Mickey's Magical Christmas - Snowed in at the House of Mouse

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Though promoted as a "full length holiday movie," this is more of a TV Christmas special spinoff from Disney's new series, House of Mouse. The premise is something like an animated Muppet Show: Mickey, Goofy, and Donald run a nightclub for an audience of Disney characters, with plenty of songs, skits, and cartoons. There's not much story to this holiday special--Mickey whips up an impromptu party for stranded guests and instills a "Humbug"-quacking Donald with the holiday spirit--but it's full of sight gags and comic bits with dozens of Disney characters, from Ludwig von Duck to Pumba and Timmon. The special begins with the short Pluto's Christmas Tree and ends with the entire 1983 short film Mickey's Christmas Carol. However, the highlight is a comic retelling of The Nutcracker with Donald as a reluctant Mouse King (complete with phony Mickey Mouse ears) and John Cleese as the exasperated narrator. The special is utterly unmemorable as a whole, but nonetheless bright, light, and cute and sure to keep the attentions of young tots. --Sean Axmaker

Description

Join Mickey and all your favorite Disney animated superstars-together for the first time ever-as they share a heartwarming holiday celebration and sing a special song, "The Best Christmas Of All," that captures this wondrous occasion.
When a huge snowstorm leaves everyone stranded, Mickey and all of his guests at The House of Mouse, including Pooh, Piglet, Belle, Snow White, Ariel and many more of his old and new friends, break out the cookies and hot chocolate to help Donald mend his tattered Christmas spirit. The fun starts when Minnie pulls out their favorite holiday home movies and everyone starts to reminisce. Their magical memories soon put everyone in the Christmas mood-even grumpy Donald, who ultimately becomes the star of the evening. As everybody lifts their voices in joyful song, they realize that the "Best Christmas of All" is the one you share with all your friends!

Customer Reviews:

Adults need perspective........2006-12-02

Hello, I am writing this because my kids love this and ask for it (specifically Mickey's version of the Nutcracker). Kids, in general, do not care about whether or not the dvd is truly feature length, they just want to watch it. This is aimed at children. I think we, as adults, would do well to follow their lead in attitudes sometimes.
The video is entertaining and has the classics characters from Disney. We as a family love Disney and this video.
Merry Christmas!

Goofy learning to ski.......2006-06-15

hello Disney Fans. I am wondering if anyone has ever seen the holiday short about Goofy learning to ski. It was a great little narrated short that I saw when I was a kid. I saw it on television way back when and it was tagged along with a couple of other holiday shorts to a broadcast of the classic "Mickey's Christmas Carol". I have been reading reviews and dvd discriptions on here for an hour and I cannot find anything that mentions this particular short. If anyone knows if it is even available on any of these disney dvd's and if so which one. Please email me and let me know, Thanks. my email address is
ryback78@hotmail.com

house of mouse.......2006-02-24

excellent entertainment
disney needs to do more house of mouse dvds

Love it!.......2005-06-17

I think this is very cute. I love it. Especially the adaptaion of The Nutcracker. Great music in that segment. I love all the cartoons they show, old and new. And my day care kids love it too.

THE GOOD WITH THE BAD..........2004-11-10

Okay so basically it's like this...the entire Disney cast of characters is, as the title says, snowed in at the House of Mouse. The characters then decide to break out some hot cocoa and cookies and sit back and enjoy old movies which turn out to be some of the old Disney holiday classics such as "Mickey's Christmas Carol" and "Pluto's Christmas Tree" where Mickey chops down a Christmas tree not knowing it's home to Chip & Dale.

After the tree has been trimmed, the chipmunks delightfully explore their newly decorated surroundings, much to the chagrin of Pluto, the only one who knows that the tree contains the pair. Chip 'n' Dale soon drive Pluto crazy as they explore their new Christmassy surroundings. When Mickey finds out, he chuckles naively and thinks that they're cute.

Toss in a new rendition of "The Nutcracker" and a newer Donald short called "Donald On Ice". The featurettes are all pretty good but the bits in between are a bit forced and really not very funny.

Also at a running time of just over 60 minutes it's not the greatest value either. Still, if you don't have Mickey's christmas CArol, you can get it here along with the other shorts so it's not too bad.

Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse [Region 2]

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Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse [Region 2]
Starring: Wayne Allwine , Tony Anselmo , Bill Farmer , Russi Taylor , and Tress MacNeille
Director: Tony Craig (II) , and Robert Gannaway
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005R5HV

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