THE MAGIC Christmas TREE is one of the worst kiddie movies ever made. I use it every year to torture my family. If you can track down a copy I highly recommend it. But really, it's sufficiently goofy enough on its own to provide an hour's worth of perverse amusement. This is one of those weird, institutional-feeling movies that would seem to be perfect fodder for the MST3K guys. It's like a kids' film directed by the people at Centron. I can totally imagine seeing this projected in 16mm on a white-painted brick wall back when I was in grade school at Green Lake Elementary. I kept waiting for the dad to run over Ichabod, the tortoise. The "wacky" lawnmower-starting scene goes on FOREVER. ![]() For those of us who love movies that are so excruciatingly awful that they go full circle into the territory of unintentionally surreal brilliance, then this is totally for you. In other words.low, low budget elementary school-level acting post-synched dialogue (a la Coleman Francis) and a plot that seems like it was made up as they went along. ![]() That is, in fact, an actual line of dialogue from the film, and it gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect.
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