Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Anssi Vartiainen In this Disney short film adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic, the role of Ebenezer Scrooge is played by none other than Scrooge McDuck. Makes sense, really. The film is only 26 minutes long, but yet it manages to pack in all the essentials elements of a Christmas Carol, as well as a lot of good humour, touching drama and excellent Christmas spirit. Frankly it amazes me that they manage to juggle all these differing elements so skilfully. The film can go from joyous joke cracking to an honestly scary moment and from there straight to plucking your heartstrings.The voice acting and animation are both superb Disney quality. The film is colourful and has aged barely any at all. It's also rather interesting to see Scrooge and Mickey, playing the role of Bob Cratchit, sharing a screen together. All in all the film is called Mickey's Christmas Carol and the character cast leans more towards Mickey and his supporting characters. They probably went with Scrooge because, well, he's named after the original character. There's really no other possible choice.When a film works, it just works. This film isn't very long, but what it lacks in runtime, it more than makes up in charm, heart and sheer quality. Easily recommended.

Rainey Dawn A great version of the story about ol' "Bah Humbug" himself, Ebenezer Scrooge. I'm sure most everyone has seen a version on film or has read A Christmas Carol so won't rehash the entire story - but to those few who might not have seen or read the story: It's a good story filled with crabby Scrooge, a poor family and 3 ghosts that haunt Scrooge.Disney's version of this tale is good. It's hard not to love Mickey Mouse and his gang. This film has become a classic and a standard film for the holidays. So if you haven't seen this version of the story then give it a try... it's got a couple of giggles but mainly Disney keeps the story as heartwarming and the original tale.10/10

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) The result is a thing of beauty and I have absolutely no idea how this one lost the animated short film category to "Sundae in New York" 30 years ago. It features all the famous characters, from Scrooge over Donald to Micky and Goofy and some of the lesser known ones too like Grandma Duck. They're all turned into characters from the famous Dickens story and of course the final result brings all the heart you had hoped for. The Christmas past scenes with Isabelle (Daisy who for once is not Donald's but Scrooge's sweetheart) and, especially, Tiny Tim with his crutches (and the teddy in the end) were truly moving. The scene at his house was a perfect display of how you really don't need much financially if you're surrounded by the ones you love. But also the humor doesn't come too short. You can always count on Goofy when it comes to that. I laughed so hard when Scrooge told the ghost of his old partner how he had class by doing such horrible things and Goofy at first laughs flattered, but then realizes what's going on and goes like "NO!". The voice acting is top-notch. Alan Young makes a good scrooge, but the highlight is definitely the supporting cast. Wayne Allwine's Mickey has always been a thing of beauty. Always has been, always will be. And the film has historic value as well as this was Clarence Nash's very last performance as everybody's favorite Duck (shut up, Daffy) almost 50 years after Nash voiced Donald the very first time.So all in all, this one delivers everything you can hope for (including the sweetest ending) in an animated short-film. It's having its 30th anniversary this year and is still a much better watch than most of the Christmas-related stuff they're releasing these days, especially during the holidays. Show it to your children and you will not regret it.

ApeLieUproar I agree with Roger Ebert, that MICKEY's Christmas CAROL felt like a "forced march" through the famous Dickens novella. Watching it with the running time (26 min.) in mind, the viewer might wonder how the story will be told. Somehow it is, but it's a rush job. The animation was fine but the adaptation is too short and misses out on too many key developments and nuances in the story.This was before animation experienced a renaissance in the late 80's so perhaps there wasn't much of a budget to do a full-length feature, but still, it's disappointing. I wish Disney had waited to do it proper, with Scrooge McDuck or without (and I don't count the Zemeckis-directed version).