YMMV / Mickey's House of Villains

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Kaa was shown trying to hypnotize Minnie during "It's Our House Now!", but in the next scene, she hasn't succumbed to his powers. Does she have a will of iron?
  • Piglet and Bambi walking into the House of Mouse with the other villains suggests they have a dark side we don't know about.
  • In the Donald's Halloween Scare segment, were Mickey and Minnie in on the triplets' prank, or did they actually not recognize Donald? They don't say anything, but judging from the smiles on their faces, it could very well be the former. And if you wanna go further, while Goofy seems to have a more serious expression, did he actually believe Donald to be a maniac, or was he just a convincing actor?
• Awesome Music: Besides "It's Our House Now!", the score in the opening scene (heard in full in the credits) feels like vintage, almost creepy Halloween music.
• Fanfic Fuel: The film provides an opportunity for fans to write proper face-offs between the Disney heroes and villains in the House of Mouse.
• Fridge Brilliance: Frollo doesn't join the other the other Disney Villains in taking over the "House of Mouse", but this makes sense when you remember he's a Fundamentalist Churchgoing Villain Knight Templar, and many of the other villains are magic-users. He probably believes Magic Is Evil and will not help their scheme out of fear of damning his own soul.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Jafar being the Big Bad firmly places this movie as being released prior to the Colbert Bump Maleficent received from serving as the Big Bad for most of the first Kingdom Hearts game (which had coincidentally released mere weeks before the movie’s release date). If the movie were released today, Maleficent would’ve unquestionably been the leader of the villains and not reduced to the minor cameo role she received.
  • As noted above, Piglet and Bambi being in the house with the other villains implies a dark side that isn't talked about. In 2023, a Slasher Film called Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey came out, with Piglet being a murderer alongside Pooh himself. Even better, a Bambi film set in that film's universe is planned. With this in mind, you could make the argument that those films said out loud what this film merely implied.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Many on the Internet have looked up videos of the original House of Villains VHS' promo reel to find one of the first commercials for Kingdom Hearts.
• Magnificent Bastard: Jafar shows he's just as magnificent as he is in the films, orchestrating a takeover of the House by convincing all the Disney villains to ally into a Legion of Doom. When the time comes for the takeover, Jafar kicks Mickey and Minnie out amid the grand Villain Song "It's Our House Now!"
• Memetic Badass: Minnie, for apparently having a will of iron (see Alternative Character Interpretation).
• Memetic Mutation: A screencap of the YouTube comment: "Did anyone else see Piglet coming in with the villains? I always knew that shifty little bastard was up to something." has made rounds on image sharing sites.
• Narm:
  • The opening sequence features the Disney villains, led by the Evil Queen in her Hag guise, marching on the House. The menace somewhat undercut by the likes of Piglet and Bambi appearing either side of her. But...see Memetic Mutation above.
• Popularity Polynomial: Despite being an obvious quick cash-in with a half-made plot, Mickey's House of Villains has enjoyed a small wave of popularity in later years.
• Signature Scene:
  • "It's Our House Now!", helped by the fact it's the only really substantial original part of the movie.
  • On a different note, you can almost always expect to see the promotional image of Jafar, Iago, Ursula, Cruella, and Captain Hook huddled together and sneering whenever you look for pictures of the Disney Villains, the picture of the assembled villains having become iconic.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Mickey and Minnie's reactions once they're thrown out of the House, looking on in shock, while the music really hammers home that they lost hard is upsetting.
  • In the Hansel and Gretel segment, towards the end, the Witch has captured the fattened Mickey and Minnie and is preparing to eat them. It's only now that the two actually realize what she intends to do to them, and the witch picks Mickey to kill and cook first. When she approaches, the two mice embrace, but Mickey is pulled away, and Minnie can only cry in despair as he's taken from her.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Pete is worth mentioning since he's the Big Bad of the series and always scheming to take down the House, only for him to be Demoted to Extra in which a large force of villains actually do just that. Only showing up during the Villain Song as part of the chorus in a few shots.
  • A few notable villains missing are Scar, Frollo, Shere Khan, the Horned King, Ratigan, and Yzma. In Scar's case, the episode and even the game on the DVD features Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed as the villains representing The Lion King instead, while Kaa represents The Jungle Book instead of Shere Khan. ^note For what it's worth, Frollo and Ratigan were briefly seen applauding with the other villains near the beginning. There's also a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of what appears to be the lower half of Shere Khan's body among the villains marching to the House of Mouse. None of them have any speaking lines, naturally. Even the excuse the first five are Knights of Cerebus in their respective films seems null since most of them have played comedic roles in the show before, and Yzma is a fan-favorite due to the hilarious moments she had in her home movie so it's glaring that she's absent.
  • No villain besides Jafar even tries to go after Mickey before he whips out the lamp; in fact, once the takeover actually occurs, the villains do nothing but spectate, even when someone like Chernabog would likely end it then and there.
  • The heroes of Disney don't play a role in the plot and are quickly locked in the kitchen.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The advertised plot of the villains taking over the House takes a back seat to the cartoon shorts contained within. Then at the end, Mickey and Jafar have an anticlimactic battle which results in all the other villains fleeing in terror simply because Mickey's figured out Jafar's weakness, and it took 3/4 of the movie to even get to the takeover. After about seven cartoons, we cut to the villains again and Jafar tells the other villains to simply wait for midnight. Then after another cartoon, we get the takeover.
  • With the heroes locked in the kitchen, we don't get a potential battle between Disney's greatest heroes and villains on a massive, epic scale.
  • During "It's Our House Now!", Kaa is briefly shown trying to hypnotize Minnie, but it cuts away from that particular scene before we see her succumbing to his powers. In fact, Kaa's hypnosis in general feels utterly wasted here.
• Villain Decay: After taking over, the villains don't do anything particularly heinous. They just lock the Disney heroes in the kitchen, evict Mickey's staff from the building, and show two shorts that are scarier than the ones Mickey used. To add to this, all the villains run in fear once Mickey has the lamp despite the fact that the lamp would only really affect Jafar. Iago wasn't kidding when he called them a bunch of dull villains.

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