Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) (V)

Director:

Donovan Cook

Writers:

David M. Evans (writer)
Evan Spiliotopoulos (writer)

Release Date:

3 August 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance

Tagline:

All for fun and fun for all

Plot:

Mickey, Donald and Goofy are the French three Musketeers.

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Destiny | Anachronistic | Mouse | Duck

Awards:

1 win & 5 nominations

Cast

Wayne Allwine	...	Mickey Mouse (voice)
Bill Farmer	...	Goofy
Russi Taylor	...	Minnie (voice)
Tress MacNeille	...	Daisy (voice)
Jim Cummings	...	Pete (voice)
April Winchell	...	Clarabelle (voice)
Rob Paulsen	...	The Troubadour
Maurice LaMarche	...	The Beagle Boys
Jeff Bennett	...	The Beagle Boys
Tony Anselmo	...	Donald Duck / Additional (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Shannon Gregory	...	Additional Voices
Jess Harnell	...	Major General (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Additional Voice (voice)

Runtime:

USA:68 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Denmark:A | Australia:G | USA:G | UK:U

Company:

DisneyToon Studios

Trivia:

When Disney was trying to develop a Mickey Mouse feature film in the early 1940s, one of the ideas considered was "The Three Musketeers", but it was abandoned because the original novel requires four main characters (the titular musketeers and D'Artagnan) and the filmmakers found it difficult to come up with a good combination of established characters to fill the parts. Sixty-plus years later, the problem was solved by having Mickey, Donald and Goofy not play the original Three Musketeers and thus tell a story that parallels the original but is not strictly an adaptation of it. The original Musketeers, incidentally, are the ones who saved the gang in the beginning of the film, and their autographs are in the hat they give Mickey.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Although the movie is set in (more or less) 17th-century France, the opera at which the princess is kidnapped is "The Pirates of Penzance", written two centuries later.

Quotes:

The Troubadour: [sung to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony] This is the end! / This is the end! / That Donald Duck has left for Mickey Mouse to drown.
Chorus: He let him drown!
The Troubadour: And Goofy trusted him, but Donald let him down.
Chorus: He let him down!
The Troubadour: We all berate him / Because we hate him / He's a traitor, vacillator / He's a lousy second rater / Mangy mallard!
Chorus: He's a coward!
The Troubadour: Donald's destiny has soured / It's the end!
Donald Duck: [Quacks angrily and smashes the troubadour's lute] I'll show you, you doggone tortoise!
The Troubadour: That way, Tiger.

Movie Connections:

References "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955)

Very funny, well-done and musical!

Good things about this film: Very good humour, at least one laugh every few minutes, good use of classical music for songs, good animation, good talent and a good job of Mickey and his friends! :-)

A tortoise in the studio is very excited about his comic about the three musketeers and cannot help "singing along". When the narrator of a TV programme falls down a hole in the floor, the poor tortoise ends up taking the narrator's place and reads out his comic. He begins with Mickey Donald and Goofy struggling to survive in the gutter. Then they meet the royal musketeers...

Good for any Mickey Mouse fan and any lover of classical music used by Disney, people who like good quality humour (both slightly slapstick and humour) and cartoon things which are CGI free!

Enjoy "Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers! :-)

7 and a half out of ten.