Well after seeing Saving Mr. Banks, Meg too me to her house for some hot chocolate, exchanging Christmas gifts, and watching this movie. Since I reviewed Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, Meg thought I really should watch and review this movie too. So...yeah, here's Mickey's twice upon a Christmas.
Plot: Just like the last movie, this movie contains short stories of Mickey and his friends during the Christmas season. The first story has to do with Minnie and Daisy rivaling in an ice skating competition, then we have Huey, Dewy and Louie trying to breaking to Santa's workshop in attempts to be in his good list, Max trying to avoid being embarrassed by his dad, Goofy in front of his girlfriend Mona, Donald failing to get into the Christmas spirit, and Pluto deciding to run away after Mickey gets mad at him for destroying his Christmas decorations.
I realize after looking at the review to the previous film that I wasn't very specific as to what possibly made it good or bad in any way, so let me briefly try again here while comparing it to this film. While Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas is by no means a classic like A Christmas Story or It's a Wonderful Life (oh yeah. I planned to finally review that this year didn't I?), it was telling us these nice stories of Mickey and the gang that did have a decent heart to it for the family to enjoy whenever it was Christmas time. Mickey's Twice upon a Christmas on the other hand - while gave us more stories, was practically lower then lazy with its writing. The result is a film that is not only cheesy, but was also unbelievably rushed and even disturbingly forced when it came to what some of our most loved characters are doing in this film. I think my biggest example of the actions of the characters being forced for me personally was with Huey, Dewy and Louie's story. It's not a surprise that they can be very rowdy boys, as some of you can be aware from the previous film and especially some episodes from Ducktales. But how they were being naughty and where trying to help themselves get presents just seemed kind of carried away and out of character. As for being rushed, Minnie and Daisy's story was gives too bluntly, but even that wasn't as bad as Max and Goofy's story with how almost the entire thing was told through a less then four minute song. Plus - and this is just a personal problem from growing up with A Goofy Movie, what in the heck was with Max now dating this totally different girl? HE'S SUPPOSE TO BE WITH ROXANNE!!!!!!! GGGAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! BAD FORM MAKERS OF THE FILM!!! THAT'S VERY BAD FORM!!!! The rest of the stories where just cheesy and had no real effort to them.
And that's my review for Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas. While the first film did manage to have some heart to it, it sequel clearly was not really trying to anything in particular apart from being effortless, rushed and sometimes forced, making it a boring movie that is not recommended for even the youngest of children.
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