Chip 'n Dale try to steal peanuts from an elephant called Dolores. Donald Duck is the zookeeper and tries to stop them. I always like the Donald Duck shorts with Chip 'n Dale. In this short they add something as well. They have a lot of funny moments. A very nice and funny short.
7 Reviews
Working for Peanuts is an amusing Disney Donald Duck cartoon
tavm28 April 2007
What a treat to see this vintage Donald Duck cartoon, Working for Peanuts, in its original 3-D version before the feature Meet the Robinsons. In this one Donald is a zoo keeper trying to keep Chip 'n' Dale from stealing peanuts from the elephant, Delores. Lots of gags involving begging, catching, or singing and dancing for peanuts abound in perfect three-dimensional style. Not the most hilarious Disney or Donald Duck cartoon but a nice added attraction before the big feature. It's nice when the company occasionally shows one of their vintage short subjects before their newest movie. By the way, I found out here Dale is the one with the red nose.
This film deserves high marks for being so . . .
pixrox130 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
. . . influential. When you read all the reviews for Dizzy products, you see one testimonial after another witnessing to the indelible life-changing nature of these unforgettable movies which apparently have created modern America in their image. Therefore, every second of every Dizzy film is a crucial testament to our U. S. culture. Take the segment from 3:41 through 3:44 of WORKING FOR PEANUTS. Don Duck uses the trunk of a zoo elephant as a military-style assault rifle, commanding "Okay, Dolores, let (the chipmunks) have it" before unleashing a rapid-fire volley of tumbling peanuts with rat-a-tat-tat-tat sound effects toward Chip and Dale. This is one of the most influential subliminal messages in the History of Film. Don Duck is telling impressionable young viewers NOT to buy hunting rifles on their 18th birthdays, designed to fire Mach One bullets straight through game animals, so as not to spoil the meat. Instead, latch onto semi automatic machine guns akin to elephant trunks, carefully crafted to send tumbling Mach Three mini grenades intended to thoroughly destroy any human organs they come near. This nefarious film is the likely common denominator that programmed the future Manchurian Candidate-style massacres in countless churches, schools, synagogues, music concerts and grocery stores all across our U. S. Homeland.
Blast from the past.
Mozjoukine23 April 2007
What a pleasant surprise to find 3D form MEET THE ROBINSONS prefaced by a l953 Donald Duck complete with opening beaming close-up and red fabric backed titles, all re-mastered from the great fifties two strip format.
Not seen in dimensional since a blink and you miss it first release this is not one of the best Donald Ducks, with no big ending and the UPA influenced backgrounds no fair swap for the best Disney design. It still offers Chip and Dale's discovery of peanuts and their battle with Dolores, the impatient pink elephant and her keeper.
Fair amount of flinging objects at the camera, pastel shades, technically impeccable with sharp stereo images. Nostalgia and entertainment (they are two different things) mix.
Not seen in dimensional since a blink and you miss it first release this is not one of the best Donald Ducks, with no big ending and the UPA influenced backgrounds no fair swap for the best Disney design. It still offers Chip and Dale's discovery of peanuts and their battle with Dolores, the impatient pink elephant and her keeper.
Fair amount of flinging objects at the camera, pastel shades, technically impeccable with sharp stereo images. Nostalgia and entertainment (they are two different things) mix.
OK Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale cartoon.
OllieSuave-00710 December 2015
This is an OK Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale cartoon, where the chipmunks discover that their tree sits next to a zoo. They accidentally get a peanut thrown at them meant for an elephant and, after loving the taste of it, decided to go steal some from the elephant's lair. Then, it's the usual tricks as the chipmunks try to outwit the elephant and its keeper, Donald Duck.
The chipmunks did get owned a few times by the elephant and Donald, particularly getting the peanuts taken back from the rodents and getting them thrown at them by Donald. The chipmunks may have gotten the stash of peanuts eventually, but what sets this cartoon aside from the others is that Donald didn't end up getting much of a bad rap either - refreshing!
Grade B-
The chipmunks did get owned a few times by the elephant and Donald, particularly getting the peanuts taken back from the rodents and getting them thrown at them by Donald. The chipmunks may have gotten the stash of peanuts eventually, but what sets this cartoon aside from the others is that Donald didn't end up getting much of a bad rap either - refreshing!
Grade B-
It is great to work for peanuts isn't it?
TheLittleSongbird7 March 2012
I love Disney, I love Donald Duck and I do like Chip 'n' Dale. I loved Working for Peanuts as a child and I still thoroughly enjoy it now. It is not the funniest Chip 'n' Dale/Donald Duck cartoon I've seen- though the parts where Donald falls into the hippo's mouth with the falling downstairs sound effect, when he runs into the wall(and his dazed expression afterwards, it looks so funny and for a duck Donald has perfect teeth) and the ending are hilarious indeed- but I did like how the story was less routine than some of their other outings and that you could actually understand what Chip 'n' Dale were saying. The animation is simple with beautifully drawn characters and rich colours. The backgrounds are not as fluid as in some of their other cartoons, but they are nice enough. The zoo setting was interesting also. The music is typically great with lots of energy, I especially loved the instrumental at the start and the I am gonna wash-a Dolores song is so darn catchy, don't you think. The humour is mainly sight gag-based and Working For Peanuts succeeds wonderfully here. Chip 'n' Dale are very cute and funny, not as antagonistic as they can be(ie. Squatter's Rights) and I am thankful for that in a sense, and Donald is his usual reliable self with the two funniest sight gags of Working For Peanuts, but the real highlights were between Chip 'n' Dale and Dolores, who is very endearing. Plus I don't think I have seen a cartoon elephant that can move their bottom like Dolores can. All in all, a great cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox
Peanuts & Pachyderms
Ron Oliver28 October 2002
A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Film.
Chip 'n' Dale begin WORKING FOR PEANUTS as they attempt to steal the little goodies from under the noses of zookeeper Donald and his favorite elephant.
This would be another typical (albeit enjoyable) Duck versus Chipmunks cartoon, except that this time Donald has a formidable ally in Dolores the elephant. This was the final of three films in which Dolores would appear for Disney; apparently one encounter with the Chipmunks was quite enough. Clarence "Ducky" Nash provides Donald's unique 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, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. 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.
Chip 'n' Dale begin WORKING FOR PEANUTS as they attempt to steal the little goodies from under the noses of zookeeper Donald and his favorite elephant.
This would be another typical (albeit enjoyable) Duck versus Chipmunks cartoon, except that this time Donald has a formidable ally in Dolores the elephant. This was the final of three films in which Dolores would appear for Disney; apparently one encounter with the Chipmunks was quite enough. Clarence "Ducky" Nash provides Donald's unique 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, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. 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.
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