Epic Mickey: Mickey Mouse and the Magic Brush

Epic Mickey: Mickey Mouse and the Magic Brush, or simply Epic Mickey is the 2010 American 3D computer-animated comedy fantasy-adventure film produced by DisneyToon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall.

Plot
The film is set in a pen-and-paper stylized world called the Cartoon Wasteland. It was created by the sorcerer Yen Sid (Disney spelled backwards) for "forgotten Toons," appearing as an intricate model of Disneyland in his workshop. Heavily based on the Disneyland theme parks, this world is home to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Gremlin Gus, and other obscure or scrapped Disney characters, Disneyland rides, or areas.

A then-unknown Mickey Mouse, out of curiosity, enters Yen Sid's workshop through a mirror in his house and discovers the model of the land Yen Sid created and the tool used to create it, the magic paintbrush. Fiddling with the brush and some paint to make a self-portrait, Mickey accidentally creates the Shadow Blot. Panicking, Mickey quickly tries to erase the Blot by throwing paint thinner onto it, but spills more paint on the model in the process. Upon seeing Yen Sid approaching, Mickey quickly tries to clean up the mess, but in his haste, spills thinner onto the paint spillage as he flees back to his house, while the Blot, having survived Mickey's attempt to destroy it, enters through a portal created by the paint/thinner mixture (taking the Jug -the bottle of thinner- with him) and takes control of the ruined world from its first resident, Oswald ("The world I had created was ravaged - a wasteland").

After many decades of fame following the accident, Mickey had forgotten it all until the Shadow Blot enters his home through the mirror and abducts him into the ruined forgotten world, now named by this time as the Wasteland. Oswald all the while had his will and his mind twisted from years of hiding and his jealousy of Mickey's rise to fame, unaware the enigmatic Mad Doctor and the Blot formulate a plan to destroy Mickey and steal his heart, which they plan to use to escape the ruined world, as all Wasteland Toons are forgotten and thus no longer have hearts of their own, but fail to do so. During his journey through the Wasteland, Mickey is guided by Gremlin Gus and becomes armed with Yen Sid's brush. Mickey uses the brush to restore the Wasteland in order to atone for his destruction and win Oswald's trust.

After defeating a fake Blot (Oswald revealed the Shadow Blot Mickey fought along with all the Blotlings he encountered were drippings of the real Blot), Mickey eventually comes to terms with his actions and reveals all to Oswald, who loses his temper. While jumping angrily on the cork sealing the Jug, Oswald accidentally causes the cork to break, allowing the true form of the Shadow Blot- a giant specter constructed from paint thinner- to escape his prison into the world. Oswald soon reveals that he and his wife, Ortensia, attempted to seal the Blot away, but Ortensia was blighted by the Blot in the process and entered an inert state. The Blot takes Oswald and Gus, threatening to kill them if Mickey does not allow the Blot to take his heart. Mickey yields his heart to the Blot, who then proceeds to destroy the Wasteland before moving on to the Disney universe to wreak havoc there, but Mickey, Oswald and Gus successfully manage to destroy the Blot, eliminating his exterior with paint-laden fireworks, and rescue Mickey's heart from the inside. Oswald reunites with Ortensia and befriends Mickey, the two now possibly bonding with each other as brothers. With the Wasteland now slowly regenerating, Mickey escapes back to Yen Sid's workshop and returns home through the mirror, which becomes sealed by Yen Sid to prevent Mickey from entering again and cause any more mischief.

Regardless of what choices Mickey made in the Wasteland (Yen Sid shows Mickey the positive outcomes or consequences of his major choices in the film, as all the enemies redeemed, Donald, Goofy and Daisy finding all of his parts and the Mean Street citizens give Horace praise for his success at being a detective for solving all of his cases), the ending after the credits is the same: Not long after the mirror is sealed, Mickey discovers that he still has some of the Shadow Blot's ink in him, leaving the possibility he may still be able to reach the Wasteland.

Cast

 * Bret Iwan as Mickey Mouse
 * Bob Joles as Gremlin Gus
 * Frank Welker as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, The Shadow Blot
 * Jim Cummings as Pete
 * Bill Farmer as Horace Horsecollar, Goofy
 * Jeff Bennett as Mr. Smee
 * Tress MacNeille as Daisy Duck

Release
The film was released in theatres on November 25, 2010.

Home media
Epic Mickey: Mickey Mouse and the Magic Brush was first released on Blu-Ray and DVD on April 5, 2011. The Blu-Ray and DVD release of the film includes bonus features: the two endings (the good ending and the bad ending), the making of Epic Mickey: Mickey Mouse and the Magic Brush, the videogame trailer, the animated short "Stemboat Willie" and the sneak peek of Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.

Walt Disney Pictures

 * The line drawing over the castle is made of paint.