ChikPapa Very disappointed :(

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Prismark10 This Disney short rather highlights Pluto's limitations in cartoons and also owes a debt to the Tom and Jerry cartoons. Even my son mentioned it reminded him of the cat and mouse capers.Pluto finds a gopher in Minnie's garden and tries to get rid of the annoying gopher without much success. In fact in trying to get rid of him Pluto has destroys the garden in the process.Minnie Mouse makes a small cameo appearance but we have seen this variation of a formula before as Pluto tries to get rid of a pesky animal that is annoying him. An energetic short but also instantly forgettable.

OllieSuave-007 In this Disney cartoon short, Pluto gets a bad rap at Minnie's house when a gopher disturbs his sleep and digs up the flower bed, but is getting blamed for it by Minnie. When the gopher manages to get inside the house, it's a tug-a-war and a game of cat and mouse between him and Pluto.There's plenty of slapstick action, but I didn't like seeing poor Pluto getting the brunt of all the bad luck and blame, while the mischievous gopher gets away with murder. So, to me, it's not a very enjoyable cartoon short. Minnie is hardly in it at all and, had she discovered that a gopher is responsible for the mess in her backyard, it would have been a better cartoon story.Grade D

TheLittleSongbird The Disney shorts are still fun to watch, and there are a number of classics. Pluto is not as strong or effortlessly funny a character as Goofy and Pluto, but his energy and cuteness gives him a real likability. Pluto and the Gopher is pleasant but Pluto has done and been in much better. While it is nice to have the general setting as inside the house rather than in the gardens, much of the short consists of a fair number of Tom and Jerry-like chase scenes and not a lot of else. The story does have energy and does well in accommodating Pluto's personality, but the formula of Pluto vs something/somebody else(usually an animal) has been used a lot(almost all of his shorts actually) and very little new is done with it, coupled with it being driven by chase scenes and not much else it is routine and predictable. And Minnie's role here is so small that her presence felt unnecessary and wasted. The animation on the other hand is bright and colourful with more fluid and refined movements and drawings than the animation in the shorts of the 30s-40s(which is still nice and charming). The music is bouncy and lively with lush orchestration, while the gags are still amusing- if not hilarious- and Pluto and the Gopher is quite cute too. Pluto's personality is played more to his strengths than in the previous 7 or 8 shorts and the scenario in a way helps him. He is likable and very energetic, being careful not to antagonise too much. He is well supported by the gopher, one of the foils that matches Pluto rather than stealing the show from under him. He may have a cute appearance but goodness isn't he crafty or what? The two work very nicely together. On the whole, nothing special but it is a nice watch still. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Mattias Who doesn't enjoy classic Disney shorts? I quite enjoy them, but I must confess that this one isn't one of the classics. Pluto on his own, fighting a small animal doesn't offer much variety. I have seen this before, like in Canine Patrol (1945) (fighting a turtle), Pluto's Playmate (1941) (a sea lion) or Bone Bandit (1948) (another gopher).