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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (also known as simply The Three Musketeers) is a direct to video animated film.

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As the title suggests, it features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as the three musketeers.

Plot

The movie opens with Troubadour, a French speaking turtle who loves songs, reminding a television-show narrator that he had promised Troubadour one of his songs would be used in the show that day. The narrator silently breaks his promise and walks away from Troubadour. He does not look where he is going and falls in a hole in the floor as the show is about to begin. Consequently, Troubadour is ushered in to tell the audience the story at the last minute, and he chooses his comic book of The Three Musketeers.

"Our story begins in the gutter", he says, where Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Mickey's dog Pluto are street urchins, who, while being robbed by masked bandits (played by the Beagle Boys) and are saved by the Royal Musketeers, Athos, Aramis, Porthos and D'Artagnan. Afterward, Athos gives his hat to Mickey as a souvenir. The urchins are inspired to be great musketeers some day. Years later, the three are working as janitors in the palace, still dreaming of becoming musketeers, despite their flaws: Donald is a "coward" (who turns into a chicken whenever he is frightened), Goofy is a "doofus", and Mickey is "just too small", according to Captain Pete of the Royal Musketeers. This leaves the three downhearted.

Meanwhile, Minnie Mouse, princess of France, and her lady-in-waiting, Daisy Duck, are in a palace discussing Minnie's obsession with finding her "one true love". Daisy says that she must marry someone who is of royal blood, and Minnie insists that she cannot marry someone she does not love. Minnie says she will know that he is "the one" when he makes her laugh. Minnie then takes a walk in the palace garden and barely escapes with her life when the Beagle Boys attempt to drop a safe on her.

The Beagles run to tell their boss, Captain Pete, that they were not successful in dropping the safe on Minnie. Pete gets upset, because the assignment was to kidnap the princess and keep her "safe" before the opera The Pirates of Penzance, which is when he plans to take over the kingdom. (This is accompanied by a running gag: whenever Pete mentions the opera, a poster of the opera is shown, and an operatic voice sings.) Just then, Pete's lieutenant, Clarabelle Cow, tells Pete that Princess Minnie requests his presence. Pete goes to the princess, who tells him that she wants musketeer bodyguards. Pete, knowing that skilled musketeers would jeopardize his kidnap plans, appoints Mickey, Donald, and Goofy to protect her.

When the three "musketeers" meet Princess Minnie, she instantly falls in love with Mickey. The boys are so caught up wanting to make a good first impression that when Daisy comes in with a tray of cheese for Minnie and they see the accompanying knife, they tackle Daisy, thinking her a villain.

While Minnie and Daisy, protected by Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, go on a journey, they are ambushed by the Beagle Boys. Donald hides and is eventually thrown off the carriage, and Goofy is easily defeated, leaving Mickey to fight the intruders. Mickey is also defeated, leaving the three heroes stranded. Mickey encourages his friends not to lose hope and they rush to rescue Minnie and Daisy. At the entrance to a tall tower, Goofy tells his fellow musketeers to stand back so he can break down the door, but Mickey opens it before he can stop, which sends Goofy rolling past the Beagle Boys and out of the tower. Outside, Goofy bounces off a tree, gets kicked by a cow and is thrown by a windmill back into the tower, and goes rolling past the Beagle Boys again. When Mickey and Goofy are trapped with the Beagle Boys, Goofy gets the idea to do the same thing again with Mickey and they manage to knock the Beagles out of the tower and rescue Minnie and Daisy. After Mickey unties Minnie and makes her laugh, the two fall in love.

Pete is furious that the Beagle Boys failed in their task and realizes that the three protagonists are more of a threat than he originally anticipated. While on night duty, Goofy is lured away from the palace by Clarabelle. The Beagle Boys appear before Donald, capture him, and try to do away with him, but he escapes and tells the whole story to Mickey before running off, leaving Mickey by himself. Mickey is then captured by Pete, who chains him up in a dungeon in Mont Saint-Michel that will flood when the tide comes in.

Meanwhile, Clarabelle is about to throw a chained up Goofy to his death off a bridge. Goofy flirts with her, and wins her heart with his "numbskull charm". She pulls him up and they kiss. The two plummet towards the river, but land on Donald's boat instead. Goofy tries to convince Donald that they have to save Mickey but he is too scared to try. An insulting song by Troubadour, however, makes him change his mind and they rescue their friend just in time. Outside the Paris Opéra, Minnie is captured by the Beagle Boys and the smallest one poses as her, announcing to the public that she is handing the crown over to a gleeful Pete. Mickey, Donald and Goofy arrive and battle Pete onstage, finally defeating him and saving the Princess. Mickey and Minnie finally declare their love for one another, as do the others. Mickey, Donald and Goofy are dubbed royal musketeers.

Voice Cast

Japanese
  • Takashi Aoyagi as Mickey Mouse
  • Koichi Yamadera as Donald Duck
  • the late Yu Shimaka as Goofy Goof
  • Bill Farmer as Pluto
  • the late Yuko Mizutani as Minnie Mouse
  • Mika Doi as Daisy Duck
  • Keiko Fukushima as Clarabelle Cow
  • ??? as The Troubadour
  • Fumihiko Tachiki as Beagle Boy #1
  • Kenji Nomura as Beagle Boy #2
  • Naoki Tatsuta as Beagle Boy #3
  • the late Toru Ohira as Captain Pete
English

Soundtrack

  • "All for One and One for All (The Galop from Orpheus in the Underworld)" - Troubadour (Rob Paulsen) and the Musketeers
  • Love So Lovely ("Dance of the Reed Flutes" from The Nutcracker, and "Romeo and Juliet Overture")" - Troubadour (Rob Paulsen)
  • "Petey's King of France ("In the Hall of the Mountain King")" - Peg Leg Pete (Jim Cummings)
  • "Sweet Wings of Love ("Blue Danube")" - Troubadour (Rob Paulsen)
  • "Chains of Love ("Habanera" from Carmen) - Goofy and Clarabelle (Bill Farmer and April Winchell)
  • "This Is The End (Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5")" - Troubadour (Rob Paulsen)
  • "L'Opera (excerpts from "The Pirates of Penzance")" - Ensemble
  • "All For One (reprise)" - Mickey, Donald, Goofy, The Musketeers (Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, Bill Farmer, and ensemble)

Trivia

  • Mickey, Donald and Goofy: The Three Musketeers will serve as the basis of a world in Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance. This world is known as the Country of the Musketeers.
  • It aired on Toon Disney on May 8, 2005 and on August 5, 2005. It aired a second time on October 21, 2005 and on November 25, 2005. It aired again on April 21, 2006 and on July 20, 2006. It even aired on September 1, 2006 and on October 17, 2006. It aired once again on November 2, 2006 and on December 6, 2006. It also aired on March 2, 2007 and on July 11, 2007. The last time it aired on Toon Disney was on January 22, 2008 and on July 22, 2008.
  • It aired on Disney Channel on June 20, 2005 and on April 16, 2006.
  • This movie was created around the same time as Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas.
  • One big difference from this film and the novel is the villain isn’t the Cardinal but rather the Captain of the Musketeers who wants to get rid of the Princess so he can rule France.
  • Artwork from an earlier "Mickey and the Three Musketeers" film project was shown at the "Mickey's Lost Adventures" panel at the 2018 Destination D event. These character sketches feature many other classic Disney characters in different roles: José Carioca was to be a Musketeer, Honest John and Gideon were to be featured as Cardinal Richelieu and a henchman, and J. Thaddeus Toad would have played the role of King Louis XIII.
  • On Disney Channel and Disney Junior airings, the clip where one of the Beagle Boys puts the jacks in his mouth when Pete is about to release them from the pit and the clip where Donald pokes Pete in his eyes (during the film's climax) were removed as a safety precaution. Both Disney Television networks were concerned that kids might imitate either of those scenes at home.
  • The 2004 DVD of the movie was the first Disney DVD to have FastPlay.
  • When Pete took Mickey to the dungeon, he is heard singing the "Mickey Mouse Club March".
  • The back of Pete's coach horse number plate is written A113, which is an inside joke and Easter egg commonly spotted in Pixar movies.

On the DVD, there is a special feature titled "The Many Hats Of Mickey". It shows clips from nine Mickey cartoons: The Castaway, Giantland, Gulliver Mickey, Thru the Mirror, Brave Little Tailor, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Mickey and the Beanstalk, Mickey's Christmas Carol, and The Prince and the Pauper.

  • Outside of commercials, this would be the last time Mickey would appear in hand-drawn animation until the 2022 Disney+ documentary film Mickey: The Story of a Mouse with an exclusive one minute live action animation hybrid short of Mickey Mouse called “Mickey in a Minute”.
  • When Disney was trying to develop a Mickey Mouse feature film in the early 1940s, one of the ideas considered was "The Three Musketeers," but it was abandoned because the original novel requires four main characters (the titular musketeers and D'Artagnan), and the filmmakers found it difficult to come up with a good combination of established characters to fill the parts. Sixty-plus years later, the problem was solved by having Mickey, Donald and Goofy not play the original Three Musketeers and thus tell a story that parallels the original, but is not strictly an adaptation of it. The original Musketeers, incidentally, are the ones who saved the gang in the beginning of the film, and their autographs are in the hat they give Mickey.
  • Pete sports his once-trademark peg leg for the first time since the 1930s.
  • Aside from the ending scene in Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999), this was the first feature length movie starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy together.
  • The opera featured in the movie is "The Pirates of Penzance."
  • Goofy is the only main Disney character (out of Mickey and Donald) to not appear in his classic outfit.
  • Mickey's hat is signed by Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan, the original Musketeers.
  • When Pete has captured Mickey, he recites some of the lyrics to 'The Mickey Mouse Club March' ("Hey there! Hi there! Ho there! You're as welcome as can be!").
  • The "opera" songs and music in the film are not from operas, but are actually from operettas, which is a light form of opera and a separate genre. The only music that is truly from an opera is Clarabellla's song, which is from the opera "Carmen" by Bizet.
  • One of Peg-Leg Pete's schemes involves having one of his henchmen disguise himself as the princess Minnie in order for "her" to publicly declare him her successor. This mirrors Ratigan's plot of creating a robot in the image of the Queen in order for it to do the same in The Great Mouse Detective (1986). Pete even puts on a robe identical to that which Ratigan wears in that very scene.
  • Pete's horse drawn carriage has the license plate A-113, like many vehicles in Pixar releases.
  • When Pete puts Mickey in the dungeon, he says he calls the name of the Opera "I Just Can't Wait To Be King," which is the name of the song in The Lion King (1994) where Jim Cummings voiced Ed and did Scar's singing voice for the song "Be Prepared."
  • Outside of commercials and video games, this is the last time Disney's sensational six appeared in traditional animation until the short lived miniseries Goofy in How to Stay at Home (2021).
  • The songs in the opera are all from 'The Pirates of Penzance' but not in the correct order and not presented in the same way as in the play ("Poor Wandering One," for example, is a solo but is performed by a trio in this film).
  • The Three Musketeers Books All for One and One for All Disney animated theatrically released animated film after Aladdin (1992) The Lion King (1994) and Hercules (1997). Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, and Kelsey Grammer's second animated film together after Toy Story 2 (1999), released by Pixar This is the first and only Disney animated film where the movie title only appears at the end. This wouldn't happen again until Big Hero 6 (2014) released 11 years later.

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