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Summary: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer & The Island of Misfit Toys
Review: Terrific sequel to the beloved 1964 classic. Great story line for young & old! Jamie Lee, Richard Dreyfus & Ric Moranis were wonderful. The animation looks great. It stayed true to the original classic but had a fresh, contemporary feel. Buy it, your kids and you will thoroughly enjoy it. A great addition to the familiar Christmas classics library.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: One of my favorite things about christmas when I was young was watching Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys on the television. So, when I say that it had been released I bought it. As soon as I watched it, I was EXTREMELY disappointed. They replaced the lovable stop-motion classic with a low-rent computer animation. Not only is it not stop motion anymore but the animation is horrible. Maybe if it resembled something like Toy Story it would be more entertaining but the rendering of the animation was so simple that i felt like I was watching something that a beginning animation student made. If you enjoyed the original Rudolph then don't buy this becuase you will just be disappointed.
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Summary: Overdone
Review: There are just some things that shouldn't be messed with.......
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Summary: Duped!!!!!
Review: After viewing this new 'Rudolph' feature, I couldn't help but feel disappointed. It really played like a big piece of [...]. After my initial reaction, I began to think that maybe I was being too harsh, having viewed it through overly-nostalgic eyes. Then, I read the other customer reviews. Turns out I was right in the first place. It was really just a big piece of (...).The only thing positive that I can say about it is that some of the voices were well done. Richard Dreyfuss's nasal whine, however, made his storyteller snowman sound villanous. The computer animation was mostly horrible. Considering that it would have been technically possible to make the production look just like the classic, I'm dumbfounded. All the sweeping & swirling camera moves made me dizzy, too. I guess I shouldn't be surprized, though, as the folks at GoodTimes have burned me before. Their re-releases of stuff like the old Sherlock Holmes movies were terrible. I spent half the movie adjusting the tracking. But, I digress...... Save your money & just watch the original.
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Summary: Unbelievably Horrendous! ! AS ENDEARING AS A SPLINTER!!!!!!
Review: There are classics, there are good movies...and then there are bad movies. And this folks is an absolutely terrible movie.
Rudolph is a DOG. If Santa left this 'present' in a childs' stocking for Christmas Day, he might have just left a lump of coal instead. Kids will be taking back their milk and cookies in droves!
Apon the first ten minutes of viewing the 'Rudolph And The Island Of The Misfit Toys', I knew I made a very big mistake.
You know this immediately when the titles are more interesting to watch than the characters themselves. Then you meet the narrator, a horrible looking creation voiced by Richard Dreyfuss.
Dreyfuss voices the Snowman character that guides you through the picture and makes Freddie Krueger seem like Mr. Rogers. For some reason, Dreyfuss' voice lacks warmth and comes off as sinister. The rest of the characters just come off ....BAD.
While the video cover art is pretty enough and the character voices sound pretty close to the original Rankin Bass classic, that is about as good as it gets. This film is about as cold and hard as an ice cube. It's not entertaining and it has no Christmas spirit. The film is sadly, dead on arrival. The only positive thing I can say about the film is that it's in color.
Good Times Entertainment produced the absolutely abyssmal Rudolph cartoon feature film a few years back. The story was awful, the cartoon animation lousy and the music was crummy. But, they sold lots of videos!
Now Good Times returns again to present the Stomach Wrenching Rudolph sequel 'Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and The Island Of Misfit Toys', this time attempting to bring back all the original characters from the TV special. But instead of the characters moving with charm and personality, they move like robots! The songs and story are instantly forgetable, guaranteed to give you temporary amnesia! If you don't believe me folks, rent this crummy DVD first, then make your decision. You'll be thanking me later. This is the most gawd awful animated motion picture since 'He Man Meets The Groovy Goolies!'
All I can say is, buy the 1964 Rankin Bass Original and savor it. Don't waste your time and hard earned cash for junkyard (...) like this!
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Summary: Not For Staunch Fans of the Classics.....but Kids Love It!!!
Review: As far as Im concerned, this computer generated work does not at all belong in the same collection as the pain staking efforts of the stop-motion animation classics. It would have been interesting if they would have combined computer generation with stop-motion animation. It did bring a smile to my face seeing the classic characters again. They did manage to make it a sequel by tying in Ukon Cornelius's Peppermint Mine as well as several other events throughout the duration of the film. So,what are the reasons for buying this? My daughter's loved it!!! If it makes them happy, it makes me happy. The DVD also has a special feature to print out some really cool Christmas cards of those classic Rankin/Bass characters.I would rate it a one star, but because my kids give it a five star, ill give it a three star. Ha! Ha! Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Night!
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Summary: Please bring back the real Rudolph
Review: This was a great story however the "stat of the art" animation looked like they spent about half the time of the production of your typical Saturday animated cartoon and the new songs were very annoying. (Very cheap how they put the bumble in the rabbit suit so they did not have to animate his fur.)
When I picked this out I thought that it would be cool cause the computer stuff looks exactly like the clamation that they used in the original on (except for Santa and the snowman). But they turned out to be very cheaply done.
Most 4 year olds will like it however but if you like the other movies of the Rudolph series (which I do) you can't get into this one good.
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Summary: And if you ever saw it, you might even say it blows.
Review: This was a letdown. I was a huge fan of the old Rakin/Bass incarnation of Rudolph, and was excited to get this video, but I hafta say it's pretty low rent. The animators did a fine job of creating computer models of the characters. Problem is, they seemed to stop there. Things are rendered often very basically, with no texture. Rudolph himself appears smooth and hairless, which may actually be a good thing seeing as how Bumbles' fur and Yukon Cornelias's beard appear to exist in a dimemsion slightly removed from the characters they're attatched to. It's not that I'm against the classic characters being rendered via computer animation, it's that I'm against them being rendered via BAD computer animation. Contrary to what the Amazon.com staff critic says, this movie doesn't look "sharp". In places, it looks quite bad. It would be nice if the story and writing were interesting enough to carry the day despite the technical limitations, but they're not. Only a handful of clever moments are present in the film, and they aren't terribly brilliant. Also, the songs are downright painful. Hey, I know some out there are saying that this is a movie meant for kids, and that I'm being too hard on it, but let's think about it. The original has remained popular all this time becuase of what reason? Quality. Quality this ain't got.
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Summary: Unwatchable ! (1 )star because (0) stars wasn't an option
Review: The people involved in this production should be ashamed of themselves! I expect Dreyfuss, Curtis, Moranis, to know better!
I'm even mad at Tony Bennett for putting his name to this picture. I'm 36 and lived for these holiday shows as a child which I can still can enjoy as an adult. I feel bad for the children of the day who have to be subjected to the writing down to their level. If you write to children as people you will be successful for creating a legend / writing down to children will ensure turning them off! I bought this wanting to enjoy it. I made a terrible mistake and I hope to prevent people from making the same mistake. I'm really sorry...
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Summary: Copying Pixar!!!!
Review: Oh my gosh this is very bad I watched the commercial for this on tv and I was torn inside that they were gonna do a sequel to the 1960's classic give me a break this looks very corny who ever thought of the idea must of wanted to copy all of Pixars films like 1995's Toy Story 1998's Bug's Life 1999's Toy Story 2 and 2001's Monsters Inc. please get the 1960's original version and don't get this it isn't a good holiday flick believe me if you rent this you will know what I mean and I don't think kids will like this either. please don't get this I'm warning you :( not happy
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