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DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is an animated film released by The Walt Disney Company in 1990; it is based on the hit animated series DuckTales.

Plot

In this movie Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Webby Vanderquack and Launchpad McQuack search for the treasure of Collie Baba and his forty thieves. They find a magic lamp and a genie that can grant them all kinds of wishes. Unfortunately, Merlock the Magician (voiced by Christopher Lloyd) wants that lamp, and he and his sidekick, Dijon the Thief, would do anything to get their hands on it.

It is interesting to note that a preceding episode of DuckTales featured a race to collect a magic lamp. However, the lamp and genie featured in the episode appear to have no connection to the one in this movie.

Trivia

This is the first Disney animated film entirely animated in Europe.
This is the first and only Disney Movietoon ever produced.
This is the first Disney animated movie to be spun off from a TV series, and the first to be produced by Walt Disney Television Animation
, instead of the Walt Disney Feature Animation.
Dijon's only appearance on the show was in its final two episodes, "Attack of the Metal Mites" and "The Golden Goose" (which aired in two parts).
In late 2005, it was released on DVD exclusively for the Disney Movie Club. A general DVD release is pending.

Crew members

Produced and directed by Bob Hathcock
Animation screenplay by Alan Burnett
Music by David Newman
Film editor, Charles King

Cast members

(all voices)

Alan Young
- Scrooge McDuck
Rip Taylor
- Genie/"Gene"
Russi Taylor
- Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby
Christopher Lloyd
- Merlock
Richard Libertini
- Dijon
Terence McGovern - Launchpad
Joan Gerber - Mrs. Betina Beakley
Chuck McCann - Duckworth
June Foray
- Mrs. Featherby
Charlie Adler, Jack Angel
and Frank Welker
- additional cast

Reactions to the film

The film was not a financial success theatrically (which is probably what caused the proposed Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers film to never materialize and the Goof Troop-inspired film A Goofy Movie
to not bear the Goof Troop name). Critics in the USA generally considered the film an Indiana Jones rip-off and a betrayal to Carl Barks's Uncle Scrooge comic books which DuckTales was based on. Noted movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert didn't even bother reviewing this film for their Siskel & Ebert At the Movies program. Overseas, however, critics were generally kinder to the film. Also, the film has a small loyal following, mostly fans of the DuckTales TV show. Many elements of the story were later used in the more successful Disney film, Aladdin.

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