History YMMV / MickeysTwiceUponAChristmas

* OneSceneWonder: The somewhat overweight reindeer in "Mickey's Dog-Gone Christmas"; freezing the frame indicates that this is Cupid. He only speaks one word, but he's the only other reindeer besides Donner and Blitzen who stands out.

** Did Pluto run away because he thought Mickey didn't want him around anymore? Or because he felt genuinely bad about what he did and thought Mickey would be better off without him? His memory of being told off by Mickey likely indicates [[TakeAThirdOption both]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Pluto really run away because he thought Mickey didn’t want him around anymore? Or because he felt genuinely bad about what he did and thought Mickey would be better off without him? His SelfServingMemory of being told off by Mickey likely indicates [[TakeAThirdOption both]].

* UnintentionallySympathetic: In "Donald's Gift", Donald suffers through a stressful day of Christmas-related annoyances. When he gets home and tries to relax with a cup of hot chocolate, Daisy barges into his house uninvited and drags him to the mall against his will. Same with Huey, Dewey and Louie. Once there, he's bombarded with sound effects that seem to play "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" everywhere, which stresses him out to the point where he finally snaps and destroys a Christmas exhibition. This causes Daisy and his nephews to ditch him, and a security guard chews him out for having no Christmas spirit. He's supposed to be a grumpy, unlikable Christmas hater, but it's easy to feel sorry for him when many of his Christmas-related grievances are in fact legitimate, and no one ever seems to care about how he feels. It helps his case that "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is considered an annoying song in real life.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** While Goofy is initially portrayed at first glance as his usual good-natured [[TheKlutz klutzy]] BumblingDad self, the whole thing looks like he's deliberately doing everything in his power to ruin Max's date by continuously humiliating him with his overly sappy doting tendencies. Plus, the song "Make Me Look Good" noticeably suggests Goofy's antics have previously ruined Max's attempts at a romantic life, making one wonder if Goofy is [[ObfuscatingStupidity genuinely aware]] Max doesn't want him to act in such an embarrassing way but willingly ignores him in order to sabotage his son's chances at love for some [[KnightTemplarParent sinister reason]] or because he doesn’t want Max’s relationship to turn out bad.
** Did Pluto really run away because he thought Mickey didn’t want him around anymore? Or because he felt genuinely bad about what he did and thought Mickey would be better off without him? His SelfServingMemory of being told off by Mickey likely indicates [[TakeAThirdOption both]].

* InformedWrongness:
** "Christmas Maximus" portrays Max as selfish for wanting Goofy to make a good impression on Mona instead of letting Goofy act as goofy as he normally does. It's not like Max suddenly demands that Goofy act super dignified or anything -- he just wants less potentially embarrassing behaviour. Apparently, that is selfish, but Goofy's not wanting to change his behaviour a little for his son's sake is not. While Mona does end up finding Goofy's antics charming instead of off-putting, neither he nor Max could've predicted that.
** In "Donald's Gift", everyone treats Donald like he's a horrible person for not wanting to go Christmas shopping and snapping after hearing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" literally everywhere he goes. All he wanted was to enjoy a nice cup of cocoa in peace, but Daisy and the nephews forced him to go Christmas shopping against his will and nobody would just stop bothering him about Christmas (one person even yanked him for a donation). Is a small break from the holiday havoc too much to ask for? The short tries to justify Daisy's attitude by having her say that Christmas is the time to be with family and friends, but she doesn't even consider postponing the trip to stay home with Donald. Even if they ''had'' to go shopping on that specific day, couldn't they have let Donald stay at home and spent time with him afterwards?

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Two of the shorts feature characters who are supposed to be jerks at first learning AnAesop, but their pre-CharacterDevelopment behavior ends up being too understandable:
** In "Donald's Gift", Donald suffers through a stressful day of Christmas-related annoyances. When he gets home and tries to relax with a cup of hot chocolate, Daisy barges into his house uninvited and drags him to the mall against his will. Same with Huey, Dewey and Louie. Once there, he's bombarded with sound effects that seem to play "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" everywhere, which stresses him out to the point where he finally snaps and destroys a Christmas exhibition. This causes Daisy and his nephews to ditch him, and a security guard chews him out for having no Christmas spirit. He's supposed to be a grumpy, unlikable Christmas hater, but it's easy to feel sorry for him when many of his Christmas-related grievances are in fact legitimate, and no one ever seems to care about how he feels. It helps his case that "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is considered an annoying song in real life.
** In "Christmas Maximus", Max is portrayed as selfish for resenting Goofy's antics instead of accepting Goofy the way he is. However, Max's reaction is a lot more understandable when you consider that Goofy seemingly makes absolutely no attempt to avoid embarrassing him (for instance, he shows Max' girlfriend [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto an old baby picture]] for no reason), and the song used in the short suggests that his antics have ''already'' ruined Max's previous chances for romance. It also helps Max's case that he's never outright rude to Goofy -- the worst he does is saying things like "this embarrasses me, so stop doing it" and rejecting Goofy's offer to have cookies inside when he wants to go for a walk.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
** Daisy in "Donald's Gift". She's supposed to be a victim of Donald's selfishness (his not wanting to go to the mall, and embarrassing them when he destroys its exhibition), but she comes across as unlikable because she never takes Donald's needs into account. The whole fiasco at the mall could have been avoided if she had simply listened to him when he said he didn't want to go there.
** Goofy in "Christmas Maximus". He's hurt by Max's rejection, but it may be hard to feel sorry for him because it doesn't look like he even ''tries'' to avoid embarrassing Max in front of his girlfriend.
*** To be fair, the only actual embarrassing moments are accidental (Max's underwear flying out of his suitcase) or could possibly be Goofy [[KindheartedSimpleton genuinely not considering such moments to be embarrassing]] (proudly showing off a baby photo of Max, wiping Max's face clean like a doting parent, taking photos of Max and Mona as mementos). The other instances of dressing up as a chauffeur and setting up a light display to welcome Mona are actual attempts to try and impress her.

*** To be fair, the only actual embarrassing moments are accidental (Max's underwear flying out of his suitcase) or could possibly be Goofy [[KindheartedSimpleton genuinely not considering such moments to be embarrassing]] (proudly showing off a baby photo of Max, wiping Max's face clean like a doting parent, taking photos of Max and Mona as mementos). The other instances of dressing up as a chauffeur and setting up a light display to welcome Mona are actual attempts to try an impress her.

*** To be fair, the only actual embarrassing moments are accidental (Max's underwear flying out of his suitcase) or could possibly be Goofy [[TheKlutz genuinely not considering such moments to be embarrassing]] (proudly showing off a baby photo of Max, wiping Max's face clean like a doting parent, taking photos of Max and Mona as mementos). The other instances of dressing up as a chauffeur and setting up a light display to welcome Mona are actual attempts to try an impress her.

* OneSceneWonder: The somewhat overweight reindeer in "Mickey's Dog-Gone Christmas". Though he only speaks one word and isn't identified by name, he's the only other reindeer besides Donner and Blitzen who stands out.

** Goofy in "Christmas Maximus". He's hurt by Max's rejection, but it may be hard to feel sorry for him because it doesn't look like he even ''tries'' to avoid embarrassing Max in front of his girlfriend.

* UncannyValley: While the CGI animation isn't awful for its time of production, it hasn't aged particularly well. Some of the models look a bit grotesque, rubbery and stiff, particularly the non-regular cast. It doesn't help that [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse the next attempt]] at bringing Mickey and his pals into the third dimension became a vast improvement over this animation.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Despite allegedly being a sequel to the first movie, it uses computer animation instead of hand-drawn animation and has no continuity to the first film whatsoever. There are more stories, but the writing is weaker -- for instance, it makes Max and Donald out to be in the wrong for wanting their wishes to be respected.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: There were a couple of stories that didn't make the final cut and could’ve made the film a bit better.
** There was supposed to be a story about Donald conducting a Christmas symphony featuring other Disney characters, sort of like ''{{WesternAnimation/Fantasia}}''.
** Another story called, "Christmas Wrapping" would tell the story of how Mickey and Minnie first met each other, which has never been seen in other media prior to this movie. Peggy Holmes does hope that Disney will revive the project someday, however.