Horrid animation for a horrid holiday special! Some tree loving orphans have to deal with Mrs. Mavilda, who loves losing money given to her by... Old Mayor!? Also Santa might be Jesus. phelous.com / phelous
I love Mrs. Mavilda. While everyone is underacting her character is overacted. She sounds completely psychotic and it doesn’t help that the spastic animation makes her look like she’s being possessed by a demon.
It's also funny that while she becomes psycho later on, her introduction makes it sound like her not allowing fights and expecting the kids to be in bed is what's evil about her.
I don't mind villains with very simple motivations. It's okay for a villain to just be greedy, to just be a jerk, or whatever. The problem is when they have no logic at all. Her using the children for government money is fine on its own, but she was just so damn inconsistent with it.
Arik Morales Nah, it's just that Divine electrocution that worked like shock therapy... And with that thing being made in the sixties I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's what it implied!
Narrator: You always win when you are good. Willy Wonka: Wrong sir, WRONG! YOU KNOW NOTHING!!! YOU LOOSE!!! GOOD DAY SIR!!! Narrator: Merry Christmas every- Willy Wonka: I SAID GOOD DAY!!!!!
I know this is an odd thing to critique considering...the rest of the movie, but it would have been better all around if Ray and Judy were childless when they moved to town. The movie could have done something with a bunch of jaded orphans, wary of trusting an adult, coming to love Judy so much that two of them go out on a makeshift dogsled to save her at the end while the other three hatch a plan to protect Mrs. Hopewell. Hell, maybe Mrs. Hopewell was just another tree in the yard until Judy made it special for them (by putting the swing and slide on it, maybe telling them that it had a kind of "fairy door" hidden somewhere in it that led to Santa's workshop, etc) and that's why they're so determined to protect it. There's just not that much dramatic tension in having kids who love Judy/Mrs. Hopewell before the story even begins struggling to save them, as opposed to kids who had to grow into that love doing the same. Plus, it would have added more meaningfulness to Judy and Ray adopting the kids/Judy heading the orphanage at the end if they always wanted to have children but couldn't. Hell, you could cut Ray out completely (it's not like he adds anything to the story) and make Judy a young widow/divorcee who saw her dream of having a family snatched away from her, making her even more determined to bond with the kids. Also, it would have been two less robot marionettes on screen, and that would have been the greatest Christmas gift of all.
Mrs Mavilda could still be negligent and embezzling, though not as gleeful about losing all the money all the time. She could arrange for some of her poker buddies to try to get rid of Judy specifically because Judy is going to report her for embezzling. The lightning strike could still happen. Mavilda survives but doesn't get off otherwise scott-free like she does in the movie.
That's it it all makes sense their all blind because they all have been in some horrible accident that caused cataracts and then to vibrate when they talk. That's whyb3they worship ms Hopewell shes tge last tree that hasnt been irradiated. seems this innocent movie isn't so innocent at all
I don't get why Mevilda wants to throw all the cash away from the poker games. if she is bent on starving the kids and forgetting the bills, the least she could do is use the money on clothes for herself
It's a really dumb character flaw. They could have left it with her just spending the money irresponsibly, but if her bad luck is so consistent she wouldn't keep trying.
"You can't take this job, cuz you'll be busy helping me raise 9 children *points to the orphans and their kids* Um, Ray? That's 7 kids. Did you have an affair while at the boarding house?
Due to a bug with that particular model, the Raybot doesn't actually designate dead people as deceased until they're fully decomposed. He's still counting the two kids that died from the flu weeks prior.
Mrs. Hopewell? Awww...she's married. Oh no, shes's single . Then what ever happened to Mr Hopewell? (cuts to the lumber Judy uses to decorate Mrs. Hopewell) She doesn't like to talk about it.
@@jackgarrison8497 Thor is lightning, Odin is wisdom, Odin is Thor's father and rewards the faithful who honor his son on Yule by decorating a tree in Thor's honor iirc.
I wanna tell you all a story. It was back when Blip and the That Guy With The Glasses website were still up and when Phelous was still a part of the group. I decided to watch one of his reviews back then. I wasn't exactly a big fan. I didn't HATE him, far from it, but I didn't really like his dry humor, his inflections in his voice felt odd, and I didn't like horror movies that much since I was a pussy back then (Still am, BTW) so I couldn't really appreciate his reviews. Fast forward a few years from then. Blip is gone, Channel Awesome replaced That Guy With The Glasses, Phelous and a few others leave, Nostalgia Critic gets rebooted, ect, ect. I had developed a sick interest in Dingo Production "films". Somehow I found out that Phelous reviewed the Lion and The King, so I watched it. I'm now a huge fan of Phelous, his dry humor, his voice, and everything else. Here's to another year of GoodTimes with you.
Phelan Porteous why did you and Doug stop working together you and Doug should review more child's play movies those were some of my favorite reviews from either of you
He wrote about it online, you can google it. Long story short, CA has a toxic job environment and Doug is unable to stand up for other producers. Pheleous got taken for granted and treated with little trust to the point they once asked someone to spy on him.
It's Not That Phelan Hates Doug, Hell, He Probably Doesn't Even Dislike Him, It's Just That Phelan Wanted To Do Something That He Loved In An Environment That Would Be Trusting Enough To Let Him Do Things A bit More His Way, And Where He Could Feel That The Content he Makes Is More (For Lack Of A Better Word) Special.
coolcat001100 old mayor:I'm old and a mayor that's all I say don't mess with me but if you dare.And since I'm a mayor I'm better than you cuz all you are is a piece of poo
After seeing your review, Phelous, my opinion still stands. Everyone is terrible, but not nearly as much as Mrs. Hopewell. Her acting is the most wooden.
Really? I thought she managed to stick the role quite well. Maybe one day she'll branch out and sink her roots into a production with actual professionals who aren't so green. I just know she's pining for a chance to truly sprout!
I'd like to think that one of the developers at Bethesda saw this special over and over again as a kid and that's what inspired the questline Innocence Lost.
Want to know the dark secret about this movies ending? At the end when santa brings Lilly back, turns out that wasn't Lilly, it was a toy robot he made to replace her. The real lilly died on the mountainside from the fall, and Santa made a robot replica of her so nobody would guess she died (until a few years later when she didn't age)
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario Considering that Phelous just brought back his "Old Man Reads Creepypasta" series last year, I would totally want to see Old Man and his "cousin" read a creepypasta together! 😆
Florica Anderson Also, it shows that Santa/God or whatever doesn't care about anyone in this movie unless the evil bitch is about to cut down a three...
Now Santa's power is... actually I don't have a method of measuring power. Could someone use such a tool or methodology to examine what Santa's limits are? 'cause this baffles me.
I think Mrs. Mavilda was the model character for that one quest in Skyrim to join the Dark Brotherhood. "Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear."
Wrath's Turntable Time Machine Rocksmash Attack (AKA The Mysterious Reuploader, Ace-edo Mask!) Phelous made an obvious call-out to NC's incredibly click-baiting title over the same movie, even though there's worst Christmas specials out there. Of coarse, that's subjective, but I feel this is a so bad that it's good movie just because of how bizarre and fascinating everything about it is. Also, it irritates me how NC likes to overreact up the ass, all of the skits that pad out the review, and the unnecessarily long epilogue that followed the review. But the point I'm trying to make is that I think Phelous's review is better and having such a reference at the beginning of his review is very fitting.
Wasn't that title meant to keep the Christmas movie in question a secret? In any case, what Doug thinks is the worst and what others think is the worst can be two different worsts. With NC, his shtick is to overreact. That's kinda been how it is for years now. And I'd say that the skits have gotten tighter in terms of comedy from then on. As for the epilogue, I honestly found it heartwarming as hell that Doug showed his friends and family.
matt0044 First of all, what's the point of keeping the movie a secret, ESPECIALLY if you're gonna use a title like that to hide it? Like I said, it's a very click-baity title, and I really hate those just to do with the fact that contradicts the idea of keeping it a secret. Second, I already stated that deciding what film is the worst is subjective, and I specifically said it in a way that it was my opinion and not fact. And lastly, I've been finding Doug's reviews that aren't in his classic style to be incredibly tedious to watch lately, even if his skits are getting better (I suppose?) and the only skit that I actually found funny in his Christmas Tree review lasted around a minute and didn't even have Doug in it (it was Rachel, I think). Because of this, he drags the review out WAY too long. Also, the epilogue WOULD have been nice, if it were only a few minutes long, but it took up a whole chunk of the review and lasting well over 7 minutes. Call me a heartless asshole, but it was grating to watch after seeing him go ape-shit over this movie for the past 20-30 minutes instead of, you know, actually reviewing it? It's like he wanted to see how many jokes he could cram into one video while having only 5 minutes or so of real criticism. Sorry for my long-winded rant, I just need to get that off my chest. I can't stand Doug during the Christmas season, because he becomes more obnoxious and schmaltzier than usual.
Think I'm having some Dingo Pictures flashbacks of my own. When the girl said "I don't know where the North Pole is; do you?", I was expecting another kid to reply "It's not that easy. Do you know where the North Pole is?"
31:00 "Make up"? Correction: *MAKE OUT!* Mavilders and Judy sittin' in a tree! KAY EYE ESS ESS *EYE EHN GEE!* What am I doing? I'm just offending someone, right? Sorry. My apologies. Is there anything I could do to *MAKE OUT?!?* XD WHAT AM I DOING? GOD HAVE MERCY!
"He's not anybody's grandpa." A few moments later ... "Santa is everybody's grandpa." But ... I thought you said he wasn't? I suppose Judy can't make up her mind.
Okay what bugs me the most about this story is that the mother NEVER goes to the mayor or contact social services! Some one! Upon learning how the children were being mistreated! While the exact time period this special occurs in is hard to place I know for a fact that there were laws dating as far back as the mid 1900s that prohibited this kind of treatment!
So... Why do the kids have bright blonde hair when their parents are brunettes? Did mom feel so emotionally neglected by her robot husband that she had an affair?
The Filmation connection really explains a lot. This really looks like what happens when a former filmation person tries to make the same animation saving tricks on an even lowererer budget.
No, he needs to remake it into 3 movies even though there wasn't a need for the 3rd one because he wanted to shove a bunch of unnecessary shit into an already flawed story
