Toby Wing

Esther Campbell

Pinto Colvig

Mickey has brought a gift for Minnie: a pair of mischievous canaries.

Burt Gillett

The Wayward Canary

I don&apos;t consider The Wayward Canary among the best Disney shorts. The theme, of characters causing chaos mainly, is a similar theme explored in Mickey&apos;s Orphans and Mickey&apos;s Nightmare, and it is a theme that some will love and one that some may have liked at first but starting to get tired of, I myself am in the middle camp. While funny, the finale in which the canaries are chased and everything is destroyed is rather predictable as well. That said, the gags are very creative with dipping themselves in ink, so that they leave a lengthy trail everywhere they go, staining shirts, carpet and numerous other things and one of the canaries flips a hot coal from the fire into Pluto&apos;s bottom. And what&apos;s more they are also hilarious. The animation is superb, with a lot of detail and beautiful shadings. Mickey and Minnie are both animated well, but the revelation was with the canaries, the flying around Mickey and Minnie and back and forth into each background is a difficult but great technique done by hand and done brilliantly. The music, as I&apos;ve said many times, has always been a big part of the overall success of these shorts, and it is energetic and lovingly orchestrated as you would expect. It is interesting also for the sight of the autographed photographs of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, possibly a thank you from Disney. Mickey and Minnie are likable protagonists, Pluto is cute and energetic and while you do wonder whether that many birds can be reproduced it is more than made up for the canaries&apos; graceful movements and mischievous streak. In conclusion, very funny and superbly animated with great characters, which makes up for any predictabilities in the story theme and the ending. 8/10 Bethany Cox

I don't consider The Wayward Canary among the best Disney shorts. The theme, of characters causing chaos mainly, is a similar theme explored in Mickey's Orphans and Mickey's Nightmare, and it is a theme that some will love and one that some may have liked at first but starting to get tired of, I myself am in the middle camp. While funny, the finale in which the canaries are chased and everything is destroyed is rather predictable as well. That said, the gags are very creative with dipping themselves in ink, so that they leave a lengthy trail everywhere they go, staining shirts, carpet and numerous other things and one of the canaries flips a hot coal from the fire into Pluto's bottom. And what's more they are also hilarious. The animation is superb, with a lot of detail and beautiful shadings. Mickey and Minnie are both animated well, but the revelation was with the canaries, the flying around Mickey and Minnie and back and forth into each background is a difficult but great technique done by hand and done brilliantly. The music, as I've said many times, has always been a big part of the overall success of these shorts, and it is energetic and lovingly orchestrated as you would expect. It is interesting also for the sight of the autographed photographs of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, possibly a thank you from Disney. Mickey and Minnie are likable protagonists, Pluto is cute and energetic and while you do wonder whether that many birds can be reproduced it is more than made up for the canaries' graceful movements and mischievous streak. In conclusion, very funny and superbly animated with great characters, which makes up for any predictabilities in the story theme and the ending. 8/10 Bethany Cox

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