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Mickey's Magical Christmas - Snowed in at the House of Mouse (1983) is a fantastic movie for children since it is a combination of fairy tale and Christmas story and done with the typical Disney flair. It is one of the great Christmas animation movie available in the market today. This Christmas-themed animation has three-part anthology-style video.
A Christmas themed, three-part anthology-style video. The first part focuses on "Donald Duck: Stuck on Christmas", which is basically a retelling of Groundhog Day (1993). This is with Huey, Dewey, and Louie reliving Christmas. The next part is entitled "A Very Goofy Christmas" wherein Goofy tries to overcome his son's skepticism about Santa Claus.
Lastly, it is entitled "Mickey & Minnie's Gift Of The Magi". It recreates the classic tale of the irony of Christmas selflessness and the ability to give. These stories are linked together by the narration by Kelsey Grammer.
Disney's Mickey's Magical Christmas Movies has been marketed as full length holiday movie, it seemed more like a TV Christmas special as a spinoff of the House of Mouse series.1 The Disney animated superstars are together for the first time ever to share a heartwarming Christmas season and sing 'The Best Christmas of All'. This song captures the warm feeling and love of the holiday season.
Though there is not much story to this but it is still done with what Disney has been known for. The special begins with Pluto and the highlight is the funny retelling of The Nutcracker, with Donald as the reluctant Mouse King. This makes it cute, funny, and light…very much appropriate for little kids.1
The Disney characters appearing in Mickey's Magical Christmas are the Classic Disney cartoons characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, and Pluto. Also seen are Huey, Dewey and Louie, Ludwig Von Drake, Chip and Dale, Mortimer Mouse, Humphrey the Bear, and Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore. Even the Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf, Hobo Cookie, Judge Cookie and Professor Owl were part of this Christmas movie.
This has been directed by Tony Craig and been written by Kevin Campbell. The actors starring are Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, Bill Farmer, Russi Taylor, Corey Burton, John Cleese, Tress MacNeille, Jodi Benson, Kath Soucie, Samuel E. Wright, Gilbert Gottfried, Pat Carroll, Kevin Schon, and Ernie Sabella. Music is by Jason Oliver.
This has been distributed by Walt Disney Home Video and the DVD release date was last November 6, 2001. The format is animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC and made in English (Dolby Digital 5.1). Also subtitles were done in English and it has Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only for the DVD. The aspect ratio is 1.33:1 and the running time is 65 minutes.
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