YMMV / Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas

• Accidental Aesop: "Donald's Gift": If someone needs time to themselves after a tough day, don't be pushy and leave them be or they might do something they'll regret.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • While Goofy is supposed to be portrayed as his usual good-natured klutzy Bumbling Dad self, some viewers think it looks more 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 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 sinister reason or because he doesn't want Max's relationship to turn out bad.
  • 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 warped memory of being told off by Mickey likely indicates both.
• Anvilicious: The movie isn't very subtle with the lessons in the stories. They even have a Captain Obvious pop song in the Goofy one.
• Awesome Music: "Share This Day" by Josh Kelly. Even detractors of the film enjoy it.
  • In spite of being pretty blatant with its message, "Make Me Look Good" is still infectiously catchy. And many who grew up with the movie consider it one of the best parts of the movie.
  • The very James Horner inspired score of the Belles On Ice segment makes the whole scene particularly memorable.
• Broken Base: The 3D animation. Some are fine with it and think that it looks decent overall, while fans of the first film (and the "Mickey and Friends" franchise in general) find it too much of a departure.
• Cliché Storm: The movie is filled to the brim with generic Christmas commercialism, while the first film was much more simple than that.
• Die for Our Ship: Many fans of A Goofy Movie despise Mona with a passion for replacing Roxanne as Max's girlfriend. Just look at all the comments on Mona's page on the Disney Wiki.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: "Christmas: Impossible" makes a half-hearted attempt to portray Scrooge's selfishness as a bad thing. Unfortunately, the short explicitly says that he got rich thanks to this trait. The only drawback was that Santa never got him a bagpipe, which (1) is a weird thing to be sad about^note Couldn't he just buy a bagpipe from a store? And why care about a bagpipe when he can buy any expensive toy he wants? It only makes sense if you interpret this as "Scrooge is sad that he didn't get a gift from Santa, which means that he's not a good person", but the short doesn't really make this whole "being a good person" thing look more appealing than being rich and selfish., and (2) is rendered moot when Scrooge does get the bagpipe in the end anyway.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: 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.
• Fan-Preferred Cut Content: 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 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.
  • Roxanne was supposed to be in this movie, but, likely due to CGI problems involving her hair, she was cut from the final film. Needless to say, as indicated by many tropes about Mona, many wished that Roxanne came, even in an altered form.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans of Roxanne like to ignore "Christmas Maximus", which features Max getting a new girlfriend.
• Informed Wrongness: 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?
• Narm: "Christmas Maximus" barely has any dialogue and is mainly just a Captain Obvious pop song.
• Replacement Scrappy: Within the Disney fandom, many fans of A Goofy Movie are not fond of Mona. Roxanne was Max's high-school sweetheart, the girl he strives to get with the entire movie. Come the sequel, she's nowhere to be found though that's due to the fact Max goes to college. The last time she was seen was in an episode of House of Mouse. Come Twice Upon a Christmas, he's exiting college and Mona is now his new girlfriend, something which elicited a strong negative reaction from fans of the original films. She barely even has any lines. The fact that Roxanne was going to be in the short, as evidenced by Mona literally having the same voice actress, but was ultimately cut off because the animators couldn't replicate her hairdo in the cheap 3D animation or didn't even bother to give her a haircut, certainly does not help.
• 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 clumsier, the emotional impact is shockingly weak, and the stories told come across as filler when compared to the original.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Having failed to convince the audience that Max is in the wrong for wanting Goofy to be less embarassing, they then have him decide otherwise pretty much out of nowhere because that's what he needs to decide for the story to work, rather than actually learning to appreciate his dad in an organic way.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Two of the shorts feature characters who are supposed to be jerks at first learning An Aesop, but their pre-Character Development behavior ends up being too understandable:
  • 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 doesn't bother to try to avoid embarrassing him (for instance, he shows Max' girlfriend 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.
  • 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.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: 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.

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