Jimmy Durante narrators the story of Frosty, a snowman who is brought to life when a hat, thrown away by Professor Hinkle (voice: Billy De Wolfe), a bad magician, is placed on his head. Frosty (voice: Jackie Vernon) realizes that he’ll melt unless he reaches the North Pole, so he sets off with little Karen
Philip J. Fry (voice: Billy West) is depressed because he’s away from his family at Christmas and because the holiday (now pronounced “ex mass”) has changed so much in a thousand years. Now, Santa Claus is a highly armed robot that punishes the naughty, and he considers almost everyone naughty. When Fry learns how sad
Sylvester is far less impressed with his Christmas present (a rubber mouse) than with Granny’s (Tweety). Cat wants bird. Bird wants to live. Granny wants peace. It’s the eternal triangle…right? 7.5 min. If you’ve seen one Tweety cartoon, you’ve… Well, you get the idea. Unless you haven’t seen a Tweety cartoon, in which case: What’s
Short Film: Grandma (voice: Susan Blu), gets run over by Santa’s sleigh and then disappears. With her out of the way, Cousin Mel (voice: Michele Lee) attempts to sell the family store and destroy Christmas. It is up to grandson Jake (voice: Alex Doduk) to find Grandma. The song Grandma Got Run Over By A
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck, voice: Alan Young), ignores Christmas and his fellow “man,” has nothing to do with his nephew, Fred (Donald Duck, voice: Clarence Nash), and makes life difficult for his employee, Bob Cratchit (Mickey Mouse, voice: Wayne Allwine). The ghost of his partner (Goofy, voice: Hal Smith) appears to him at night
Near-sighted Mister Magoo (Jim Backus) arrives late at the theater, but they’ve held the show for him since he is the star. It’s a musical production of A Christmas Carol, and Magoo is Scrooge. Once Dickens’s story begins, it’s the old tale we know so well, told relatively straight. 53 min. Mister Magoo’s shtick, of
Jasper Morello (voice: Joel Edgerton, Owen Lars in Episodes II & III of Star Wars and Gawain in King Arthur) lives in a future filled with steam-powered radios and iron airships. A navigator who made a tragic mistake, he is given another chance onboard a hulking metal craft that is searching for a cure to
Directed/Written by: Jan Schomburg Produced by: Corinna C. Poetter This critique contains spoilers – if you have not seen the film yet, go to the Best Shorts page. The Park City 2005 Festival season was an exercise in mediocrity. Whether it was the grandmaster Sun Dance or the supposedly edgy Slamdance, “average” was the watchword.
On Christmas eve, Jerry the mouse begins playing with the Christmas presents and goads Tom the cat into chasing him. 9 min. The third Tom and Jerry cartoon produced, The Night Before Christmas looks like all the other early Tom and Jerry shorts, and has pretty much the same structure as all of the later ones. The
Directed, produced, & written by Chris Dowling 16 min. What I keep wondering while watching The Plight of Clownana is if I should be taking away some deep, life lesson. Certainly, Ishamel the Clownana, a dancing half-clown, half-banana store mascot thinks so. Narrated with deep sincerity by writer/director/producer Chris Dowling in a poetic fashion more often
When Mickey Mouse (voice: James MacDonald) cuts down a Christmas tree, he fails to notice that the chipmunks Chip (voice: James MacDonald) and Dale (voice: Dessie Flynn) were living there. When the tree is set up in the house, the chipmunks have lots of new things to play with, but Mickey’s dog, Pluto, is none-to-happy
Directed by: John Coven. Written by: John Coven, Cornell Christianson. Cast: JoBeth Williams, Juliet Landau. 8 min. This critique contains spoilers – if you have not seen the film yet, go to the Best Shorts page. There is a basic ghost story. This isn’t terribly surprising as a majority of sub-genres aren’t so much categories