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~~heartwarming story that anyone can enjoy. This film feels like a watered-down and a lamer version of that.~~

# Where ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas'' had three stories to share. Despite this film having five stories to tell, it feels like it has about 10 stories because of how much there are so many plots that are thrown into each other, whether if they make sense or not.

#* It goes to the point of overload where the motivations for each story don't feel like they connect with each other. Especially when the title has '''Mickey''' on the cover, yet Mickey only shows up in the first and last segment of the story that doesn't focus on him ironically enough.

# While the CGI animation isn't all that bad and every character does move naturally, it looks rather mediocre, cheap-looking, and it can sometimes look uncanny for a full-feature-length film, akin to an early Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube or an Xbox video game. It clearly hasn't aged well since there are some models that look a bit grotesque, rubbery and stiff, particularly the non-regular cast. It doesn't help that the next attempt at bringing Mickey and his pals into the third dimension, ''Mickey Mouse Clubhouse'', became a major improvement over this. Especially when both ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas'' and ''Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers'' (which the latter is co-incidentally released the same year as this film) went with 2D animation that had ''a lot'' of effort put into it despite ''those'' also being direct-to-video movies.

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~~#* The side characters like the elves, Santa Claus himself, and most of the other side characters have bland/ugly-looking designs.~~

~~#* Mona's design is very uncanny and looks rather out of place.~~

Movie'' having Max grown further into a college-aged teenager. In the ''House of Mouse'' TV series, Max is still a teenager but old enough to be employed as a parking valet, while Huey, Dewey, and Louie (who were often seen in their ''Quack Pack'' designs, albeit recolored) are on the cusp of young adulthood. Because of this Christmas special presenting Donald's nephews as children at the same time that Max is a young adult (with the four even interacting together in the very last scene), ''Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas'' is virtually irreconcilable with the larger continuity of all of the aforementioned TV shows, movies, and even its own predecessor ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas''.

# Despite having 11 writers, The writing is very subpar, and it feels lazy. The lyrics for most of the songs are so bad that they don't even feel like properly-written songs, but rather the bad kinds of songs that wouldn't even fit in context to this film (mainly because of how nobody sings when the songs are played as if they're pop songs).

~~#* The dialogue is often awkward and out of place most of the time.~~

#* For whatever reason, Kellie Martin, who voices Max's high school crush Roxanne in ''A Goofy Movie'' (1995) and made an appearance in the ''House of Mouse,'' was recast to voice Mona since the animators thought that they wouldn't be able to reanimate Roxanne by her hair design/etc and were also too lazy to animate Roxanne's red hair, which is just unbelievable. This means that Kellie Martin voices Max's girlfriend Mona (who has little to no personality) over Roxanne (a character who had a personality).

#* The humor is lackluster, to the point where there is barely, if ever, any good comedy to be found in this movie. Some moments that include having a fat reindeer named Tiny Reindeer say "what?" as a build-up to a joke in the segment "Mickey's Dog-Gone Christmas", was rather a horribly pathetic attempt at intentional comedy.

~~# One of the biggest problems with the movie is that most of the segments are underwhelming, boring, and mean-spirited. Much to the point that they feel rushed, even for ''Mickey Mouse'' standards.~~

#* The absolute '''worst''' offender of them all is Donald's segment "Donald's Gift", which is a very mean-spirited Donald torture story, even by ''Mickey Mouse'' standards, since in that segment Donald is supposed to be written like he's in the wrong, when it's clearly obvious that he isn't. Donald just wants to take a break from Christmas by sitting by the fire and having his hot cocoa after he came back home from doing errands that have Donald Duck being put through a lot of abuse and humiliating gags. But Donald's mischievous nephews (''who torment him as soon as they step foot in'') and Daisy herself force Donald to go celebrate Christmas where Donald didn't even want to go anywhere else in the first place.

#** This leads to many miserable scenes of Donald suffering from over-the-top, humiliating coincidences as Christmas-related annoyances that treat Donald as if he deserved what he was given for being "completely selfish" and for not wanting to celebrate Christmas, which is just frustrating to watch. This makes Donald destroy an animatronic Christmas show because of this. Nobody sympathizes with Donald ''at all'' and nearly everyone puts him through more suffering just for not having "the Christmas spirit", which all makes you feel extremely bad for Donald all the way through. Especially when he never got anything in return for what Donald was put through, even when Donald was ''actually'' trying to do something good like helping a choir sing better when Donald was feeling remorseful and sorrowful after everyone guilt-tripped him.

#* Not to mention that both Mickey and Donald are equally treated like the bad guys who "deserve some form of comeuppance" for whatever reason. The former got mad at Pluto for messing up the place that was caused by Pluto's impulsive clumsiness (something some viewers would perceive Mickey berating Pluto as out-of-character for Mickey to do) where Mickey wanted to go retrieve Pluto when the latter leaves him, and the latter was because of everyone's aforementioned irredeemable acts of selfishness.

#* The final segment "Mickey's Dog-Gone Christmas" overall is pretty much a lazy rehash of the ''Mickey Mouse Works'' episode "Pluto Runs Away", albeit with the Christmas and "lost dog" themes mixed in altogether but with none of the fun, charm, and cleverness that episode had.

# '''Heaps of continuity errors:''' This film is quite difficult (practically impossible, really) to place within the greater continuity of all of the previous appearances of Max, Huey, Dewey, and Louie since the film has very poor connections and poor continuities to not only the film ''Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas'', but also other Mickey Mouse/Donald Duck/Goofy television and film appearances such as ''Goof Troop'' and ''House of Mouse''. This means that this film isn’t canon to those aforementioned appearances and therefore, set in an alternate continuity.

#* In the previous film, ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas'', the four of them were all children, with Max presented as being even younger than his appearance in ''Goof Troop'' and Donald's nephews presented as still living with him. This indicates that ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas'' took place at some point prior to the events of both ''DuckTales'' (in which the nephews, still as children, live with Scrooge McDuck after Donald joins the Navy) and ''Goof Troop'' (in which Max is an 11½-year-old preteen). By the time of ''A Goofy Movie'' and ''Quack Pack'', Max, Huey, Dewey, and Louie have all grown into high school-aged teenagers, with ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'' having Max grown further into a college-aged teenager. In the ''House of Mouse'' TV series, Max is still a teenager but old enough to be employed as a parking valet, while Huey, Dewey, and Louie (who were often seen in their ''Quack Pack'' designs, albeit recolored) are on the cusp of young adulthood. Because of this Christmas special presenting Donald's nephews as children at the same time that Max is a young adult (with the four even interacting together in the very last scene), ''Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas'' is virtually irreconcilable with the larger continuity of all of the aforementioned TV shows, movies, and even its own predecessor ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas''.

#** Consequently, this ultimately results to '''a massive plot-hole''' between this film and ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas'', such as on either '''why Huey, Dewey and Louie haven't even aged since the events of ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas'''''<nowiki/>'','' or '''how did Huey, Dewey and Louie somehow aged down to children since their previous appearance in ''House of Mouse''''', hence further adding to this film's inconsistencies with all that came before it.

#* Additionally, Goofy's house appears to have a rather large front yard that extends off to the side where Pete's house stood in both ''Goof Troop'' (as well as its two sequel films ''A Goofy Movie'' and ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'') and ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas'', meaning that Pete's house is missing from where it ought to be in this film, although Pete himself doesn’t appear in the film, unlike the previous film.