Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
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| Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers | |
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| Directed by | Donovan Cook |
| Written by | David M. Evans Evan Spiliotopoulos |
| Starring | Wayne Allwine Tony Anselmo Bill Farmer Russi Taylor Tress MacNeille Jim Cummings April Winchell Rob Paulsen Jeff Bennett Maurice LaMarche |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Home Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | Aug 17, 2004 |
| Running time | 68 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (also known as simply The Three Musketeers) is a direct-to-video animated adaptation of the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. As the title suggests, it features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as the three musketeers. This film was directed by Donovan Cook, produced by DisneyToon Studios, and released directly to VHS & DVD in 2004 by Walt Disney Home Entertainment.
[edit] Plot
The movie opens with Troubadour, a French-speaking turtle with a love for songs, reminding the narrator (who, as seen in a quick frame, is a donkey) for a television show that he promised the turtle that he would use his songs in the day's show. The narrator silently breaks his promise and walks away from the turtle. But he doesn't look where he's going and falls in a hole in the floor right when the show is about to begin. As a result, Troubadour has to tell a story for the television show. He tells the story of The Three Musketeers.
"Our story begins in the gutter", he says, where Mickey, Donald, and Goofy (and Mickey's dog Pluto) are young street urchins, presumably orphans, who, while being robbed by masked bandits (played by the Beagle Boys), are saved by the Royal Musketeers (Athos, Aramis and Porthos). After that event, a kind musketeer gives Mickey his hat. Then the three friends dream of being great musketeers some day. Years later, the three are working as janitors and are still dreaming of musketeers, in spite of their flaws: Donald is a coward, Goofy is incompetent, and Mickey is too small - at least, according to Captain Pete of the Royal Musketeers. This leaves the three downhearted.
Meanwhile, Minnie Mouse, princess of France, and her lady-in-waiting Daisy Duck are in the palace discussing Minnie's obsession with finding her "one true love." Daisy says that she must marry someone of royal blood, and Minnie insists that she cannot marry someone she does not love. Minnie takes a walk in the palace garden and barely escapes with her life when the unseen Beagle Boys attempt to drop a safe on her.
The Beagles run to tell their boss, Captain Pete, that they failed the job, and Pete gets upset because they were really supposed to kidnap the princess ("I didn't say 'Drop a safe', I said 'Keep her safe!'") before the opera, which is when he plans to take over the kingdom. Just then, Pete's lieutenant, Clarabelle Cow, tells Pete that Princess Minnie is requesting his presence. Pete goes to the princess, who tells him that she wants musketeer bodyguards. Pete, knowing that getting skilled musketeers would jeopardize his plans of kidnapping Minnie, appoints Mickey, Donald, and Goofy to protect her.
When the three "musketeers" meet Princess Minnie, she believes Mickey to be her true love. While Minnie and Daisy, protected by Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, are on a journey, the Beagle Boys jump on the carriage they're traveling in. Donald immediately gets afraid and hides inside the carriage, and Goofy, not realizing that the figure sitting by him is a bad guy, is easily defeated, leaving Mickey to fight by himself. Mickey is also easily defeated, leaving Donald (who had been pushed out from inside the carriage by Minnie and Daisy) alone to fight. Donald knocks himself off of the carriage in response to "Boo!" from one of the Beagles. Mickey, Donald, and Goofy rush to rescue the princess, only to find her and Daisy in a tower with the Beagles. Mickey and Goofy, with no help from Donald, manage to knock the Beagles out of the tower and rescue Minnie and Daisy. The five head back to Paris, and on the way, Minnie and Mickey fall in love with one another.
Needless to say, Pete is furious that the Beagle Boys failed in their task and realizes that those three heroes are more of a threat then he thought. While on night duty, Goofy is lured away from the palace by Clarabelle. The Beagle Boys appear before Donald, capture him, and try to do away with him, but he escapes and tells the whole story to Mickey before running off, leaving Mickey by himself. Mickey is then captured by Pete, who chains him up in a dungeon that will flood when the tide comes in.
Meanwhile, Clarabelle is about to throw a chained Goofy to his death off a bridge, when Goofy wins her heart with his "numbskull charm". So she lets Goofy go to rescue Mickey. Goofy then finds Donald, who, after some convincing by Troubadour, goes with Goofy to help Mickey.
The two arrive just in time and, after Mickey regains consciousness, they go to the opera, rescue the princess, and are dubbed royal musketeers by Minnie Mouse.
[edit] "All for one, and one for all!"
The motto of the musketeers in the movie is, "All for one, and one for all!" This is interesting because in the novel the motto is, "One for all, and all for one!" The true motto has become rearranged throughout modern culture's use of it.
At the beginning of the movie, Troubadour says that Mickey, Donald, and Goofy must learn the real meaning of this saying, and he writes a song about it. Near the end they realize that they must work together to be good musketeers, therefore discovering the real meaning of the creed.
[edit] Trivia
- Appearing characters:
- A113 gag: The carriage that has Mickey held as captive has a licence plate that says "A-113".
- When Pete brings Mickey to the island prison, he quotes part of the Mickey Mouse March ("Hey there, Hi there, Ho there, You're as welcome as can be."). Then, when is leaving Mickey to drown, he mentions he's going to a show-stopping number he likes to call "I Just Can't Wait to be King", referencing the Lion King song of the same name.
- This is Minnie's only appearance with a bang (a tuft of hair between her eyes acting as a fringe).
- A hidden Mickey is clearly visible when Goofy and Donald arrive to rescue him. As Mickey lets go of the breath he'd been holding, the bubbles float up and arrange themselves into a Mickey.
- Both Mickey and Donald wear their original clothing at points in the film. Mickey's is revealed under his uniform during a fight with one of the Beagles (he also stands in his cheery, best known pose before the scene changes). Donald's is shown when Mickey tells him that as long as they wear their uniforms, they have to protect Minnie. In reply, Donald tears off his to reveal his sailors attire. Unlike Mickey's (which would be classed as a cameo), Donald wear his until he is convinced to return to save Mickey.
- The Beagle Boys are completely remodeled, looking and sounding nothing like the gangsters they were in the past; they now wear hoods, are more of a greyish color and the two taller ones have British accents while "Shorty" has a French accent. As a result, they are the only characters in the movie to not be voiced by their usual voice actors.
