Product details: - Product group: Video
- Edition: VHS Tape
- Publisher: Walt Disney Video
- Format: Color, NTSC
- Release Date: 1993-09-29
- Starring: Alan Young, Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith, Will Ryan, Eddie Carroll
- Audience rating: G (General Audience)
- Run Time: 26 minutes
- Studio: Walt Disney Video
- Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
- Package Dimensions: 7.32 x 41 x 75 inches
Customer reviews:  Dickens by Disney..., 2007-12-09
"Mickey's Christmas Carol" is a retelling of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" in animation with familiar Disney cartoon characters in all the roles.
Scrooge McDuck leads as Ebenezer Scrooge, greedy London businessman and miser, with Mickey Mouse as his underpaid and underappreciated clerk Bob Crachit and Donald Duck as Scrooge's nephew Fred. Goofy is Jacob Marley, Scrooge's dead partner, come to warn Scrooge on Christmas Eve of the terrible fate awaiting him in the afterlife if he does not reform his ways. As in Dickens' novel, Scrooge is visted by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and learns his lesson.
This is family entertainment with a lesson. In just 25 minutes, Disney has managed to capture the essentials of the story, hopefully without exceeding anyone's attention span. The ghostly tale is told with humorous relief, as Goofy's Jacob Marley is accident-prone and various other characters make pratfalls. One wishes Disney could have stretched out the animated story a little longer.
This short movie is highly recommended as a great introduction for children young and old to a classic Christmas tale.
 "mommy, when I die, am I going to go fall into a flaming grave?", 2007-09-19
That's exactly what I said to my Mom when I was very young and I saw it. I still have nightmares.
Call me the second coming of Scrooge if you will, but even if I am the only one, I hate this movie. It's all good ol' fashioned Disney fun, then comes the Ghost of Christmas Future. That whole scene with falling into the grave, in my humble opinion, is Michael Eisner child abuse. Not only does Disney have to add the whole dramatics of the scene where Mickey goes to Tiny Tim's grave--they feel an insane compulsion to add as much drama as they can to stretch the loopholes of the G-rating. Oh, yeah, and Scrooge gets right in the audience's face at the last second. Masterful cinematography, I'll admit. Having a talking Scottish duck thrown at me has never been so scary, but hey, they managed to do it. Perhaps it would have found a better home in nightmare on elm street, but with Scrooge McDuck? I didn't think so.
Now, see, in Dickens, Scrooge is crying at the feet of the G.o.C.Y.T.C., and not screaming for the safety of his eternal soul. I always thought that the ghost should have been the sorcerer from the sorcerer's apprentice. For one thing, he stays silent. For another, if the scene were altered for Dickens accuracy, it would be dramatic and not just a kid's nightmare. The whole scene with Crachit visiting the grave was good. Had they stayed on that note and not added any material borrowed from Dante, I would have been pleased.
As I said, the movie is good otherwise. In fact, I would personally go and see it if they completely re-did the Christmas Future scene to be like I said. But for old man Disney, it's -so- important to be dramatic, even if it means scarring little kids for life.
Long live Muppet Christmas Carol. Now there's a Christmas Carol for you.
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