action-packed Mickey cartoon and where and Minnie face off with regular villain Peg-Leg Pete and a host of spear-throwing henchmen in an Arab country.
Some catchy music, but the usual running around. At least the fighting part was a bit exciting.
Grade C-
Some catchy music, but the usual running around. At least the fighting part was a bit exciting.
Grade C-
More openly violent than most Mickey Mouse shorts, even for the early ones
llltdesq17 October 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This is an early Mickey Mouse short produced by the Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:
This is really two cartoons in one. Mickey and Minnie are having a pleasant trip, being tourists (in the middle of a desert). For roughly the first half of the short, it's calm and tranquil. They arrive at their destination and there are lots of caricatures of the local inhabitants, most of which will offend somebody. Minnie is taking pictures, as tourists do. The best bits here are their camel sticking its head in a barrel labeled Beer and a juggler with an atypical technique.
Then Pete (the version with two legs) spots Minnie and grabs her and sets up the second, more action-packed half of the short, similar to The Gallopin' Gaucho in tone. Mickey learns the perils of driving a drunken camel, Pete heads for his hideout and the fight starts.
Round one ends in Mickey's favor, only to have Pete's henchmen pop out everywhere. Pete starts firing pistols blindly and scatters everyone, leading to some nice animation of everyone trying to hide. Pete manages to catch Mickey before he can get away with Minnie and they start fighting with blades, Mickey predominantly unarmed.
In the end, Mickey successfully rescues Minnie, Pete winds up just getting it in the end and the now sober camel has the last laugh.
This short is available on the Disney Treasures Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Volume Two and it and the set are worth getting.
This is really two cartoons in one. Mickey and Minnie are having a pleasant trip, being tourists (in the middle of a desert). For roughly the first half of the short, it's calm and tranquil. They arrive at their destination and there are lots of caricatures of the local inhabitants, most of which will offend somebody. Minnie is taking pictures, as tourists do. The best bits here are their camel sticking its head in a barrel labeled Beer and a juggler with an atypical technique.
Then Pete (the version with two legs) spots Minnie and grabs her and sets up the second, more action-packed half of the short, similar to The Gallopin' Gaucho in tone. Mickey learns the perils of driving a drunken camel, Pete heads for his hideout and the fight starts.
Round one ends in Mickey's favor, only to have Pete's henchmen pop out everywhere. Pete starts firing pistols blindly and scatters everyone, leading to some nice animation of everyone trying to hide. Pete manages to catch Mickey before he can get away with Minnie and they start fighting with blades, Mickey predominantly unarmed.
In the end, Mickey successfully rescues Minnie, Pete winds up just getting it in the end and the now sober camel has the last laugh.
This short is available on the Disney Treasures Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Volume Two and it and the set are worth getting.
Galloping Gaucho set in Arabia
TheLittleSongbird1 November 2012
Mickey in Arabia is a lot of fun, which is what you expect above all in a cartoon short. The stereotypes are rather crude, even by Mickey Mouse short standards, and the story is standard, adopting the Mickey rescuing Minnie from Pete formula that you see a good deal in Mickey shorts around this time, and reminiscent of Galloping Gaucho(which is actually not that bad a thing). However, the animation is fine, it is crisp and clean with the characters drawn well, and the music, always a major component of the success of the Disney shorts, is energetic and characterful enhancing every scene and gag. The gags are right on the money including the camel getting drunk, the scenes in Pete's lair,- the gunshots and the diving into pots- Minnie trying to take photos of a juggler and the balls being juggled with his bottom. The rooftop chase was thrilling and the ending was funny and sweet. Mickey is wonderfully expressive here, while Minnie is just as likable, once again you can definitely see their chemistry and what they see in one another. Pete is an appropriately antagonistic foil. Overall, a very good short if not one my favourites. 8/10 Bethany Cox
Violent and Racist
Hitchcoc3 January 2019
Early cartoons treated black people like it was still 1850. This takes place in Arabia. Why were virtually all the indigenous people made to look like the most outrageous stereotypes of American black people? I know they are peripheral to the plot here, but what did the Disney corporation think Arab people looked like? Did they bother to even give some sort of reality to this cartoon? Oh, well. It's in the past. Right?
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