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Disney's Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers is a direct-to-video, animated adaption of the novel, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. As the title suggests, it features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as the three musketeers.

Plot

"Our story begins..."

...with Treaubadour, a turtle with a love for songs, reminding the narrator for a television show that he promised the turtle that he would use his songs in the day's show. The narrator silently breaks his promise and walks away from the turtle. He, as a result of not looking where he is going, falls in a hole in the floor right when the show is about to go on live. As a result, Treaubadour has to tell a story for the television show. He tells the story of The Three Musketeers.

"Our story begins in the gutter..." where Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are young street urchins, presumably orphans, who, while being robbed by "bad guys", and are saved by the Royal Musketeers. After that event, the three friends dream of being great musketeers some day.

Years later, the three are working as janitors and are still dreaming of musketeers, though they are so flawed, Donald being a coward, Goofy being a "doofus", and Mickey being too small—at least, according to Captain Pete of the Royal Musketeers. This leaves the three downhearted.

Princess Minnie, Lady-in-waiting Daisy, and Captain Pete

Meanwhile, Minnie Mouse, princess of France, and her lady-in-waiting Daisy Duck are in the palace discussing Minnie's obsession with finding her "one true love", Daisy saying that she must marry someone of royal blood and Minnie insisting that she cannot marry someone she's not in love with. Minnie takes a walk in the palace garden and barely escapes with her life when three mysterious figures attempt to drop a safe on her.

The three figures run to tell their boss, Captain Pete, that they failed the job and Pete tells them they he didn't want them to kill the princess. He decides that he needs them to kidnap the princess before the opera. Pete's lieutenant Clarabelle Cow tells Pete that the princess is requesting his presence. Pete goes to the princess who tells him that she wants musketeer bodyguards. Pete, knowing that getting skilled musketeers would jepardize his plans of kidnapping Minnie, appoints Mickey, Donald, and Goofy to protect her.

The Capture and Rescue of the Princess

When the three "musketeers" meet the princess, she thinks that Mickey is the one true love she's been waiting for. While Minnie and Daisy, being protected by Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, are on a journey, Pete's three henchmen jump on the carriage that the five are traveling in. Donald immediately gets afraid and hides inside the carriage and Goofy, not realizing that the figure sitting by him is the "bad guy" gets easily defeated, leaving Mickey to fight by himself. He is also easily defeated, leaving Donald (who had been pushed out from inside the carriage by Minnie and Daisy) to fight by himself; he knocks himself off of the carriage at the "Boo!" of one of the bad guys.

Mickey, Donald, and Goofy rush to rescue the princess and find her and Daisy in a tower with the three bad guys. Mickey and Goofy, with no help from Donald, manage to knock the three henchmen out of the tower and rescue Minnie and Daisy. The five head back to Paris, and on the way, Minnie and Mickey fall in love with one another.

Happy Ending

While on night duty, Goofy is lured away from the palace by Clarabelle. The three henchmen appear before Donald, capture him, and try to be done with him, but he escapes and tells the whole story to Mickey before running off, leaving Mickey by himself. Mickey is captured by Pete and is chained up in a dungeon that will flood when the tide comes in.

Meanwhile, Clarabelle kidnapped Goofy, chained him up, and was about to throw him to his death off a bridge when Goofy won her heart with his "numskull charm". She lets Goofy go to rescue Mickey, and Goofy finds Donald who, after some convincing by Treabadour, goes with Goofy to help Mickey.

The two arrive just in time and, after Mickey had regained consciousness, they go to the opera, rescue the princess, and are dubbed royal musketeers by Minnie Mouse.

"All for one, and one for all!"

The motto of the musketeers in the movie is, "All for one, and one for all!" This is interesting because in the novel the motto is, "One for all, and all for one!" The reason for the change is unknown.

At the beginning of the movie, Treabadour says that Mickey, Donald, and Goofy must learn the real meaning of this saying, and he wrote a song about it. Near the end they realize that they must work together to be good musketeers, therefore discovering the real meaning of the creed.

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