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Rudolph's Shiny New Year

Rudolph's Shiny New Year

Animation · Fantasy · Family · 1976

Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.

Movie details

Rudolph's Shiny New Year

1976 Animation · Fantasy · Family 50m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.4 / 10

Community rating

Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Rudolph's Shiny New Year?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Arthur Rankin, Jr. · Jules Bass

Written by

Romeo Muller

Red Skelton

Red Skelton

Father Time / Baby Bear (voice)

Frank Gorshin

Frank Gorshin

Sir Ten-to-Three (voice)

Morey Amsterdam

Morey Amsterdam

One Million (voice)

Harold Peary

Harold Peary

Big Ben (voice)

Paul Frees

Paul Frees

Santa Claus / Aeon / General Ticker / Seventeen Seventy Six

B

Billie Mae Richards

Rudolph (voice)

Don Messick

Don Messick

Papa Bear / Rumpelstiltskin (voice)

Court is in session

Put Rudolph's Shiny New Year on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.