steamboat willy sucks

it's terrible. let's just go through the plot:

Mickey is driving a boat, then the captain comes and wants to drive instead. Mickey gets annoyed and the Captain kicks him down, a bird laughs at him so Mickey throws a bucket at him, then we watch the captain fucking around with chewing tobacco before we get back to the "main plot" where Mickey loads a cow onto the boat, then Minni comes but an animal eats her instrument, so they use the animals as instruments instead, then the captain comes back and yells at Mickey fooling around and makes him peel potatoes, then the birds comes back and laugh at him so Mickey throws a potato at him, laughs, and then it ends

like what the hell is that? what is the point? what is the story? in addition to being absurd the whole episode is just very slow and boring. i described 90% of what happened in that paragraph, but the short is 7 minutes long. the only iconic thing about the short is the whistling at the beginning. they could have just made it end after mickey threw the bucket at the bird the first time and have that be it, it ends in the same way anyway and it would be better for it, cutting out all the other boring scenes.

now you might think all this can be excused by it being a product of its time, but the true original mickey mouse short plane crazy is so much better. it isn't as dull and things actually happen, and it actually has an evolving plot that makes sense, and an ironic punchline at the end. steamboat willy is just bad.