Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (2001)

Simply A Masterpiece

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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.

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!

I have to say, I was very disappointed. I have a 4 year old son, who is just old enough to really understand movies when he watches them. I was so excited to show him the Christmas movies I enjoyed as a child. There are certain movies that are just classics. You just don't mess with them. They showed the 60s version of "The Year Without a Santa Claus" just prior to this and my son loved it. When this one came on, and was computer animated, and the story changed some, it devastated me. My son actually fell asleep watching this one. I think it would have been a decent movie if it weren't for the fact you just can't change something that people have been watching for decades. It just was NOT the same. Make a sequel if you want, but don't' change the old ones. After making episodes 1, 2, and 3, they did not go back and redo the original star wars trilogy. Learn from that!

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.