The incomparable trio of Mickey, Donald and Goofy team up in this early color Disney short with the task of cleaning a giant clock tower. Mickey has to deal with an uncooperative, sleepyhead stork; Donald comes up against a stubborn mainspring, and Goofy gets his bell rung in a fun cartoon that's bound to delight folks of all ages. Of the three very early color Disney cartoons I've just seen ("The Band Concert" and "Thru the Mirror" are the others),this is the first one I could actually understand what Donald Duck was saying, although captioning did help with my hearing. The early sequence involving all those clock gears reminded me a bit of 2011's "Hugo" film, and in appropriate fashion, it appears the three Disney friends get their own clocks cleaned to wind down the story.

I love Clock Cleaners and always have done. The animation has so much detail(like with Goofy close to falling you do feel authentically dizzy due to how everything moves) in the scale of everything on screen and the backgrounds are gorgeously coloured. The music is full of energy as you would expect, and the story while simple is always engaging and crisply paced. Other than the animation, it was the characters and the gags, combining silliness and danger, that made Clock Cleaners. Mickey is as likable as ever, though I do find Goofy with his clumsiness and confusion and Donald with his frustration and temperament funnier in a way. The gag where Goofy stumbles around the top of the clock tower, eventually falling down, walking in a daze across a rope, falling only to jump back up off a flagpole and knock Mickey back inside is my all-time favourite Goofy gag, and the shot of the Mickey, Donald and Goofy in the gears of the clock is priceless also, but the best one is the one with the spring talking back when Donald gets irritated. The visual humour and dialogue never fails to make me laugh, but due to the fact you don't always understand what Donald is saying and the fact it was thought he said a bad word in this exchange caused for it to be censored. In a nutshell, a wonderful cartoon, one of the trio's and Disney's very best in my opinion. 10/10 Bethany Cox

It does not happen too often that we get Mickey, Donald and Goofy in one cartoon, but here it is the case. Thanks Walt Disney. However, this 8-minute cartoon is really more of a collection of 5 or 6 very short cartoons and the three do not really interact too much with each other apart from Mickey and Goofy in the last segment. But that's not meant derogative in anyway. All three of them are funny enough to watch on their own and one never gets bored here. Mickey struggles getting a sleepy bird out of the clock. Donald has trouble with the clockwork. And Goofy just won't get out of the bell. This short film from almost 80 years ago is truly fun to watch. Disney delivers as always and Colvig and Nash are among the most talented voice actors of all time. Final mention to 2-time Academy Award winning director Ben Sharpsteen for his work here. He also contributed to several of the early Disney classics. With all these talented people involved here, this could only turn out a success. And it did. Recommended.