In 2001, Disney released “Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed In at the House of Mouse”, a Christmas special from the House of Mouse TV Reveal. And like most Disney releases, once it’s released, don’t request to peruse another release again for years. And in this case, 8 years later (2009) and legal in time for the holidays, “Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed In at the House of Mouse” is serve.
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This Christmas episode is about how all the Disney characters (characters from nearly every Disney captivating film) are stranded at the House of Mouse (a night club) due to a snow storm. So, Mickey being the pleasurable host that he is, is trying to bring home that Christmas spirit and entertain his guest. The predicament is that Donald Duck is not having a ample time is like the scrooge at the Christmas party. So, Mickey tries to originate Donald tickled and entertain his guest by showing classic Disney interesting shorts which include:
* Donald On Ice (1999) - Donald tries to learn to skate, while Huey, Dewey and Louie try to design a snowman. But unfortunately, Donald’s inability to skate tends to raze the triplets chance at building their snowman.
* Pluto’s Christmas Tree (1952) -Mickey cuts down a Christmas Tree and doesn’t know that the Chipmunks: Chip & Dale are living in the tree. Unfortunately, Chip & Dale tend to drive Pluto nuts and thus Pluto does what he can to rep the Chipmunks.
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* The Nutcracker (1999) - A young girl (played by Minnie Mouse) receives a exhibit (which is a wooden mouse) and dreams for it to become steady, so she can dance with him.
* Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) - The well-liked Disney Christmas engrossing short features the sage of Scrooge McDuck and how he’s mean to everyone for Christmas until he learns a lesson from the Spirit of Christmas past.
VIDEO & AUDIO:
“Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed In a the House of Mouse” is an bright full-length feature that features nice, vibrant animation during the more unique “House of Mouse” television demonstrate. But each time the feature switches to the entertaining shorts, you fetch mixed results in terms of narrate quality due to some of these though-provoking shorts being over 30/50-years feeble. But overall, the classics due point to a incompatibility in animation quality but for those who enjoyed animation like “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” or even the older classic challenging short “Pluto’s Christmas Tree”, although not digitally remastered, these classics due contain up well on DVD decades later.
As for audio, “Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed In a the House of Mouse” is featured in DTS 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1. The series is primarily front and center channel driven and personally, I didn’t gawk any surround or LFE usage but dialogue is sure and understandable.
Subtitles are presented in English SDH.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
“Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed In at the House of Mouse” comes with the following special features:
* Premiere Episode of House of Mouse - (23:07) An episode of “House of Mouse” featuring various Disney characters from common provocative films visiting the House of Mouse nightclub. Meanwhile, Pete buys the building of where the House of Mouse is located and wants to shut down the cartoon club.
* The Sounds of Christmas - (2:33) A Disney sound engineer teaches children how to produce sounds using objects and how they were utilized in determined animation.
* SingAlong “Deck the Halls” - (1:50) Karaoke SingAlong to “Deck the Halls” with animation from “Pluto’s Christmas Tree”.
* SingAlong Song “Sleigh Slither” - (1:57) Karaoke SingAlong to “Sleigh Creep” with animation from “Mickey’s Christmas Carol”.
JUDGMENT CALL:
I watched “Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed In at the House of Mouse” with my toddler and he absolutely loved it and wanted to discover it again. And as a holiday family feature, it is an attractive release that will be fun, due to the number of Disney characters seen throughout the feature.
With that being said, for those who enjoy the unusual release of Walt Disney Intriguing Shorts Collection or other Disney releases probably have the lively shorts on previously released DVD’s. Those who enjoy the unusual release from 2001, there is really is nothing unusual on this DVD with the exception of the unusual trailers. In fact, if you are a fan who mainly wants this release for its holiday-related spellbinding shorts, then you may want to check out the objective released “Disney Animation Collection 7: Mickey’s Christmas Carol” which comes with “Mickey’s Christmas Carol”, “Pluto’s Christmas Tree” and two other Disney classics.
But with this release of “Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed In at the House of Mouse”, if you are a “House of Mouse” fan, you do pick up the premiere episode of “House of Mouse” and other short bewitching holiday special features. I do admit that I wished that the DVD release had more interactivity like other Disney releases with games or something extra.
Overall, “Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed In at the House of Mouse” is inspiring for young and frail as it does feature newer and older animation and if you don’t possess these though-provoking shorts on another previously released Disney collection, it’s worth checking out. But if you do have these shorts already, it’s kind of hard to recommend it as the majority of the express in this feature are those classic shorts.
So, for parents who are looking for a Disney holiday release, as mentioned earlier, my son loved it and wanted to witness it again. So, yes it is an spicy and fun Disney holiday release. I recommend Disney fans looking for a an absorbing holiday release to also retract a copy of “Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas” (2004), if you don’t fill it already.
When Disney brought Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and essentially the entire casts of involving features to Saturday morning and other daytime TV in 2001, it was done in large style with an distress to acquire something that would please fans and young viewers, being hip as well as classic.
It’s a testimony to those eager with House of Mouse that such an impossibly expansive order was carried off so great of the time. Clear, the fresh animation is markedly different from vintage stuff, but even the Amazing World of Disney combined the flowing, straight line animation with the “scritchy” xerox explore of the early ’60s. The main stutter is, does the final product entertain?
My son definite loved it, and he’s seen very puny of House of Mouse because it’s not on TV great and there are precious few DVDs. I found myself laughing out loud at the posthaste fire gags and “inside” jokes on Disney characters. Most of all, for me it was fun to space characters like the Gingerbread Man from Cookie Carnival and Elliot from Pete’s Dragon.
That’s not to say that House of Mouse is uneven — the Brian Setzer theme and overall rock/swing music is a mammoth intention to maintain it modern yet classic. The references to Backstreet Boys and the like are no different than great band crooner nods in ’40s cartoons.
Unlike noteworthy animation for television, House of Mouse contains lots of purely visual sequences, short as they are, and short cartoons, which are also shorter than the theatrical type. These cartoons abound with gags — clearly a lot of work went into them by people who, by and tall, generally cared about the early work and actually liked it. I can forgive occasional lapses in graphic quality because of the sheer beauty of the comic poses, especially for Donald. Clearly these poses are the foundation of animation that by necessity is produced in and out of the country. It’s inspired by the work of the Disney masters, and probably was researched by the series staff.
Mickey’s Magical Christmas is a special House of Mouse that extends to feature length, containing unusual cartoons as well as Pluto’s Christmas Tree and Mickey’s Christmas Carol. As a bonus, the premiere episode of House of Mouse in included — a very comical chronicle in which Donald takes over the ‘toon club.
This DVD is also a bit of a tribute to the unhurried Wayne Allwine, who voiced Mickey since Christmas Carol and is heard throughout. Surely it was unintentional, since this is a DVD reissue, but Wayne also appears on camera, guiding guests through the Disney sound effects department, where he worked with Jimmy Macdonald and from whom he took on the mantle of Mickey’s bellow. This DVD is worth having objective for his short bonus feature, “The Sounds of Christmas.”
I determined would like to peruse more House of Mouse on DVD and so would my kids…