You know when a kid is having a temper tantrum and they let out this scream from the pits of hell they keep locked in the back of their throat? Imagine that scream in a happy context and that’s Rudolph’s speaking voice. I actually wouldn’t mind this as much if not for the fact that this did not, in any way, need to be a song break, and the song ended abruptly on a note that doesn’t sound the least bit like a finale note.Īs Blitzen and Mitzi show Rudolph around Christmas Town and introduce him to snow, we get his ear-piercing, high-pitched shrill of a voice. It never matters, so don’t bother remembering it. I knew you did! This 15 second song break explains that the pink fairy is Aurora, the blue one is Sparkle, the yellow one is Twinkle and the pink one is Glitter. Hey, who wants to hear the northern lights sing their introductions?!
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We then get some of the most boring opening credits I’ve ever seen as we just watch snow fall on a faraway shot of some house while ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ plays.Īnd nothing gears you up for a movie more than hearing Richard Simmons is doing voice work for it. I have to ask, does Rudolph have a canon father? Because in the 60s version, Donner was his father. The northern lights, portrayed as the aforementioned fairies, visit Blitzen and his wife, Mitzi, as they welcome their son, Rudolph, into the world. Let’s go over this movie and see how it stands up, objectively. The gold leaf spined books from your childhood that are still going strong today – including adaptations of two Star Wars movies. In comes Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie – A film with a mouthful of a title made by GoodTimes in conjunction with Golden Books Family Entertainment.
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GoodTimes was now largely known as a knockoff company, but that didn’t stop them from producing these kinds of movies since public domain is free game for anyone, no matter how massively successful some movies based on public domain works are. They now had to clearly print ‘GoodTimes Entertainment’ and their logo on the boxes to differentiate themselves more clearly, but the damage had been done. Their similarities were so stark that Disney filed a lawsuit against them and won. They not only had the same titles, but they also intentionally made their VHS covers emulate the Disney movie covers. For instance, some of GoodTimes more notable works were Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Thumbelina, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Pocahontas, Sinbad and, well, *pokes title* Namely in that GoodTimes had a habit of releasing movies that were based on stories that anyone could easily base a movie off of BUT that already had a major motion picture made of it (usually by Disney) so it would trick consumers (IE grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles who don’t know any better) into buying it, believing it to be the blockbuster hits. The production values on GoodTimes movies never seemed to get Asylum bad (Dangerously close once, but we’ll address that another time), but the same skeevy production practices were similar.
Welcome, everyone, to that other Rudolph movie that no one asked for and really no one ever wanted ever.Īnd a fond welcome to GoodTimes Entertainment – the animated Asylum of the 90s. ….Trust me, sweetie, you won’t be missing anything for about a decade – and then they just reboot the franchise.
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Say, did your precious 60s version have the northern lights depicted as fairies in silk robes?ĭid it have an ice queen named Stormella? We need to jazz things up a bit for the 90s. People who were kids in that year are old people now. I’m gonna make Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer into a movie!ġ998: “Uhhh, isn’t that already a thing?” Plot: Rudolph the Red-We’ve been over this. Box cover artwork may be ridiculously higher quality than actual art.