Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys [Region 2] |  | Director: Bill Kowalchuk
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rick Moranis, Kathleen Barr, Scott McNeil
Category: DVD
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Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 239394
Format: PAL
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Running Time: 74 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5037115102331
ASIN: B00005OA5J
Theatrical Release Date: October 30, 2001
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Amazon.com
Thirty-seven years after his famous TV debut, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer returns in a sharp-looking computer-animated feature. Using excellent voice casting with actors that sound like the originals, this new Rudolph looks and sounds grand. There's a mysterious Toy Taker gobbling up toys around the world. Rudolph and his team (including deer-friend Clarice, elf-turned-dentist Hermey, and the Abominable Snowman) try to track the toys down and save Christmas again. While the setup and songs hold no candle to the original, and the lessons learned are borrowed from Toy Story 2, the final third succeeds--it's always good to have a flying reindeer when you are chasing a blimp. Kids ages 3 to 9 who have seen the original will certainly want to see the sequel; however, their parents might be less enthusiastic. --Doug Thomas
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 An unfortunate appendage to a timeless classic December 18, 2009
Christopher Johnson (Philadelphia, PA)
This new Rudolph uses digital animation instead of the wonderful stop-motion action of the original, and it's a poorly-scripted, miserably-executed mess. It's an unfortunate appendage to one of my favorite childhood specials, and I hope someone takes a magnet to it. No matter, though -- my kids have already forgotten it. Don't even consider buying "Island of Misfit Toys" unless you've exhausted the wonderfully-creative originals. They are decades better than this quickly-conceived piece of shlock.
Wow, This Stinks... December 16, 2009
W. Smith (NY USA)
I was amazed by how horrible the CGI graphics were. If you are going to try to revive a classic please do it right. Instead, the visuals look like someone has a 'make your own animated film' software on a PC at home and whipped them up in one night. Wow, what a horrendous thing this film is- poor story, poor visuals, poor writing- there are 200 Christmas movies on Amazon someone should consider before this. Please do yourself a favor and don't subject your family to this.
 Very Nice December 11, 2009
Dolphin
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The graphics and coloration of this movie are great. The story is charming. It's a winner.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys September 11, 2009
Jennifer G. Casoli Vant (Boston, Massachusetts United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Too bad computer animation was so new when they did this b/c it's terrible. The story is pretty good but the should have kept it in line with all the other Rankin Bass and done the stop-motion puppets ... come to thing of it ... they should totally take this exact movie and do just that b/c the animation is that bad.
A Misfit of A Movie July 13, 2009
M. Miller
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an abomination to the entire film industry and a disgrace and insult to the original 1964 classic. The animation looks like some amateur bought a 'CGI For Dummies' book and made it on their home computer. Like other users remarked there is no texture to the images, the graphics look like something out of a cheap children's video game, in which the paper thin plot would have been more suitable for. Gosh, the 30 second AFLAC commercial that spoofed Rudolph had more production value than this 90 minutes of gutter trash! This had so much potential to be a decent sequel but greed, as always in modern movie making, killed it with a slapped together rush job all for the sake of capitalizing off the Rudolph franchise and the integrity of the original!
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