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Summary: The best of the network holiday specials!!
Review: I've been watching this one since I was four or something. If you haven't seen it (which is probably unlikely), pick it up! It's a wonderful underdog story, incredibly well-crafted, and... well, comforting. The way Clarise sticks by Rudolph -- every guy should be so lucky.Great animation, and a ringing endorsement for the dentists and abominable snowmen of this world.
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Summary: So CUTE!
Review: This is a wonderful movie--a blast from pre-politically correct times, with an admirably strong undertone of individualism. Plus, Rudolph and Clarice are the most adorable little creatures!
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Summary: Rudolph glows with the new remastered print!
Review: Rankin-Bass' "Rudolph" has been a X-mas classic for 35 years. The home video and network prints of the show had taken on a reddish tint until Golden Books digitally remastered the print in 1998. With noticably sharper visuals and restoration of the original colors, Rudolph never looked better! Also new to the home video is the restoration of almost three minutes of footage not seen since 1964 (the first year it aired on CBS). The additions include "We are Santa's Elves," restored to its original full-length, complete with a quintet of elves playing a tuba, a xylophone, a tympani, a violin, and a harp. Also returned to the show is a very cute duet by Rudolph and Hermey the Elf, singing "We're a couple of misfits." This song is especially crucial to the establishment of Rudolph and Hermey's relationship, as they bond in their misery. Unfortunately, it was snipped from the show beginning with the 1965 network airing (at the request of GE, the sponsor) and replaced with the much shorter and inferior "Fame and Fortune." Because of the way the song is set-up, "Fame and Fortune" no longer appears in the restored show for continuity reasons. There's also a restored scene at the end of the show where Yukon Cornelius discovers a peppermint mine at the North Pole. The restoration and color-corrections aside, the story remains the same: Rudolph and Hermey overcome prejudice and bigotry (Santa Claus sure wasn't very PC in the beginning of the show!), Rudolph leads Santa's team of reindeers, Hermey becomes a dentist, and the unwanted toys are rescued from the Island of Misfit Toys. Rudolph is a pure joy!
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Summary: Fantastic.
Review: I happen to think this is the best holiday video around. I've watched it every year since 1968.
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Summary: He'll Go Down In History!
Review: How do you take a simple child's song and make a masterpiece of stop-animation? This is how! A must see each year.
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Summary: Still tugs at the heartstrings, after all these years.
Review: I'm 37 and I still watch Rudolph every year. For Me it's the start of the Hollydays. as a child I could identify with Rudolph and Hermie. I too wanted to live on the island of misfit toys. Nothing can top the original.
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Summary: A classic for ALL generations!!
Review: I'm very pleased to find this movie at amazon.com! I think I saw this one for the first time at age 5, in 1979. I loved it then, and I've looked for it on television most every year. I just bought it here (I'm now 24) and it's not a gift. Just in case Rudolph no longer gets broadcasted when I have 5 year old kids, I want them to be able to enjoy it like I first did almost 20 years ago. Classic movie! You'll be humming Burl Ives' "Silver and Gold" tune long after the movie is over :-)
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Summary: This is the most marvelous Christmas film ever!
Review: Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer is indeed the most marvelous Christmas film ever! It is one of many superb animated films written by a great man named Romeo Muller. (For example, he wrote the classic Christmas films "Frosty the Snowman" (1969), "Jack Frost" (1979), and "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (1970).) Rudolph is doubtless his best-loved work. I remember watching the film as a child, delighted and enraptured by the story that it told. Do you remember? Sam the Snowman as narrator (voiced and sung in the performance of a lifetime by Burl Ives); Rudolph the misfit and rejected reindeer; Rudolph's friend, Hermy the Elf, also a misfit because he doesn't like to make toys but wants to be a dentist; Yukon Cornelius, the prospector who befriends them both; the Abominable Snowmonster of the North (whom Yukon, in prospector slang, invariably callls a "bumble"); the Island of Misfit Toys, and its winged lion monarch; and many other characters and story threads. The presentation, interweaving, and resolution of all of these elements is positively Shakespearean in deftness, wit, poetic beauty and brevity of expression, depth, pathos, joy, moral instruction, and the sense that all ends as indeed it should. Grounded in a deep and sparkling love of all creation, these qualities characterize all of Romeo Muller's films. If you seek out his films, you and your children will be rewarded with storytelling matchless in its magic.
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Summary: This is the most marvelous Christmas film ever!
Review: Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer is indeed the most marvelous Christmas film ever! It is one of many superb animated films written by a great man named Romeo Muller. Rudolph is doubtless his best-loved work. I remember watching the film as a child, delighted and enraptured by the story that it told. Do you remember? Sam the Snowman as narrator (voiced and sung in the performance of a lifetime by Burl Ives); Rudolph the misfit and rejected reindeer; Rudolph's friend, Hermy the Elf, also a misfit because he doesn't like to make toys but wants to be a dentist; Yukon Cornelius, the prospector who befriends them both; the Abominable Snowmonster of the North (whom Yukon, in prospector slang, invariably calls a "bumble"); the Island of Misfit Toys, and its winged lion monarch; and many other characters and story threads. The presentation, interweaving, and resolution of all of these elements is positively Shakespearean in deftness, wit, poetic beauty and brevity of expression, depth, pathos, joy, moral instruction, and the sense that all ends as indeed it should. Grounded in a deep and sparkling love of all creation, these qualities characterize all of Romeo Muller's films.
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Summary: The Greatest Reindeer of 'Em All
Review: Christmas just wouldn't be the same without this all-time family classic. While the stop-motion animation seems just a wee-bit antiquated, everything else about "Rudolph" remains timeless. The eccentric characters such as Herbie the Elf, Yukon Cornelius and the Abominable Snowman are unforgettable. The journey to the land of misfit toys -- toys which no children want -- is so sadly touching. The soundtrack, filled with sing-a-long classics, is one of the best, if not THE best, of all Christmas specials. Best of all is the grandfatherly Burl Ives in the role of narrating/singing snowman. Congenial and witty, Ives is the perfect host for this perfect holiday special. Overall, "Rudolph" endures because it delivers a timeless story in a very entertaining manner. Like a handful of Holiday classics -- "Charlie Brown's Christmas" and the animated "Grinch" come to mind-- "Rudolph" will undoubtedly entertain children for decades on end. Of course, we adults know that "Rudolph" isn't for kids only! Simply unforgettable.
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