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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Mickey's Christmas Carol
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List Price: $12.98
Our Price: $22.89
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Alan Young, Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith, Will Ryan, Eddie Carroll
Directed By: Burny Mattinson
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300276475
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300276473
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: 1993-09-29
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1983-12-16
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Summary: Dickens by Disney...
Comment: "Mickey's Christmas Carol" is a retelling of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" in animation with familiar Disney cartoon characters in all the roles.
Scrooge McDuck leads as Ebenezer Scrooge, greedy London businessman and miser, with Mickey Mouse as his underpaid and underappreciated clerk Bob Crachit and Donald Duck as Scrooge's nephew Fred. Goofy is Jacob Marley, Scrooge's dead partner, come to warn Scrooge on Christmas Eve of the terrible fate awaiting him in the afterlife if he does not reform his ways. As in Dickens' novel, Scrooge is visted by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and learns his lesson.
This is family entertainment with a lesson. In just 25 minutes, Disney has managed to capture the essentials of the story, hopefully without exceeding anyone's attention span. The ghostly tale is told with humorous relief, as Goofy's Jacob Marley is accident-prone and various other characters make pratfalls. One wishes Disney could have stretched out the animated story a little longer.
This short movie is highly recommended as a great introduction for children young and old to a classic Christmas tale.
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Summary: "mommy, when I die, am I going to go fall into a flaming grave?"
Comment: That's exactly what I said to my Mom when I was very young and I saw it. I still have nightmares.
Call me the second coming of Scrooge if you will, but even if I am the only one, I hate this movie. It's all good ol' fashioned Disney fun, then comes the Ghost of Christmas Future. That whole scene with falling into the grave, in my humble opinion, is Michael Eisner child abuse. Not only does Disney have to add the whole dramatics of the scene where Mickey goes to Tiny Tim's grave--they feel an insane compulsion to add as much drama as they can to stretch the loopholes of the G-rating. Oh, yeah, and Scrooge gets right in the audience's face at the last second. Masterful cinematography, I'll admit. Having a talking Scottish duck thrown at me has never been so scary, but hey, they managed to do it. Perhaps it would have found a better home in nightmare on elm street, but with Scrooge McDuck? I didn't think so.
Now, see, in Dickens, Scrooge is crying at the feet of the G.o.C.Y.T.C., and not screaming for the safety of his eternal soul. I always thought that the ghost should have been the sorcerer from the sorcerer's apprentice. For one thing, he stays silent. For another, if the scene were altered for Dickens accuracy, it would be dramatic and not just a kid's nightmare. The whole scene with Crachit visiting the grave was good. Had they stayed on that note and not added any material borrowed from Dante, I would have been pleased.
As I said, the movie is good otherwise. In fact, I would personally go and see it if they completely re-did the Christmas Future scene to be like I said. But for old man Disney, it's -so- important to be dramatic, even if it means scarring little kids for life.
Long live Muppet Christmas Carol. Now there's a Christmas Carol for you.
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Summary: Thank you
Comment: Thank you for the movie, my 21 year old daughter loved it. It arrived extremely fast and the movie works great. Enjoy your holiday and thanks again. Awesome seller!!!
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Summary: Classic
Comment: How can you not love this title? Personally its charm has ruined me for any other versions of A Christmas Carol. They're all so dull, it's almost a chore to watch those movies that try to capture some sort of haughty classical feel that just doesn't need to be there. I enjoy this movie every time I watch, because it effectively tells the same story while keeping it light. I wish they opt to show this on tv more often instead of all the dull ones that they choose to show. I remember when they showed it every year, like they do with those tiresome greeting card animated specials, yet they don't anymore and it was probably the only special I didn't tire of.
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Summary: Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
Comment: This animated short-film was released in 1983. Two years later, I'm a newborn baby in diapers. For the last 20 years of my life, I have loved this cartoon like you wouldn't believe. This has been one of my all-time Favorite Christmas films of all-time.
Disney takes his own characters and puts them into the roles of Charles Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol". Scrooge McDuff playes the cranky and evil Ebinezer Scrooge. Bob Cratchet (played by Mickey Mouse) is his overworked, underpaid employee. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the spirit of Jacob Marley (played by Goofy). Marley was just like Scrooge seven years ago and as punishment, Marley is forced to walk around with heavy chains. He then informs Scrooge of three visits from three spirits.
The first spirit, The Ghost of Christmas Past (played by Jiminy Cricket), appears. He shows Scrooge of his past and how he became so greedy and evil. The second spirit, The Ghost Of Christmas Present (played by Willie The Giant) shows how poor Bob Cratchet and is family are. Bob has three children, but his youngest son, Tiny Tim, is very ill. The final spirit, The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come (played by Pete) shows Scrooge of Tim's possible death, which can cause the possible devestation of Bob Cratchet. Scrooge is then shown his own grave, where he wakes up a changed Duck.
He heads over to Cratchet's house. On the way, he promises his nephew, Fred (played by Donald Duck), that he will be at his Christmas Dinner Party. Scrooge buys a load of toys and makes it to Cratchet's house, where he proposes his offer to Bob of making him his partner, as well as giving him a gigantic raise in pay. He hands the toys to Bob's children, where all three Children, including the adorable little Tiny Time, climb onto Scrooge's lap, where Scrooge hugs them so passionately.
This is the cutest Christmas movie for all kids, including adults (for the children inside of us). Everytime I watch this, I watch it with a smile on my face. I do shed some tears for the scene of Tiny Tim's possible death, but this movie is very enjoyable for all, children and adults.
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