Something about the Halloween season (which for me definitely starts in September) really lends itself to bunching a pack of cool, fun, spooky clips from fantasy films together. Some people would probably rather watch the movies- but this is a stellar packaging job. Unlike
A Disney Christmas Gift, the original song they did for this special is actually amazing and a serious hummer, whistler, toe-tapper number. You know what I mean. I haven't been able to get it out of my head for days now.
Good job of selecting clips. The seasonal feeling is beautiful and warm... Once the clips finally start. This is ruined several times by the incredible shitty song they did for this. A theme, you could say. They stick it in front of all the clips but 1. Oh- and they also have the singers of the new song SING over every single clip (except for the last one). They actually have the gall to sing over the famous scene where Arthur pulls the magic sword in
The Sword in the Stone. I seriously couldn't stop wishing someone would shoot these bastard singers!
It doesn't get any more simple-minded and insultingly stupid than this awful dose of infantile sentimentality. It's all moral and no brains. I only gave it a star because the colors are vibrant and the people behind the camera try to see how many characters you'll recognize from previous Disney films (I didn't see Bill from
Alice in Wonderland - that's the lizard with a ladder - but I did find a bunch of characters from
Robin Hood,
Fun and Fancy Free - one of my personal favorites, and
The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad, as well as quite a few others that you'll know right away). Aside from that, it's absolute trash. They play Donald as a completely sympathetic character with none of his trademark cantankerous crabbiness. And Mickey is so stupid, how could anyone feel sorry for him when the film turns up the "pity the poor guy" cliches? Furthermore, it has no Christmas spirit (just a really crappy theme song), no classic Disney magic, or any of the wacked antics of the
Duck Tales television series that made the character playing this Carol's Scrooge.
Mostly unsuccessful blend of Euro art film (the director-writer-producer one-man-everything is French and some scenes even descend into all-French dialogue with no subtitles), teen comedy (several lines lifted directly from Clueless), and softcore sex drama. Ultra cheap, yes. Sleazy, yes. And plays incredibly long. Despite all this however, I was almost never bored. The film's lack of any serious or coherent story coupled with the fact that it refuses to go hardcore in the sex scenes makes it at times strangely compelling (at least for anyone who thinks Troma are always a little smarter than they let on or get credit for outside their fanbase). Nobody on Earth ever sat down to watch this expecting a serious movie, but truth be told, its' music video style and surprising range of fantasies covered (I still want to know where they filmed that limo scene) makes it more ambitious than the American parade of bikini beach films (though who could forget Jeff Conaway's creepy, strange forray into said genre,
Bikini Summer II). And, though it's bound to be an irritant for anyone else- I might have a hell of a time getting the theme song out of my head (time will tell).
Oh well, here goes..
Of course, i've never read the novel so.. But hey, i would watch the TV Series again! 
) Sure enough, General Woundwort was my least favorite character in the movie. But in the TV Series he's probably my favoritest character(Is it because of the Horned King? Who knows.. 
Rex Harrison in his younger years definitely reminds me of Leslie Howard.