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Mickey's House of Villains is a fun, collaborative Disney film that allows the audience to get ready for the Halloween season. Whether you are two years old or ninety years old, I think that you will enjoy at least part of this movie. Disney pulls in all sorts of characters: from Piglet to Ursula, you will likely see at least one familiar Disney character in this film. The music kept the movie going, which made the movie so much better. The music in the film and the character involvement is nicely put together, but there are several things that I think could be better in the film. The movie starts off by showing the viewer that it is Halloween night at the House of Mouse. Coincidentally, a lot of the villains from many Disney movies made an appearance. After this introduction, multiple cartoons are shown to the audience. From Donald Duck tricking his nephews, to Mickey's Night Before Halloween, to Goofy's Ghost adventures, to many other cartoons that put the audience in a spooky mood. In between some of the cartoons, the movie focused on the audience watching the cartoons. Whether it was a transition to the next cartoon or insight on the villains' next move, the movie took a break from the ghostly, but cute cartoons. As the movie went on, the villains eventually took over the show and kicked Mickey and his gang out. "The House of Mouse" turned into "The House of Villains"... clever right?? After some speculation, Mickey put his wizard hat on and saved the show. The first thing that would make the movie better is that it could have been way shorter. I felt that the movie dragged on. Yes, each cartoon was clever and spooky in its own way; however, the movie could have been faster paced if they cut out some unnecessary cartoons. For example, I think that the cartoon that had the "Lonesome Ghosts" in it could have been cut. The characters in this cartoon were irrelevant and not in another movie. I was confused on what they were supposed to be; they did not even look like ghosts! At one point, I thought they were imitations of the Marshmallow Man. All the ghosts that I have seen have never had noses, and these had red/pinkish noses which made me really confused. Anyways, this was not the only scene I felt was pointless; some of the other scenes could have been cut to make the movie more enjoyable and shorter. I really enjoyed the movie when the camera showed the audience. I was able to see many familiar Disney characters. However, I felt like these moments did not happen as often as they should have. Since I really enjoyed these heartfelt moments, I wanted to see many more of them. Whether this be the villains acting in mischief or Mickey trying to crack a joke, I think the movie would be more complete if it consisted of more audience participation. Lastly, some scenes needed music to spice it up a little bit. As the viewer sees and hears in the cartoon mirroring Hansel and Gretel, as well as "Dance of the Goofy's", the music makes these cartoons so much more entertaining! If some of the other cartoons had music to underlay what is shown, the movie would be much more captivating. Overall, I would give this movie a 6 out of 10. I think the Christmas version is better, but this is still a film that children would enjoy. The parents might be bored half way through, but if the children enjoy it, that is what matters. I would like to see an updated version of this film, maybe involving Pixar characters!!

I liked 'The House of Mouse' cartoons when I was a kid, so this longer (not that long though) film was of interest to me.

As other reviewers have said, the plot involving the villains only makes up half of the rather thin running time, with the rest being filled by old Disney shorts to make up the rest. Don't get me wrong, these are entertaining, but it's not what this film was billed as being.

I liked the fact that though they didn't exactly have much to do, Disney did at least make an effort to get the original voice actors back to play the villains. You would automatically know if James Woods wasn't doing the voice of Hades, and these little bits of attention to detail elevate an otherwise average film.

Wow, where do I begin with this mess of a "movie" First off let me start out by saying i never really watched House of Mouse that often, maybe once a month if that, however I do understand the premise. Mickey runs a club where they play old and new Disney cartoons staring Mickey Donald and Goofy. I never really liked it because they use really cheep versions of their usually beautifully rendered and animated characters. This "movie" however was just a lousy hyped up excuse to get people to tune in.

It starts off Jafar actually saying that everyone has to wait till "midnight" for his trick to take place, so that's a good 40 minuets into the movie. We sit through some classic Mickey Mouse cartoons and a new one I never saw before. Note that this is the only reason I gave the movie 3 stars instead of none at all. When Jafar finally decides to kick mickey out, we are treated to an almost catchy song, it's not a bad song, its just not a good one ether. The villains take over and whats the first thing they do? Start playing some new cartoons again. Mickey tries in between cartoons to get his club back and finally succeeds in what may be the dumbest ending I had ever witnessed. Stock footage of Aladdin gives Mickey the Genie's golden lamp, Mickey rubs the lamp while all the villains except for Jafar run away and he gets sucked into the lamp. I challenge you to find a more rushed ending.

All in all, this wasn't that bad. It had a good premise, and a good collection of cartoons. As a die hard Disney fan I had just a couple of complaints. WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

First, the House of Villains segment, kind of the wraparound part is short and ends rather abruptly. Its as if the animators got tired of drawing and looked for a quick way to end this. They included a lot of cartoons in between, some new and some classic. Why didn't they just release A Disney Halloween (AKA Halloween Treat) on DVD. My second complaint is the types of villains that got the most attention. Very few classic ones did. Malificent from Sleeping Beauty had only one line while the Wicked Queen from Snow White had only one. Not a bad movie, but I expected more. Word of advice: Rent it first before buying it!

Might contain possible spoilers (Not that anything in this film is new or will even mildly surprise you for that matter)

Why does Disney feel the need to recycle everything they ever made into oblivion? Sure it's cheaper for them, but after a while, wouldn't you think there overall quality and the way people think of them would drop off. House Of Villains is a despicable display of cartoon crossovers that make absolutely no sense at all. Some signs of the total disregard for previous films in this are: The voices don't even remotely match up and Iago is evil again (Since when?!) I know that these films are directly towards children but there was a time when all could enjoy Disney films. Even the movie's musical number (which had been Disney's specialty for years) stunk. I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone even the very young. All I can is that if more of these movies of the same caliber are released, it's only a matter of time before some small animation studio surpasses Disney in overall quality.