Mickey In The Mirror

[Bartie Spalitto]

Theirevil grins and faces coming towards me, but one thing I will never forget is just when I put the movie into the box to be burned, I saw at the back of the cover. The mirror from the movie showing the original Mickey, Goofy and Donald all depressed and red eyes glowing behind them grabbing them and holding them in the mirror.

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The images explore the collapse and explosion of elements such as the monolith, mirror, and table, with the characters serving as symbolic and self-referential figures that shift formally within their environments, reflecting mood and space.

Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse[b] is a point-and-click adventure video game developed by Capcom and published by Nintendo under license from Disney Interactive for the GameCube. It follows the titular character Mickey Mouse as he explores a mansion within a mirror world, collecting mirror shards in order to escape while a playful ghost taunts him throughout his journey.

The game uses a simple point-and-click mechanic, similar to Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, which involves using a cursor to guide Mickey Mouse to various locations. Mickey will react to what the player does and what he encounters in the game by expressing curiosity, getting mad, falling down, running away, standing his ground, or other actions. At certain points, the player is able to have Mickey perform a special move that generally involves having him deal with an onscreen enemy. Gags must be pulled to help Mickey obtain helpful objects or clear a path, but not all of them will give Mickey something. Magic star containers must be collected in order to pull gags, but some cost a certain number of stars. Once a gag is pulled, the meter drains, but can be recharged by collecting stars found throughout the game.

Mini-games, such as having Mickey fly an airplane or ski down a mountain, are available throughout the game. Special souvenirs may be uncovered as well, which are displayed in Mickey's room at the end of the game, such as Pluto's collar or Minnie's bow. The objective of the game is to find all the pieces of the mirror so that Mickey goes back home.

One night when Mickey is fast asleep, he falls into a dream where a mischievous ghost traps a dream vision of himself inside a magic mirror. Stuck in a large mansion within an alternate universe that strangely resembles his own house, Mickey yearns to get back through the mirror to the real world in order to wake up from his dreamlike state. However, the ghost destroys the mirror and the pieces shrink and fly off to different areas around the house, which turns the magic mirror into a normal mirror. The player must direct Mickey to outwit and pull gags in order to get past enemies, obstacles, and the aforementioned ghost and recover the twelve broken mirror pieces he needs to go home again and search for twelve magic star containers (needed to pull gags) and items needed to help him throughout his quest. Whenever he finds a piece, it will fly back to the mirror, return to its normal size, and put itself back in place.

After repairing the mirror, Mickey prepares to leave, but the ghost stops him, revealing that it only brought him here so it can have someone to play with. The player could either choose to stay or go. Choosing to stay will make the ghost run off, leaving Mickey stuck in the alternate world until he re-enters the mirror room where the player can choose to stay or leave again. If the player chooses to leave, Mickey says goodbye to the ghost and begins to go home, but the ghost decides to go with him (only if the player has collected all the mirror pieces). After Mickey wakes up, he goes downstairs to get something to eat. If the player repairs the mirror with all twelve pieces found, a model of the ghost is shown hanging on the ceiling fan and the ghost's laughter is heard, implying that the ghost is now residing in Mickey's house.

The game was teased at the 2001 Electronic Entertainment Expo presentation with a series of screenshots, which was assumed to be a platformer like much the vein of Disney's Magical Quest on the Super NES. It was also announced that Nintendo would handle the publication of the title.[2][3] The title was formally announced at the 2002 Electronic Entertainment Expo.[4]

The game's introduction sequence is loosely based on Thru the Mirror, a 1936 Mickey Mouse cartoon. Mickey's animations are replicated from the short. An alternate scene later in the game, where Mickey grows to a tremendous size then shrinks to a minuscule size, was also replicated as in the cartoon.

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[5] For the most part, the player is given no instructions and cut scenes are limited to watching Mickey get chased or falling through to the next area.[8][9][10] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 27 out of 40.[7]

GameSpot said, "The incredibly slow pacing and monotonous puzzles will override the Disney entertainment factor for the young as well."[8] IGN wrote, "It's just plain boring and often tedious. Most kids will find the game as just that, and for the monetary investment, it's not recommended."[10] GameSpy wrote, "Geared towards a younger audience, Mickey is mind-numbingly simple, and it's a shame that such impressive visuals had to go to waste on such a disposable game."[9]

Thru the Mirror is a 1936 American animated short film directed by David Hand from a story by William Cottrell and Joe Grant. In this cartoon short, Mickey Mouse has a Through the Looking-Glass-parody-like dream that he travels through his mirror and enters a topsy-turvy world where everything is alive. While there, he engages in a Fred Astaire dance number with a pair of gloves and a pack of cards, until the cards chase him out of the bizarre world. Produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists, it was the 83rd Mickey Mouse short film to be released, the fourth of that year.[3]

Mickey falls asleep after reading Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, and dreams that he passes through a mirror into an alternate reality. Beyond the mirror, his furniture and possessions have come to life, and he tangles with a rocking chair, a footstool and an umbrella while a nearby coat rack watches his actions in surprise. Mickey eats a walnut offered to him by a nutcracker after it cracks it open and eats the shell, and it causes him to grow until his head hits the ceiling, and then suddenly shrink to a tiny size.

The telephone answers itself, and hauls Mickey up to the top of a desk with its cord. After a fruitless conversation, the phone uses its cord to amuse Mickey with a game of jump rope. The skipping turns into a tap dance, and the radio turns itself on to play a tune. Grabbing a tiny top hat and a matchstick for a cane, Mickey performs a tap dance routine, using a regular-size top hat as his platform. He has another dance scene with a pair of gloves, and then commandeers a marching set of playing cards. Mickey gets shuffled into the pack, which turns into another dance routine.

Mickey dances with the Queen of Hearts, until the King of Hearts notices and out of jealousy, goes to confront Mickey to win his lady back. After pulling the Queen aside, Mickey and the King fight each other, with Mickey using a sewing needle and button as a sword. After Mickey dunks the King into an inkwell, a rubber stamp takes him out and cleans him. In a final attempt to get rid of Mickey for good, the King summons the playing cards to chase him, and the radio acts as an alarm. A set of cards emerge from the King's throne and another come out from a nearby desk drawer. Mickey hides in the sewing basket and uses a fountain pen to drench the cards in ink, but they are far too many. Eventually, the pen runs out of ink, allowing the cards to pig pile on Mickey, but he escapes in a torn sock. The cards spot him and continue the chase while throwing their pictures at him. Mickey then blows the cards away with an electric fan.

The telephone starts yelping for the police as it rings and rings. Swinging from a lamp cord and speeding across a globe, Mickey trips and falls into the sea, until he's ejected by an angry King Neptune. He regains his normal size in time to run back through the mirror, returning to the real world and rejoining his sleeping self. The ringing turns out to be Mickey's alarm clock, so Mickey throws it into a drawer and goes back to sleep.

The Magic Mirror is the device Mickey used to enter Yen Sid's Lab in Epic Mickey. Yen Sid's words from the game's opening Cutscene seem to imply that the mirror has a mind of his own and deliberately beckoned for Mickey to pass through.

By the end of Epic Mickey, Yen Sid closes it. As such, when the Mad Doctor returns in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, Gus is forced to build a high-tech TV in order to allow Mickey to travel first to Yen Sid's Lab and then into Wasteland.

When Mickey falls asleep reading Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass, he dreams he travels through his own mirror into a backward version of his house. After meeting some of its strange inhabitants, he eats a walnut that was thrown at him by a pair of pliers. The nut ends up rapidly growing him to the size of the house, and then rapidly shrinks him down to a size perfect for dancing with a telephone, a pair of gloves, and a deck of playing cards. However, when the King of Hearts sees Mickey dancing with his Queen, he becomes jealous and sends the cards after him. After an exciting chase, Mickey escapes back through the mirror and wakes up in the safety of his normal house.

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