Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

William R. Kowalchuk Jr.

Writers:

Michael Aschner (written by)
Robert May (story)

Release Date:

16 October 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Family | Musical | Romance

Plot:

When Rudolph is born with a red nose he is bullied through out his younger years, but when Stormella...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Song | Christmas | Male Female Relationship | Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer | Independent Film

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Eric Pospisil	...	Young Rudolph (voice)
Kathleen Barr	...	Older Rudolph / Twinkle the Sprite (voice)
John Goodman	...	Santa Claus (voice)
Whoopi Goldberg	...	Stormella, The Evil Ice Queen (voice)
Debbie Reynolds	...	Mrs. Claus / Mitzi - Rudolph's Mother / Mrs. Prancer (voice)
Bob Newhart	...	Leonard the Polar Bear (voice)
Eric Idle	...	Slyly the Fox (voice)
Richard Simmons	...	Boone (voice)
Alec Willows	...	Doggle (voice)
Lee Tockar	...	Ridley (voice)
Gary Chalk	...	Blitzen (voice) (as Garry Chalk)
Christopher Gray	...	Arrow (voice)
Vanessa Morley	...	Young Zoey (voice)
Myriam Sirois	...	Older Zoey / Glitter the Sprite / Schoolhouse Doe #1 (voice)
Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff	...	Aurora the Sprite / Zoey's Mother / Elf Crowd Member #3 (voice)

Runtime:

USA:83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Canada:G (Manitoba/Quebec) | USA:G | UK:U

Company:

Cayre Brothers

Trivia:

Scott McNeil originally recorded tracks for Slyly and Bernard before being replaced by Eric Idle and Bob Newhart

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: Some of the speech was out of sync with the visual.

Quotes:

Stormella, The Evil Ice Queen: [slyly is trying to steal keys from a sleeping stormella]
[partcially waking]
Stormella, The Evil Ice Queen: what are doing?
Slyly the Fox: stealing the keys to the dungeon, now go back to sleep
Stormella, The Evil Ice Queen: oh okay,
[falls back to sleep]
Stormella, The Evil Ice Queen: toodles
Slyly the Fox: [dumbfounded] wanndaya know this truth thing really does work!

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#22.12)" (1999)

Soundtrack:

What About His Nose

If you do not like this see your doctor immediately your heart has turned to coal

If you do not like this see your doctor immediately your heart has turned to coal.

It is instant Christmas classic! Great cast (voices)(though I wouldn't give it a grade A for animation but hey, that my opinion) make this a family classic for any Christmas occasion. Considering the fact that this film isn't Disney, it belongs in the category of excellent animated films. On a Friday afternoon of September 1998, I came across "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer : The Movie" opening today in limited release. Fortunately my movie theater was playing it and with a cast including Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Sarah Jessica Parker, Debbie Reynolds, & John Goodman, I couldn't resist. Why Legacy Releasing opened a Christmas movie in the fall I'll never know, but if you haven't seen it with your kids, get it this Christmas season. Soundtrack includes a special musical performance of "A Wonderful Christmas Time" by Paul and Linda McCartney and show me the light is a very good and sweet song. Now on video from Goodtimes Entertainment.

Though the sprites I think really ruined the movie.

and the romance between Zoey and Rudolph is quiet sweet.

(by the way I hope a remake of it comes and DEATH TO SPRITES)

Good points- * The romance beetween Zoey and Rudolph

* Whoppi Goldberges portrayal of the no-nonsense villain Stormella

* The song "show me the light" one of the only three good songs in the film

* like the fellows comment the second bellow me, It shows being brave in the face of fear and rising above the mockery (i'm teased a lot at school so I know how it feels)

* Some of the humour that some people miss is quiet funny

-Bad points (do not let these ruin the film just fast forward through them)

* the sprites and their singing arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh, ahck DEATH TO SPRITES

* some of Slyly's script was pathetic in the leonard cave incident

* the songs: It could always be worse, santas family and Christmas time are awfully bad