An All Dogs Christmas Carol

An All Dogs Christmas Carol
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Directed by	Paul Sabella
Produced by	Jonathan Dern Paul Sabella Cary Silver
Written by	Jymn Magon
Starring	Ernest Borgnine Steven Weber Dom DeLuise Sheena Easton Charles Nelson Reilly Bebe Neuwirth Taylor Emerson Myles Jeffrey
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	November 17, 1998
Running time	73 min.
Language	English

An All Dogs Christmas Carol (also known as All Dogs Go To Heaven 3) is a 1998 animated TV movie which was originally aired on ABC. It is the third and currently final installment in the All Dogs Go to Heaven film series. Unlike the first two films, Carface is the story's main character. Usually, the main characters are Charlie and Itchy.

Plot

The film opens with angel puppies talking to Annabelle (Bebe Neuwirth). They ask her to tell them a story. She begins to tell them about how Carface saved Christmas with a little guidance from Charlie (Steven Weber) and Itchy (Dom DeLuise).

The movie begins in an alleyway with Charlie, Itchy, Sasha (Sheena Easton) and their friends decorating for a Christmas party. Everyone is enjoying themselves as Charlie and Itchy tend to the young pups. Charlie checks on Sasha and the money collection for Timmy the puppy's operation for his bad leg. Unfortunately, Carface (Ernest Borgnine) and Killer (Charles Nelson Reilly) arrive and start collecting debts from everyone. After Charlie refused to pay back Carface, he blows a mysterious hypnotic dog whistle that hypnotizes all the dogs and causes them to give Carface and Killer all of their bones. Before leaving, Carface and Killer make off with all the food, the presents, their money which includes Timmy's operation money and head off cackling.

After failing several times to get the stolen goods from Carface, it is revealed that Carface is working for Annabelle's satanic cousin, Belladonna (also Neuwirth), who plots to use a massive version of the gigantic hypnotic dog whistle to hypnotize every dog in the city into stealing the Christmas presents, causing them to be thrown out of their houses and abandoned, much in the same way Carface was when he was a puppy. Charlie plots to scare "the Dickens" out of Carface and asks Annabelle for some aid, resulting in them being transformed into characters from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Itchy becomes the Ghost of Christmas Past, Sasha becomes the Ghost of Christmas Present, and Charlie becomes the Ghost of Christmas Future (as a reference of The Mask). The three of them visit Carface and make him feel guilty about stealing the items, especially the operation money; Sasha tells Carface that without it Timmy will die, but Timmy's death will cause another --- his own, as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows him that because of his actions, he will cause his own death, and he will be condemned to Hell for eternity.

Carface, having seen himself in Timmy, stops the whistle just in time to prevent the dogs from stealing the gifts. Belladonna flies into a rage and is about to kill Carface and Killer when she is frozen solid by a massive amount of snow caused by Annabelle.

Meanwhile, with Charlie and the gang, it starts to snow. Everyone celebrates, but Itchy remarks that it's a shame that they didn't have any presents to give the pups. Just then, Carface appears on a sled pulled by Killer, and gives them all the presents back, and more. He even gives them Timmy's money box back, which is filled up full. Carface turns to leave, and Sasha asks him to stay and join the party. Carface respectfully refuses, saying he's going to visit his mom, but wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.

And Annabelle finishes the story by saying "Merry Christmas!"

Voice cast

• Ernest Borgnine - Carface the American Pit Bull Terrier/Bulldog mix, Charlie and Itchy's old nemesis, and frenemy.
• Steven Weber - Charlie the German Shepherd/Collie mix.
• Dom DeLuise - Itchy the Dachshund, Charlie's best friend.
• Sheena Easton - Sasha the Irish Setter, Charlie's on-again, off-again girlfriend.
• Charles Nelson Reilly - Killer the Schnauzer/Poodle mix, Carface's partner-in-crime as well as best friend. .
• Bebe Neuwirth - Anabelle, an angelic Whippet who welcomes dogs into Heaven / Belladonna, a Boogie Whippet, who is Anabelle's demonic cousin. She has fire imps for her minions.
• Beth Anderson - Martha is a young human girl who lived with her mother and takes care of Timmy.

Songs

• "When We Hear a Christmas Carol": sung by Charlie, Itchy, Sasha, and other dogs
• "Puppyhood": sung by Carface
• "I Always Get Emotional at Christmas Time": sung by Killer, Belladonna and Carface
• "Clean Up Your Act": sung by Charlie, Killer, and other dogs

Trivia

• This is the only film in the series in which something good happens to Carface in the end, and where he is the main protagonist. He dies (offscreen) in the first movie, where he is eaten by King Gator. In the second movie, Red's minions drags Carface down with them to Hell.

• This originally aired on ABC as episode 40 of All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series.

• This is a religious fantasy adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

• This film doesn't feature the characters David (voiced by Adam Wylie), because his last appearance was in episode 39 of the series nor Anne-Marie (voiced by Judith Barsi), because she only appeared in the first film and she lived in New Orleans. David and the rest of the characters reside in San Francisco.

• This film features Martha who is voiced by Beth Anderson.

External links

• An All Dogs Christmas Carol at the Internet Movie Database
• All Dogs Go To Heaven Source