pixrox1 Review of Building a Building

Building a Building (1933)

This short looks Today like a defective rough draft of . . .

[7/10 · 3 December 2021]

. . . RHAPSODY IN RIVETS, an urban construction masterpiece honed by a more successful movie studio seven years later. The Dizzy people always erred on the side of keeping their namesake front and center, and BUILDING A BUILDING is a perfect example of this failing. Though it opens with a fierce looking steam shovel, viewers soon see that the Dizzy alter ego rodent is at the controls, and this potential mechanical monster is reduced to planting headgear atop Minnie Mouse's noggin. When Minnie's clumsy main squeeze assaults his foreman the first three times, it's through his negligent bumbling and total incompetence at any task at paw. America's kids envied Bugs Bunny, but felt mostly pity for Mickey.