Runaway Brain
| Runaway Brain | |
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| Mickey Mouse series | |
International theatrical release poster with A Goofy Movie
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| Directed by | Chris Bailey |
| Produced by | Ron Tippe |
| Story by | Tim Hauser |
| Voices by |
Wayne Allwine Russi Taylor Kelsey Grammer Jim Cummings Bill Farmer |
| Music by | John Debney |
| Animation by |
Andreas Deja Gary Dunn Deboissy Sylvain |
| Studio | Walt Disney Animation France |
| Distributed by |
Walt Disney Pictures Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Prince and the Pauper |
| Followed by | Get a Horse! |
Runaway Brain is an animated short film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation Paris, France, and starring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. In the short, Mickey is desperate to earn money to pay for an anniversary gift for Minnie. He applies as a lab assistant for Dr. Frankenollie, but finds he is looking for a donor to switch brains with the monster he created. Featuring animation by animator Andreas Deja, it was first released in 1995 attached to North American theatrical showings of A Kid in King Arthur's Court and in 1996 attached to international theatrical showings of A Goofy Movie. It would be the final original Mickey Mouse theatrical animated short until Get a Horse! in 2013.
Although receiving a controversial reception among audiences, the animation was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 68th Academy Awards (ending up losing to the Wallace and Gromit short A Close Shave). Later references to the cartoon have been made in Disney related media such as the video game Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.
Minnie (voiced by Russi Taylor) visits Mickey (voiced by Wayne Allwine) while he is playing a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs-based video game and is upset to find that he has forgotten the anniversary of their first date due to his addiction to the game. Mickey comes up with the last-minute idea to take her to a miniature golf course for their anniversary and shows her a newspaper ad for it, but she instead notices another ad for a trip to Hawaii, which costs $999.99, and mistakes it for Mickey's gift. Mickey frets over how he can make enough money for the trip when Pluto (voiced by Bill Farmer) shows him an ad to work with a mad scientist named Dr. Frankenollie (voiced by Kelsey Grammer) for a day of "mindless work" that would pay $999.99. Upon reaching the home of the primate-like Dr. Frankenollie, Mickey is dropped down a trapdoor into Frankenollie's laboratory; the doctor reveals a plan to switch Mickey's brain with that of the fifteen-foot-tall creature Julius (voiced by Jim Cummings and modeled after Pete). The experiment causes an explosion that kills Frankenollie, but the brain transfer is a success, with Mickey's mind ending up in Julius' giant body and Julius in control of Mickey's body.
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