A little girl is dying from holidayitis and the only way for her to live is to trick her into staying alive until Christmas. How best to do that? A Magical Snowman story of course! Thanks Goodtimes!
Magic Gift of the Snowman
A little girl is dying from holidayitis and the only way for her to live is to trick her into staying alive until Christmas. How best to do that? A Magical Snowman story of course! Thanks Goodtimes!
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A dying little girl and a snowman wearing a flasher’s trench coat. Goodtimes, this is our worst time yet.
Also, someone else think the doctor looks like Jay Sherman? Or would that just be me?
The snowman sounds like you actually recorded the voice. It’s genuinely hard to tell when he ends and you begin.
I was about to say the same thing, especially near the end when the snowman becomes a complete jerk. It’s hard to believe some of those lines are actually in the movie.
Am I the only one who thinks the crappy doctor looked a lot like Old Man?
Hey Phelous, in all your research into GoodTimes entertainment, did you find out which was actually their most commercially and financially successful film? Obviously, their Rudolph cinematic movie was their biggest bomb in those areas, but I’m curious what the kinda “best case scenario” was for making money.
No I haven’t. I don’t know how much info actually exists for profit made on straight to home video movies like these.
I guess then you have to look them all and Find the Goodtime’s gem
I’d probably say it was the Nutcracker, but that’s personal bias.
Phelous, please, stop funding these movies, I have the suspicion that you’re the only one that buys them, so at the end they are doing them because you paid them!
This is trying to be a lighthearted fun kid’s movie, but good god it’s so unintentionally creepy. For crap’s sake, he sounds like a demonic monster when he does that sleeping incantation! Good god, ‘real-life’ Snowden is a pedophilic demonic creeper!
Also holy crap, man, when the… Yuck Keeper (…?) said “A little out of your element…” I seriously thought you’d added it as a joke from an actual Crypt Keeper line, since it sounds so exactly like his voice, and it’s just the kind of bad pun the Crypt Keeper would say!
And wow, just… wow, not since Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame have I seen a kid’s movie burn its villain alive like that so blatantly, and that was a movie deliberately trying to be darker than usual! And, wow… Snowden also melting to death in that fire, how was this story supposed to cheer that girl up?!
This movie is amazing and ridiculous. Seems like a ‘so bad it’s great’ kind of deal here X’D
Loved the brief ending gag with the book btw, that was hilarious.
What doctor still makes house calls?
The kind that lives in Magical Christmas Bullshit Story Land, of course!
Some do. Kinda. Not stereotypical country doctors like this, though. For example, my mom recently had surgery and has to use a walker, so someone comes by to check up on her and ensure things are going smoothly every so often. Physical therapy is also sometimes done at home, and they want to keep tabs on any medical equipment in the house to make sure it’s working. The problem is, I don’t think that’s what this guy is, since he seemed less interested in Em’s physical therapy and whether or not her wheelchair functioned properly than he seemed to be making an honest to God house call like ye olden times.
Large animal doctors
One who’s not really a Doctor.
Doctor Pepper is always available for house calls.
Also, how’d they escape from the fire in the story?
I been waiting for this one for a while! Frosty the Snowden is such a creepy pedo in this!
This movie’s subtitle: Me, Snow-don and the Dying Girl
That snowman is blooming creepy; now is it as creepy as the Jack Frost slasher films, Michael Keaton’s Jack Frost or both?
So the girl’s only reason to live is a snowman? Her life must be the pits.
0:17 now that is ear- bleeding educing music
25:51 especially since, strangely enough, when I first heard the snow man of doom, I thought it was you doing a voice. Weird….
27:00 oh god, Phelous is broken! Come back, Phelous!
This movie makes you ask questions like what does this have to do with Christmas. Anyone?
So that book at the end….not going to explain what was up with that? Okay…
Great review: but again, bespectacled Beanie Boo cat?
Had to look that up to know what you were talking about, haha. The cat was used for Halloweenie.
“it’s a living!”
=D
Ahhh. Though one must now wonder how a Beanie Boo cat works into Halloweenine…without the surrounding lands being reduced to a desert.
I mean have you seen those eyes?
They haunt your nights and eats your soul!
the kind of eyes that makes Dr Sam Loomis & Scott Farkus’ nipples tingle in fear. the kind of eyes that can make a Nazi soldier’s head melt without the use of the Ark Of The Covenant. Beanie Boo Cat is the monster that hides under your bed waiting to devour the souls of frightened children. and if you look under your seats little kiddies, Beanie Boo Cat is watching you behind your backs. Beanie Boo Cat is watching you all! mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! (cue clichéd lighting flash & thunder sound effect)
They strike terror into the hearts of slasher villains everywhere and reduce the brawniest of 80′ action heroes to whimpering hamsters!
Ever heard of The Ring….that was a video of a whole bunch of them just….staring….
And when they blink…Atlantis sunk
Where ever there is true horror and depravity, The Beenie Boos are always there, conducting it like a sick orchestra of death! Remember folks: no matter where you go or what you do or how much you fight or how well you hide, The Beenie Boos will always be their…calling to you…watching you…from the night….waiting for the moment….to strike….
And when they do….no one will ever here your screams.
Have a nice day 🙂
until Beanie Boo IV where it’s no longer scary. Beanie Boo VII is when Beanie Boo invaded Tokyo, Beanie Boo IX is when they go to space, then the Beanie Boo remake came out and it sucked. then there was a sequel to the prequel of the remake that came out after the reboot which was delayed a couple of weeks after the true sequel came out but lost ticket sales because it was in Holomax. now people are saying that 3D was better than Holomax, but that didn’t stop Beanie Boo VI when it was in crap-o-vision. eh, they should of stopped after Beanie Boo III, at least that one had Dan Green saving the day. don’t ask me how he got that role, it took a lot of persuading from 20th Century Fox before they had the rights bought by Universal Studios.
(this has been another mind fuck moment. if you would like to hear more, please insert 10 more coins.)
Sad to see a good horror icon go… now all that’s left is Beanie Boo X, XI: In the Hood, XII: the Quickening, and XIII: Freak-a-loo, the latest one, which all went directly to DVD and have a cult following in a so bad it’s good way. They keep churning them out because there is more scheduled for the next year. And you can’t even get them in one box set: the rights to each movie are scattered all over the place. And of course we mustn’t forget that embarrassing stage show Beanie Boo: the Musical.
From this we can learn that we have nothing to be afraid of as all we fear will soon be watered down, over marketed and finally fade into obscurity for several years until some bizarre MST3K fans dig it up and make fun of it in front of a camera, establishing it as a hilariously stupid classic.
If that fails then fear not: for Dan Green and his almighty voice will protect us all
(heavenly chorus ‘Auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh’)
Hmmmmm, no change on me….ahh, here we go; one, two, three…
Do you take Chucky Cheese tokens?
“Do you take Chucky Cheese tokens?”
Duke Devlin does. and yes, Dan Green’s voice will save us all. why? because Dan Green’s voice is stronger than Superman & cooler than Batman.
meanwhile, Yami Marik is applying for a job at Channel Awesome as an internet reviewer in an attempt to destroy Doug Walker & rule the world.
the first step in Yami Marik’s master plan, reviewing Jem & The Holograms. meanwhile, Linkara’s videos has been replaced with Zorc & Pals.
Both are good factoids to know.
It has been said that when Dan Green speaks, chrome melts instantaneously
My god, I never would have guessed. How diabolical. How far does this go? WHO CAN YOU TRUST!?!!?!?
agreed. Dan Green’s voice can even cure cancer.
and yes, it is rather diabolical. Yami Marik will consume Channel Awesome with his sexy mid drift as he forces all of the reviewers to watch the Kill Your Family channel to distract them while 4Kids consumes whatever’s left.
the next step in Yami Marik’s master plan is to force Brad Jones & his crew to review every single spin-off project based on Cars & Smurfs known to man. then, he will make AngryJoe review all of the worst movie based video games within the past decade while wearing a Frank The Bunny costume. all while Rob Walker is replaced by Yami Bakura, the sexiest reviewer will be replaced by Mai’s boobs, and every single video that’s submitted will be approved and disapproved by the Mega Ultra Chicken.
No, not Cars sequels! Oh the humanity!!!! Where does the evil end!!!
Another part of their plan is to make Todd in the Shadows listen every piece of music released by (gulp) Disney Channel!! In the light!!
And they’ll replaced MikeJ with a coffee drinking Super-Human-Samurai-Cyber-Squad fanboy!
4kids’ talons run deep: but we must not loose hope. There is still a chance!
(Discover 4kids dubbed Ultraman)
Oh my god; 4kids got to Ultraman too?!?!?!? We’re doomed!!!!!
Maybe that’s why NChick’s gone with absolutely no explanation; working with Pokemon, she found out about the master plan and got out!!!
So if we find NChick, we find answers
And only man has the sheer awesomeness to do that: Dan Green!!!! (CSI Miami screech)
Oh Dan Green; save us with your voice of pure awesome! It’s been said that when he speaks, a thousand samurai are blown away into outer space
ha, yes! Dan Green is amazing. but let’s not forget that Dan Green is in deed a member of Marik’s Evil Counsel. and yes, Todd In The Shadows is forced to listen to Disney Channel music, but who gave him that assignment? Zorc!
Yami Mark’s next step in his master plan are as follows:
– replace Film Brain with Dartz & his biker gang
– rehire Dr Smith & Terl as permanent reviewers making everyone review the absolute worst films in history in a room filled with the most annoying fan boys & fan girls on the planet
– make Ask Lovecraft to answer the most difficult questions
– force ChaosD1 to find ways that work
– change Chris Stuckmann’s name to Chris I’m Stuck, Man
– refuel the bitter rivalry between NC & AVGN
– force NC to review Hellraiser Revelations in the style of his older reviews, without his cut away jokes, and without his back up crew to help him
– and finally, manufacture the Bat Credit Card as Channel Awesome’s one and ONLY source of currency
Bonus Points: both Santa Christ & Chester A Bum are secret members of Marik’s Evil Counsel.
Extra Bonus Points – The Cinema Snob is forced to make a sleazy remake of Caligula with Maximillion Pegasus as the main character.
Not Film Brain, nooooooo!!!!!! Those monsters. They’re forcing Nash to relocate to Florida while all the new guys from California and their allies are being locked in the It’s a Small World ride! Forever!!
But the worst of it is that all Copy Right Robots are programmed by Master Roshi!!
And if Dan Green or Ultraman can’t save us, who can?????
This is the doomsday scenario and I advise you take shelter and start collecting all essentials for a long period of time hiding out: all none perishable foods, durable clothes and 80’s cartoon box sets.
Goodbye sweet world (sniffle)
Unless it turns out someone has a secret flying pirate ship they can use to swoop in and save the day (my money is on the Fab Four of this site)
mwahahahahahaha! yes, Doomsday. Yami Marik loves that word. with all of his plans set into motion, he has finally taken over Channel Awesome. all who opposes Marik & his evil counsel will be sent to the shadow realm. there is however 1 last assignment to complete Marik’s master plan: change the Channel Awesome theme to the main theme of Nickelodeon’s Doug, and legally change Doug Walker’s name to Doug Funny. all will point and laugh at Doug Funny as the remaining staff will all be renamed as Steve.
by then, Yami Marik will be unstoppable. all hail master Marik!
Oh my god…why doesn’t he just tear out their souls?!?!?!?
And soon, the world will collapse upon itself in a sea of Michael Bay and even the very name of Channel Awesome would just be a memory as it will go by the name Yami Marik the Almighty.com where it’s just videos of everyone watching propaganda videos by 4Kids with duck tape on their mouths!
The only hope has to come from the outside…former Channel Awesome reviewers and none Channel Awesome reviewers uniting and battling the forces of Yami Marik with their sea of Copy Right bots in a Battle that makes everything in Lord of the Rings and 300 combined look like a mud fight!
It would be GLORIOUS!!!
Viva La Revolution!!!!
or, you could just have Yami Yugi challenge him to a children’s card game. that tends to work too.
the moral of the story today kiddies: don’t raise your children in total isolation with an abusive & out of touch father. otherwise, it’ll make you go insane and become a psychotic villain in a children’s anime tv series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3rhQc666Sg
Eh, that’ll work too.
Truly the master of PSAs Peewee Herman himself, couldn’t have phrased that better
ha, yeah. oh, here’s the more shocking mind f***: the person responsible for the creator of Ultratech & the Fulgore units from Killer Instinct……is Seto Kaiba.
ha, yeah. that’s true. here’s the real mind f***: the person responsible for the creator of Ultratech, the Fulgore units, & Aria…..is Seto Kaiba. Yami Yugi is the true father of Jago & Orchid, Jago is exposed to the Shadow Realm creating Shadow Jago aka Shago, and Yami Marik is Kan-Ra’s best buddy. oh, and Dan Hibiki is Tristan Taylor’s lost crack baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw
on a side note, am I the only one who would love to see LittleKuriboh doing a Marik let’s play of Killer Instinct Season 2?
*mind blown*
That would be cool: also get Team 4Star. The internet would implode
in deed. it would even be extremely hilarious if we see Marik battle Bakura in one video, and Yami Yugi battle Kaiba in another. I would fall over my chair laughing hysterically if Yami Yugi screamed “Ultra Combo” at the screen.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Let’s Play Killer Instinct Season 2 would definitely be the most epic thing ever posted to the internet, ever.
New avatar to confuse the enemy: I like it
Pouting Yami Yugi – the greatest facial reaction in all of Yu-Gi-Oh!
No one suspects those who pout! Especially with insane hair coloring
not even the Spanish Inquisition suspects a pouting man with crazy hair voiced by Dan Green.
Especially if he can turn into static in a moments notice
Throws off the enmy
But would it be more epic then if all four of them combined into one being of energy and traveled through all of 4Kids’ anime properties, doing battle with all they meet!!
maybe. that would be like Yami Yugi dressed as Goku fighting against Yoh Asakura dressed as Monkey D. Luffy in a Pokémon battle in the Soul Society.
Weird….but not as weird if Tracy turned out to be a vampire who had hypnotized 4Kids executives into doing his bidding!
How’d they escape the fire? I’m fairly sure I’ve heard about another snowman with the same name, but I’m not sure where.
In 1997 (and a few years after that) Target had a snowman mascot named Snowden.
The first sentence of my previous reply was supposed to be a quote, but it looks like the formatting got removed for some reason.
Shoving a creepy snowman into water knowing he can’t swim and will probably melt truly IS the best idea anyone could possibly have. Unfortunately for the kids, Snowden survived.
eh, could of been worse. it could of been Bad Mr Frosty instead.
this is starting to sound like the origin of Bad Mr Frosty. unfortunately, there are no cheat codes to save you kiddies.
Wow, magical bullshit polio is the best polio! Can’t walk? Just will yourself better! This movie must be pro anti vaxxer.
could of been worse. she could of developed Poliosis.
Either that or it was written by a Scientologist or a Christian Scientist.
This looks like a job for the Care Bears.
Cajun Snowman.
Waffle marshmallows? Send that shit over my way.
Love the BSOD It’s the most useful character in this story.
I probably grew up on JetLag, yet the only thing that stirs up any nostalgia is the art style. The mom kinda looks like Jerrica Benton though.
I had to check that Cryptkeeper here wasn’t Charles Adler, because gawd knows the two both sound like Buster Bunny.
So, the guy who directed this movie apparently was the production supervisor for Kangaroo Jack, the assistant director for Extreme Ghostbusters, line producer for the Thundercats reboot & Peter Pan & the Pirates, unit director for Men in Black TAS, Rainbow Brite, Jackie Chan Adventures, & Inspector Gadget….Man he really got around.
That book at the end…The text…the art….I had one of those for birthdays. Does that thing have a production company stamped on it anywhere?
Holly crap, this is one of the Goodtimes movies I had on VHS as a child! I believe the other ones were Pocahontas, Cinderella and Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer: The Movie. And yes, because of this I have never actually seen the Disney versions of Cinderella and Pocahontas. Also, aren’t Landon and Emerly-Elisabeth the children riding the Goodtimes cash-in coaster?
“is there anything we can do to save her life? well, have you tried playing a children’s card game? I heard that tends to work over in Domino City.
in fact, maybe this is just some crazy fan fic’s untold backstory of Joey & Serenity Wheeler.
Let the Good Times Roll! (Sorry, I had to.) You spoil us Phelous. Also, any Tales from the Crypt references are much appreciated. There actually was an animated Tales from the Crypt show for kids, but it wasn’t NEARLY this creepy.
How do you always find this shit?
on a side note, I thought the villain looked more like creepy face Large Marge from Pee Wee’s Bigf Adventure.
My jaw dropped at the shit that snowman said. He deserved to die in the fire. The question is, why did the little girl care that he died? He stated outright he wouldn’t care if it was the other way round. They made the “hero” more unlikable than the villain.
Seriously, the first few times the Snowman’s actual dialog was in the video, I thought it was Phelous. “I don’t understand why Phelous had the snowman say, ‘That’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh, I like it’,” I thought to myself. Then I noticed that the background music didn’t stop during certain lines and figured out what was going on.
I think what they were going for was him using negative reinforcement to push her into action, but it backfired horribly.
“My sister’s sick? I know what’ll help! A snow pedophile creepily staring in her window!”
This has got to be my favorite thing you’ve done in a while! I feel like your reviews (or whatever these things are exactly) in particular are harder to put together than pretty much anything done by other reviewers. I’m just happy that you keep putting out the effort and doing them. My favorites out of the stuff you do are the cartoons. There’s something absolutely hilarious about when you voiceover the cartoons and speak in (somewhat demented) character for them. It’s amazing how bizarre the undertones and morals are to these (and most children’s media, really) are. This movie itself seems a Goodtimes jem (as in that wtf reboot of Jem and the Holograms). A Frosty-ish story with the framework device from Arabian Nights, but with a little boy in Scheherazade’s role and the whole daily beheaded brides plot replaced with Christmas-itis. It really boggles the mind as to what made people think it was a good idea. Groupthink? Just randomly picked from the mishmash of ideas scrawled on that hypothesized napkin? In any case, I’m glad this movie happened. And this review. It sadly makes me want to see the thing.
High rating on IMDB, two ridiculously positive user reviews that don’t seem facetious, and one polite “meh” from a critic who perhaps would in private agree with Phelan. Not that uncommon on IMDB, I guess.
After seeing alot of Christmas specials and so forth, how in the hell is it that Good Times/Jetlag could create the creepiest Christmas specials and may actually put several creepy/stalker/killer Christmas movies to shame. That is just a creepy and depressing movie, why does it exist and for children?
Beware of Doctor Old Man, as his diagnosis is that the patient is “completely useless now”, much like every character in this movie. Good review there Phelous, and we keep let the Goodtimes going.
1:15– Thank you very much, Phelous. You may have seen me in the comments quoting that famous Optimus Primal quote, and finally decided to use it on your show. It’s a post-Christmas miracle.
Elektra looks nothing like she does in Marvel Comics. Face it, this movie is ruined.
25:08– Y’know, for kids. =D
Nice job on The Breakfast Club reference.
Unfortunately the “things people say to people in wheelchairs” part of this movie is accurate. I’ve had these all said to me. Including as much as being referred to psyche by multiple doctors for my “attitude problem”, despite having positive test results saying my nervous system is fucked. Despite the fact my therapist agrees the depression problem , is probably due to the lack of actual help. People take that whole “the only disability is a bad attitude” quote WAY to seriously, and doctors seem to generally give as many fucks about doing their job as I did working retail before I was crippled.
But yeah most of the sick/disabled people I know have a similar track record of this shit, it’s sadly a popular mindset. I think people just don’t want to accept sometimes there is no way to get better. A lot of fairly common illnesses have no official treatments at all, let alone cures and that scares people. It’s easier to blame the people who don’t get better then to accept that if you get sick in a similar way you wouldn’t get better either. And when that attitude spreads to doctors or other care givers it ironically makes people less likely to get better because why the fuck don’t you just pull yourself up by your wheels?
Phelous, are you sure you didn’t help write this movie? XD I honestly couldn’t always tell what was the actual movie and what you added in
So this movie is playing on the Scheherazade gambit. Fun how this one has almost little or no sense to it. At least in the original context the postponement of an execution makes sense.
Yes, the clearly insane homeless guy being the villain totally deserved to die screaming as he burned alive…
Holy fuck. I think I may actually need to buy this movie for my collection.
Emery-Elizabeth is a terrible name for a cartoon. I mean yes, it’s fine. It’s a real name. But for a cartoon it’s too long and cumbersome to handle. Especially if you’re a small child.
then again no child should watch this
I think I had this movie when I was a kid(maybe 7 or 8 possibly 6) watched it for about 20 mins stopped it and never finished it. Now that I think about I might have had several Goodtimes films that while I own them I never actually finished any one of them.
I know there was one strange VHS I had(or my sister whatever) that had three different versions of the Beauty and Beast, Cinderella, and Sleepy Beauty stories(the first one was always the more commonly know version) each done in a different art style, I don’t know if it was a Goodtimes film because for some reason I thing of that roller coaster intro for this particularly VHS. Anyway it was always a VHS that stood out to me more so now because it seemed like a lot of effort went to what was just a cheap cash in. Of course it’s been about 2 decades since I watch it so maybe it was crap. Well that was pointless.
That strange VHS must’ve been part of the Fairy Tales Around the World series.
Is it just me or do the 2 main kids kind of look like the kids in that roller coaster intro in almost every Jetlag/Goodtimes production? Are every Goodtimes/Jetlag animated movie actually connected to each other? If so, then Goodtimes must’ve pulled a MCU on us.
Also, I actually have one of those infamous Goodtimes/Jetlag animated mockbusters: Cinderella! The beginning has a song that sounds like it was sung by Lacus Clyne.
*Is
I actually meant “Is every Goodtimes animated mockbuster actually connected to each other?
Also, this movie is basically just a worse version of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s/Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 2nd A’s before Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s/Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 2nd A’s even came out. I swear that Emery-Elizabeth reminds me of Hayate Yagami.
Snowden the Snowman wouldn’t spy on you through your window. He’d blow the whistle on the other snowmen’s surveillance program.