Toon Talk: Twice Upon a Christmas - Nov 9, 2004

Toon Talk: Twice Upon a Christmas
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The Toon Talk Top 10 - As Long As There’s Christmas … :

… Disney will have plots for holiday-themed movies, such as (in addition to Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas and its predecessor Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas) the following selections:

  1. The yuletide classic Silly Symphony Santa’s Workshop (1932) spawned its own sequel a year later, The Night Before Christmas.
  2. Dale disguised as a Santa candle is just one of the many delights in the classic Mickey Mouse short Pluto’s Christmas Tree (1952).
  3. Both the Mouse and the Frog took their turns as Charles Dickens’ Bob Cratchit in, respectively, Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) and The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992).
  4. A Christmas angel (played by Harry Dean Stanton!) helps bring the spirit of Christmas back into the life of a miserable Mary Steenburgen in One Magic Christmas (1985).
  5. After going to camp, but before being scared stupid, Ernest Saves Christmas in this 1988 comedy starring Jim Varney.
  6. Jack Skellington and the denizens of Halloweentown try to take over their neighboring holiday in the stop-motion animated cult classic Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
  7. Tim Allen starred as a divorced father who takes over for Saint Nick in The Santa Clause (1994) and returned (eight years later) to find a Mrs. Claus in The Santa Clause 2.
  8. Whitney Houston tries to put on the best Christmas pageant ever in The Preacher’s Wife (1996).
  9. Belle helps the Beast to learn, yup, the true meaning of Christmas in the 1997 video premiere Beauty and the Beast: An Enchanted Christmas.
  10. Allen’s Home Improvement co-star Jonathan Taylor Thomas finds nothing but trouble when he vows I’ll Be Home For Christmas, a 1998 comedy.


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Coming Soon in Toon Talk:

  • On sale December 7th, just in time for the holidays, three more volumes of the Walt Disney Treasures DVD collections: Mickey Mouse in Black and White: Volume 1, The Complete Pluto and The Mickey Mouse Club: Week 1.
  • Celebrating its 40th anniversary is a special two-disc DVD of the Oscar-winning motion picture classic Mary Poppins, available December 14th.
  • Will The Incredibles soar? Is Mary Poppins practically perfect? How victorious is On the Frontlines? ‘Toon’ in for a special year-end wrap up to find out in The Toon Talk Top 10 - The Best of 2004.

And Coming Soon from Buena Vista Home Video:

November 16th:

  • Two recent television productions make their DVD debuts: Eloise at Christmastime (starring Julie Andrews) and A Wrinkle in Time (starring Alfre Woodard).

November 23rd:

  • Four ever-popular television series will have DVD collections: the first seasons for The Golden Girls, Home Improvement and Lizzie McGuire and the second season of Boy Meets World.

November 30th:

  • Jet Li stars in China’s Oscar-nominated hit Hero.

December 7th:

  • More TV stars on DVD with: Kim Possible: The Villain Files, Gargoyles: Season 1, That’s So Raven: Supernaturally Stylish and two Power Rangers: Dino Thunder titles, Collision Course and Triassic Triumph.
  • And just in time for holiday gift giving, all three Lion King movies will be available in a special Lion King Movie Collection gift set, a total of six DVDs of Simba and company.

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Kirby is a lifelong Disney fan and film buff. He is also an avid list maker and chronic ellipsis user ...

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-- Posted November 9, 2004

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