Once Upon a Studio
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 A Disney event, 100 years in the making.
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"Gotta go, but thanks. On with the show."
— Mickey Mouse
Once Upon a Studio is a live-action/traditional/CG hybrid 2023 short film produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the studio, directed and written by Dan Abraham and Trent Correy starring Chris Diamantopoulos and Kaitlyn Robrock as Mickey and Minnie, along with the return of many actors.
Plot
In Once Upon a Studio, an all-star ensemble of beloved characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios assembles to take a group photo in honor of The Walt Disney Company's 100th anniversary—making for a joyful, entertaining, and emotional reunion. Featuring 543 characters from more than 85 feature-length and short films, Once Upon a Studio welcomes heroes and villains, princes and princesses, sidekicks and sorcerers—in all-new hand-drawn and CG animation—to celebrate 10 decades of storytelling, artistry, and technological achievements.
Why It's a Celebration
- Not only it's a good way to celebrate Disney's 100th anniversary, but also to give a love letter to Disney fans everywhere.
- Almost every character from Disney Animated Studios makes an appearance. Not just Mickey and Minnie, but over 543 characters from the studio's works. Heck, Even Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt's very first project!
- All of the actors reprise their roles such as: James Woods, Frank Welker, Scott Adsit, Tony Anselmo, Awkwafina, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Jodi Benson, Robby Benson, Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Griffen Campbell, Auli'i Cravalho, Jim Cummings, Ariana DeBose, Richard Epcar, Bill Farmer, Keith Ferguson, Santino Fontana, Josh Gad, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jonathan Groff, Jennifer Hale, Jess Harnell, Tom Hulce, Jeremy Irons, Dwayne Johnson, Bob Joles, Judy Kuhn, Nathan Lane, Luke Lowe, Idina Menzel, Jim Meskimen, Piotr Michael, Mandy Moore, Paige O'Hara, Raymond S. Persi, Ian R'Mante, John C. Reilly, Phoenix Reisser, Anika Noni Rose, Lea Salonga, Lee Slobotkin, Natalie Babbitt Taylor, Josh Robert Thompson, Kelly Marie Tran, Alan Tudyk, Scott Weinger, Richard White, Harland Williams, Daniel Wolfe, and Michael-Leon Wooley.
- The use of archived audio for certain characters (such as the Genie, Peter Pan and Thumper) is very well executed here.
- Beautiful 2D and CGI animation that blends beautifully with the live-action of the Walt Disney Animation Studios and helps the short feel both real and whimsical at the same time, making this Disney's most experimental project since Paperman and it shows with how amazing it looks overall.
- Iconic dialogue, that adds to the nostalgia factor to the short and serves as a massive love letter to past Disney films and their entire legacy of revolutionary content that helped the animation scene to stay relevant and become popular today, making the short just as timeless as their films.
- Some funny scenes that are worth the laugh like Flounder coming out and landing on Moana, the elevator scene, and Goofy falling down and smashing the camera.
- The scene where Mickey sees a portrait picture of Walt Disney with Feed the Birds playing in the background, was very heartwarming to watch and to understand the legacy the man that started it all built upon 100 years ago.
- Almost every character there sang the famous song When You Wish Upon a Star which was just beautiful.
- It was overall a great way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Disney Animation as well as its technical achievements
Bad Qualities
- Several characters were significantly missing from the video -- mostly for works that aren't in the Disney Animated Canon -- such as the characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas, the characters from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, even from TV shows like Gravity Falls, Amphibia, The Owl House, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Pepper Ann, Proud Family, Kim Possible, American Dragon, Kick Buttowski, Phineas and Ferb (yes, we get it's for the feature films only, but they are still part of the Disney Animation Industry too), and Pixar characters (though they are from a separate company, and they are still part of the Disney Animation Industry).
- Chicken Little's cameo irked some viewers. While he may be a likable protagonist, the titular movie is one of Disney's weakest films.
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