The Walt Disney Company turns 100 this year, so each month IllusiveKen is looking back at its landmark films to better understand the Mouse House - and the film industry it's helped define. This month: Mickey’s Christmas Carol
. Bugs Bunny is the maximum-drama grand dame of the local scene , and Donald Duck the earnest yeoman who’s been in it so long that the local theater director keeps handing him big parts even if nobody can understand what the hell it is he’s saying . It’s how I greatly prefer to look at cartoon adaptations like this: Scrooge McDuck isYou know the story. It’s Christmas Eve and the miserly Scrooge is hard at work dicking over London’s poor and downtrodden.
These portrayals are the selling point of the movie, since even kiddos know the whole story by heart. Jiminy Cricket as the Ghost of Christmas Past, the giant fromas the Ghost of Christmas Present, and perennial villain Pete as the Ghost of Christmas Future are all inspired choices, as are background characters that Disney aficionados will recognize from movies likeIt’s all rendered with wonderful, fluid animation that sells the emotional stakes of the story.
In looking back on a century of Disney, after having written so much about them over the years, it was difficult to find something during their lull period that signified their
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