. . . FUN WITH A BOOMERANG, if there were anything funny about it. Not only is the humor missing in MICKEY DOWN UNDER, but any usable facts as well. The discovery of four boomerangs in King Tut's Tomb more or less proves that the Garden of Eden must have been in Australia. Actual boomerangs were often six feet wide, much too large to fit inside the mouth of a dog the size of Pluto. Returning boomerangs are toys for tots and tourists. Working boomerangs are lethal weapons Down Under. They fly straight when properly thrown, killing game animals and tribal enemies alike--hardly fodder for jests.

This Mickey Mouse short starts off with Mickey and Pluto walking through the jungle with a boomerang and Pluto thinks it is some kind of thing wanting to attack him and Mickey.I am a fan of Mickey Mouse but this is a very disappointing short in my opinion.This just shows Mickey trying to calm Pluto down and the boomerang gets stuck in Pluto's mouth and Mickey is trying to steal an ostrich egg.Mostly I laugh through these shorts and would love to watch them again but this put me off in watching it again but a few funny parts made me give it 5.This has aged well but it lost its magic and normally these shorts don't.This is watchable but not great.

This is rather an uneventful Mickey and Pluto cartoon, where Mickey uses a boomerang to pick up bananas. Pluto doesn't get along with the boomerang and tries to fend it off - in his ever-so-annoying loud bark. Meanwhile, Mickey has found an ostrich egg and wants to take it, but the ostrich sees this and attempts to chase Mickey off.

The funniest part of the cartoon is when the boomerang gets stuck in Pluto's mouth, with some funny sound effects. There was some action where the ostrich chases Mickey around, but overall, it's not a very fun cartoon - rather predictable with limited laughs and excitement.

Grade D+