Mickey Saves Christmas

Good movie!

Good movie!

Good movie!

Clumsy Pluto accidentally unplugs the lights. Santa crashes his sleight while trying to land on Mickey's cabin. Prancer gets thrown. Unbeknownst to anyone, Pluto takes Prancer's place while the gang joins Santa to return to the North Pole. When they discover Prancer's absence, Santa and Mrs Claus head out to find him. Mickey and the gang try to gather up more toys which only results in more chaos. They eventually find Santa's old sleight. They set out to save Christmas. This is a 3D animated Mickey Mouse Christmas special in the style of the old TV Christmas specials. It's Mickey and the gang. It's not the greatest of Christmas specials. It's a lot of Golly Gee Christmas. It's family friendly. It's a bit bland. The songs are nothing special. It's average to its core.

It happens the second time that one actress was supposed to be there but left behind. In Mickey Mouse Funhouse season finale Mickey Guyton as Wanda Warbler was supposed to be appeared at Sunny Gulch Theater, but it turns out it was the Weasel Trio which that was unacceptable. In this New Christmas special Every article said Tress MacNeille is voicing Daisy Duck and when I watch it last night her voice sounds different so I look the end credits it was Debra Wilson. That broke my heart because I had a crush on Tress Voicing Daisy since Mickey and the Roadster Racers exist back in 2017. Overall the Movie is good If they lied about voicing someone again, I am just gonna just watch TCM.

Like all Disney efforts this short has the heart of kids in mind, but unlike the good productions this one has none of the restraint on over the top cuteness. The music is harsh and garbled. Could nobody say to the producers and director "This is too much". Too many songs with no purpose and no charm. Caned generic not memorable of singable. All the regular gang is here and for the most part they all play their respective parts, but something is not quite right. Donald has acquired a gluttonous trait and is going to the sweets at every chance. Goofy, the known harbinger of disaster, is oddly just a background player and neither helps or hinders the proceedings. Strictly for the Six and under crowd.

While Mickey Mouse is no stranger to Christmas specials (as he has a lot of them, from movie-length specials like Mickey's Christmas Carol and the direct-to-video Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas and its sequel, Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas, to the various Christmas themed shorts and episodes for shows like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and that one Christmas episode of the House of Mouse that was so big, it also went direct-to-video), Mickey Saves Christmas, released as a Disney+ exclusive, is a first for Disney's mascot, as for the first time, Mickey, Minnie, and their friends are portrayed in stop motion animation, the same method used by Rankin-Bass for their classic Christmas specials like Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and A Year Without A Santa Claus. In this special, Mickey and the gang spend at a cabin, however, a comedic accident involving Pluto chasing a squirrel causes Santa to crash, and the presents for the kids of Hot Dog Hills sinking into the lake. Mikey and the gang pitch in to help. Despite being the same length as an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, the special manages to pack in enough story and humor, as like the Rankin-Bass specials, it has a good number of songs, and even a good moral Mickey learns about the holidays. This is one special worth checking out.

I hate to say it but Mickey Saves Christmas is probably my least favorite Mickey Mouse cartoon. The only thing I really enjoyed was the fact that this is a stop-motion special, it's a medium that Disney hasn't really done with Mickey and friends before and looks very colorful, but they literally have nothing but a completely preschool-friendly saving santa plot and all the characters act far too much like their Disney Junior counterparts as if the only audience watching this were small children. It shouldn't have been a Disney Channel release as Disney Channel is more of a network for all ages, it would've made sense airing on Disney Junior. An earlier Christmas special Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas honestly did this way better as it gave the characters a lot of humor and heart and even some conveyed messages about Christmas. The characters here barely even act like the sensational six that everyone loves as they're all just acting surprisingly generic and barely have any jokes or memorable moments in this overdone Santa saving storyline. It may sound like I'm nitpicking but it just feels surprisingly basic compared to all the other Mickey projects I've seen. Like I said, this holiday special would've been better off airing directly on Disney Junior. This doesn't feel like anything more than a watered down TV special for kids.