One for all? Not quite

The Three Musketeers

Walt Disney Home Entertainment

DVD: $29.99. VHS: $22.99.

All ages

In a new direct-to-DVD and video feature with little resemblance to the Dumas classic, old-school Disney characters share the spotlight. Starring together for the first time in a feature-length film (68 minutes), Mickey, Donald and Goofy are janitors who dream of becoming swashbuckling musketeers. Their chance comes when Princess Minnie falls into the clutches of villain Pegleg Pete and his henchmen, the Beagle Boys.

The highlights are a couple of the DVD bonus features: a behind-the-scenes, tongue-in-cheek commentary with those involved in the making of the film, who talk as if the stars are real actors (“the camaraderie on the picture was tremendous”), and teeny clips from Mickey cartoons of the 1930s and ‘40s.

Unfortunately, these marvelously fluid and witty clips point up that this innocuous operetta-and-slapstick melange falls far short of Disney’s best efforts.

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Like a Flower to the Sun

Casablanca Kids Inc.

CD: $13.98. Ages 2 to 6.

www.jackgrunsky.com

Mellow-voiced singer-songwriter Jack Grunsky engages listeners in a Raffi-like affirmation of the natural world and simple pleasures, with a few sly messages about electronic media mania and how people “work all day just to make a little pay.” From the first track (“Let’s take a walk around the world / There’s so much to see”) to “So Long,” the soft jazz farewell, the collection is filled with melodic and lyric sophistication, and heart.