Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers: Difference between revisions

 

 

 

[[Mickey Mouse]], [[Donald Duck]] and [[Goofy]] are three janitors who dream of becoming musketeers, but Mickey's size, Donald's cowardice and Goofy's intelligence (or lack thereof) are handicaps from their goal. However, they get their chance when Princess Minnie demands bodyguards from Captain Pete. Since said captain is planning to take over the kingdom, he decides to promote the three, hoping they'll be bungling enough not to ruin his plans.

Considering it's a DTV movie, it's actually quite an improvement on previous sequels which were mostly excuses to try and kick off (bad) television series. In other words? [[Better Than It Sounds]].

 

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=== This movie contains the following tropes. ===

* [[Expy]]: The Troubador is essentially an updated version of Toby Tortoise from the two [[Silly Symphonies]] shorts.

* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: When Pete is getting the Beagle Boys out of the pit, they are doing things to pass the time (drawing Pete with an arrow though his head for one). One of them was playing with jacks, and when Pete sees them relaxing, he quickly eats all of the jacks and the rubber ball.

* [[Evil Chancellor]]

* [[Fake King]]

* [["Falling in Love" Montage]]: Mickey and Minnie (obviously)

** He actually does this twice. When he is bringing The Beagle Boys out of the pit, the scene shifts to the poster for the opera and plays the same music bit again. When the scene shifts back to Pete, he stare at the poster, blinks his eyes a few times and continues speaking.

** He does it a third time when the opera bit happens, saying, "That little ditty's starting to grow on me."

* [[Nice Hat]]: Mickey treasures a hat given to him by the original Musketeers.

* [[Not So Harmless]]: The little Beagle at first seems like he's incompetent and silly. However it's revealed he's an expert in using the sword, especially a great wicked - looking one.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Donald. {{spoiler|Don't worry, [[Changed My Mind, Kid|he comes back around eventually.]]}}

* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[The Lion King]]'' and ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]'', among others.

** A [[Shout-Out]] to [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] is also made during the opera scene. They're seeing ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'', and the songs ''[[With Catlike Tread]]'' and ''[[Modern Major-General]]'' are heard.

** The multiple Goofy clones appearing is undoubtedly a reference to the recurring use of this phenomenon in his original theatrical cartoons.

* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]: Pete did warn Clarabelle about the bricks at least.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Minnie is forbidden to date Mickey since he's a commoner. This just attracts Minnie more.

* [[That Reminds Me of a Song]]: Justified in some places, since the Troubadour openly admits to wanting to pepper the narration with songs that he wrote; in other parts, not so much.

* [[Villain Song]]: "Petey's King of France"

* [[World of Funny Animals]]

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Mickey Donald and Goofy pile on Daisy Duck, mistaking her for a bad guy.