It was fun to see some of the old Disney cartoons again. Mickey and his pals have their hands full when the wicked Jafar teams up with Cruella, Hades, Ursula, Captain Hook, Maleficent and the rest of their cruel crew in a wild attempt to turn the House of Mouse into the House of Villains. The joke is on him though, when he is mistaken for a slasher-movie style loonatic on the loose! They include Jafar from Aladdin, Hades from Hercules, Ursula from The Little Mermaid, Captain Hook from Peter Pan, Cruella DeVille from 101 Dalmations, and many more. The best meets the baddest when Mickey comes face-to-face with all of Disney's greatest villains. Donald and the nephews hear the radio warning, and the kids are scared to death. The best of the new adventures is Mickey's Mechanical House, in which the mouse moves into a futuristic house which goes disastrously wrong. Following this, we stay at what is now the House of Villains.
Another shows a witch and Huey, Dewy, and Louie team up to teach Uncle Donald a lesson about playing tricks instead of handing out Halloween candy. But everything sounds great and clear. Huey, Dewey, and Louie go to their uncle's door for the title act, and true to his nature, Donald tricks them. Colors are vibrant and not at all washed out. I bought this for my friend as a joke because we used to watch this as kids and I was ultimately shocked that Amazon even had this.
It's an anthology set on Halloween in the titular house, a nightclub where characters--including Donald Duck, Goofy, Jafar, Cruella de Vil, and Captain Hook--gather to watch Disney cartoons. The picture is 4:3 and is generally very sharp, though varies a little with the source material. Offhand, I can't think of anything that was inappropriate in this program, and I'm a hardcore Disney fanatic. This new house he buys is a futuristic one where everything seemed perfect. All of them have turned up at Mickey's house to watch a parade of Disney short cartoons - some of which appear to be older productions an opening Halloween piece starring Donald Duck, for example and some of which look to be more recent efforts one where Goofy tries - rather unsuccessfully - to haunt Donald's house. Mickey, with help from Minnie, Donald, Pluto, and Goofy, try to stop the wicked Jafar, who teams up with Cruella, Hades, Ursula, Captain Hook, and Maleficent in a wild attempt to turn the House of Mouse into the House Of Villains.
There's a perfunctory framing plot with the villains taking over the House, but the 65 minutes is almost entirely filled by eight short cartoons. Another is in the format of the old instructional cartoons featuring Goofy. Having just made the move to college, I was disappointed at the prospect of spending my Halloween night alone, with no trick-or-treating, and even worse, none of those Disney Channel specials I was always so crazy about. Things go wrong when a mean kid traps the king of the Goofy fairies and it is up to Goofy to save him. Who wouldn't want to see that?! No one, not even me, would ever think it'd be a Halloween tradition of my family's to this day, let alone an all-time fave Halloween classic of mine! Decide for yourself, see it and then you will see what a great tape it is and how perfect for Halloween or anytime when you want a good old-fashioned scare without too much trauma! Do not expect a feature film. Or will Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto and Goofy close the curtain on this band of villains? Seuss story since it is narrated in the same poetic way.
The hospitality's not so hot, but the frantic, feature-length dice of shorts and devious doings will find Disney devotees dancing in the aisles. Packed with nonstop mischief and mayhem, and featuring an array of classic animated gems, Mickey's House Of Villains will have the whole family in stitches. Fans of Fantasia and its follow-up will love this one, as it is presented in the same way as those movies. Or will Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto and Goofy close the curtain on this band of villains? Can Jafar and company take the house? The transfer itself is fine, as you'd expect. He runs into a little trouble by choosing skeptical Donald as his victim though. Another cartoon shows Mickey move into a new home full of futuristic gadgets run amok.
Here, Mickey gets tired of not being able to sleep in his house because of all the noises it makes for being so old so he decides to buy a new one. Though the title leads you to expect much more of them; their time will arrive, and appears later in this review. The sound is good, except for the three vintage animations, which are in mono. The target audience is small children and taken in that context, it's a cute film that keeps their attention. In this one, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy work as ghostbusters. While a couple of the cartoons were pretty funny, the packaging makes this seem like it'll be a movie about the villains taking over the House of Mouse, and as other reviews have mentioned, such is only an afterthought and a cool song.
The best meet the baddest when Mickey comes face to face with all of Disney's greatest villains. Obviously, you don't need to be told that Goofy's schemes get spoiled each and every time by Donald. Once there, the antagonists decide to make the House of Mouse theirs and turn it into the House of Villains. Other Disney fans owe it to themselves to at least rent out of curiosity. The film starts out in the club establishing that it is Halloween night. Goofy stars and gets killed just for this, of course and turned into a ghost in order to show, step by step, how to perform the title act.
In this one, Donald and his nephews are at his house when they hear on the radio that a very dangerous gorilla is roaming free. She has watched it countless times in the few days since purchase. However, I can't complain about the quality of the shorts themselves - these are some of the funnier animated shorts from the studio that I've seen and I suppose I'd rather sit through some of Disney's A-list material than a newly produced C-grade offering. The witch Hazel decides to help the triplets by forcing Donald to give them the candy. Features include one where Donald and his nephews take on an escaped bear in their house.