This ultra-short short did very little for me, I have to say. Maybe because I was never a huge fan of Oswald as a character to begin with. But something about the animation feels off, despite the rubber-hose style and the attempt to capture the late 20s feeling. Ub Iwerks this ain't. When Oswald comes strutting along in the opening shot, he seems to be animated with digital puppetry rather than real hand-drawn. Later on, we get some animation that is clearly drawn, but even that seems to lack punch a lot of the time. The music is of no help here, either. From what I remember, Robert Israel's scores for the Oswald cartoons on their Treasures DVD release did a great job of accentuating the gags that were actually happening on screen. The piano music in this film on the other hand comes off as bland and generic. We don't even get a musical acknowledgement of gags like the cannon ball knocking Oswald's head off. That's just weak.