Stale Christmas Cookies.
How awful. I love the Victor Herbert operetta and all the Babes in Toyland movies, but this one is horrible.It is not so bad it is good. They ruined the whole thing. It felt like stale Christmas cookies or icky holiday candy way past it's expiration date. if you like this movie you know nothing about the origins of the story. even the uninspired Charles Nelson Riley version has more to offer than this cheap slapped- together rush job. It looks like it was put together with scotch tape and paper and filmed in a trailer park and those stupid go-carts look like they came from a supermarket carnival.
Instead of feeling Christmas cheer when I watched this, I just got depressed and wanted to kill somebody. I like Reeves and Barrymore as actors, but after this it took me a long time to be able to handle watching them again. This film should only be viewed by the terminally dull and unimaginative. Those people will probably like it.
All the versions of 'Toyland' can be a little cheesy, but they're fun. This ain't cheese it's poison. Even Ed wood would know better than to attempt this eye-sore of a movie. Yuk! I did'nt know production design could be so ugly, and that song, it gives Cincinnati a bad name.
score 1/10
johnstonjames 23 December 2009
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