The Three Musketeers
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Movie Reviews of The Three Musketeers
Movie Review: Good movie
Summary: 4 Stars
For a Mickey Mouse movie it's good. My 2 yr old loves it and watches it over and over. It's not hard to sit through for adults either.Movie Review: cute movie
Summary: 4 Stars
It's really sweet simple and cute. My 2 year old loves it and we can stand it too. I have seen it 5 times now. It was worth the price.Movie Review: A great movie for Disney's Big 3
Summary: 3 Stars
I am really glad that Disney is starting to wheel out it's classic stars again. While I do enjoy the feature films like Lion King, Tarzan, Peter Pan, etc.. I think their is nothing more "Disney" than the original stable of characters that made the Disney company the family studio.
Disney recently has come out with the "Disney Treasures collections" and several of those are the old Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto cartoons. When I watch those with my son I always end up thinking two things.
1. I wish they would display the original shorts more
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2. I wish they would make more shorts for the classic characters.
I'm so glad that Disney has started doing that with the Once upon a Christmas series and now with "The 3 Musketeers" And I think all of these new ventures into Mickey are worth while and done excellently.
The comedy in this movie is wonderful. There is some undertone humor only the adults will get but it's not raunchy or inappropriate, and the slapstick humor is wonderful. Disney truly made an excellent movie for the family here and I hope all the Disney lovers out there or just families looking for a good movie will pick this up.
I know this in some ways, was a dangerous undertaking for Disney because Mickey is more than a character, but he really is an icon. So if you portray him in a way that the public doesn't like you can have a severe backlash, but Disney handled Mickey's latest outing with all the class Walt Disney himself would have wanted.
Also, there are a few characters in the movie that really surprised me.
1. Pete: was great! a wonderful villain all the way back to Steamboat Willie.
2. Donald: The attitude and personality of Donald has changed drastically in this movie. He's gone from the hothead to the passive coward. I found that a little unsettling; I hope that trend does not continue.
3. Clarabelle the cow: Clara was a regular in the old (and I mean Old) Disney cartoon shorts, but has been MIA for like 60 years. So to see her again was great.
4. The turtle narrator: He was a new character and was really a great storyteller, I hope he sticks around for the next Mickey movie.
Movie Review: Solid and entertaining direct-to-DVD release from Disney
Summary: 3 Stars
First, thanks to amazon.com for sending this along for me to review. I'm normally not the kids animation type but I did enjoy "The Three Musketeers" which ranks up there in regards to direct-to-video Disney movies. I found that it was good for about ages 3 to 10.
Mickey, Donald & Goofy dream of becoming Musketeers serving France. Until then, they work as janitors a job they're particularly ill suited to do. When Pete the Captain of the Musketeers plots to overthrow the French monarchy and put Pete into power. Mickey, Donald and Goofy must suddenly become Musketeers to help Princess Minnie from being taken prisoner and save France. There's a number of songs that use classic pieces as the basis and these are quite fun.
The animation is fluid and more than a cut above most of the TV cartoons we see. While the designs of the characters are simpler, they have much more character than most of the standard Yugi-O good guys and bad guys. "Three Musketeers" really is a throw back to the "Mickey & The Beanstock" style cartoons that Disney made in the 40's. With winning direction and writing, "Three Musketeers" will provide solid family entertainment. The handsome backgrounds look terrific and the extras will keep kids engaged beyond the movie.
I particularly liked "Backstage Disney" with a comical commentary from "the cast" (although it is scene specific)and "The Many Hats of Mickey" which takes a glimpse back through the 20th Century at Mickey Mouse's evolution with clips from cartoons of the past. We also get to see deleted scenes (most of which aren't finished and are simply line drawings to be filled in later by the animators and colored by the colorists). There's also an option to "create" your own opera in an interactive section. It's probably sometime the kids will play with one or two times.
Overall, a very good cartoon for kids up to the tween years, "The Three Musketeers" has a lot of daring sword fights and enough swashbuckling adventure to keep tikes interested. For adults, it's not a bad time and not as mind numbing as most of the material made for kids today.
Movie Review: Should've been so much better
Summary: 3 Stars
Well this was the best direct to DVD movie from Disney I have seen. That said, it's no feature animation. It plays more like an extended Mouse Works show. Cute, with a few real laughs, but a very flimsy story. The characterizations of Daisy and Clarabell have been drastically altered (and Clarabell seems to have lost her udder). Now Daisy is the worldly-wise mentor of Minnie and Clarabell is a more villainous character. These changes may be just because the characters are "playing" roles in a story, but the more "contemporary" feel of these characters didn't sit well with me.
Strongest is the animation and voice work. Production wise, the feel is of a top-notch Saturday Morning cartoon. I wish the backgrounds were more detailed and textured, but it is a direct to DVD movie. The children in the audience seemed to really like the movie and appropriately so, as it seems more aimed to children than a general audience. Though there is an occasional wink at an more adult viewer.
One other thing I really didn't like was the music which is all set to widely known classical arrangements such as The Nutcracker Suite. The idea might've worked if the lyrics weren't so bland. If it was an attempt to be Fantasia or Sleeping Beauty, it didn't work. It's undoubtedly the weakest part of the movie.
Still there is no denying the appeal of seeing the original Mickey gang together again in a new story. That was the biggest thrill for me. I would love to see more money and time invested in stories with these characters. I'd suggest renting this before you buy.