Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July

1979

Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 41% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 41% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 2986 3K

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Plot summary

Winterbolt is trying to make the North Pole his evil wonderland, and it is up to Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and others to stop him.

Director

Jules Bass Photo
Jules Bass

Top cast

Don Messick Photo
Don Messick as Sam Spangles
Bob McFadden Photo
Bob McFadden as (voice)
Alan Sues Photo
Alan Sues as Scratcher the Jealous Reindeer
Candy Candido Photo
Candy Candido as The Snow Dragon
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1 hr 37 min
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802.1 MB
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bgrubb 6 / 10

Not one of the better holiday specials

Reviewed by planktonrules 5 / 10

Dipping into that well yet one more time...in July!

In the 1960s and into the very early 70s, Rankin-Bass made some amazingly timeless and lovely Christmas specials that rank among the best of the children's specials of the holiday season. However, despite this (or perhaps because of this), Rankin-Bass returned with another stop-motion film which brought back many of the original voices from these specials (such as Mickey Rooney from "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "The Year Without a Santa Claus", Jackie Vernon from the "Frosty the Snowman" cartoon, and Billy Mae Richards from "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer"). The problem is that the company had not only made these classic specials but quite a few lesser ones in between...and now it just seems like they've run out of ideas. After all, this is set in July....and it just seems weird!Although I dislike this film, I should take time to talk about what I actually liked. The stop-motion is really good....much smoother than the older installments. It also was nice how they brought back so many of the old voices...either as the original characters or as new ones (such as Paul Frees playing a NEW bad guy in this one even though he appeared as the evil Burgermesiter in "Santa Claus is Coming to Town").Apart from these things, I honestly cannot think of any reason to have made this other than money. As for watching it, it likely will confuse kids and the plot is convoluted to say the least. This entire film just seems like a lovely looking and sounding desperate retread...which is exactly what it is. Overall, not a terrible film...but an unnecessary one!
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