Rudolph's Shiny New Year

Name: Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Released: 1975-1-1
Cast: Morey Amsterdam, Red Skelton, Frank Gorshin

UR
1h 0m
1975

50%

age 3+

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Animated Christmas special in "animagic". Happy, the Baby New Year, is missing. With Santa Claus' permission, Rudolph searches for him. Features the voices of Red Skelton, Frank Gorshin and Morey Amsterdam.

Director:

Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass

Cast:

Morey Amsterdam, Red Skelton, Frank Gorshin

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

50%

Reviews

AV Club

Erik Adams

It all adds up to a largely nonsensical wintertime fairy tale, but with Rankin/Bass' seasonal powers in the process of diminishing, Rudolph's Shiny New Year represents a last-ditch effort to synthesize a number of imaginative concepts into a single story.

The songs, again by Marks, are syrupy. The Animagic process quickly becomes aninoying. And Muller's plot proves even more impenetrable.

I'm sad to say, the specials stopped being essential - they ran out of ideas.

[It's] just one of the weirdest holiday specials ever conceived

In its best moments, Shiny New Year lives up to the howling madness at the center of all Rankin/Bass.

November 27, 2018

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 3+

Common Sense Says

Rudolph helps another outcast save New Year's Eve.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this kid-friendly extension of the Rudolph holiday franchise follows the red-nosed reindeer as he seeks the runaway Baby New Year, who is repeatedly humiliated by people laughing at his big ears. A threatening vulture on the hunt for his own sinister reasons repeatedly menaces Rudolph and his friends. Discussions about the passing of time are handled with an inventiveness that may help kids who are struggling with that concept.