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The inevitable sequel to a successful direct-to-video product, but they can’t announce it as such, so it’s instead marketed as an excuse to watch the beloved Disney icons being animated in CG for the first time. It looks terrible. The characters look strangely lifeless or off model, occasionally both. Although, they tend to turn out far better than any of the human characters. Santa didn’t even look this frightening in The Nightmare Before Christmas where his rotund body and tiny hands and feet made him look like a seasonal sleep paralysis demon. (I say that with immense love for that macabre little movie.)
Even after watching it I can barely remember chunks of it. There’s something about Huey, Dewey, and Louie infiltrating the North Pole to put their names on the nice list, and Goofy and Max having another generational conflict. Uh, and a bunch of other incidents like the crocodiles and hippos from Fantasia ice skating with Minnie and Daisy. Something that ends with Donald destroying animatronic figures and lusting after a cup of hot chocolate?
The only thoroughly engaging story is the one where Pluto accidentally destroys Mickey’s decorations, winds up in the North Pole, and finds Mickey frantically searching for him across town. It’s the one story that actively engages the heart and the spirit of togetherness in a successful way. The rest are just garishly animated and unmemorable filler that will work well enough as a distraction for the tots in your life.
