Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys

take over the animation house, this is what one can expect. I'm embarrassed to say that I was in a hurry and picked this up thinking it was the original 1964 Rudolph. I had thought that the cover had changed and there were now "special features" on it. This is nothing like the original. It is actually a pointless little bit of fluff.

I remember watching this when I was a young child, haven't watched it since. I didn't even think it was real.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys. It's quite a mouthful of a title and the film is filled with completely crazy content, the "tooth mobile" a mobile dentist surgery. A talking kite, crazy villainous blimp and Jamie Lee Curtis voicing a Hippo Queen (she is one of the best bits of the film!)

The songs are ok for kids but don't hold a candle to the original and some of them are very slow paced, dull, and obvious filler. The animation is actually quite atrocious, even for 2001; but luckily very young children won't mind.

The toy taker is genuinely quite a good villain, his theme tune is top notch and Rick Moranis' voice acting helps a lot. His evil scheme is very simplistic and the plot overall is bad, but I liked how he flew round on this demonic fever dream type zeppelin airship, that looks like it's about to bomb whatever's underneath it.

5/10: Terrible animation, a generally bland plot (apart from the Toy Taker and Queen Camilla!) and childish songs. But, contains lots of kooky and crazy elements that do make it a fun watch.

You could tell this movie had it's heart in the right place, but just about everything else tells you this movie was slapped together without regard for visual appeal or even a good message for kids.

If you listen to the "director's commentary" (you'd think it would be a director's track, but instead it's only a 3-minute interview), they explain how this is the first time anyone on the team had done a computer-animated cartoon before, especially the B-movie director. And while this may have been cute as a bunch of student projects tied together, the whole mess just doesn't belong.

Can't be called a sequel if it has nothing to do with the first, can it?

I was not happy with the sequel, although I liked the concept of the movie I did not think it fit well as a sequel to the original. Rudolph and Clarice seem to have reversed the aging process by a few years, also the elf in charge who at the end of the original had a dental appointment with Hermy seems to have forgotten that and is mad and disappointed all over again. I feel the plot and story are fine I just don't think they should have tried to tie it to an almost forty year old classic.