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Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey In Living Colour 2 [DVD]
enlarge	Actor: Mickey Mouse Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £12.95 as of 23/11/2009 08:58 GMT details You Save: £7.04 (35%) New (6) Used (2) Collectible (3) from £11.95 Seller: customplus Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 9249 Format: Animated, PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Universal, suitable for all Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 0.6 EAN: 5017188816199 ASIN: B0007N1BA8 Release Date: April 4, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Mickey's greatest cartoons, including his featurettes. April 23, 2005 starlac (UK) 37 out of 37 found this review helpful Bringing the classical cartoons of Mickey Mouse to an end. Living Colour volume 2 has some of the greatest cartoons Mickey's career has brought to the silver-screens. Although some of his later cinematic cartoons are less evolutionally and certainly a little tamer compared to that of Warner Bros (or Donald and Goofy's cartoons for that matter); that doesn't reduce the quality they have in their own right. This disc set contains the whole of Mickey's silver-screen career from 1939 to the present day. Eighteen short subject cartoons: from the 1939 short "Society Dog show" to his last short "The Simple Things" in 1953, are included in the box. Some of these shorts are introduced by animation historian Leonard Maltin, talking mostly about the stereotypes and strange behaviours that are in some of the films; explaining that they are products of their time. A few of these cartoon are technically Pluto cartoons, especially some of the later cartoons. br brAs well as the short subject cartoons, this twin disc set also includes Mickey's featurettes, each of these are also introduced by Leonard Maltin:pHis segment of Fantasia - Always beautifully animated and inventive, not to mention probably one of the best known pieces of Mickey's career. A classic piece of animation. However, it's been released so many times, in different compilations, that I how have multiple copies of this piece of animation. Two of which are on my copy of Fantasia/Fantasia 2000.pMickey and the Beanstalk - The last cinematic cartoon to star Walt Disney as the voice of Mickey Mouse. A little slow to get moving by today's standards. It still is a great little cartoon, with Donald and Goofy in supporting roles. The giant is more fun than scary, but still represents enough of a menace to Mickey's safety. The live-actions bits are awkward for the most part because few people in this country may know or remember who Edgar Bergen or Luana Patten are, however this doesn't detract from the film. pThe last three make up the second disc's cartoons, and are, in my opinion, among the best Mickey cartoons ever made.pMickey's Christmas Carol - A wonderful retelling of Dickens's immortal story with an guest the character cast. cameos aplenty as Disney characters from classic films take on bit parts. Notable for being the first appearance in cinemas of Scrooge McDuck (as the lead character Ebenezer no less). The film is quite charming, taking as much as it needs of the source to work. The casting is, for the most part, spot on; Pete is great, in his brief appearance as the ghost of Christmas yet to come. The one exception of Goofy as the sinner Jacob Marley, its just too hard to believe Goofy as being cruel to anyone.pThe Prince and the Pauper - Mickey's second featurette was another retelling of a classic story, this time from the pen of Mark Twain. Mickey plays the two parts of the title. Faster paced than the previous featurettes, but it still only takes as much as is needed to tell the story; which it tells well.pFinally there's Runaway Brain - Mickey can't afford the holiday he accidentally promises Minnie. So to make it up he takes up a job in the paper. A great, fast-paced, piece of animation that parodies the horror film Frankenstein and has time to fit in one or two little in-jokes. This cartoon is closer in tone with the 'House of Mouse' cartoons.pThe programmes are presented in their original formats: for the shorts that's mostly fullscreen. Christmas Carol, Prince and Runaway Brain are in widescreen. Sound is two-point surround, though this is only truly evident on the featurettes. The Extras include rare footage like commercials. There are also a few documentaries and interviews. One with the animators, the other with the current voice actors of Mickey (Wayne Allwine) and Minnie Mouse (Russi Taylor). A full compliment of subtitles are on offer and the transfer is as you would expect from Disney. Personally, I think the tin case is a little pointless and makes it awkward to put the DVD up on the shelve with the other DVDs, but that's one of the few cons I can think of. In what is a great compilation. Truly amazing, even in 2006! January 2, 2006 13 out of 13 found this review helpful I bought this simply as something to keep the kids entertained but I found myself enjoying the cartoons just as much as them, if not moreso. Sometimes I think it#x27;s easy to forget how great the Disney animated shorts were, and how cheap and sterile most modern kids cartoons are in comparison (most of them it#x27;s just a still image with only the mouth moving, how boring is that??). You can really feel the care that was put into crafting these shorts, and the DVD is bursting with 243 minutes of content. What more could you want? Well, you could do worse than getting the Donald Duck volume which is just as entertaining.pMassively recommended. It truly is a piece of history. ANOTHER TRBUTE TO WALT DISNEY December 19, 2007 M. barlow (WA UK) THE CARTOON KEEP COMING AND GET FUNNER. WITH MICKEY CHRISMAS CAROL TO MICKEY AND THE SAUCERER, PLUS MY FAVOURET LITTLE WHIRLWIND, MICKEY AND THE SEAL FROM 1369- TODAY IF U LIKE MICKY MOUSE BUY THIS DVD Be warned - a Disney nasty! October 24, 2005 MR D J GARDNER (Czech Republic) 4 out of 40 found this review helpful I can only comment on "The Prince and the Pauper" featurette, not having seen the others. I was very disappointed by the level of violence. I thought I'd be showing my 3 and 4 year old children a nice gentle Disney cartoon with heart-warming values, but in fact this kind of mindless attempt at humour is exactly what I'd been trying to avoid exposing them to. Only those brought up on a diet of casual TV and film violence can overlook the unthinking cruelty on show here. Bambi it isn't.

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