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- John Foster
- Donald McKee(uncredited)
- Tom Morrison(uncredited)
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On ice with stereotypes and Mighty Mouse
Terrytoons Studios' output has always varied with me, few of the yearly batches being consistent, on both extremes of weak and good with most in between. But their output generally showed steady improvement over time despite not caring for much of their later output. Mighty Mouse was a watchable series of cartoons, though got increasingly formulaic. And Mighty Mouse himself was limited but was hardly an unlikeable character.
1944 was not a bad year for Terrytoons, one of their better and least inconsistent years in my view and one could see the improvement. That certainly applies to up to this point of the batch, where the cartoons ranged from average to pretty good generally. Which was why it was a let down watching 'Eliza on the Ice', one of the weaker 1944 Terrytoons cartoons, feeling like quite a big step backwards and like something that one would expect in an early 30s Terrytoon, except with better animation quality. It is also sad that the previous cartoon 'My Boy Johnny' was one of the studio's best and most mature and then such a short time later it was like that cartoon and the step in the right direction had not happened.
Will start with 'Eliza on the Ice's' good things, because they are there. Its best asset, not unexpectedly, is the music. Beautifully orchestrated, lush, character and adds much to the images and goings on. On an equal level is the animation, as said more than once the studio's most improved component from when they first started. It is nicely detailed, lively and colourful without being garish.
Also thought the ice floes on the river gag was quite nice and amusing and Eliza is a likeable character, the only one to really make an impression.
Neither of the rest of the characters were interesting in personality and have nothing to make one like them, they are also stereotypes and not ones for the easily offended either, ones that would have been more in place in the 30s. It's billed as a Mighty Mouse cartoon, except he is here a plot device supporting character, if even that, and one that is completely unnecessary and out of place amongst everything else. The climax is pure formula and not very exciting when you know how it is all going to end.
Other than the ice floes gag, the gags are not enough and what there are are predictable or distasteful. The story is dull, starting off quite strange and never properly recovers, and barely exists, most of it is a very old-hat idea recycled but now very tired and the (very formulaic) Mighty Mouse climax is like watching a different cartoon.
'Eliza on the Ice' on the whole is worth a peek for historical and completest sake but not much more than that. 4/10
1944 was not a bad year for Terrytoons, one of their better and least inconsistent years in my view and one could see the improvement. That certainly applies to up to this point of the batch, where the cartoons ranged from average to pretty good generally. Which was why it was a let down watching 'Eliza on the Ice', one of the weaker 1944 Terrytoons cartoons, feeling like quite a big step backwards and like something that one would expect in an early 30s Terrytoon, except with better animation quality. It is also sad that the previous cartoon 'My Boy Johnny' was one of the studio's best and most mature and then such a short time later it was like that cartoon and the step in the right direction had not happened.
Will start with 'Eliza on the Ice's' good things, because they are there. Its best asset, not unexpectedly, is the music. Beautifully orchestrated, lush, character and adds much to the images and goings on. On an equal level is the animation, as said more than once the studio's most improved component from when they first started. It is nicely detailed, lively and colourful without being garish.
Also thought the ice floes on the river gag was quite nice and amusing and Eliza is a likeable character, the only one to really make an impression.
Neither of the rest of the characters were interesting in personality and have nothing to make one like them, they are also stereotypes and not ones for the easily offended either, ones that would have been more in place in the 30s. It's billed as a Mighty Mouse cartoon, except he is here a plot device supporting character, if even that, and one that is completely unnecessary and out of place amongst everything else. The climax is pure formula and not very exciting when you know how it is all going to end.
Other than the ice floes gag, the gags are not enough and what there are are predictable or distasteful. The story is dull, starting off quite strange and never properly recovers, and barely exists, most of it is a very old-hat idea recycled but now very tired and the (very formulaic) Mighty Mouse climax is like watching a different cartoon.
'Eliza on the Ice' on the whole is worth a peek for historical and completest sake but not much more than that. 4/10
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Jul 20, 2019
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- Runtime7 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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