Babes in Toyland (1997) (2025)

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• Review by deMicha ★½ 2

  Die phantastische Reise ins Spielzeugland

  Drei Tage vor Weihnachten, reisen die Geschwister Jill und Jack mit dem Toyland Express ins Spielzeugland. Hier lernen sie Tom Piper und Mary kennen, aber auch ihren bösen Onkel Barnaby Crookedman. Dieser will die Spielzeugfabrik mit allen mitteln schließen.

  1997er Zeichentrickfilm aus den USA mit einer Lauflänge von 67 Minuten, der auf eine Operette von 1903 basiert.
  Das gezeigte ist für ein junges Publikum gemacht wurde. Alles ziemlich einfach gehalten und man kann der Handlung einfach folgen. Die Musical Nummern sind auch Kindgerecht in Szene gesetzt wurden, genau so die Charaktere.
  Der Zeichentrickstil ist nichts besonderes, aber das junge Publikum wird wohl daran ihren Spaß haben.
  Für mich war das gesehene grade so ok. Ich bin aber auch nicht die Zielgruppe.

• Review by RexLuscus ★★½

  featuring such beloved fairytale characters as “flesh-colored humpty dumpty,” “heterosexual couple,” and “cat with CTE”

• Review by UndyingOlaf ★

  From a song that was truly so unlistenable I paused the movie with a genuine surge of fear, why I’m still not quite sure, to getting to see Humpty Dumpty’s mangled, lifeless corpse under a bridge, this movie gives you everything you don’t want

• Review by sarah

  unfortunately i used to enjoy this movie as a child

• Review by ThomasBluWolf ★

  Wow, if I had a nickel for every time there was an animated film featuring Humpty Dumpty and two characters named Jack and Jill, I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird how it happened twice, right?

  Inb4 a friend of mine says “THE TWO NICKELS MEME IS A CONSPIRACY” even though he himself is fueling it by saying this.

• Review by laurie ✌🏻 ★★★

  I used to watch this movie A LOT. Not at Christmas, but year-round. I can picture the VHS clamshell like an old friend. But I haven’t seen it in a long time, probably close to 20 years if I’m honest, and now that I’m grown my childhood crush on both Tom and Mary makes so much sense to me. Put this down as one of my Roots, whatever that says about me.

• Review by mellocat ★★

  This movie fucked me up as a kid. Like I always remembered it hauntingly. I watched it again during the pandemic at some point and all I remember was still being shaken. I don't even remember the specifics even though I saw it 3 years ago. I must have blocked the memory I just think of it and feel fear.

• Review by Kevin Page ★★★★

  Was this a children’s horror film???

• Review by Zia ★★

  I wanted to go home while I watched this, and I was in my own living room.

  
  Disturbing animation and story wise. Basically a propaganda film for children.

• Review by Sparks Lowry ★★

  Was interested to see what Don Bluth's brother had in store for the animation world. While he's certainly not Golden Films-tier he's definitely not up to the standards of ol' Don (well, maybe latter-day Don). Kinda fascinated by the phenomenon of Babes in Toyland at least but this is mostly pretty boring.

• Review by Collier Rawn ★★

  You’re probably asking. What is this? Why are you watching this? Are you okay? It’s because I’m fucking better than you. I’ve seen movies you’ll never fucking hear about, the most obscure pieces of human creation. My references are off the mf chart and y’all can’t even come close to this shit. I watched this movie because I can and no one on this godforsaken earth can tell me otherwise or even try to stop me

• Review by Avery Follett ★★½

  another cartoon I was convinced I'd dreamed for a while