Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) on Netflix
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Mickey, Donald and Goofy are janitors at the musketeers' headquarters, dreaming of joining the ranks. When Princess Minnie demands bodyguards, Captain Peg-Leg Pete hands them the job.
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Plot summary
The Troubadour, a music-loving tortoise, narrates the tale from his comic book. In 17th-century France, young Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Mickey's dog Pluto scrape by as street urchins. The Beagle Boys harass them until royal musketeers step in, and a musketeer's hat given to Mickey inspires the friends to follow the same path. Years later the three work as janitors under Captain Peg-Leg Pete, who has told them they will never make it: Donald a coward, Goofy a dim-wit, Mickey too short. After an attempt on Princess Minnie's life, she demands musketeer bodyguards, and Pete hands the assignment to the three janitors.
Cast
- Shannon Gregoryas Additional Voices (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Disney first attempted this in the 1980s: in 1983 storyboard artists Steve Hulett and Pete Young developed a Musketeers film starring Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Jose Carioca as a fourth swordsman, but the project fell into development hell.
- The film exists because another one collapsed. A 2002 featurette for Mickey Mouse's 75th anniversary, The Search of Mickey Mouse, would have had Minnie hire Basil of Baker Street to find a kidnapped Mickey; its many cameos were judged too gimmicky, and the Musketeers picture was greenlit in its place.
- After decades of sharing cartoon shorts, this direct-to-video adventure was the first full-length feature in which Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy starred together as a trio.
- The 2004 disc introduced a Disney invention: FastPlay, the first such feature on a Disney DVD, which imitated a VHS tape by starting the film automatically instead of leaving the viewer at the main menu.
- The film reached video games as the Country of the Musketeers in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, the first world in the Kingdom Hearts series to come from a direct-to-video feature; every character but Daisy, Clarabelle and the Troubadour turns up in it.
- In 2018 it became the first direct-to-video Disney film to have its complete score released on CD, when Intrada Records issued Bruce Broughton's music, including cues that went unused in the finished film.
