Mickey's House of Villains is a direct-to-video film, based on House of Mouse, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Daisy Duck, & characters & villains from past Disney movies. It was released on both VHS & DVD by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on September 3, 2002. It isn't to be confused with the episode "Pete's House of Villains", in which Mickey lets Pete run the show. The events of the film take place during the 3rd & final season of Disney's House of Mouse.
Plot[]
The leaves blow in the wind as the camera pans through trees as the movie title is shown. The camera continues going downward, until the House of Mouse is seen.
Piglet, Captain Hook, Bambi, the Hag, Pete, Big Bad Wolf, Hades, Maleficent, & several others walk down the road, & are let inside by Max. He watches them enter as the sound of a thunder crash is ahead. Max turns to see the Cave of Wonders has appeared in front of the club, having seemingly burst from the ground. Jafar exits & leaves the golden scarab (which is supposed to make up the Cave's eyes) with Max, wishing him a happy Halloween. Max is left dumbfounded as he eyes the scarab as a car alarm chirps.
Inside the lobby, Donald looks in the Magic Mirror, admiring his devil costume; as it's Halloween, he's hoping to scare someone. Daisy overhears him & tells him on the "scream-o-meter" he's barely a squeal. Goofy then tells Donald that Daisy is right; he's not going to scare someone dressed up as a big red bunny (as Goofy mistakenly believes). He then tries all night to scare someone, as a side gag.
All of Donald's attempts backfire on him; (these happen at separate times after a cartoon is shown) he tries scaring Beast (very bad idea) and gets roared at, getting scared himself. He next tries to sneak up on the Fates. However, the short one points their eye at him, showing they know what he's up to. Donald's last attempt is to scare the Queen, who changes into her Hag form and scares him. Donald is left depressed, as he cannot scare someone.
Backstage, Minnie takes notice to the large group of villains in the audience (Chernabog, Professor Ratigan, Fidget, Claude Frollo, Lady Tremaine, the Wicked Queen, & Maleficent specifically) and tries to make Mickey worry that they may be up to something. However, Mickey assures Minnie that they have so many villains as guests at the club tonight because it's Halloween at the House of Mouse; he believes that they won't be up to any tricks.
While waiting for Mickey to start the Halloween festivities, Cruella De Vil complains to her fellow villains every year on Halloween night at the House of Mouse only has treats & no tricks, claiming that if she ran it, things would be very different. Ursula asks if she'd add a "splash" of evil while Captain Hook thinks it would be pillage & plundering. Iago complains that all the villains do is talk, thus making them dull. Jafar, however, decides to end that and tells them that he has "a trick for Mickey Mouse", but they will have to wait until midnight; his cohorts are enticed by this & now eagerly await his plot's unfolding. Mike introduces Mickey (in a vampire costume), who tells the crowd some jokes before starting the cartoons.
After 5 cartoons, Iago wonders how much longer it will be until Jafar's trick, which Jafar assures him it will be after the next cartoon is over, following which, the 5 of them sneak backstage. While Mickey is taking bows onstage, Ursula grabs Minnie with her tentacle to keep her quiet. Jafar apologizes but explains they don't want to be dull villains on Halloween. He then cues Captain Hook, who cues Cruella to turn off the power ("Lights out!") as Mickey announces to the crowd that it's time for a change of pace.
Jafar then appears on stage telling him that he's right and begins a song. Cruella frees some evil ghosts from a box labeled "Hitchhiking Ghosts" in the prop room & they transform the club into a darkened, evil version of itself, with mist floating on the floor. The other villains, seeing this as a chance to have their own exclusive club. When the Hitchhiking ghosts are scaring Pooh and Piglet away, All the villains force all the non-villainous characters into the kitchen and the Queen of Hearts makes her card soldiers keeping an eye on them. They next kick Mickey & Minnie out of the club & then all Villains spin the club's sign changing it to say "House of Villains". After which, the outside changes to a blue ground floor with the top half being completely crimson. But Donald, Daisy, & Goofy didn't get kicked out, as they hid from the Villains inside the club.
Taking the stage, Jafar announces to the villains that since the House of Mouse is now theirs, things will be running differently. However, Mickey returns, telling Jafar that he's had his fun and tells him to set things right; he's even brought his friends (Donald and Goofy) as back up. Jafar is then backed up by Ursula, Hades, & Chernabog. Intimidated by the large demon, Mickey & his friends are thrown out as Jafar starts the next cartoon, calling "especially that scaredy duck Donald" are about to get a real fright. (The cartoon has Donald stealing Halloween candy from his nephews who get revenge on him; Goofy also gets his holidays mixed up, thinking it's either Christmas or Easter)
After the cartoon, Mickey & his friends look inside, wondering what they can do. Minnie, fed up with the villains antics, marches inside. Goofy says he's never seen Minnie so mad, but Mickey tells him he has. Jafar announces to the crowd that he has saved the best cartoon for last just as Minnie begins glaring at him; she tells him he and the other villains have 30 seconds to change everything back to normal. As Minnie counts down, Jafar motions for help & Captain Hook picks Minnie up & tosses her out as Jafar makes a pun about the next cartoon being a real scream; Minnie screams as he says this.
The cartoon shown is a Mickey & Minnie version of "Hansel & Gretel" has them lost in the forest and find a house made of candy, only to find it’s a trap set by a witch. At the end of the cartoon, Mickey & his friends sneak backstage & dress him in his sorcerer robes from Fantasia. The villains become surprised by Mickey's reappearance as a sorcerer; Jafar fires a blast at Mickey, who grabs the fire & turns it into a ball that he tosses back at Jafar; the ball is hit backstage, where Donald back evades it. Mickey conjures a ball & throws it at Jafar, who misses it; the ball takes off Hook's hat. Mickey sends another ball at Jafar, who bunts it off his staff. The fireball bounces back at Mickey, whose magic hat is knocked off; he has no time to put it back on. Jafar moves in to eliminate the heroic mouse. However, all the Villains are watching Jafar & Mickey, Aladdin, who escaped the kitchen and into the prop basement, opens the back door & tosses a magic lamp to Mickey. The other villains flee in terror, realizing that their leader has been defeated while Mickey sucks Jafar into the lamp, all the guests from the kitchen are now free. Everyone cheering as Tinker Bell flies to the club's sign saying "House of Villains", & uses her magic to change the sign back to "House of Mouse". Everyone cheers for Mickey & as Minnie gives Mickey a kiss to thank him, telling him he's the only real leader of the club. Donald pops up behind them in a Jafar costume, but Mickey tells him that even though he finally picked a scary costume, Goofy beat him to it; he's dressed as Jafar, too. Donald ends the movie with his classic line "Ah phooey!"
Guests[]
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger
The Lion King: Simba (cub), Nala (cub), Shenzi, Scar, Banzai and Ed
The Great Mouse Detective: Ratigan, Fidget
Bambi: Bambi, Thumper
Dumbo: Dumbo, Timothy
Mary Poppins: The Penguins
The Rescuers: Madame Medusa and Mr. Snoops
The Sword in the Stone: Merlin and Madam Mim
Pinocchio: Pinocchio, Geppetto, Honest John and Gideon and Stromboli
Fantasia: Chernabog
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad: Headless Horseman
Cinderella: Lady Tremaine, Anastasia, Drizella, Cinderella, and Lucifer
Alice in Wonderland: The Queen of Hearts, Alice, The King of Hearts and the Card Soldiers
Peter Pan: Tinker Bell, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, Pirates Crew, and Tick-Tock the Crocodile
The Jungle Book: Baloo, Kaa, Shere Khan, Bagheera
Robin Hood: Prince John, Friar Tuck, Robin Hood, Little John
Aladdin: Aladdin, Genie, Jafar Iago
101 Dalmatians: Cruella De Vill, Jasper and Horace
Beauty and the Beast: Belle, Beast, Gaston, LeFou
Lady and the Tramp: Lady, Tramp, Aunt Sarah, Si and Am
Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs: The Queen
Hercules: The Fates, Hades, Pain and Panic, Hercules
The Little Mermaid: Ursula, Flotsam and Jetsam, Sebastian, Ariel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Claude Frollo
Sleeping Beauty: Maleficent, Aurona and the Guards
The Haunted Mansion: Hitchhiking Ghosts, Hatbox Ghost, Madame Leota
Mickey Mouse: Lonesome Ghosts
Silly Symphony: The Skeletons, the Pigs and Big Bad Wolf
Mickey's introduction (Reused in House Ghosts)[]
"Ooh it’s a Houseketeer Halloween! So grab your garlic & get set for America's most haunted. He's Count Mickey Mouse."
Cartoons[]
Trick or Treat (1952), Mickey's Mechanical House (1999), How to Haunt a House (1999), Lonesome Ghosts (1937), Dance of the Goofys (1999), Donald Duck and the Gorilla (1944), Donald's Halloween Scare (1999), Hansel and Gretel (1999)
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