Mickey's House of Villains
Tags: good versus evil, psychedelic, horror

Plot synopsis:
It is Halloween night at the House of Mouse, and a lot of villains are showing up. Jafar has a trick in store for the usual heroes of the House, but the villains have to wait until midnight for him to unleash it. After a series of cartoons, Jafar, along with his new henchmen Captain James Hook, Cruella de Vil, Ursula the Sea Witch and Hades, takes over the house with a musical number "It's Our House Now!" All the other villains soon join Jafar's plan. The heroes, princesses and other Disney characters are trapped in the kitchen while Mickey and several others are thrown out into the street. They witness the House's name being changed to the House of Villains.
Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Minnie try to take their House back, but Chernabog stops them from entering the building. After another two cartoons, Mickey dresses in his sorcerer outfit from Fantasia (and Fantasia 2000) and challenges Jafar to a magical duel using fireballs. Just when Mickey's sorcerer hat is knocked off, Aladdin escapes from the kitchen, flying on the magic carpet and gives Daisy Duck the magical lamp. Daisy hands it to Mickey who uses the lamp to suck Jafar into it. The rest of the villains run away and the House of Mouse is once again restored.

Review: One Great Classic Get-to-gether.
WARNING: Telling SecretsThis is a greatly put together piece of work, from Lonesome Ghosts to other Halloween classic tales told and starred by the Disney gang.
My favorite part was the Trick or Treat with Donald and his three nephews, and Hazel the witch, when she zaps Donald a few times.
This is one video a Disney fan can not be without.
It should be in every Disney library..
It's Our House Now!.
What a great song!!
Anyway, this House of Mouse movie was much better than the Christmas one.
The concept and plot of the villians was very interesting.
Many of the segments were hysterical.
Especially "How to be Ghost" (or something like that).
You could tell that "How to be a Ghost" was animated very well.
The classic segments were a great addition!
Also, the music and animation matched perfectly for the "Dance of the Goofys" and the "Hansel-mickey and Gretel-minnie".Great movie and the DVD's game was also very well done.10/10.
Good, Fun Disney Moments.
If there's anything I learned by watching both House of Villains and Snowed in at the House of Mouse, it is that the House of Mouse format just doesn't seem to fit as a full-fledged movie.
I definitely enjoy the House of Mouse series, but both these movies just seem to drag on a little too long.This is not to say that I didn't like any of the HOM movies.
I thought all the cartoons showed on the Christmas special were great, and I thought most of the ones on Villains were great too.
However, Villains has the upper hand when it comes to the in-between segments.
The story for Villains was much better and interesting as the Villains tried to take over the House of Mouse.However, that is really just a small part of this movie.
I still think the greatest draw is the animated shorts.
Villains has more of a Halloween theme as they showcase Disney classics like Donald Duck & the Gorilla and Lonesome Ghosts and even new spooky shorts like the hilarious How to Haunt a House.
This cartoon resurrects the classic Goofy How-to cartoons and gives it a paranormal twist.
A narrator instructs Goofy and the viewers on how to properly act like a ghost.
These are the type of cartoons that Goofy is best at as he bumbles and stumbles along trying to scare Donald, who definitely added even more humor to this cartoon.
Even Mickey has a funny cameo.So overall, Mickey's House of Villains has its entertaining moments, but it's nothing too extraordinary.
My suggestion is to check out the whole thing once, and from then on, watch the cartoons and segments you enjoy the most.
There are some good ones in there!My IMDb Rating: 7/10.
Entertaining, if nothing extraordinary.
As a huge Disney fan, I enjoyed this movie.
It was fun and entertaining, while being nothing groundbreaking.
Just for the record, I love the show House of Mouse, it is one of those shows with a great concept and makes me feel all nostalgic.
Mickey's House of Villains had a really interesting idea and made the most of it.Mickey's House of Villains does have its problems though.
The film is too short at only an hour and a quarter or so, and as much as the shorts were so wonderful to watch too much time was spent until the main focus of the story was even introduced.
And I also felt they could have done much more with the ending which felt rushed.Flaws aside, the animation is great I feel and sticks to the style of the show.
I especially liked Jafar's entrance from The Cave of Wonders, talk about a stylish entrance.
The music is a delight as well, the incidental music is really good, but the song It's Our House Now was not only catchy and entertaining it was the highlight of the film.
The dialogue is good, humorous often, and Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald are great to watch.
Other than It's Our House Now, two assets stood out.
One was seeing those shorts, How to Haunt a House was hilarious, Donald and the Gorilla was delightful for a first time viewer and Lonesome Ghosts is a Halloween classic as is Trick or Treat.
Dance of the Goofys was quite cute and funny, and I enjoyed Mickey and Minnie's take on Hansel and Gretel especially for the use of Danse Macabre.
The second asset was seeing all those villains, Jafar steals the show, but Ursula, Chernabog, Cruella DeVil, Captain Hook and Hades are also delightful to watch.
It was nice to see Maleficent and the Wicked Queen as well, but they should have been given more to say.Overall, while nothing groundbreaking it is a very entertaining film.
7/10 Bethany Cox. classic Disney fun!.
though of coarse not as good as the actual movie but a nice addition to the straight to video bunch I was looking through my home video collection and for some reason I got caught with the Disney bug.
I just had to watch one.
but I could not decide until I saw this, and I was ecstatic to watch.
I really could not remember most of it since I haven't it since 2002 when I was 9, but even at age 14 that old Walt Disney charm still has the same effect on me, the same way it did when I was younger.8/10 see it if you love those Disney villains!!!GO Disney!.
Not that good.
2001's Snowed in at the House of Mouse was better put together.
It made more sense.
To many short cartoons in the House of Villains, to little club scenes.
Jafar says that he's taking over at the start of the film, good opening by the way.
Then the shorts, couple more snipplets of the House but nothing gets the story moving.
Then at the end Jafar and the villains take over, kick the Fav Five and Co out of the club only to be taken back after another cartoon or two.The collections of shorts in a HoM shell have the potential to be good if Disney decides to cut down with the cartoons and put more story in the House itself.
Next year...
Valentines Day, 2004...
Eastern.
There enough potential themes for future movies..
Die Hard Disney Fans Might Be Dissatisfied.
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 SPOILERSFirst, 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!.
Cheesy and cute, but sometimes irrelevant!!!.
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!!.
A lousy excuse to get more viewers.
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..
Recycling saves the planet; not my memories of classic characters.
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..
The villains all too briefly take over.
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.