A Miser Brothers' Christmas

When their power-hungry brother, the North Wind, injures Santa in a plot to take over Christmas, the Miser Brothers are forced to co-operate in order to keep Christmas on track. The Miser Brothers were a relatively minor part of 1974’s The Year Without a Santa Claus, so giving them their own special was a bit of a stretch. There really isn’t a whole lot to them as characters, other than their rivalry and their introductory songs (which are done twice in this special). The plot of A Miser Brothers' Christmas is pretty basic but the animation quality is decent overall, even if I kept expecting a Mad TV parody to break out at any second. Having Mickey Rooney and George S. Irving reprise their roles from the original special was a nice touch. And I genuinely liked that the North Wind’s minions hissed and snarled like little gremlins.

Rating: Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree%

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