Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
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| Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers | |
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| Directed by | Donovan Cook |
| Written by | David M. Evans Evan Spiliotopoulos |
| Starring | Wayne Allwine Tony Anselmo Bill Farmer Russi Taylor Tress MacNeille Jim Cummings April Winchell Rob Paulsen Jeff Bennett Maurice LaMarche |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Home Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | Aug 17, 2004 |
| Running time | 68 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (also known as simply The Three Musketeers) is a direct-to-video animated adaptation of the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. As the title suggests, it features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as the three musketeers. This film was directed by Donovan Cook, produced by DisneyToon Studios, and released directly to VHS & DVD in 2004 by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
[edit] Plot
The movie opens with Troubadour, a French-speaking turtle with a love for songs, reminding the narrator (who, as seen in a quick frame, is a donkey) for a television show that he promised the turtle that he would use his songs in the day's show. The narrator silently breaks his promise and walks away from the turtle. But he doesn't look where he's going and falls in a hole in the floor right when the show is about to begin. As a result, Troubadour has to tell a story for the television show. He tells the story of The Three Musketeers.
"Our story begins in the gutter", he says, where Mickey, Donald, and Goofy (and Mickey's dog Pluto) are young street urchins, presumably orphans, who, while being robbed by masked bandits (played by the Beagle Boys), are saved by the Royal Musketeers (Athos, Aramis and Porthos). After that event, a kind musketeer gives Mickey his hat. Then the three friends dream of being great musketeers some day. Years later, the three are working as janitors and are still dreaming of musketeers, in spite of their flaws: Donald is a coward, Goofy is an idiot (and the scene involves an operator saying that the line is disconnected), and Mickey is too small - at least, according to Captain Pete of the Royal Musketeers. This leaves the three downhearted.
Meanwhile, Minnie Mouse, princess of France, and her lady-in-waiting Daisy Duck are in the palace discussing Minnie's obsession with finding her "one true love." Daisy says that she must marry someone of royal blood, and Minnie insists that she cannot marry someone she does not love. Minnie says the man she loves will "stride into the room, light will glow from him, she will hear music, he will bring her flowers. But she will know he's the one when he makes her laugh. Minnie then takes a walk in the palace garden and barely escapes with her life when the unseen Beagle Boys attempt to drop a safe on her.
The Beagles run to tell their boss, Captain Pete, that they failed the job, and Pete gets upset because they were really supposed to kidnap the princess ("I didn't say 'Drop a safe on her', I said 'Keep her safe!'") before the opera, which is when he plans to take over the kingdom. Just then, Pete's lieutenant, Clarabelle Cow, tells Pete that Princess Minnie is requesting his presence. Pete goes to the princess, who tells him that she wants musketeer bodyguards. Pete, knowing that getting skilled musketeers would jeopardize his plans of kidnapping Minnie, appoints Mickey, Donald, and Goofy to protect her.
When the three "musketeers" meet Princess Minnie, she believes Mickey to be her true love. The boys are so caught up in the moment of wanting to make a good first impression, that when Daisy came back with a tray of cheese for Minnie and they see a knife that was meant to cut the cheese with, they tackled her thinking she was a villian. While Minnie and Daisy, protected by Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, are on a journey, the Beagle Boys jump on the carriage they're traveling in. Donald immediately gets afraid and hides inside the carriage, and Goofy, not realizing that the figure sitting by him is a bad guy, is easily defeated, leaving Mickey to fight by himself. Mickey is also easily defeated, leaving Donald (who had been pushed out from inside the carriage by Minnie and Daisy) alone to fight. Donald knocks himself off of the carriage in response to "Boo!" from one of the Beagles. Mickey, Donald, and Goofy rush to rescue the princess, only to find her and Daisy in a tower with the Beagles.The entrance door was locked, Goofy told his fellow musketeers to stand back. But Mickey opened the door to find a rolling Goofy roll past the Beagle Boys and out of the tower.After getting hit by things,Goofy gets kicked (by a cow) back to the tower rolling past the Beagle Boys again. Mickey and Goofy, with no help from Donald, manage to knock (by doing what Goofy did) the Beagles out of the tower and rescue Minnie and Daisy. The five head back to Paris. After that, Mickey was nervously trying to untie Minnie making an excuse that it was kind of tight. Unfortunently though, it didn't work out as he planed because the rope came untied, but it kind of seemed to pop open insted of gracefully falling to the ground. The rope fell all over Minnie and mostly Mickey who then seemed very embarrased then smiled and giggled nerveously and said "oops" which made Minnie laugh. So then the two instantly fell in love(not counting the scene where the meet for the very first time).
Then the two love birds then are then enter a montouge of romantic scenes starting of when the two are seen strolling in a park. Afterwards, they run up behind a wagon full of hay and Mickey then lifted her up onto the wagon, but he tripped and then Minnie grabed his hand and helped him up. Only then did Mickey realize they were holding hands and he smiled and didnt let go. Then a bunch of hay fell on top of the two. And at night they are then seen on a boat and Mickey pretends to yawn and puts his arm on Minnies sholder, who then leans her head on Mickeys sholder, and then he scoots closer to her. Next they walk through a beautiful indoor garden hand in hand. And finally the day has come to an end and Mickey seems upset that they have to let go of eachothers hands but eventually does. When they do Mickey and Minnie look longingly into eachothers eyes and smile at eachother. And finally, Minnie runs up to Mickey, takes of his hat and covers their faces up with it, and kisses him on the lips. Mickey then makes a lovey dovey face as Minnie throws his hat back to him and says "Bonne Nuit". His hat then lands on perfectly on his head with his goofy face and then faints.
Needless to say, Pete is furious that the Beagle Boys failed in their task and realizes that those three heroes are more of a threat than he thought. While on night duty, Goofy is lured away from the palace by Clarabelle. The Beagle Boys appear before Donald, capture him, and try to do away with him, but he escapes and tells the whole story to Mickey before running off, leaving Mickey by himself (Donald was wearing his original clothes from the classic cartoon). Mickey is then captured by Pete, who chains him up in a dungeon that will flood when the tide comes in.
Meanwhile, Clarabelle is about to throw a chained Goofy to his death off a bridge, when Goofy wins her heart with his "numbskull charm". The two later falls in love. So she lets Goofy go to rescue Mickey. Goofy then finds Donald (who was under him and Clarabelle), who, after some convincing by Troubadour, goes with Goofy to help Mickey by ripping his clothes off and putting on his hat.
The two arrive just in time and, after Mickey regains consciousness, they go to the opera, rescue the princess, and defeat Captian Pete. After she is rescued, Goofy and Clarabelle fall in love, Daisy and Donald fall in love, and last but most certianly not least, Minnie yells C'et l'amore and Mickey and Minnie share in a passionate and romantic kiss. Later Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, are dubbed royal musketeers by Minnie Mouse.
[edit] Trivia
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- A113 gag: The carriage that has Mickey held as captive has a licence plate that says "A-113".
- When Pete brings Mickey to the island prison, he quotes part of the Mickey Mouse March ("Hey there, Hi there, Ho there, You're as welcome as can be."). Then, when is leaving Mickey to drown, he mentions he's going to a show-stopping number he likes to call "I Just Can't Wait to Be King", referencing the Lion King song of the same name.
- This is Minnie's only appearance with a bang (a tuft of hair between her eyes acting as a fringe).
- A hidden Mickey is clearly visible when Goofy and Donald arrive to rescue him. As Mickey lets go of the breath he'd been holding, the bubbles float up and arrange themselves into a Mickey.
- Both Mickey and Donald wear their original clothing at points in the film. Mickey's is revealed under his uniform during a fight with one of the Beagles (he then quickly makes his cheery, best-known pose before the shot changes). Donald's is shown when Mickey tells him that as long as they wear their uniforms, they have to protect Minnie. In reply, Donald tears off his to reveal his sailors attire. Unlike Mickey's (which would be classed as a cameo), Donald wear his until he is convinced to return to save Mickey.
- The Beagle Boys are completely remodeled, looking and sounding nothing like the gangsters they were in the past; they now wear hoods, are more of a greyish color and the two taller ones (voiced by Jeff Bennett) have British accents while "Shorty" (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) has a French accent. As a result, they are the only characters in the movie to not be voiced by their usual voice actors.
- The opera in the movie contains songs from the musical The Pirates Of Penzance by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert in no particular order. The Songs in question are "With cat- like tread", "Poor wand'ring one", "Climbing over rocky mountain" and "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"
- The Goofy holler can be heard by Goofy and Clarabelle in this movie.
- The piece in which Donald says to Pete "How's this for a coward?" and pokes him in the eyes was edited out when the film was aired on Disney Channel and Toon Disney.
- The comic adaptation of the film (published by Gemstone Publishing) included a gag at the end where "Shorty" suggests to Pete that, after they make an escape from prison, they "rob the rich duck clan I heard about in Scotland". This line of course refers to the Beagle Boys' primary adversary, Scrooge McDuck.
