This is a really boring cartoon starring Mickey and Pluto. There's no plot or story, just them two doing a lot of fishing, or at lease attempting to. No laughs nor adventures, just a lot of barking from Pluto and fishing-rod holding from Mickey. Toward the second half of the cartoon, there's still sheriff who seemed to be after Mickey and Pluto, which really was out of place for a fishing cartoon.Mickey and Pluto are definitely amusing, but this cartoon didn't take the cake.Grade D---

In the early days of Mickey Mouse, our beloved hero wasn't the 100% wholesome character he later became. As a result, he's actually often better in the early films--as he isn't so squeaky clean. Here in "Fishin' Around", Mickey and Pluto are in their boat fishing. When they come upon a sign saying 'NO FISHING' they do what is typical of early Mickey--they throw the sign away and fish there anyway! I really appreciated this. Much of the rest of the cartoon is adorably cute (but not to the level of saccharine!)--with Pluto and Mickey as two very inept fishermen. Eventually the game warden arrives--at which point Mickey readily admits to fishing and makes his escape."Fishin' Around" is a silly little film with its emphasis squarely on comedy. It also helps that the cartoon in wonderfully animated and is a visual and emotional treat. Well worth seeing.

Mickey and Pluto go fishin', even though it's not permitted. They get stopped by a policeman but escape him through Pluto's 50 horsepower tale apparently...Walt Disney (30 at the time) himself did the voice of Mickey (as he did a lot of times, I didn't know that before I looked up this movie), but the movie on the whole was a bit disappointing. The animation is a bit crappy (though this one is older than I first expected) and the story is only so and so, in particular the first half. Once the policeman arrives at the scene the real fun begins but it's too little too late I'm afraid.5/10 for this early Disney.

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.Mickey & Pluto find plenty of trouble while FISHIN' AROUND on the lake.This is a fun little black & white cartoon, with plenty of humor. The fish our pals encounter are certainly a strange breed - they all have navels. Walt Disney supplies Mickey's voice.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, Peter Pan and Mr. Toad. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.