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So i just got done watching some old puppet-mation Christmas special, and i know i never considered this one in particular one of the best of the season... But WOW watching it all these years later i find it, well, terrible. i watched the second half of Rudolph last night and THAT one is still just as good, and i'll drop whatever i'm doing any time of year to watch Charlie Brown Christmas...
the animation style is identical to all those other puppet ones, and Davey & Goliath... oh, this one was Santa is coming to town. Nothing even remotely clever about it.
but what i REALLY don't get is, with fruitcake being SUCH a widespread joke, why would ANYONE give a fruitcake as a gift? Unless there are people out there that truly like it. The kind that my grandmother would give us was more of a whitebread with candied fruit in it and a bit of icing on top. Every year i'd try it and every year i would never finish my slice...
If I happen upon a Me at the door…
9 years ago
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In my opinion, the best puppet-mation is The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, writted by L Frank Baum. It is another Rankin-Bass (Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Thudercats, The Last Unicorn). There was a non-puppet remake a few years back, but it was lame.
It is totally pagan; Santa is raised by a tigress and a fairy. You see little puppet European serf children getting beat by their lord. You see little puppet Japanese boys training to be samurai. Of course, it has some ridiculous musical numbers, but you can't escape that.
i checked out your IMDB link for the movie... i know that i have not seen it, and i bet it's not in the ABC/NBC/CBS lineup this year... gotta copy i could borrow?
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