Pluto's Judgement Day (Mickey Mouse)

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Pluto's Judgement Day
"Always chasing cats, aren't you? Well you gotta have a lot to answer from on your judgement day."
Series: Mickey Mouse
Episode Number: 78
Air Date: August 31, 1935
Director: David Hand


Pluto's Judgement Day is a Mickey Mouse cartoon released theatrically in 1935. Although labeled as a Mickey cartoon, the main star is Pluto. It was the 78th short in the Mickey Mouse series to be released, the seventh of that year.

Plot

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Bad Qualities

  1. Simlar to "Pluto's Party", this short is basically an 8-minute-long torture episode for Pluto, but unlike Pluto's Party, his butt-monkey status here has been taken to a more disturbing degree.
    • In fact, the short feels more like a rehash of "Pluto's Party", considering that both of these shorts are torture episodes to Pluto.
  2. The plot, while nice and all, has is very dark and frightening, even for Mickey Mouse standards, because it has Pluto being banished to hell just for being mean to cats.
  3. Of course, Mickey Mouse may have been some shorts such as "The Mad Doctor" that deal with characters getting tortured, but never to this extent of a character being banished to hell!
  4. False advertising: Despite being marketed as a Mickey cartoon, the short mostly focuses on Pluto rather than Mickey himself.
  5. Speaking of Mickey, he barely serves any purpose in this cartoon, meaning that you could replace Mickey with some other character and nothing will change.
  6. The part where Mickey scolds Pluto for chasing cats was as bit harsh, even though it was kinda deserved due to Pluto's nasty attitude towards cats.
  7. The designs for the cats are very grotesque, nightmarish, and disturbing, especially the cat prosecutor.
    • Also, the designs for the phantom cats look like they were taken from Tom and Jerry.
  8. The infamous scene where Pluto dangles from a large pit of hellfire while yelping in agony as he is about to get burned to death by the demon cats. We sure wish we were joking.

Good Qualities

  1. Pluto is the only likable character in this episode.
    • Mickey is also somewhat tolerable in this episode, despite being pointless.
  2. Good ending: After Pluto gets burned in the rear by a hot cinder and jumps into the bathtub to stop the burn, Mickey urges Pluto to make up for what he did to the kitten, and he does, thus ending the short on a positive note.