The Christmas Toy
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Movie Reviews of The Christmas Toy
Movie Review: for the kids
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this years ago on tv and wanted for my grandkids. It is great. As usual for the muppetsMovie Review: pew, it's a bad dvd
Summary: 4 Stars
i've been watching this movie ever since it originally aired in the late 1980s and am a pretty hardcore fan. i HAVE to watch it every year. it's tradition. i have an old vhs with a recorded copy of the movie that was terribly dubbed by my mother to remove commercials and, in doing so, erased the ending of the film. i didn't even know there was an ending until i was in high school when i found the actual vhs at a big lots. i was thoroughly ecstatic to have a good version of the movie and more so when i found out there was an extra 15 minutes i had never seen.
since then, i had always wondered when they were gonna release it on dvd and, for a long time, thought it would never happen. i figured it was too obscure a movie to put money into a dvd release.
come to my surprise, i randomly found it at best buy this last christmas. i literally felt like a 2-year-old again. i was slightly disappointed by the movie jacket, as i didn't see kermit anywhere. he is the narrator and introduces all of the characters in the beginning of the movie. i put the dvd in and found out that they cut him out of the movie completely. i assume there were some sort of copyright laws and the company releasing it would have to pay to have him in the movie.
if you've never seen the movie, i highly recommend picking it up. it is a wonderful movie and a lost gem in the henson family. if you still cherish analog technology, i recommend picking up the vhs copy as wellThe Christmas ToyJim Henson Muppets: The Christmas Toy [VHS] so you can have the full christmas toy experience with kermit the frog dressed as santa.
as far as the dvd goes, i was pretty disappointed in it. aside from no kermit, there isn't a dvd menu. when you put the disc in, it starts playing immediately. there are also no supplemental features. i can understand that there probably aren't any featurettes, but they could have at least included a main menu or some sort of filmography or a commercial / trailer for the film.
i give it four stars cause it is a pretty lame dvd, but an excellent movie. even without kermit
Movie Review: Excellent special, bad DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
After many years of fans begging, HiT entertainment has finally given us a DVD of one of Jim Henson's great forgotten specials. "The Christmas Toy" tells of a stuffed tiger named Rugby, one of many toys that come to life when their children aren't around (this a full 10 years before "Toy Story," I should point out). It's Christmas Eve and Rugby, who was Jamie's Christmas present last year, thinks it's time for him to get back into the box and be the center of attention all over again. But there's a new, less cooperative toy already there, waiting to be opened.
The special hasn't lost a bit of its charm. It's heartwarming, beautifully made, and full of great music. The only problem is that -- thanks to the fact that the Jim Henson company no longer owns the Muppets -- they had to cut the host segments with Kermit the Frog. It makes the beginning quite abrupt, as if you tuned in after the first commerical break or something.
The special is wonderful. The DVD is another story. The transfer is weak -- it looks like it was taken from a well-preserved VHS tape. And there's absolutely nothing in the way of special features, not a scrap.
As a fan of this special, I'm ecstatic that it's finally available. People who remember this special, parents looking for something new to show your kids that they've likely never heard of before, this is definitely worth getting. But it just seems they could have put a little more effort into it.
Movie Review: Kermit is GONE!
Summary: 4 Stars
Kermit's opening sequence and his introduction to the cast have been edited out. Gone, too, is the entire "Old Friends, New Friends" song finale, in which Kermit shows up and joins the cast singing the song. All that's left is a brief chorus heard over the closing credits.
For those who have never seen the 1986 original, this will make no difference. For myself and my kids, who fell in love with the original version, this Kermit exorcism is quite sad. Plus, the song finale was an important closing celebration of the show.
The DVD transfer is pristine, but one star is missing, in tribute to the missing green frog dressed in a Santa suit. I'm sure there are purist Henson fans who will not be as generous as I.
There should be a lump of coal in Disney's stocking this year.
Movie Review: The Christmas Toy
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a favorite video for my children when they were little. I was so excited to find it on your website. I gave it to my oldest daughter, who is expecting a child of her own in a few months, so that she can share it with him and start another generation of kids enjoying this film.