Disney Animation Collection 7: Mickey's Christmas Carol
Description:
Celebrate the holidays with MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, a beloved classic short film that is now part of the Disney Animation Collection! Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and many more of your favorite characters join the cast in this delightfully charming adaptation of a classic holiday tale. Ebeneezer Scrooge Scrooge McDuck is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is the time for kindness and generosity. So, with the guidance of some wise ghosts with Goofy and Jiminy Cricket, and the examples set by his clerk Bob Cratchit Mickey and nephew Fred Donald, Scrooge learns how to embrace the true spirit of the season. Each volume in the Disney Animation Collection series is packed with classic Disney short films that will bring laughter and merriment into your family's home. Add them all to your DVD library today!
Bonus Features Include the following shorts: Mickey's Christmas Carol, Pluto's Christmas Tree, The Small One, Santa's Workshop
Product Details:
Actors:
Edward Brophy, Ruth Clifford, Pinto Colvig, Dessie Flynn, James MacDonald
Director:
Burny Mattinson;Don Bluth;Jack Hannah;Wilfred Jackson
Format:
Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language:
English
Number of Discs:
1
Studio:
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Run Time:
64 minutes
DVD Release Date:
September 29, 2009
Average Customer Rating:
based on 18 reviews
Customer Reviews:
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dvdFeb 17, 2010 My kids are 1.5 and 3 and both enjoy the older Mickey movies. Not sure why but they do. This is nothing like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse which they also love.
beautiful classic holiday animationJan 31, 2010 This is a wonderful short of classical animation.
Disney really did a great job with this short film.
Especially with the creativity of bringing back past disney characters to tell the classic tale.
There is only one reason I did not give this 5 stars.
I had this title on vhs that came with a 45 min short titled "The making of Mickeys christmas carol.
I sure wish that film was also put on this Dvd.
Awesome!!!Jan 30, 2010 This is the exact program that I remember from my childhood, and it even included "Small One" which I have been looking for since my dubbed VHS from Beta copy died. Love It!!!
An excellent shortened and simplified adaptation of the Dickens classicJan 18, 2010
AUTHOR'S NOTE: While this package consists of several animated shorts, I will be reviewing the featured short, "Mickey's Christmas Carol."
REVIEW
This is a very good creative adaptation of the Dickens story. Featuring the voice talents of Alan Young, Wayne Allwine and Hal Smith, among others, this film hearkens to the golden age of the 1930's for animated short film.
Necessarily shortening and simplifying Dickens' novel and its language, it nevertheless retains a glimmering intelligence and understated sophistication. Additionally, the soundtrack is superb, especially the opening number "Oh, What A Merry Christmas Day." The roles of Dickens' ghosts are fulfilled by Disney characters, and for the most part I cannot complain. Even Goofy as Jacob Marley fits because the creative staff retain the basic original plotline which Dickens created for his character. This treatment also pleasantly undercuts the harder edge of the Marley character by injecting skillful humor into key moments. The only character choice for a ghost I did not like at all was Willie the Giant from "Mickey and the Beanstalk." That character is just too overbearing and lacking in the stateliness I've associated with The Ghost of Christmas Present for all of my life. A very abbreviated appearance by The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, here called The Ghost of Christmas Future, is fittingly bleak and may provide the biggest scare of the movie for very young children. That moment of the film is so brief, though, that after a hiccup, it's over.
Featuring fairly early animation by the great Glen Keane and even John Lasseter, the current head of Pixar, "Mickey's Christmas Carol" is a classic animated short film of Dickens' classic novel and stands the test of time beautifully.
A Hit With the Entire FamilyDec 30, 2009 "Mickey's Christmas Carol" was a hit with our entire family and was watched over and over before, during and after the Christmas holiday. It includes 4 short movies, which was wonderful for the attention span of a 4-year-old. One of the "shorts" was a very old cartoon of Santa's Workshop, but was still fun to watch. I personally love the story of the Christmas Carol in all of its styles. Mickey was no exception. You can't go wrong with Disney!
based on 18 reviews
