. . . depicted in this Dizzy Nature Film--whose name is rejected by this site's spell-checker--ever has survived a fall of more than ten feet. However, PLUTO'S SURPRISE PACKAGE pictures a tortoise plunging at least twice that far, and emerging from the lilies none the worse for wear. Therefore, if will surprise few viewers to learn that the mortality rate for America's pet turtle population sky-rocketed almost 300% during the decade after this debacle's release. Such is the power the Big Screen had in the Bad Old Days over America's thoughtless tots, as legions of turtle masters unsuccessfully tried to duplicate the Dizzy Tortoise Challenge Toss.
Pluto's Surprise Package
1949
Action / Animation / Comedy / Family
Pluto's Surprise Package
1949
Action / Animation / Comedy / Family
Keywords: short filmturtle
Plot summary
Pluto tries to bring in the mail, which gets more difficult when a package sprouts legs and tries to go swimming. Between the wandering turtle and the wind blowing the other mail around, Pluto's got quite a task ahead. And it's not made easier when both the letters and the turtle go off a large cliff.
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According to the Internet, no turtle of the species . . .
Not too much laughs, but a somewhat cute Pluto cartoon.
The mailman has come and Pluto emerges from a cabin to go retrieve them (from seeing all the different cartoons, how many homes does Pluto live in?!). Pluto thought that one of the packages in the mail contains dog bones, but when it starts sprouting legs, Pluto discovers that the package contains a turtle.
The turtle wants to go swim in the pond, but Pluto wants to put it back in the box and take it back inside the cabin, along with the rest of the mail. Not too much to laugh at in this cartoon - just some cuddly cute scenes and a frustrated Pluto trying to get the turtle to cooperate. But, the ending does tug at your heart strings a little.
Grade C+
Nothing new but technically impressive and amusing
Pluto's Surprise Package is nothing new story-wise coming across as routine, but it is crisp in the pace and has enough imaginative gags and physical humour to amuse. The animation is often beautiful especially in the colours though the fluid backgrounds are also to be admired, and the music is jaunty and accompanies the humour and what's going on on screen very well as is so typical of the Disney cartoons. Pluto is very cute and energetic as he always is.
Overall, the story is nothing extraordinary, but overall Pluto's Surprise Package is a very nice and amusing cartoon.
8/10 Bethany Cox