Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa

Best part is the grandma. Watch her scenes on YouTube and skip the rest.

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I... I am beyond confused.

I am confused about how ANYONE in this production team thought that the animation was passable, let alone good enough to be shown on television. This is quite possibly the worst CGI I have ever seen and I have seen "Food Fight"-Hell it makes "Food Fight" look like "Inside Out" it is that atrocious!

I am confused about how anyone could think the script was good enough in general. At best: Completely generic. At worst: Very bland, even aggravating at times.

What confuses me the most... is how. HOW did they get some of the greatest actors in the business? Paige O'Hara, Jodi Benson, Grey DesLisle, Nancy Cartwright and the very underrated (and underused) Walter Jones to name a few, but the cherry on this cake: Mark Hamill... How DARE they get such brilliant actors to work in this travesty!?

The only thing I can think of is that all the budget went to getting these big name actors and they only had five cents left for everything else.

Just... Watch the reviews about this garbage. Save yourself the effort.

This "movie" (and it barely qualifies as such) is incredibly and unbearably incompetent in its animation. Do you know RubberFruit? It's a Youtube Channel that makes animated shorts using sets and character models from video games like Team Fortress 2. Go look them up. Watch like one or two. Yes, now. I'll be waiting.

Oh, you're back? Good. Now, I can honestly say that the animation behind Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa is about 5% as good as RubberFruit. This animation is appallingly horrendous. This TV movie came out 6 whole years after Beast Wars, and manages to look about 40 times worse than that show. The character movements are all uncanny, and there are a ton of animation errors.

I wish I could say that the animation was the only problem, unfortunately, we've only just begun. The writing in this short is absolutely horrendous. The dialogue is on-the-nose, the morals are ham- fisted, and the jokes are all awful.

How about the characters? Nope, they're all awful, too. All of them have cookie-cutter personalities, and they all seem to have the depth of a half-drained kiddie pool. The story? Don't make me laugh. The story is so generic it wouldn't even make it onto Full House. The songs were likewise bland and uninspired. The pacing, the editing, the design, all of it was awful. And how about simple spelling errors? The elementary school board literally reads 'Striving for Excelence (sic)." How can you mess that up?! And the title, Rapsittie Street Kids - why?! It's revealed that they live on Rhapsody Street. Why would you change it to a bizarre spelling? Is it because the main character "raps?" Why not call it Rapsody Street?

I haven't mentioned the voice cast yet, and that's for good reason. This short has a star-studded voice cast, featuring five especially big stars: Jodi Benson (Ariel from The Little Mermaid), Grey DeLisle (Mandy from Grim Adventures), Paige O'Hara (Belle from Beauty and the Beast), Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson), and Mark Hamill (The Joker from Batman the Animated Series). These voice-acting giants seem to sleep-walk their way through this movie, and though they weren't bad per se, they didn't do anything to elevate the short.

So, what happened? How does someone manage to make such a horrible piece of junk? I can only assume that the director committed almost all of his budget to his voice cast and was left with no money for animators, writers, editors, or any kind of crew at all, so he went down to the local orphanage and promised some kid that he would adopt him if the kid could help him make a movie. That's what I'm guessing happened.

Can I advise everyone to steer clear of this? Actually, I can't. This film is so hilariously bad. It is honestly a total riot. I could not stop laughing during this short. Oh, and the memes? Yeah, this movie totally deserves meme status. Who could forget Great-Grandma's famous monologue at about the 20-minute mark?

Great-Grandma: "eokkvvaskidoriiaskdvfornevudit,"

Black Rapper Kid: "Isn't that what Santa does? It was from my heart"

GG: "tch, uh, tchtchtchsee uh uh wdelei eisideiflabskpoeeinow,"

BRK: "She doesn't get it!"

GG: "Oh, seefadgtnodnfgChristmasss ohoho!"

Yeah, as terrible as this movie is, it's hysterical. So, yeah, I'd recommend it.

Well, here it is. l was in disbelief this movie was even a real production. The quality of this animation is so bad, a highschooler could literally do a better job than whoever godawful company produced this. The plot is stupidly generic and too hard to pay attention to because of how horribly composited the 3D was in the movie. Not to mention how bad the models look and all the animation. A Christmas special that no one should ever have to watch, if you want a movie to make fun of, please by all means, watch this movie. l only made it 20 minutes before l questioned the meaning of my life and what l was doing with it.