An excellent direct to video animated Disney movie.
This movie is broken up into three segments. Each of these segments is connected by narration by Kelsey Grammer and a theme of spreading kindness and joy at Christmas times. Each segment is a cartoon featuring Disney's main cartoon stars. The first is a Donald Duck cartoon, where Huey, Dewey and Louie wish that it was Christmas every day. When this wish comes true, they find out how to make Christmas truly special. The second is a Goofy cartoon where Goofy tries to convince his son Max (younger here than he was in Goof Troop) that there is a Santa Claus. The last is an adaption of The Gift of the Magi starring Mickey and Minnie.
Each of these segments is truly delightful. They are very sentimental, but the sentimentality works perfectly. These stories are truly heartwarming and give you the perfect warm Christmas feeling. While part of that is due to the love, we Disney fans already have for these characters, there is much more to it than that. Each of these stories has a nice message about sharing Christmas joy with others, but none of them tell this message in a forced or heavy-handed way. Instead, the message feels like a perfectly natural part of the story. There is some real Disney magic in this film. Naturally this movie also features a lot of slapstick humor. The slapstick humor is pretty good. However, this slapstick gets more smiles and giggles than all out laughs. The gags are clever but lack the perfect timing of the short films of the 1930's, 40's and 50's.
This movie is a delight for Disney fans and lovers of Christmas.
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