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7/10
Better than it is made out to be
TheLittleSongbird7 September 2010
I am 18, and a huge fan of Disney. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is not their best show, plus it is not even close to the classic Silly Synphonies, but it is light years from their worst. Sure it can have its predictable moments, but it is better than it's made out to be. I often see it criticised for being a rip-off of Dora the Explorer. True, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse uses the talk-to-the-camera technique, but so do other shows even before Dora. And I may get some flack for this opinion, but I think this is better than Dora. Dora I find annoying and repetitive, and other than counting to one to ten in Spanish I learnt little from it.

Back to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The stories can be predictable and the dialogue overly-simplistic. Plus the pacing of the episodes can be rushed or draggy. However, I liked the animation. It has been criticised for being rough, robotic and lacking variety. Maybe so at first, but I for one think it improved. The backgrounds are colourful and bright, the colours are nice and the character designs are fairly good. The clubhouse actually looks very interesting in my view. The music is pretty decent too. The theme song is simple but memorable, and the accompanying music is decent enough. I personally thoroughly enjoy the Hot Dog Dance, and liked its imaginative and funny name.

I also liked the social and creative skills that Mickey Mouse Clubhouse teaches children. Children I think will be delighted by the fun that goes into this show(I have toddler friends who adore this show), adults mayn't be so impressed, but the look on their child's faces will say it all as they learn new skills in every episode. The characters are engaging enough for the target audience. Mickey, despite the criticism he smiles too much contrary to his more mischievous persona in the original cartoons, is very benevolent and an ideal character for children to at least relate to. Goofy is still funny, and Minnie and Daisy are interesting without being too vapid. My only disappointment character-wise is Donald, I don't hate him far from it, but I would have liked to seen more of his cantankerous personality that made him so funny yet endearing in the originals. Morever, the voice acting from the late Wayne Allwine, Bill Farmer, Tony Alselmo, Russi Taylor and Tress MacNeille is rock solid.

To conclude, it is a good show but no classic. 7/10 Bethany Cox
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6/10
Great show
natiesee16 April 2019
My baby loves this show she wouldn't watch anything else. I wish they would make more episodes.
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5/10
A good show for preschoolers, but a pretty odd way to introduce newer generations of kids to Mickey Mouse
mjnorcross8 July 2011
They don't call Disney the "Mouse House" for nothing. There's no question that Mickey Mouse is the king of the classic Disney cartoon characters. He's iconic, memorable, and almost every Disney fan and cartoon fan in general knows his name. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is perhaps the latest show to have him as a star, and for some bizarre reason, they decided to create a show aimed at preschoolers.

The show follows the same interactive formula used in two Nick Jr. shows, Blues Clues & Dora the Explorer. The main character interacts with the viewer and asks him/her for help on a certain something. In addition to Mickey's familiar pals like Minnie, Donald, and Goofy, there are some elements that are exclusive to the show such as the clubhouse itself, a floating mouse-eared device named "Toodles", and the "Mousketools" the device usually carries. There are some bright sides to the show. It teaches children creative skills and problem solving, and that is a very important thing to teach to children nowadays, because there is no creativity when it comes to television for kids and tweens.

This was an odd route Disney chose to reintroduce their mascot to new generations of kids. With the character's track record of being on shows such as Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse, Mickey's no stranger to television. But, an interactive "edutainment" show for preschoolers does not seem like a very good fit for him. I don't think rendering the characters into 3D CGI was the best idea either, but the show sure did work. I know someone whose daughter watches the show and now also watches the original Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts by Walt Disney himself because of it.
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6/10
Good but not great
aidenhuber7 February 2022
Just watched an episode of mickey mouse clubhouse. Overall the plot was great, but the one thing that kept me watching was the mystery mouskatool. Although I was watching for the reveal, the payoff was not great. By the time we were shown the mystery mouskatool, we had already seen better and more interesting gadgets. Also Mickey kept yelling at me.
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1/10
Mindless Dreck!
bhelmore7 September 2013
Just everything about this show is god-awful: the stories, the voice "talent", the songs, the music... you name it. Disney has taken the wonderful classic characters that put the studio on the map and destroyed them! To dare to call this dreck "educational" is a insult to all other educational programs.

I'm an avid fan of animation, especially the animated films produced by Disney and Pixar, but I'd rather listen to someone scratching their fingernails on a chalkboard for a half hour than be within ear shot of this garbage. "Oh Toodles!". "Mickey Mishka Mooska!". Give me a break! The 3D animation is at least mediocre. I actually feel sorry for the animators, knowing the painstaking animation process requires listening to these wretched soundtracks over and over again. I can't imagine a worse a gig for an animator.

It's almost as though the creators of this trash actually hate parents, and went out of their way to create something that (somehow) entertains children, but annoys parents like me to no end.
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6/10
For What It Is...It's Not Bad
This show isn't really that bad. I've seen enough episodes to say that I recommend it for younger kids. The show has an innocence to it that even though it's not my favorite, I can see why it's growing a following among the kiddies.

Even though it's an education based program, I'm glad that they don't completely change the characters we know and love. Mickey is still the kind leader of the gang, Donald is still the short tempered sidekick that ultimately learns his lesson in the end, Goofy is still...y'know, Goofy.

Even though in the original cartoons Pete is a villain, in this series he's more comic relief. That works more to it's advantage than you'd think.

So overall, it's not as bad as most people would think. It's not really a masterpiece but there's worse things out there.
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1/10
What the hell is this?
ronni_lane27 September 2006
Oh my god this is the worst Mickey Mouse spin off i have seen in years these new cartoons suck is this the new Dora the Explorer? i can't believe they turned Walt's characters into morons i liked House of Mouse and all that but this is god awful these so called episodes are ripping off fairy tales as well and to think i watched it on Playhouse Disney and it sucked did not entertain me at all i'm glad it's cancelled and i hope new episodes will not be made seriously this has to be cancelled due to it's silly content it isn't even teaching kids anything it is teaching them stupid stuff and i can't believe i used to have respect for Mickey.
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8/10
Consistent Disney
rjpetty-764945 March 2017
I find it interesting that some reviewers here have criticized this show with zero knowledge of Disney.

One reviewer states, "Walt Disney and Wayne Allwine are rolling in their Graves." Interesting since Allwine voiced the Mouse for enough episodes to roll 4 seasons of the show before his passing in May of 2009.

Many reviewers are also lambasting the term "Meeska Mooska." These people obviously aren't aware of the Mickey Mouse Club which was Walt's second television show. The Mickey Mouse Club used the phrase, "Meeska Mooska Mousketeer" as a password to open the cartoon vault (Every episode aired a classic Disney short).

In today's program the phrase "Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse" is used as a password to open the clubhouse. This show is consistent with everything Disney did with their programming in both Walt's lifetime and after.
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7/10
What will you expecting? It's a kids show!
tlyqmyl27 January 2021
Everybody says that this show is "dumb" and "sappy"

But it's a kids show, it's suppose to be entertain little kids, say 2-6.

And yes it's not perfect, but overrall, it's just harmless
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1/10
disgraceful
swatkins-622 June 2015
This show is an absolute disgrace.

Walt Disney would be turning in his grave.

If your kids like this, it's for the same reasons that foolish pensioners like poker machines, junkies like crack cocaine, and gluttons like cheap hot dogs.

One classic Disney movie is worth more than this entire execrable series.

I disabled YouTube on my computer to make sure that my kids don't watch this show, and similar garbage which is designed to captivate kids but is worthless and harmful.
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8/10
My kids love this show!
legendmck12 August 2006
This a great kids show! They love counting with them, calling for the toolbox and answering all the questions Mickey asks. "MISKA MOOSKA MICKEY MOUSE" they love it! The say it all the time when the show comes on! It gets the kids involved with the show. They stand up and dance or will jump up and count with Mickey. 2 yr old children thru preschoolers will love it! Many preschool concepts are covered. Shapes, colors, helping others and numbers. We have TiVo and it comes in handy. I hope they keep adding new episodes! I do think it is great that Mickey Mouse has a cartoon that is for younger viewers.

HOT DIGGITY DOG what's not to like!
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1/10
what a way to destroy a legendary icon
joshbriggs-225 August 2007
"oh wow! a new cartoon starring mickey mouse!" i watched this with my two younger cousins one day, unfortunately this show is a piece of crap. what has come to the magic world of Disney? they have killed mickey mouse & his friends by turning them into 3D/CG horrors & make them educate kids by sounding like idiots. there is a load of annoying/overused catchphrases, not-so-very educational material, & breaking the fourth wall which is not as entertaining anymore after the late 60s (saturday morning shows have killed fourth wall breaking jokes & shows) what also makes this show bad is a horrifying theme song which the gang dance like retards to (especially goofy) and the lyrics are as ear-bleeding as the musical numbers in most Disney movies. (ugh...) Walt Disney must be spinning in his liquid nitrogen grave.
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3/10
okay for toddler but not for me
kaidane606 February 2012
Mickey Mouse was a awesome so when it was a cartoon but now it just doesn't make any sense. Where did all those extra characters come from now it is just annoying. Me and my friends used to meet up when were little and watch mickey mouse now it is just stupid. I just wish that we could just rewind and watch old show. they make really stupid shows now a days and it really makes me mad. Disney used to have such great shows like recess and the weekender's Kim possible and that kind a stuff but no they ruined it. I think its just a waste of time. THEY RUINED MICKEY MOUSE!!! i am just mad and angry. WASTE OF TIME!!!! I REALLY HOPE THAT THEY CANNCEL IT QUICK!
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8/10
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.. a Return to Happier times.
dreadmime5 May 2006
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse returns to the old roots of Disney itself, with morals and lessons, and teaching about helping others, in a fun and energetic way that is very conducive to learning from children. This is something I feel Walt would be proud to write his name to. I hope this series never gets canceled! All of the famous characters from Disney Lore are represented here in the show, and the animation is spot on, and fun, but not overdone. Some of the voices are pretty "close" to their originals, unfortunately a lot of the voices can't be possibly copied (Chip and Dale, etc.) because the character went "out of production" so many years ago, and Paul Frees is unfortunately passed. However, for wholesome family entertainment, this is probably the best bang for your buck today.
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4/10
First reaction was disappointment; to the point of tears.
nanhowel19 June 2006
My excitement of seeing the news article & reading that Mickey Mouse was returning in original form was quickly turned to devastation & disappointment.I want my grandchildren to get acquainted with & to fall in love with Mickey as much as I have been for 50 years. The new Mickey Mouse Club House is dull & boring; without the emotional warmness & excitement of the original. I understand revising the theme song but, the new one has no pizzas or punch to it. Mickey has been made into a mellow mouse with no class or attitude. I realize it is focusing towards small children but, I do not feel it is up beat enough to keep them interested during the show. The speed of action needs to be moved up several notches. Give the children some credit, now days they are brighter & more advanced at earlier ages than back in my day.

8/20 ADD ON: Okay, after watching several more episodes maybe it is not as bad as my first reaction but, I still believe it is too slow & passive to keep attention span. "The tootles"when calling for tools is lame since,it sounds like what is used in slang when meaning "good bye". I did find my 4 year old granddaughter watching the show the other day,which is a + but, good luck keeping children interested if the speed is not stepped up soon.
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10/10
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
dbbanner9911 November 2006
My 3 yr old LOVES this. I can't wait until they come out with the DVD. The other guy that left a -100 / 10 comment is an idiot, and obviously he doesn't have any children (who should be watching this) It teaches basic learning skills without being intimidating to children. Sure its a lot like Dora the Explorer, but its all English (Dora and Diego confuse my daughter when they switch between English and Spanish) This is fantastic fun for children under 5. My daughter runs around singing the mickey mouse clubhouse song. Its cute.

Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is the first computer generated (CG) 3-D animation television series to feature the "Sensational Six." Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, and Pluto star in this series, which focuses on interactivity with its primarily preschool-aged audience to stimulate problem solving. Each episode involves the characters helping its viewers to "solve a specific age-appropriate problem utilizing basic skills, such as identifying shapes and counting through ten." The series uses Playhouse Disney's "whole child" curriculum of cognitive, social and creative learning opportunities.
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1/10
The worst Disney production ever!
randameshal24 May 2020
While my childhood has been immensely influenced by Disney movies and characters, I'm afraid the new Disney productions are just way below expectations. Mickey Mouse clubhouse is simply terrible with lame and noneducational stories. Mickey seems like a bossy boss who is constantly giving nonsense orders for mixed up adventures (as they call it) that depend mostly on stupidity and magic. The other characters add nothing to the whole series and every time I watch it with my kids, I wonder why they suggest those horrible ideas. I don't want to sound like someone who is against imagination, but the mouseketools provide twisted and unnecessary ways to solve problems. So what are we trying to teach our kids? And why do we need flirting, kissing, weddings... in a program that is targeting such small ages? Overall, I don't encourage watching this series.
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1/10
it should be called''Mickey Mouse Scrapheap''
nathanelmer30 January 2016
A great example of Disney rolling downhill. I hate this. IT ruined the most famous cartoon icon of all time. The writers make the characters bug you by making a kid scream at the TV a la Dora,and it needs no explaning. the writing is bad,the popular iconic characters are butchered,and... wait for it.... It is Disney's version of Dora!!!! But,it is worse. IT ruins Mickeys fame and it is not Mickey mouse. the real Mickey has kind hearted and memorable characters and slapstick. Mickey Mouse Ciubhouse is lazy writing,stupid concepts and It try to be Mickey,but it fails badly.I loath this and you should back away from this and watch the newer Mickey shorts on Disney channel,or watch Steamboat Willie. This shows how greedy these new folks at Disney could be. Your subsidiary,Pixar has a great fan base and awesome movies and does not care about money. But,this show is a way to get money and to ruin a popular icon.
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1/10
So awful, I want to cry.
kittykittygaby1315 July 2006
Another cartoon thats worth ranting about! Some stupid CGI animated Disney cartoon! Disney should leave 3D to the PRO'S. And I mean Pixar! Unlike Eisner, Pixar Studios CARES about the fans and not just the money! You know why these characters are so popular? Because when you see them, you can feel their sass, their anger, their tears, and their joy. And now, their just the lifeless puppets of a greedy company. The one character that has the most "emotion" is Donald Dunk, and he STILL doesn't have that much emotion! Its just another lame-ass interactive kids show like Dora the Emplorer. But Dora IMPROVED. The animation had more life. The characters had more emotion. And emotion is the most important ingredient in any movie, story, comic, and cartoon! And what kinda catchphrase is "MISKA MOOSKA MICKEY MOUSE"?! I swear, one day, Disney will go down, and Eisner will go broke.

-100/10. (I don't care if its not a real score, it deserves it)
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8/10
My son loves it!
dupreesgal30 June 2006
This show and Dragon Tales are the only cartoons that my two-year-old son will watch. He is fascinated and recently started answering Mickey back. Yes, this is a rip-off of Dora, but my son likes this and not Dora, so who cares? He has seen the sheep, beanstalk and Mars episodes and been glued through them all. He doesn't watch much TV, so this is a great opportunity for me to unload the dishwasher or get dinner ready. (Thank you TiVo!) One thing that does bother me is that Minnie and Daisy have to do all of their adventuring with heels on. Come on! It is 2006. Ducks and mice do not need to wear heels.

My husband and I can't get the songs out of our head. Does anyone know who sings "Hot Dog"?
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1/10
And I thought Dora The Explorer already was bad enough...
mattiasflgrtll623 May 2014
Okay, so Disney can still pump out some good movies, but when it comes to kids cartoons, they are freaking doomed. What IS this crap? The animation looks someone cluttered on a piece of paper, wiped his/her ass with it and then decided to include it in the final product! But strangely enough, that's the LEAST worst part. The story lines are just boring, overly formulaic and makes no sense. The characters are reduced to be either unrealistically sugar-sweet or total cockalorums (the latter most applied to Mickey Mouse), which would be fine if it was used for comedic abilities, but it's not. NOT. AT. ALL. Also, what have they done to Donald Duck? He was easily the most developed, the most interesting and the most three-dimensional character in the Disney- universe, but you know what? Now he's just like everybody else. Overly happy-go-lucky, kind to everyone and never EVER looses his temper. How did that happen?? It's not realistic, kids KNOW everybody gets mad sometimes, even Dalai Lama probably had a anger moment in his life. So why do they decide to go the weird route that EVERYBODY acts like the super-nicest human being? I always hate that about new kids cartoons, that everyone is just happy all the time for no reason. Also, since when is Mickey friends with Black-Pete? That's just stupid, they are supposed to be enemies! Hell, he even asks Mickey for help in one episode, which is probably the worst moment on this "show" there is. Despite all these examples, I have STILL not gotten to the worst part yet. Oooooh no. You know what REALLY makes me mad? All the other factors are god-awful, but what truly makes me rate this 1 is the goddamn songs! The singing voices are horrible, the lyrics are either super-clichéd or stereotyped (like Minnie singing about her bow tique, just because she wears a bow and is a female). For some reason they also just contain words that aren't even words, but just sounds like something a brain-dead retard would come up with, like "Mickey Muska Mouse". "Muska"? Learn your kids to speak real English. No, I'm just saying, for the love of God, turn your kids away from this show or they'll NEVER appreciate true classics like the old Spongebob-episodes, the REAL Mickey Mouse- cartoons from the 40's or Rocko's Modern Life. If you start loving this show, reconsider your life.
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10/10
Great show for kids
bboni001-822-17376920 April 2019
The animation is suspect because of when it originally came out but taking that out of the equation it is excellent. Kids love it, it is interactive, and it obviously lasted 10 years which means it was highly successful. Overall I think Disney did a superb job. The parents that are complaining about what the show stands for or that it's too interactive or complaints about oh toodles need to take it for what it is. A child tv show. It is not meant to be a primary source of education rather than something fun and interesting with informative problem solving in between.
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1/10
Why we get that show and not a show based on the comic stories of Topolino or any other well-known magazine? Why Disney? :'(
giannisvrach28 October 2016
I remember myself since I was not even in primary school,buying and reading the comic stories of these beloved Disney characters (mostly of the sensational six),even now I am still occasionally buying many Disney magazines (mostly topolino (greek name "Μίκυ Μάους"), The phantom duck and Indiana Goofy magazine ( "Αλμανάκο"), the Donald duck magazine ("Ντόναλντ"), and more. I also like some of the movies, for instance "Mickey's Christmas Carols", but to my great disappointment there are almost no cartoons based on the cartoon magazine stories..I mean we only have the old cartoons till 1960s which are completely outdated today,and small cartoon series with 3- 5min episode (yeah even house of mouse and Mickey mouse works which had a very good presentation,graphics,voice casting,etch. did not have any interesting stories). The same goes for "Ducktales" even though it was a cartoon series that actually tried to transfer to the big screen some good and entertaining stories. Of course I understand it was a series of 1980s,however since then we have not seen any kind of attempt to produce a real story. By real I mean a story that has some kind of action,the audience knows where it begins and where it ends,and has an amazing time following the storyline. Instead we always get some boring completely childish cartoons.

I mean, there are so many great stories in the comics section,(f.e. detective stories of mickey mouse and chief o'hara chasing Black Pete and Phantom Blot or solving any kind of mystery, Goofy's Friday stories, Phantom duck adventure stories) why should anyone prefer to create stories with Darkwing Duck, mickey and the rest of the sensational 6 running around and practically doing absolutely nothing,like acting in a short pun. And now we ended up with the worst kind of show, "Mickey mouse Clubhouse". Nothing funny,nothing entertaining.Just something that babies can watch and let time go by.

Come on Disney,we expect more from you.Make some great movies and you will see us paying to watch them on theaters. Make great cartoons series and we will watch them. You have so much to give but you prefer not to.Why? ( I really have high expectations of the anticipated new series of ducktales!!!Although the graphics are way too "modern", a nice storyline can always save the day. I hope each episode won't have such a slow progression as the old one though)
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4/10
nowadays it seems so poorly animated
treykrumel22 August 2018
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Ok so this show doesn't make much sense all it is just some random talking animals this so is for kids so don't expect as a kid feel free to enjoy it but if you want some real mickey cartoons then visit the good old classic instead of this if your old enough and feel like it.
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