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"Chips Ahoy" is another Disney cartoon from the Golden Age of Animation and this one runs for 6.5 minutes like most of the others and was made by the Kinney Brothers. The most notable voice cast member is Clarence Nash and maybe now you realize that here we have another Donald cartoon. Or Donald vs. Chip and Dale to be more precise. And while I really like Donald, I am not much of a fan of the other two (just like another reviewer here who enjoyed it nonetheless just like myself). Still in this one, they are better than usual and this made it easy for me to enjoy the overall outcome here. By the way, this one was released back in 1956, so it is already over 60 years old. The story is about the two rodents discovering an island full of acorns, but as the word "island" already implies, the problem is the water in-between. Luckily (or unluckily depending on the perspective and position you take), Donald has a little toy ship or model ship that has perfectly the right size to get them over the water. The rest is history and hilarity of course. All in all, this was a funny little film with a story that nicely fits the running time and offers quite a few witty and creative moments. Close to a must-see for those who love old cartoons and a good watch for everybody else too. Go check it out.

. . . origin of the key phrase of the 2017 inaugural speech, that is "American Carnage." It's quite probable that CHIPS AHOY shaped the moral fiber of a 10-year-old future White House Occupant, with its savagely gleeful destruction of everything in sight. When a puny thief hijacks a boat, proclaims himself an admiral and purloins an island full of provisions, this sort of mercenary self-centered piracy fits the Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Oval Office to a T. This same malingering miscreant's thoughtless sabotaging of Don the Duck's three boats seems predictive of Don the Cracker's largely successful effort to destroy America's most cherished symbols and institutions. When Don himself joins in on the vandalism spree by wantonly chopping down a stately oak, what better way to sum up this pathetic picture than by labeling it an early instance of and instigator for "American Carnage?"

. . . to post a user review about it, especially since Dec. 31, 2019. I know one writer who spent the better part of two hours researching and wording definitive remarks, but her entire comment was deleted, squelched, buried and banned, with no reason given and absolutely no means of recourse for her. She guesses that the motivation for this police-state-like outrage is her inclusion of the word "chips" in her synopsis. While "chips" make up half the title of this Ditsy offering, they also make up 50% of the phrase "buffalo chips," which people out West might object to and adversely report. On the other hand, I also know a dude whose observations were misplaced, censored or otherwise lost due--he thinks--to his inclusion of the word "ahoy," which makes up the OTHER half of the title here. He speculates that "ahoy" probably sounds "dirty" to some evil-minded screening bot. Bottom line: Why even bother?

In Chip and Dale, Disney found the perfect foil for both Donald and Pluto. In Chip's A-hoy these characters jell perfectly. The interaction between all characters works well, the friendship between chip and dale and the togetherness against the antagonist Donald. I particularly liked the ongoing battle from land and sea. Dale as the stooge 1st mate is priceless, they pull off a great Laurel and Hardy routine. Donald is exceptional as a recipient,(the one who eventually looses to the classic comic pairs of American films), all the pranks played on him by the ever allusive chipmunks. As with all Chip and Dale films they are a parody of famous movie comics of the early American comedy films. The comparisons with Abbot and Costalla, Benny and Rochester, Laurel and Hardy and even Martin and Levis can be seen in Chip and Dale's interaction.