Review of Donald Duck and the Gorilla

"Donald Duck and the Gorilla" summarizes this cartoon pretty well as the only thing missing to describe this one 100% is the nephews and maybe the radio commentator with his great timing. This cartoon is from the days of World War II, so now already almost 75 years old and another Disney work by prolific director Jack King and the even more prolific voice actor Clarence Nash doing everything and everybody in these under 7 minutes. Mel Blanc style. Sadly I am not too impressed here. The best thing is probably the reference about people still hearing the radio as their number 1 source of information. Sure, it is from the Golden Age of Animation and looks fine visually, but it just didn't work for me. Too unrealistic, too many coincidences. Donald has a pair of gorilla gloves when a gorilla is on the loose, the nephews even have a full dress. Boy they were cowards in here. Not cool. Donald doesn't even realize when he is sitting on a gorilla (costume) and when somebody takes his lollipop out of his hands and puts it back in moments later? Nah. And that is just the first couple minutes. The second half with the actual gorilla appearing (that would have been coincidence enough) is hardly any better. It's fast, but never funny. Overall, one of the slightly scarier Donald/Disney cartoons, in one scene we even see Donald tombstone, but not among the better sadly. I love the Ducks, but this was underwhelming. Thumbs down. Don't watch.