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Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas is a 1999 American direct-to-video animated Christmas anthology comedy fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Walt Disney Video Premiere and released by Walt Disney Home Video on November 9, 1999. The film includes three features: Stuck on Christmas (featuring Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Daisy Duck, and Scrooge McDuck), A Very Goofy C…
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas is a 1999 American direct-to-video animated Christmas anthology comedy fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Walt Disney Video Premiere and released by Walt Disney Home Video on November 9, 1999. The film includes three features: Stuck on Christmas (featuring Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Daisy Duck, and Scrooge McDuck), A Very Goofy Christmas (featuring Goofy, Max, and Pete) and Mickey and Minnie's Gift of the Magi (featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Pete, Daisy Duck, and Mortimer Mouse). Other Disney characters also make cameos in the film. Stuck on Christmas is inspired by the 1892 short story "Christmas Every Day" by William Dean Howells and Mickey and Minnie's Gift of the Magi is based on the 1905 short story "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry.
Upon the release of Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, the film received mixed reviews from critics. However, it was better-received by audiences, and the annual celebration of Christmas has helped make the film a holiday cult classic.
A sequel, titled Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, was released on November 9, 2004. Unlike its predecessor, the sequel is produced in CGI rather than traditional animation and is composed of five segments.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie wake up one Christmas morning and run downstairs, excited to open their presents before Daisy, Scrooge, and Gertie arrive. The boys then take their new sleds from Donald without reading the attached card and go sledding. After dinner, as Donald, Daisy, Scrooge, and Gertie sing carols, the boys play with their new toys. Having enjoyed the day immensely, the trio doesn't want it to end, so they wish upon a star to have Christmas every day.
They find the next morning that their wish has been granted, and at first, they are joyful. After a few days, however, they realize that every Christmas will be exactly the same, tiring them out greatly. The following day, the trio decides to "liven things up" with a series of tricks and pranks, including swapping the cooked turkey with a live one at dinner. The turkey runs amok through the house, and chaos ensues as Donald gives chase. The boys, distraught at what they have done, read Donald and Daisy's card that came with the sleds and realize Christmas isn't about presents or decorations; it is about love, caring, and being with family. The boys vow to make the next day the best Christmas possible to make up for their actions.
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As the boys spread love and cheer by making breakfast for Donald, kissing Gertie, and helping Daisy with dinner, Donald eventually becomes suspicious as to why the boys are acting so nice. That evening, after Donald interferes with his family's carol-singing, Huey realizes Donald's suspicions, and he, Dewey, and Louie give their uncle a sailboat made out of their sleds as a gift. Genuinely touched by this gift, Donald hugs his nephews. With the boys having finally realized the true meaning of Christmas, the time loop ends, leading to the day after Christmas.
Goofy and his son Max prepare to mail a letter to Santa Claus. After a series of shenanigans involving them attempting to catch up with a mail truck that has driven off, their neighbour Pete tells Max that Santa does not exist, saying that he can't fly around the world in one night. Things begin to get worse when Goofy poses as Santa for some kids of a family in need, making Max believe that he tricked him upon discovering that this "Santa" is actually just his father. Goofy is determined to prove to Max that Santa does exist, and stays up on the house's roof all night on Christmas Eve to keep an eye out for him and photograph him, while a distraught Max just wants to move on and wishes for Goofy to do the same.
After mistaking a robber (who was robbing Pete's house) for Santa, Goofy eventually gives up hope of Santa coming. Max then does everything that Goofy did to try and cheer him up, including posing as a Santa himself, although Goofy soon finds out. The real Santa actually comes and gives Max the snowboard he had asked for earlier (as well as burying Pete in snow as punishment, rather than giving him any presents, for his disbelief and cruelly messing with Max's beliefs). When Max asks Goofy if Santa forgot his present, Goofy answers that every year he always asks for and receives the same gift: Max's happiness.
Mickey wants to get Minnie a gold chain for her one heirloom, her watch, so he works at Crazy Pete's Tree Lot. Minnie wants to give Mickey a Christmas present as well, so she works to get a bonus at a department store. When Mickey offers a small tree to a poor family unable to buy a ten-footer tree, his greedy supervisor, Pete, steals Mickey's money and dismisses him. Pete inadvertently puts his lit cigar into his pocket with Mickey's money without noticing, which triggers a sequence that ends up setting himself, the money, including the 10-footers on fire.
Meanwhile, Minnie is called into her supervisor Mortimer Mouse's office to receive her bonus for her hard work – only for her to realize it's actually a fruitcake. After playing music for a local toy drive with the Firehouse Five, Mickey realizes he can trade his harmonica for the gold chain. The shop closes just when he gets there, and the owner is uninterested in the harmonica, but reconsiders after hearing Mickey play it. Back at Minnie's house, Mickey gives her the chain for her watch, which she reveals she sold to buy Mickey a case for his harmonica, which he also no longer has. Fortunately, Mickey and Minnie see how far they went to profess their love and are content with the fact that they will still be able to celebrate a happy Christmas with each other.
The main film ends with the main characters from all three segments gathering together to sing "Jingle Bells", "Deck the Halls", and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".
