Mickey's Once upon a Christmas

bmadigan · Post by **bmadigan** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:09 am

I saw this for the first time on the Disney Channel last night. I was hoping for a classic heartwarming classic like "From all of us, to all of You", but that was not to be. This modern animation is too flat looking. The writing substituted mayhem for plot, and I was generally unimpressed. It lacked the spark that the classic Disney shorts always possessed.

This will not be a must-buy DVD for me.

Post by **Luke** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:36 pm

I liked it, more than <i>Twice Upon a Christmas</i> anyway. The animation wasn't spectacular or anything, but I thought it served the feature well, and the three longer shorts was a better format than 5 really short ones.

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:37 pm

Luke wrote:I liked it, more than <i>Twice Upon a Christmas</i> anyway. The animation wasn't spectacular or anything, but I thought it served the feature well, and the three longer shorts was a better format than 5 really short ones.

I actually liked Twice Upon a Christmas (review), although I certainly agree that Once Upon a Christmas was far superior.

I also liked the longer shorts on Once Upon, but I thought the shorter format did serve some of the sequel's stories well ('Donald's Gift', for example). I think there is often a danger in making a short subject too long for the sake of filling in space. If you can tell a story in 6 minutes, then tell that story in 6 minutes, not 20. Having said that, 'Christmas Maximus' on Twice Upon could have been longer.

Anyways, back to the point of this story...
I do think that overall, Once Upon was an excellent little DTV - as Luke said, the animation may not be feature quality, but giving each of the major characters a lengthy story was a good format. All three stories are sweet and capture the Christmas spirit. In fact, I think I enjoyed them all, especially the Goofy story, 'A Very Goofy Christmas' (by that is largely because I always enjoy Goofy stories, especially the Goofy-Max dynamic). Stuck on Christmas is also a nice little story, in the grand tradition of 'Groundhog day'.

I think that is the difference between the two volumes - the first has an even level of entertainment, the second is patchy.

Uncle Remus · Post by **Uncle Remus** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:40 pm

i havent seen Twice Upon A Christmas but for Once Upon A Christmas I have to say it was all right in some ways. The only thing I liked in Once Upon A Christmas was the short about Donald's nephews. Otherwise, the best Disney Christmas movies/shorts are the old ones including Mickey's Christmas Carol.

DEREKG · Post by **DEREKG** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:12 pm

I haven't seen it either! I was going to buy it though. I'll take your advice and rent it first! I was hoping to add it to twice upon christmas. I just got it, thought it was worth the buy.

drnilescrane · Post by **drnilescrane** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:49 pm

What I loved about Once was that it explored the meaningfull stories and in A Very Goofy Christmas the characters. I realy didn't care that in half of it the backgrounds were solid colors, as long as the story was good.

Now in Twice, we have short un-meaningfull stories with plastic characters with no perosnalities in a world that more stylised than Picasso. I think that Twice should be 'forgotten' and it's existance dis-agnoledged. I am writting a letter to SaveDisney about this film so watch this space.

I am the Doctor · Post by **I am the Doctor** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:50 am

I found Once Upon a Christmas to be a very good movie. For once-the linking story between the three different segments actually worked and served the story quite well. The Donald story with the Groundhog Day elements was quite well done-my favorite of the three (I'm a little biased-big Donald fan)- but the Goofy and Mickey shorts were also quite good. The hardest part for people trying to buy Once Upon a Christmas would be finding it for sale-most stores seem to carry Mickey's Magical Christmas-Snowed in at the House of Mouse instead of Once Upon a Christmas. I found a used copy at a local store-was glad to find it-since I had been looking for it for quite a while.

Haven't yet picked up Twice Upon a Christmas-so I can't compare the two films. I'd recommend picking up Once Upon a Christimas-it is one of the few DTVs that I think is worth a buy.

JiminyCrick91 · Post by **JiminyCrick91** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:06 am

i love this movie but my dad wont buy online. i only have the video:( does anyone know were can i find it???

(i think its out of print)

Kram Nebuer · Post by **Kram Nebuer** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 8:19 pm

JiminyCrick91 wrote:i love this movie but my dad wont buy online. i only have the video:( does anyone know were can i find it??? (i think its out of print)

Target has brought them back to the shelves for the holidays. Though what was interesting was that I saw one of the MOUC DVDs had a K-mart price tag on it

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JiminyCrick91 · Post by **JiminyCrick91** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:05 pm

Kram Nebuer wrote:
JiminyCrick91 wrote:i love this movie but my dad wont buy online. i only have the video:( does anyone know were can i find it??? (i think its out of print)
Target has brought them back to the shelves for the holidays. Though what was interesting was that I saw one of the MOUC DVDs had a K-mart price tag on it .

well thats odd every were i go they say its ether out of print or they cant find it in there database

orestes. · Post by **orestes.** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:59 pm

I still haven't seen either one but I'm not looking forward to seeing Twice upon a Christmas. I was actually looking forward to buying Once Upon a Christmas. I saw it every year for sale and I just never picked it up but I was hoping to do so this year and guess what? I don't see it anywhere. In fact all the good Christmas specials on DVD seem to have vanished.
I swear every year I see Rudolph and Frosty and others on the shelves but I have yet to see them this year and I'm not the only one. LAst week we got a fyler advertising some and when I got there me, this lady and her son were searching for them but the only christmas DVDs were a couple of popular ones like The Santa Clause, Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas and a ton of cheap $2.99 ones.

I better see Rudolph this year. I skipped it on TV since I was going to buy the DVD the next day but no Wal-Mart in my area had them. If I miss it the tradtion will break. I've never missed seeing that at Christmas as far as I can remember.

Lumiere · Post by **Lumiere** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:06 am

i liked once upon a christmas..
i want to collect all disney holiday dvd's!!!
so please can someone post a list of all holiday disney dvd's

Post by **Luke** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:45 pm

Lumiere wrote:i liked once upon a christmas..
i want to collect all disney holiday dvd's!!!
so please can someone post a list of all holiday disney dvd's

http://www.ultimatedisney.com/christmas-checklist.html

deathie mouse · Post by **deathie mouse** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:57 pm

Mmm isn't this title in R2/PAL in widescreen? Anyway i have the R1 one and I like it. Not as "classic" as Treasures shorts but it's fine. Better than some more "current" stuff these days. Altho I don't know that if I see it in widescreen i'll like it 30% better

*goes check Luke's Christmas checklist now

Kram Nebuer · Post by **Kram Nebuer** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:04 pm

They're showing MIckey's Once Upon a Christmas, and oddly enough also Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas on the Disney Channel this Sunday 12-12-04. I didn't think they'd show a recent DVD so soon already, though I do recall them showing Lion King 1 1/2 earlier this season.

humphreybear · Post by **humphreybear** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:22 pm

I was amazed how much Max grew up between once upon a christmas and twice upon a christmas (especially when the duck nephews seemed about the same age).

MickeyMousePal · Post by **MickeyMousePal** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:38 pm

I like Once Upon a Christmas and Twice Upon a Christmas about the same and is worth to watch during Christmas.

drnilescrane · Post by **drnilescrane** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:21 am

Eisner needs to learn one thing:

Story, is king. Being CGI does nothing.

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