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Tugboat Mickey

1940 · 7 min

A breezy slapstick cartoon where chaos piles up fast and nobody gets hurt, easy to watch and cheerfully silly.

Directed by
Clyde Geronimi
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Starring
Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Danny Webb
Tagline
Mickey captains a tugboat with Donald and Goofy as the crew.
Overview
Mickey is performing routine maintenance on his tugboat (with interference from a pelican) when a call comes on the radio that there's a sinking ship needing assistance. Sadly, Mickey's crew consists of Donald and Goofy, so getting underway to help is not easy. Goofy has to fight a boiler's door to get it stoked with coal (and when he succeeds, he overfills it) and Donald gets tangled up in the machinery. Not to mention that nobody casts off, so they drag half the dock along with them. The overworked boiler soon explodes.

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Stream in the UK
  • Disney Plus
More options Data from JustWatch
Directed by
Clyde Geronimi
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Starring
Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Danny Webb
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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 3 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • work
Places
  • sea
Era
timeless
Audience
kids
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror1
Humour8
Realism2
Romance0
Tension4
Darkness1
Complexity2
Emotional weight2

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Genres
animation, comedy
Directed by
Clyde Geronimi
Starring
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Runtime
7 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, Spanish

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