Donald's Destiny has soured.

A more recent song today! (and a short one) This one minute bit is from "The Three Musketeers" The movie is not a strict adaption of the movie, but is a loose sequel where the originals appear in the opening sequence, and influence these three.

The idea for a full length Mickey Donald Goofy movie had been around for around 65 years, but Disney lacked the established characters needed to pull it off. After all this time, they fixed the adaption problem (as stated above) and had enough characters to pull it off.

Pete reappears with his pegleg in this version, while his flunkies are the Beagle Boys from Ducktales (though altered so they appear and talk different. But they are still have their personalities and are still more or less flunkies. And not very intelligent)

The movie is filled with references to other Disney works. The most obvious in this clip is Donald in his Sailor's outfit (which has a reason which I will list below) but others include Mickey's costume being ripped off during a fight, revealing his traditional outfit, Pete (mockingly) referring to a number called "I just can't wait to be king" and mocking Mickey with the "Mickey Mouse Club March" and there are many more that I don't want to spoil ;)




Alright, the music. THis movie was going to have original music, but when one of the directors listened to a CD that had some of the proposed songs on there he went to the wrong number and listened the Habanera instead. He came back raving about how it would be interesting to use it, and then realizes he had listened to the wrong song. Well, they decided to keep the idea and all the songs in the movie are based on songs in the public domain. This one is Beethoven's fifth, I think.

The Reason why Donald is in his normal wear is because they changed his fault for the movie. Instead of him having a short temper, he became a coward (it works well in the movie, but it would have been nice to see the Temper too) The Musketeers (who were just put there by Pete because he thought they would fail) have been tasked to keep Princess Minnie safe. DOnald get's freaked out, and Mickey tells him that as long as they wear the uniforms they are musketeers. Donald promptly rips his off revealing his traditional outfit.

This scene takes place where Mickey has been captured and the narrator (our turtle friend) is trying to goad Donald into being loyal. It obviously works.

Because the Cat the only cat who knows where it's at...

I wanted to put this up earlier, but they say "Hallelujah" and it would be during Lent where you can't say it, and, uh, yeah....

Here is "Everybody Wants to be a Cat" From the Aristocats!

This was the last movie approved by Disney, and the first to be completed by his death. Phil Harris played Thomas O'Malley, while Eva Gabor is Duchess (speaking voice only) The trumpet playing cat in the clip was supposed to be played by Louie Prima, he backed out at the last minute, and Someone named "Scatman Cathers" was hired in his place. The mannerisms of Louie Prima and body references remained.




Thurl Ravenscroft, also known for being Tony the Tiger and The Ghost Host, is the Russian Cat, while Paul Winchester is the Chinese Cat. The racist lines have been cut out in subsequent Audio rereleases.

Happy Easter!

I don't know if I can update on Sunday, for obvious reasons, so here is the Easter blog post early! And it's short since I practically know nothing.



This is from a show on Playhouse Disney called BunnyTown. It's about silly adventures with Bunnies. And it isn't on anymore.

And that is honestly all I know.

And I picked it because Bunnies, Easter...yeah.

Opening Night

Today is Opening day for Baseball! So with that, I give you one of the baseball scenes in Disney movies (which is kind of surprising) "I Don't Dance" from High School Musical 2. This is a baseball influenced song with Swing, Rap, and Samba influenced. And I would die of embarrassment if someone actually played Baseball this way.

THis song was adopted



High School Musical 2 was the TV movie sequel to HSM 1. This one took place over the summer and with everyone at their jobs. Ryan (the guy in white)played by Lucas Grabeel is pushed out of his normal position at the country club where they work so he is kind of adopted by the workers. THis leads to him being in the baseball game, since they are short one player.

Chad, the African American boy played by Corbin Bleu, and Ryan are having a baseball argument on this field and they are using baseball to argue their points. It was filmed in Colorado I believe and Lucas Grabeel only had 2 pairs of pure white clothes, so he couldn't let the first get dirty. Corbin Bleu, though, got beaned at least three times.

Corbin Bleu had a hard time with this song. Not all of the actors can do hip hop (Olyesa Rulin was trained as a Ballerina for example) and Corbin Bleu apparently had trouble with the sports aspect.

The review for the song and dance number were mixed. The general consensus was "I Don't Dance" was one of the most enjoyable songs in the movie, and was a good mix of genres, but the camera work was shoddy. The tune was either "insanely Catchy" or "excruciating" (I like it, but I'm a baseball fan)

On me being a baseball fan, yes, Ryan should be thrown out for Balking (starting to throw the ball, then changing his mind. He does this with his dancing) I think it is legal but improbably for people to score get on base with the dancing movies/headstands they do. and Disney promoted this song with having Clips from baseball games, players singing/saying "I don't dance" or shots of players dancing. Clip of that below, unfortunately the first 30 seconds were cut off. But enough remains you get the gist.

Come one, Come All

Happy April Fools! I thought this song fit for today. 1996, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Clopin sings this song, with a dance by Esmerelda. Hunch back of Notre Dame deviates substantially from the book. Mostly by making Quasimodo, Esmerelda, and Phoebus kinder and allowing more people to live. This was also one of the most mature Disney productions, despite being rated G. The movie covers Sexual themes (Alot. This will be explored more in depth with Hellfire) Infantcide, Hypocrisy, Prejudice, and social injustice. This was also the first Disney movie to use the word "Damnation"



Clopin is played by Paul Kandell. There isn't much on his wiki page (yes, that's where I get most of my info. Or from podcasts) but it notes he was nominated for a Tony (Broadway's Oscars) for his portrayal of Uncle Ernie in The Who's Tommy.

Tony Jay plays Frollo, the villain in this movie. He passed away in 2006, but left volumes of work to his credit. His other Disney credits include Monsieur D'arque, the asylum owner in Beauty and the Beast, Shere Khan in Tale Spin and Jungle Book 2, Death in Darkwing Duck (one time role), The Wraith in the Mighty Ducks, the Magic Mirror in House of Mouse, and the Narrator in Treasure Planet. Outside Disney work includes a Yeti in Captain Planet, Baron Mordo in Spider-Man the Animated series, a lieutenant in Fallout, Magneto in X-Men Legends, The narrator in "Austin Powers, the spy who shagged me" and The History Channel series Civil War Combat. and The Narrator for Nausicaa: Valley of the wind. This is on top of Shakespeare work and his live action work as in Lois and Clare: the New Adventures of Superman and Star Trek: NExt Generation

Also, Kevin Kline plays Captain Phoebus. While he started in "Sophie's Choice" (and got nominated for best new comer) he also took on roles such as "The Pirate King" from Pirates of Penzance, won an Oscar for his work in "A fish called Wanda" (A comedy!), the Road to El Dorado, The Emperor's Club, De-Lovely, The Pink Panther (1, John Cleese took over his role for 2) and Guy Noir for A Prairie home Companion. And beyond this, many roles on Broadway.