An All Dogs Christmas Carol
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Directed by | Paul Sabella |
Produced by | Jonathan Dern Paul Sabella Cary Silver |
Written by | Jymn Magon |
Starring | Steven Weber Dom DeLuise Sheena Easton Ernest Borgnine Charles Nelson Reilly Bebe Neuwirth Taylor Emerson Myles Jeffrey |
Distributed by | MGM Studios |
Release date(s) | November 17, 1998 |
Running time | 73 min. |
Language | English |
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An All Dogs Christmas Carol is a 1998 direct-to-video animated film which was originally aired on television as the final episode of the animated television series All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series. It is the third and final installment in the All Dogs Go to Heaven film series.
[edit] Synopsis
The movie begins in an alleyway with Charlie, Itchy, Sasha and their friends decorating for a Christmas party. Everyone is enjoying themselves as Charlie and Itchy tend to the young pups. Charlie checks on Sasha and the money collection for Timmy the puppy's (a parody of Tiny Tim) operation for his bad leg. Unfortunately, Carface and Killer arrive and start collecting debts from everyone. After Charlie refused to pay back Carface, Killer blows a strange whistle that hypnotizes all the dogs and causes them to give Carface all of their money. Before leaving, Carface and Killer make off with all the food, the presents, their money which includes Timmy's operation money and head off cackling.
After failing several times to get the stolen goods from Carface, Charlie plots to scare "the Dickens" out of Carface and asks Annabelle for some aid, resulting in them being transformed into characters from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Itchy becomes the Ghost of Christmas Past, Sasha becomes the Ghost of Christmas Present, and Charlie becomes the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (and a parody of The Mask). The three of them visit Carface and make him feel guilty about stealing the items, especially the operation money; Sasha tells Carface that without it Timmy will die, but Timmy's death will cause another --- his own, as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows him that because of his actions, he will cause his own death.
It is then revealed that Carface is working for Annabelle's demonic cousin, Belladonna, who plots to use a massive version of the cursed whistle to hypnotize every dog in the city into stealing the Christmas presents, causing them to be thrown out of their houses and abandoned, much in the same way Carface was. Carface, having seen himself in Timmy, stops the whistle just in time to prevent the dogs from stealing the gifts. Belladonna flies into a rage and is about to kill Carface when she is frozen solid by a massive amount of snow.
[edit] Voice cast
- Steven Weber - Charlie B. Barkin
- Dom DeLuise - Itchy
- Sheena Easton - Sasha
- Ernest Borgnine - Carface
- Charles Nelson Reilly - Killer
- Bebe Neuwirth - Anabelle and Belladonna