Mumble, Diego And Swifty: The Three Musketeers

## **OVERVIEW**

Mumble, Diego And Swifty: The Three Musketeers is the 17th film of Warner Bros. Films. The Film tells the story how the trio become the musketeers. They are going to stop Dr. Blowhole with his evil plan.

## **THE PLOT**

The Film begins with Surly Squirrel, who loves songs, backstage of a show trying to remind the narrator that he promised to use one of Surly Squirrel's songs. The narrator ignores the squireel and breaks his promise, but accidentally falls through a trapdoor just as the show is about to begin. Consequently, Surly Squirrel is ushered to tell the audience the story at the last minute. Panicking, Surly Squirrel quickly picks up The Three Musketeers storybook and begins reading.

Mumble, Diego, Swifty, and Mr. Feng are street urchins, who, while being robbed by masked bandits (played by the lobster boys) are saved by the Royal Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan. Mumble is gifted one of their hats, inspiring them to follow their example and become musketeers; however, in the present day, Mumble, Diego and Swifty are lowly janitors for the musketeers' headquarters and their dream was still far away. Unfortunately, they are very clumsy and constantly cause messes. After an incident disturbs the captain of the musketeers, portrayed by Dr. Blowhole, he scornfully tells the trio that they cannot become musketeers because Diego is a "coward", Swifty is a "doofus" and Mumble is "just too small", leaving the three downhearted.

Meanwhile, Gloria, princess of France and her lady-in-waiting, Jade, are in a palace discussing Gloria's obsession with finding her "one true love". Jade says that she must marry someone who is of royal blood, and Gloria insists that she cannot marry someone she does not love. Gloria says she will know "the one" when he makes her laugh. Gloria then takes a walk in the palace garden and barely survives an attempt on her life as the Lobster Boys attempt to drop a safe on her.

The Lobster Boys run to tell their boss, revealed to be Dr. Blowhole, that they were not successful in dropping the safe on Gloria. In response, Dr. Blowhole clobbers them for misunderstanding his orders, saying he wanted them to "keep her safe" until he can take over the kingdom. The Lobster Boys are misunderstood and are punished by Shira, who all fall into a short pit. Dr. Blowhole is then summoned by Gloria, who demands he produce musketeer bodyguards. Realizing that skilled musketeers will jeopardize his plan to overthrow the princess, Dr. Blowhole quickly goes to the janitor room and tells Mumble, Diego and Swifty that they passed his test and have what it takes to become musketeers, knowing they will be easy to get rid of. After meeting each other and attacking Jade by mistake, Gloria falls in love with Mumble and feels safe at the hands of his bravery. Dr. Blowhole gives a chance to the Lobster Boys to kidnap Jade and Gloria, so he can become King tomorrow when he is announced at the Opera.

While Jade and Gloria are protected by Mumble, Diego and Swifty, who all go on a journey in a carriage, they are all ambushed by the Lobster Boys who attack and fight Mumble, Diego and Swifty. Swifty hides, with Jade and Gloria trying to persuade him to fight back, and Diego is easily defeated and thrown off the carriage. Mumble is also defeated and thrown off, leaving only Swifty, but he is too scared and throws himself off. The trio are stranded, but Mumble encourages his friends not to lose hope when Dr. Blowhole made them become musketeers.

The trio rush to rescue Jade and Gloria from an abandoned tower. When they are unable to open the door, Swifty tries to break it down, but Mumble, upon seeing a Push sign on the door, opens it as Swifty rushes by. He zooms past the Lobster Boys and out the tower window where is thrown by a tree, kicked by a cow, and launched back into the tower by a windmill where he falls past the Lobster Boys and back down to where Mumble and Diego are.

The trio quickly catch up to the Lobster Boys just as they throw Jade and Gloria into a cage. While battling the Lobster Boys, Diego retreats while Mumble and Swifty are cornered but Swifty, upon seeing a Swifty-shaped hole in the window behind the Lobster Boys, remembers what happened when he tried to break down the tower door and gets the idea to do the same thing again with Mumble, knocking the Lobster Boys into the river and allowing them to save Jade and Gloria. Diego reconciles with the group and declares victory. Afterwards, Mumble unties Gloria and makes her laugh, and the two penguins fall in love and spend time alone with each other as they head home.

Dr. Blowhole is furious that the Lobster Boys failed in their task and realizes that the three protagonists are more of a threat than he originally anticipated. He then plans to get rid of them one by one. While on night duty, Diego is lured away from the palace by Shira, who uses a shadow puppet of Mumble with her hands, which makes Diego follow the shadow (after hearing about peanut butter). The shadow then vanishes, in which Diego is cornered, subdued and kidnapped by Shira. The Lobster Boys appear before Swifty and attack him, scaring him into hiding, before Dr. Blowhole traps him and puts Swifty in a guillotine. Swifty discovers a picture of Dr. Blowhole dressed as a king and laughing at a caged Gloria along with three gravestones with his, Mumble, and Diego's names on them and finds out about Dr. Blowhole's plan to become King and trap Minnie somewhere, where she will be hidden, and that the trio will be killed and not able to rescue Gloria. At that moment, Swifty escapes at the last second, causing Dr. Blowhole to lose his tail after he dives under the guillotine's blade to try to prevent his escape.

Mr. Feng finds out that Diego and Swifty are missing and bumps into Mumble to warn him. Swifty returns to the castle and tells Mumble the whole story, but fearfully says they ought to quit being musketeers, claiming "it's every man for himself". Mumble tries to convince Swifty by saying that they were able to stop Dr. Blowhole from kidnapping Gloria, but Swifty reveals that he had been hiding when they fought the Lobster Boys before. Mumble tries to reassure Swifty that he will be by his side, and that Swifty coming to warn him took courage. However, Swifty apologizes before running off in fear, leaving Mumble and Mr. Feng behind. Mumble is then captured by Dr. Blowhole, with Mr. Feng being unable to save Mumble. Dr. Blowhole chains him up in a dungeon in Mont Saint-Michel that will flood when the tide comes in.

Diego, meanwhile, is chained by Shira and about to be thrown off a bridge into a river to drown, but Diego falls in love with Shira and wins her heart with his "numbskull charm". Shira turns from her evil ambitions and reveals Dr. Blowhole's true intentions to Diego, and that Mumble is in danger. However, the bridge suddenly crumbles and sends both Diego and Shira into the river below. Swifty, who is rowing across the river to escape France, breaks their fall. The tide arrives, where Mumble is about to drown. Diego fails to convince Swifty to help him save Mumble, but thanks to a song from Surly Squirrel ridiculing Swifty's cowardice, an infuriated Swifty decides to join Diego. The duo are just barely able to save Mumble before he drowns. After reconciling with each other, they set off to rescue Jade and Gloria.

Jade and Gloria are captured in a theater and locked in a chest by the Lobster Boys, in which one of them impersonates Gloria, announcing to the public that the throne is now being handed over to "King Blowhole the Magnificent". Dr. Blowhole is happy to become the King and the Opera begins. Mr. Feng uses his ears to hear where Jade and Gloria are. Mumble, Diego and Swifty arrive and battle Dr. Blowhole and the lobster Boys onstage, first defeating the lobster Boys by making them collapse downstage along with Diego and Swifty.

Dr. Blowhole then challenges Mumble into a final sword fight, but after Mumble disarms Dr. Blowhole, he is slapped by Dr. Blowhole and easily beaten. However, Diego and Swifty (having survived the fall) return and help Mumble defeat Dr. Blowhole by knocking him out. The trio save Jade and Gloria right in front of the audience, although it is unknown what happens to Dr. Blowhole and the Lobster Boys. Shira arrives, reuniting with Diego as Mumble and Gloria finally declare their love for one another, as the others do the same: Swifty and Jade, Diego and Shira. At the end, Gloria dubs Mumble, Diego and Swifty royal musketeers.

Mumble, Diego and Swifty are walking triumphantly down the street with their reward: banquet food. Suddenly, in an unusual morbid ending, they see in a distance the guillotine, and with a drumroll, the blade comes down, strongly suggesting that Dr. Blowhole was executed (although off-screen in order to comply with the Hays Code). The trio gulp, and Mumble sighs, "Pauvre, pauvre, Blowhole" (Poor, poor Blowhole) and shrugs while adding "C'est la guerre" (Such is war). Then the three Musketeers continue their victorious marching off into the distance, knowing they are knights in shining armor. The male chorus sings the last few lines of "Soldiers of Fortune" as the film ends.

## **CHARACTERS**

* Mumble
* Diego
* Swifty
* Gloria
* Jade
* Shira
* Dr. Blowhole
* Mr. Feng
* Surly Squirrel
* The Lobster Boys

## **VOICE TALENT**

* Elijah Wood as Mumble
* Denis Leary as Diego
* Jeremy Renner as Swifty
* Jackie Chan as Mr. Feng
* Will Arnett as Surly Squirrel
* Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Blowhole
* Alecia Moore (P!NK) as Gloria
* Heidi Klum as Jade
* Jennifer Lopez as Shira
* Jeff Glen Bennett as The Lobster Boys #1 and 2
* Maurice LaMarche as The Lobster Boys #3

## **OPENING CREDITS**

Based On Characters Created by:

Alexandre Dumas

Executive Producer:

Sam Register

Produced by:

Margot Pipkin

Associate Producer:

Yasuo Tanami

Music by:

Florian Tessloff

Score Composed by:

Bruce Broughton

Casting And Voice Direction by:

Evan Spiliotopoulos

Edited by:

Bret Marnell

Written by:

John Edwards

Directed by:

Darrell Van Citters

## **SONGS**

01. **All For One and One For All**

Performed by: Will Arnett.

02. **Can't Walk This Life Alone**

Performed by: Elijah Wood, Denis Leary, Jeremy Renner.

03. **This Is Me**

Performed by: Alecia Moore (P!NK).

04. **The World's Greatest Criminal Mind**

Performed by: Neil Patrick Harris.

05. **Believer**

Performed by: Elijah Wood, Denis Leary, Jeremy Renner.

06. **Thriller**

Performed by: Neil Patrick Harris.

07. **Love Will Find A Way**

Performed by: Elijah Wood, Alecia Moore (P!NK).

08. **Escapade**

Performed by: Denis Leary, Jennifer Lopez.

09. **This Is The End**

Performed by: Will Arnett.

10. **Best Of Friends**

Performed by: Elijah Wood, Denis Leary, Jeremy Renner.

## **TRIVIA**

* This film was based on *Mickey, Donald & Goofy: The Three Musketeers.*
* This was the seventeenth film of Warner Bros. Pictures.
* Mumble is the seventeenth main protagonist of Warner Bros. Pictures.
* Dr. Blowhole is the seventeenth main antagonist of Warner Bros. Pictures.