It's easy to be cynical about Christmas, but for me it's hard to maintain that necrotic attitude in the face of classic Christmas cartoons like the one below.
What do I love? Lots of stuff:
1. Even just the music that accompanies the Buena Vista title page is comforting, welcoming.
2. Chip and Dale don't cross the line into Alvin and the Chipmunks cloyingly squeaky voices.
3. Nobody leaves any footprints in the snow (makes me appreciate how far animation has come).
4. Combination of music and animation when Mickey cuts down the tree.
5. The way Mickey cuts down the tree so that the bottom is a perfect point.
6. The small visual joke from 2:22-2:25 [Chip (or Dale?) pokes his butt and says "Hey, wake up!" and-- SURPRISE-- actually he was poking Dale's (or Chip's) butt instead, HAHAHA].
7. View of the tree decorations from inside the tree.
8. Santa Claus candles gag.
9. Shorn of leaves and ornaments, at 6:10 the tree looks like a Charlie Brown one.
10.Mickey forgives all, because aww, chipmunks in our tree!
11.Happy ending with traveling carol singers--wait, a trio of a singer, a cello and an accordion?! In the snow?! <-- Not intended as a backhanded compliment, but this was what I found to be the most LOL-ing part of this cartoon.
Happy ten days before Christmas!
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