Everybody Loves Mickey (Animated)

Advantages: great selection of shorts, vaiety of types
Disadvantages: annoying clips of children mugging for the camera in between shorts

As DVD rental customers, we try to strike a balance between what we rent, renting some for us and some for the kids. My son is still young enough that he enjoys Playhouse Disney, and as he and my daughter have both been fans of Playhouse Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, I thought it would be fun to introduce them to some proper Mickey Mouse. I thought it might be best to do this using the shorts rather than the full length offerings such as The Three ...
...the titles available to rent, gave it a go. Everyone Loves Mickey arrived in short order, and on a midweek evening, we settled down to watch it together. This DVD is a treasure trove of classic shorts featuring Mickey Mouse. The "Everyone Loves" bit relates to the fact that interspersed between the clips is a stage where children from around the world talk about how they love Mickey Mouse, and tell various silly jokes of the sort that small children ... Read review

Advantages: Collection of shorts with Mickey as the main character!
Disadvantages: Not the most captivating piece of Disney genius

This little gem fell into my hands as a result of a somewhat inebriated impulsive decision I took to buy a copy from Amazon at 2am after being out with friends. "Oooh, look, it's only £5.99! I'll buy one!" That would have been find had that been the only thing I had purchased on that little "shopping spree". However, I will save the other items for other reviews! But yes, £5.99, bargain and it is pretty much the same price everywhere else I have ...
...more expensive Disney offerings. The DVD is 58 minutes in length, so not long at all and is in English with German subtitles available. Itis Dolby digital 2.0 sound. It is a U certificate, so perfectly suitable for family viewing/ The DVD is relatively cheap and they say you only get what you pay for, so perhaps that explains the disappointing helping of extras. There are only two extras on this DVD, which I found bitterly disapponting for Disney. ... Read review

Advantages: great shorts
Disadvantages: those mugging kids again and only 3 shorts instead of 5 on this disc

...Seeing as my children and I greatly enjoyed the shorts on Everybody Loves Mickey, a bit later on we decided to rent more of these titles. This happened to be the next one in the Everybody Loves series that was sent to us by Amazon. Like the Mickey Mouse edition, this DVD contains vintage animation shorts featuring the title character, interspersed by children mugging at the camera saying how much they love Donald Duck. These clips are just as excruciating as the last, but thankfully even briefer. Sadly, so is the number of film shorts, there only being three animation shorts present on this disc. They are: The Inferior Decorator Made in 1948, this clip sees the irascible Donald doing his best to decorate his house. He's got wallpaper to hang, and a pesky bee ventures in. Buzzing about, it doesn't take much for this bee to set off... Read review

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