Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
When the mysterious Toy Taker grabs all of Santa's toys, it looks like the children will miss out on Christmas. But everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, comes to the rescue with his lovable friends: Hermey the elf, Yukon Cornelius the grizzly prospector, the abominable snow monster Bumbles and Rudolph's very special friend Clarice. Together, they promise Santa they'll track down Toy Taker and rescue Santa's toy. Their incredible quest takes them on a wild adventure with Rudolph's red nose leading the way!
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- Cast：
- Rick Moranis , Kathleen Barr , Jamie Lee Curtis , Richard Dreyfuss , Garry Chalk , Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff , Peter Kelamis
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To me, this movie is perfection.
Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Sadly Over-hyped
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
This movie was a awful sequel to a true classic. The animation is lazy and terrifying, Most of the songs were absolute garbage, and the story is just unbelievably clique and stupid. The only good thing about this garbage sequel is that I love the song beyond the stars. But aside from that, this movie is a shameful sequel to a unforgettable, heartwarming, and beautiful classic. DO NOT WATCH IT, STICK TO THE CLASSIC! This movie has, besides the song beyond the stars, has absolutely nothing to like. And the hippo character was an absolutely unpleasant and annoying character and sounds like absolute crap. Unless you want to be dumber or love watching these animated horrors, skip this one at all costs and for Christ's sake, do not show this garbage to kids.
Christmas is the worst time of year. kids whine if they don't get what they want for Christmas, "EC People" go to church for Christmas but don't really care about why Christmas is here in the first place, and Christmas themed programming infects the airwaves. every day you cannot go one minute without hearing jingle bells in a commercial or a bumper for "it's a wonderful life" or the original "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer." which are both great classics, but they air so much that you and your children can recite them line by line.So, Rankin/Bass responded and made a sequel 37 years after the original creation, dubbed "The Island of misfit toys." and for a TV movie, it's pretty good, with a stellar voice cast, and a somewhat of a reprisal of Kathleen Barr doing Rudolph's voice (she did Rudolph's voice in the version with the sprites of the northern lights, and don't get me going on that version because you'll think i'm either the angry video game nerd ranting about some mid-90s low quality SNES game.) Anyways, since Rudolph's original run back in the day, he lives a somewhat carefree life, with his deer-friend Clarice and his elf buddy Hermie. however, a mysterious creature called the toy taker, is, well, taking toys! so it's up to Rudolph to unmask the toy taker and of course, save the missing toys.I originally saw this a few years after it's debut, on YTV, and i gotta say i liked it, and i still think it's a half-decent sequel, i mean, it could've been worse...but thank god it's nothing like that one Rudolph the red nose reindeer from 1998. if you want true criticism, check out my review of that one.6 out of 10.
While the original was a classic, this tale seems to retell a lot of the original story - The plot kinda follows the same way as the original, except that everyone knows each other. The Big Mystery is, Who IS the Toy Taker?? My older kids (10 and 6) were only half interested, but my younger ones (4 and 3) and the neighbor girls (4 and 2) were riveted by this story. Lots of musical numbers and a few good laughs, made this CGI movie at least above mediocre. While I don't necessarily agree that CGI was the best way to go with this sequel, it was fairly flawless. There was LOTS of characters moving in every scene, even in the background. While not the classic of the original, it was still pretty darned good. Without spoiling things, you'll get to see all the characters from the original - Hermie, Rudolph, Clarice, Cornelious, and the Abomnible Bumble, and (of course) Santa. Will they find the lost toys? Who is the Toy Taker? Will Christmas go on??? And what ever happened to Cornelios and his Peppermint Mine?? We enjoyed it very much and were happy that we got it on DVD with a few extra's and everything, not just the movie.
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.
