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| Studio: Walt Disney Video
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 16404
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 078883391X
UPC: 786936174328
EAN: 9780788833915
ASIN: B000063V8H
Release Date: September 3, 2002
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 40
 HUGE DISASPPOINTMENT September 4, 2002
S. Dees (GA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a fan of the great Disney villains, I eagerly looked toward this release, thinking I could see my favorites in one film. Well, WRONG! This is nothing but a series of Mickey/Donald/Goofy shorts strung together with a Halloween motif. You see the Disney villains on the front and back of the DVD cover, inside on the insert, but hardly in the movie! I don't know why the Disney folks allowed this sham to take place. If they wanted to release these Mickey, et al shorts, do it without the idea of the Disney villains. There is one scene where the villains sing a Broadway-like number, but it is too brief to be enjoyable. Maleficent, Cinderella's stepmother, etc are all relegated to just scenes where they sit in a cocktail-like sitting watching these mini-cartoons of Mickey and his friends. Knowing the likes of Maleficent, etc, they wouldn't stand for such goings-on! This is like watching Disney Animation 101 with the guise of Advanced Disney Masterpiece. AVOID!
Mixed bag here September 6, 2002
Cloud (Canada)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
When I saw the commercial advertising it I thought "wow, all Disney villains gathered in one movie to battle the good guys." I mean you can see Jafar socializing with Ursula and Hook. This is the problem though: There's not enough of it. Basically, in the movie, Mickey runs like a nightclub where the theme is Halloween and he's showing animated shorts to good guy guests like Simba and Nala from Lion King and the women like Snow White, Belle to villains like the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland and Hades from Hercules. This goes on for about 45 minutes until Jafar decides to steal Mickey's house for his own and kicks Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald out. Then Mickey brings a last valiant effort to take back his house. Premise is cool, right? But it's those animated shorts. All it is is animated shorts THEN this "battle" takes place, which is quite tame compared to the villain's respective movies and only lasts maybe 5 minutes. So in catching interest of this, don't get all hyped up thinking that it's an all-out war. But it'll keep yourself and your kids if you have any entertained for an hour.
 Walt is rolling in his grave September 6, 2002
Patrick (Wisconsin, USA)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I rented this DVD because I thought a movie where all the Disney villains get together might be interesting. Boy was I ever WRONG! Here's the story: The Disney villains go to the House of Mouse to watch movies. At midnight they kick Mickey out and watch more movies. BORING! There's absolutely NO plot. You hardly even see the villains because most of this movie is filled with past and present Disney short films. And it's very easy to tell which short is old and which is new. The old films were actually drawn well. I don't know what happened to the Disney staff between then and now. It's like all the artists forgot how to draw. All the new animation in this DVD is very cheap. The mouths never match up to the voice. This DVD is so cheap that they even stole comedy lines from "The Simpsons"! HONEST! I was expecting an epic adventure where the Disney villains get together and take over the earth or something and it's up to Mickey to stop them. Instead I get the Disney villains sitting down to watch movies. BORING! I guess if I want to see Disney characters done well I have to buy a copy of "Kingdom Hearts" for the Playstation 2. The only reason why this game wasn't screwed up is because Squarsoft made it. If you're a true Disney fan buy "Kingdom Hearts" and AVOID "Mickey's House of Villains."
Quite a Jip September 12, 2002
S. Cronin
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
What has been promoted as an all out battle between the Disney good and evil is merely a cable Halloween special with a hefty price tag. Overly laden with the old "classic" halloween cartoons that are replayed every october and new (mildly to little entertaining) strips written just for the show there is very little plot. It is true that in the beginning Mickey is in control and then Jafar kicks him out, and later they try to "out Magic" eachother in a final "battle." However the entire plot of the movie, which comes in tiny spurts in between clips, can't last any longer than 5 minutes in entirety, effiectively making it simply another cartoon. This is not a movie to waste your money on. You can see almost the same thing by flipping to the Disney channel in late October, although the cable version may be slightly more interesting.
Not at all what I expected February 2, 2003
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
When I got this, I expected to see one big story with interesting plot twists. Instead, it's just a bunch of Disney shorts mixed together. It doesn't focus on the whole "House of Villains" thing at all, in fact, for half of the film I'm wondering "when the heck is this thing even going to really start?". It ends with one of the dumbest battles ever. Basically, Mickey takes a lamp and [draws] Jafar into it, and all of the other villains scream and run. Hello? I'm pretty sure that all of them combined are much more dangerous than Mickey, even without Jafar. It barely even focuses on the villains at all, giving them maybe 5% of the entire screen time.
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