Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer: The Movie. This film is a mix of good and bad. So first I'll start with the good.
I think the writers of this movie wanted to take it somewhere. The characters weren't the worst that a Christmas themed special could have. We have good old Rudolph of course. He has his love interest later on in the story. If any of you are expecting it to be Clarice, it isn't. The villain in the movie is played by Whoopi Goldberg, not a bad choice but here, she doesn't seem to be trying her best. She sounded much happier doing Shenzi in TLK. Here, she sounds like she is hardly interested in the part. John Goodman plays Santa Claus and you can't complain about that. Goodman always does a great job when he voices cartoons. Some other good parts of the film are the songs "What about his nose"? The love song, I can't remember the name of it, and "Simply having a Wonderful Christmas time" by Sir Paul McCartney.
The bad parts of this film though outweigh the good. Stormella doesn't seem nasty enough as the antagonist. If you can't predict it, there's a change of heart at the end of the movie that I could see a mile away. Most of the songs are forgettable except for the ones I mentioned above. We get a few characters that are abysmal. Slyly for one. Why couldn't they have just called him Sly? I think one of the worst thing that comes from this guy is his out of nowhere song number. The best thing was seeing him cuddle with Rudolph's teddy bear.
On a whole, this movie isn't the worst, but I can think of much better. Do yourself a favor, and watch the original instead.
I think the writers of this movie wanted to take it somewhere. The characters weren't the worst that a Christmas themed special could have. We have good old Rudolph of course. He has his love interest later on in the story. If any of you are expecting it to be Clarice, it isn't. The villain in the movie is played by Whoopi Goldberg, not a bad choice but here, she doesn't seem to be trying her best. She sounded much happier doing Shenzi in TLK. Here, she sounds like she is hardly interested in the part. John Goodman plays Santa Claus and you can't complain about that. Goodman always does a great job when he voices cartoons. Some other good parts of the film are the songs "What about his nose"? The love song, I can't remember the name of it, and "Simply having a Wonderful Christmas time" by Sir Paul McCartney.
The bad parts of this film though outweigh the good. Stormella doesn't seem nasty enough as the antagonist. If you can't predict it, there's a change of heart at the end of the movie that I could see a mile away. Most of the songs are forgettable except for the ones I mentioned above. We get a few characters that are abysmal. Slyly for one. Why couldn't they have just called him Sly? I think one of the worst thing that comes from this guy is his out of nowhere song number. The best thing was seeing him cuddle with Rudolph's teddy bear.
On a whole, this movie isn't the worst, but I can think of much better. Do yourself a favor, and watch the original instead.