Felix notices a mouse run a rope and chases after it. Unbeknownst to our title character, the rope is attached to a boat, which soon heads out to sea. After a bout of seasickness, the feline finds himself among the tulips of Holland. He takes a liking to a young girl, but there's a boy who already had his eyes on her. Can the cat win the hand of the maiden?
The latest Felix the Cat short has a breezy humor to it. There are little sight gags, enough to make you smile, but nothing completely guffaw inducing. There is a naïve simplicity to the tale that is a breath of fresh air, a safe harbor from all of the live action artistry and misogynistic Disney cartoons of the era.
There are some fun moments to be had. Felix first corrals the girl by tossing his heart to her. It circles her a few times before she snatches it from the air. Cute.
Later, when a man tosses a shoe at the cat, Felix turns it into a boat, using an exclamation point from his thoughts as a paddle. In the end, our resourceful hero uses his own tail as a handle for a windmill to blow away one of his foes.
It's sad that after my experience with Disney's Alice shorts I am giving points to a movie for being entertaining without offending, but so it goes. We are in safe hands here watching Two Lip Time. There is no ambition but to bring some happiness to the viewer for a brief moment. And it succeeds at that in spades.
**** out of *****
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