SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

TheLittleSongbird Mickey's Gala Premiere is a superb cartoon that I loved as a child and still love to this day. There is so much to love about it, with everything I love about the Disney cartoons present here. The animation is crisp, clean and beautifully shaded. I do agree somewhat about the character designs of some of the caricatures being on the slightly cruel, but never offensive, side, but that didn't deter me from enjoying, loving even, Mickey's Gala Premiere. Besides Mickey and the gang were animated perfectly I felt. I also loved the cartoon for its energetic music(as ever enhancing the action wonderfully without it feeling repetitive) and the glitzy, exciting Hollywood atmosphere. As well as having Mickey(the star of the cartoon), Minnie, Pluto(their stepping out the limousine signifies classic Hollywood), Horace and Clarabelle, there is the wonderful gag where Mickey keeps changing vehicles with a galloping xylophone, a turtle, an octopus and a kangaroo.Mickey's Gala Premiere is notable also for three things. The caricatures, some I recognised immediately like Greta Garbo, Mae West, Laurel and Hardy, Joe E.Brown, The Marx Brothers, Maurice Chevalier, The Barrymores, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks, and others like Will Hays(looking very like Prince Charles), Sid Graumann, Wheeler and Whooley, George Arliss and Janet Gaynor that I wasn't so familiar with. Also, the interesting use of the cartoon-within-a-cartoon with Galloping Romance, which is like Galloping Gaucho, The Birthday Party and The Cactus Kid all in one and with amusing if slightly predictable results. Finally, the "it's all a dream" ending; some may find this strategy a cop-out, and at first it did disappoint me, but after watching it many more times since then I realise that this approach was deliberate, not just because the cartoon like with the cartoon-within-a-cartoon idea was acknowledging its medium but also taking away any since of arrogance the cartoon could've had. The voice work from all is spot on.In conclusion, a classic cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox

SnorrSm1989 Released at the time which could very well be said to be the height of the popularity of Mickey Mouse, still before Donald and Goofy had become his permanent sidekicks in order to gain more laughs, MICKEY'S GALA PREMIER is remembered for two reasons: one, that its sole concept is about giving the public a riot recognizing caricatures of the stars of the early 1930's; and two, that it was the last program to be aired on BBC Television before Britain declared war on Germany in 1939. The latter fact seems to have been coincidental; while the station was showing this cartoon, all TV broadcasting from BBC was stopped in order to prevent German bombing planes from using the broadcast signals to their advantage. Naturally, the availability of TV was very limited in Britain at the time, so not too many of the population can have been bothered by the sudden interruption. Nevertheless, this cartoon was also the first thing to be aired when BBC resumed TV broadcasting after the war; by that time, this cartoon must have appeared as quite a nostalgia piece, as Mickey Mouse's appearance, and also his degree of popularity, had largely changed through that time.However, even though Mickey Mouse was somewhat less worthy of note by the mid-1940's, when MICKEY'S GALA PREMIER was initially released in 1933, that possibility could hardly have been on Disney's mind. The story appears to be a mere excuse to do somewhat heartless, but often funny caricatures of the hottest movie stars of the era (sans King Kong, who was to be parodied in another Mickey-cartoon released the same year). Dozens of movie stars have come to attend the premiere of a Mickey Mouse-film: among the most notable are Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler, both of whom were soon to make another hit in DINNER AT EIGHT; Greta Garbo, whose QUEEN Christina would be her next triumph; Clark Gable, a recent star at that point; The Marx Brothers, who were making DUCK SOUP at this time; Charlie Chaplin, who was undergoing a crisis regarding whether or not he should abandon silent films; Buster Keaton, who had just made his last, unhappy appearance with Jimmy Durante at MGM; Mae West, who had recently shocked audiences with her frank, sexual appearance in SHE DONE HIM WRONG; Boris Karloff, in-evidently presented as Frankenstein's monster; Bela Lugosi, likewise in the role as Dracula; Adolphe Menjou, who'd recently appeared in an adaptation of FAREWELL TO ARMS; Harold Lloyd, who had still not made it quite as good as he'd hoped for in talking comedies; Laurel & Hardy, most beloved comedy team of the time (and possibly still today); comedians Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin, Mack Swain and Harry Langdon as Keystone Kops (among these, only Sterling and Conklin actually ever appeared as Keystone Kops, by the way), and numerous others.To do comical, wildly exaggerated portrayals of movie stars had been fairly common practice during the silent era; Felix the Cat had done FELIX IN Hollywood ten years before, and movies about star-crazed, naive young guys and gals such as SHOW PEOPLE with Marion Davies had been popular. With MICKEY'S GALA PREMIER, Disney did in other words use a quite tried-and-safe idea, which the studio was to use again a few years later in MICKEY'S POLO TEAM, to arguably better effect; whereas the idea of letting an entire polo team consist of well-known movie stars is quite genuine, it appears less inspired to throw in an older, authentic Mickey-film on the screen which the stars are watching, underscoring even more clearly that this film, in the end, is made for us to recognize the stars, whereas an actual story feels absent. Even so, the film is still interesting as it sort of documents the popularity which Mickey Mouse enjoyed at this point; during this very year, his stardom had reached greater heights as he was one of the very, very first cartoon characters (if not the first) to be gained his own comic magazine. Thus the sight of real-life movie stars celebrating his success seems to be more than sly advertisement on the part of Disney; in 1933, Mickey Mouse was truly one of the most popular movie stars to be found, and MICKEY'S GALA PREMIER, for all its amusing puns at Garbo, Chaplin and Karloff, is probably most fun to watch due to how it illustrates that point.

Michael_Elliott Mickey's Gala Premier (1933) *** (out of 4)Simple Disney short has all of Hollywood shutting down so that the major stars can show up at Grauman's Chinese Theater to see Mickey Mouse's latest movie. Mickey arrives with Minnie and Pluto but the real stars include Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler, Laurel and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Clark Gable, Ginger Rogers, Joan Crawford, Joe E. Brown, Chaplin, Keaton, Mae West, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Fredric March and countless others. This isn't the greatest written cartoon ever made but the real reason to watch is for the A-list talent from Hollywood. Laurel and Hardy probably get the most screen time but the Marx Bros. get a few good jokes in as well. The stuff dealing with Greta Garbo coming onto Mickey was pretty funny but the other highlight is the twist that follows. The short features Lugosi as Dracula and Karloff as the Frankenstein monster but they really don't play too close to detail. The same is true for March who appears with them as Mr. Hyde but he looks more like a werewolf than anything else.

didi-5 This Mickey Mouse cartoon, as well as being extremely charming, is a joy to watch if you are a 1930s movie buff. The caricatures of leading players of the time such as Clark Gable, Eddie Cantor, Wheeler and Woolsey, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Mae West, Marie Dressler, Greta Garbo, and Will Rogers are fun to spot; I especially laughed at Will Hay (film censor of the time) in regal get-up, and at the slouchy, big-footed Greta Garbo.The film within a film, Galloping Romance, is a kind of companion piece to an earlier Mickey cartoon, Galloping Gaucho. Again Pete kidnaps Minnie and again Mickey saves the day. This film is funny, snappy, and well put-together.'Mickey's Gale Premier' stands out from many of the other shorts made at the time because of its currency and reference to many stars. Other studios made similar forays into celebrity caricature (Warner Bros. Coo-Coo Nut Grove for one) but this one is the most successful, even if you can't place who many of the people depicted are - if you can, this cartoon is a sheer delight.