I cannot believe that some level of management actually approved to spend money to produce this major but unnecessary project. Clearly a lot of effort went into making it but it is an overwrought and underwhelming gilding of the lily. The old one was fine, simple and charming. This one is complicated and frankly a bit stressful. This was more a platform for computer animation stunts than a childrens' Christmas flick.

I just ordered the original for my under 7 year old four kids for next year. This new version just went in the bin. Fortunately it was a great buy. But . . . you get what you pay for.

If I could give this movie 0 stars I would. Why'd they change the animation? It's not Rudolph without the claymation( or whatever it was called). This CGI crud(the only nice word for it) is ruining our movies!!! The story has no physical depth or texture.. Rudolph isn't furry like he's supposed to be. And if this is supposed to be a sequel, why does Santa look completely different? This movie stinks!!!!!!!!! I'm only 13, but I know good movies(not this new junk they're trying to show us)

This movie, as you can see, is not from Rankin/Bass.
tundra and golden books made it. but they still used the old characters, actually the 2th sequel to rudolph ( counting rudolph's shiny new year ).
the story starts at a christmas party when rudolph, once again,
feels ashamed of his nose. a kite asks herbie to come to the
island of misfit toys, and, along the way, there are 2 energy filled songs that are cool. and on the way home, they meet
queen cammila ( Jamie Lee Curtis ) who fixes toys. meanwhile,
the toytaker steals toys from santa's workshop and calls it
"rescuing" because the toytaker is actually a teddy bear that
was thrown away by its owner, steven. so santa claus brings
the teddy to steven's house, who now has a child.
it's awesome, and i think that you should get it now!
it's great!

all I asked for christmas this year was the original Rudolf the Red Nosed reindeer. Instead I revieved this version. It's one thing if they wanted to do a sequel to the original movie from 1964, but they should have made the box art look different. Anyone looking quickly at the cover of rudolf and some familiar faces from the original can be easily fooled that they are buying the original. Even the title is close to the original plot. It's like me doing a sequel to the wizard of oz and calling it "The wizard of oz- follow the yellow brick road"

I didn't want to rate this DVD because I didn't see it, but I'm going to give 1 star because of the misleading sales pitch! I know others share how dissapointed and angry I am that the distributors are obviously trying to fool people into buying this, thinking that its the original.

Shopping should be easy and stress free. You shouldn't have to spend 10 minutes reading the fine print and conducting an investigation before you buy something.

If the scoring could be zero? well I disgress. If you are old enough to remember the original claymation or what ever it was; you will be VERY disappointed. The computer generated characters are ok, but the story has been changed so completely that you will only recognize the main characters. Not worth the money. I suggest you look for a copy of the original.