Tonight's Halloween special is Mickey's House of Villians and comes from the early 2000's when Disney had the show Disney's House of Mouse. The concept of the show was a showcase for Disney cartoon shorts, both old and new, with a small story-line running between them at Mickey's happening club, The House of Mouse. For those of you who were growing up in California, it was a lot like The KCAL Kids, which featured three kids running around Disneyland having adventures in between Disney cartoon shorts, only Disney's House of Mouse was all animated and featured newly produced shorts.
For this halloween dvd, Disney's villians take center stage and take over Mickey's club at midnight. Of course Mickey, with help from Minnie, Donald, Daisy and Goofy, foil their plans, all while showing some classic and new halloween-themed cartoon shorts.
What I love about the House of Mouse concept was that people who are fans of lesser-shown Disney-animated characters might have a chance to glimpse them because Mickey's Club is popular with all of Disney's animated characters and Disney tried to show as many as they could during wide-angle shots.
I also love the classic cartoons shown in this Halloween DVD - Trick or Treat (featuring Witch Hazel who helps Huey, Duey and Louie trick back Uncle Donald in a spooky way) and the classic Lonesome Ghosts (where ghost hunter Mickey, Donald and Goofy are summoned to a haunted house to deal with some mischevous ghosts). There are also a couple newly produced cartoon shorts, including one that sounds like it was written by Dr. Seuss in which Mickey deals with a mechanical house of horrors! Another called "How to Haunt a House" shows "dearly departed" Goofy trying his best to teach the audience how to be a haunt, only Donald won't cooperate. I love this return to the classic "how to" Goofy cartoons. Also enjoyable, is the fun little song that the villians sing as they take over Mickey's club.
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Mom disneys most scary villians appearing in one sounds great
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