When Rudolph is born with a red nose he is bullied through out his younger years, but when Stormella closes her bridge of to the public and threaten to put Santa out of business for good ...
Director: William R. Kowalchuk Jr.
Stars: John Goodman, Bob Newhart, Whoopi Goldberg, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Newhart, Eric Idle.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137201/
Watched online, ok print.
12 songs in the Soundtracks.
Not only is this Kiddie Korn, but it's Holiday KK. Not in my enjoyment zone.
And yes, they turned the simple Xmas song into an 83min film. They had to add some characters and situations, but they followed the song fairly well. The "reindeer games" turned into a competition for possible recruitment to the flying team (Santa's sleigh).
JG is Santa, who's not onscreen much, and DR has multiple parts but is still not onscreen much. I did notice BN, who was a polar bear featured in the last few scenes. Did not notice EI, in maybe a few more scenes than BN.
Who stood out was WG as the evil queen Stormella, who controlled the bridge to Santa's Village, and when she decided to close it, the penalty for using it was to conjure a major storm.
Rudolph's response to being bullied is to run away from home, which causes his gf Doe to come looking for him, and she crosses the bridge and does find him.
I've already forgotten how Rudolph won a wish from Stormella after she'd set loose the storm. She was not able to rein it back in, so that's why Santa asks Rudy to guide the sleigh: to get the team out of the storm, considerably worse than the fog of the song.
Although Doe helped to find Rudy, she was pretty passive for the rest of the film, being the actual gf of Rudy's nemesis. Also, she didn't compete in the Games that I noticed. I've forgotten to what extent the 2 elves sent by Santa helped to find Rudy.
Boring. Avoid.
Rated 5.8 (2,088)
indie, dir, Kowalchuk; 5
