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It's up to Santa's most famous reindeer to save the day when an evil queen conjures up a storm on Christmas.It's up to Santa's most famous reindeer to save the day when an evil queen conjures up a storm on Christmas.It's up to Santa's most famous reindeer to save the day when an evil queen conjures up a storm on Christmas.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
John Goodman
- Santa Claus
- (voice)
Debbie Reynolds
- Mrs. Claus
- (voice)
- …
Eric Pospisil
- Young Rudolph
- (voice)
Kathleen Barr
- Older Rudolph
- (voice)
- …
Eric Idle
- Slyly the Fox
- (voice)
Richard Simmons
- Boone
- (voice)
Alec Willows
- Doggle
- (voice)
- …
Christopher Gray
- Young Arrow
- (voice)
Vanessa Morley
- Young Zoey
- (voice)
Myriam Sirois
- Older Zoey
- (voice)
- (as Myriam Sirios)
- …
Cathy Weseluck
- Sparkle the Sprite
- (voice)
- …
Paul Dobson
- Dasher
- (voice)
- …
Colin Murdock
- Comet
- (voice)
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- Writers
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- TriviaWhilst the film was recorded in Canada by most of the cast, there were a few exceptions that were recorded in the United States. Examples include John Goodman as Santa and Whoopi Goldberg as Stormella.
- GoofsIn the Reindeer games race, Rudolph was #5, Zoey was #7, and Arrow was #1. When Arrow ticked off Rudolph causing his nose to blind Arrow and caused the crash that took a lot of the field out as a result, Zoey made it through and came in second. If you watch it, it was #5 and #7 that crossed the finish line in that order. So technically, when Rudolph lost the race by a technical fault, Zoey should have been declared the winner by default.
- Quotes
Slyly the Fox: So uh, what'cha running away from kid?
Grown-Up Rudolph: Who says I'm running away from anything?
Slyly the Fox: Heh, I can read ya's like a book, kid. Your family never understood ya. Your friends, they all turned their backs on ya. You couldn't take it anymore, so ya's upped and ya's left.
Grown-Up Rudolph: Wow, you're good.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Episode #21.12 (1999)
- SoundtracksRudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Written by Johnny Marks
Performed by Clint Black
Arranged by Tom Scott
Clint Black appears courtesy of the RCA Records Label
Featured review
Really basic and really poor
Young Rudolph suffers a childhood accident that sees his nose turn from the publicly accepted norm of black to a glowing red colour. His parents worry about him getting teased, and indeed he does in the end. When he is beaten in the reindeer games by his rival for a doe he fancies, Rudolph runs away and moves into a cave with Slyly the Fox. However can he overcome his fear and reach his true potential.
With the aim of helping parents and relative to make Christmas easier to survive by keeping children happy, television will cram the schedules with kid's movies. However they forget that sometimes adults will end up having to watch them too. That was the case with this one, I ended up watching this and god but was it difficult to get through! The film is the only one I can think of where the plot is actually spoilt by the theme music, not that it matters very much as the plot is the one we all know with some little updates and additions (none of which really make any difference or improvement).
To make matters a bit worse, the film is a musical but with really god awful songs all the way through it. This isn't help by the fact that the animation is basic and very much the stuff of Saturday morning cartoons - very bright and basic but with no evidence that the producers wanted anything in the way of imagination or personal touches to come near their product.
With the list of names in the cast I had hoped for more. The cast list could easily be read off the new pixar film, as they are all reasonable names and have been in good comedies in the past. Goldberg, Goodman, Newhart, Simmons and Eric Idle all feature but none of them really add anything of their personalities to their roles.
Overall this is one big waste of time. I'm not the most festive of people, but I imagine that even Santa would struggle to keep his Christmas spirit if he had to sit through 90 minutes of this film! Bah-humbug! Next year I'll go and buy them Elf on dvd!
With the aim of helping parents and relative to make Christmas easier to survive by keeping children happy, television will cram the schedules with kid's movies. However they forget that sometimes adults will end up having to watch them too. That was the case with this one, I ended up watching this and god but was it difficult to get through! The film is the only one I can think of where the plot is actually spoilt by the theme music, not that it matters very much as the plot is the one we all know with some little updates and additions (none of which really make any difference or improvement).
To make matters a bit worse, the film is a musical but with really god awful songs all the way through it. This isn't help by the fact that the animation is basic and very much the stuff of Saturday morning cartoons - very bright and basic but with no evidence that the producers wanted anything in the way of imagination or personal touches to come near their product.
With the list of names in the cast I had hoped for more. The cast list could easily be read off the new pixar film, as they are all reasonable names and have been in good comedies in the past. Goldberg, Goodman, Newhart, Simmons and Eric Idle all feature but none of them really add anything of their personalities to their roles.
Overall this is one big waste of time. I'm not the most festive of people, but I imagine that even Santa would struggle to keep his Christmas spirit if he had to sit through 90 minutes of this film! Bah-humbug! Next year I'll go and buy them Elf on dvd!
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- bob the moo
- Dec 25, 2003
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