The Flying Mouse (1934)
The Flying Mouse Review
The Flying Mouse is a 1934 Disney animated short film that is one of the finest Silly Symphonies of the time.
I absolutely loved this Silly Symphony. It is easily one of the best entries in the series as it represents everything I like the most about it – a film with great animation, good score, but most importantly filled with a wonderful, important message for children. And truly the message here resonates a lot. The mouse wants to fly and is granted that wish after saving a fairy butterfly, but eventually learns that he doesn’t fit in with either his family mice or other flying creatures such as birds and rats. And of course he gets to be the mouse again in a moving finale.
That message that you should respect who you are is excellent for children and it is a great warning about nature and how you can’t fight it. And the film is otherwise strong as well. The only problem here is that there are some scenes that feature recycled animation from previous Silly Symphonies. But other than that, it is mostly a very consistent film that is over nine minutes long but never feels overlong and it is beautifully animated as well with great character designs and some really cool backgrounds. The score is also terrific.
The Flying Mouse is a Silly Symphony that succeeds in spades with a terrific message, great animation, superb plot and a very moving ending.
The best Silly Symphony cartoon missing on Disney Plus.
The flying mouse boy who got spanked without any pants on.
I have seen The Flying Mouse 1934 and while I enjoyed the cartoon. However there was a scene where the mouse boy tries to fly but fell in the mud pit and tried to fly but got blown backwards and his exposed furry rear end got poked by a thorn, he fell in the tub splashing water on his mouse sister and shrunk her dress. Embarrassed by this the mouse boy tries to run way but his mother grabbed him by the tail and spanked his exposed furry rear end with his tail until it turned red. His 3 brothers made fun of him getting his rear end spanked. Then he walks off crying. And saves the fairy from the spider, he got his bat wings to fly around but was rejected by everyone including the birds his own family members and cave bats. The mouse finally begged the fairy to remove his bat wings and he was reunited with his family.
It’s a shame this 1934 amazing 2D animation Silly Symphony cartoon short isn’t available on Disney Plus. I liked the story except when the mouse boy was shunned by everyone for having bat wings and when his mother spanked his furry rear end for an accident and was made fun of by his 3 bully mouse brothers. Also why didn’t the mouse wear pants or his 3 mice brothers wear pants. I would like this to be a spinoff mini TV series focusing on further adventures of the mouse boy and what happened to his father.
Glad to hear you liked this short! It’s a very underrated Silly Symphony.