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YMMV: Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny

Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny contains examples of:

  • Ass Pull: Santa's sleigh magically warps back to the North Pole at the end. Not only is right out of nowhere, it contradicts an earlier scene Santa says he can't just fly back home on an airplane because "what would I do with my sleigh?"
  • Nightmare Fuel: The Bunny; see Special Effect Failure.
  • Special Effect Failure: The Bunny, complete with Uncanny Valley winking eyes.
    • The biggest example might be Santa's "stuck" sleigh. You can clearly see the thing moving in several scenes after "failed" attempts to unstick it. Also, it appears to be "buried" in a quarter-inch of sand. In certain spots along the rails. (It probably would've helped if Santa got out of the damned thing when they pushed.)
  • Squick: Santa's pants. Please God, let that just be sweat!
  • They Just Didn't Care: The reason Tom Sawyer is wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
  • What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Watching or even reading about this movie gives a sensation similar to being on Nyquil or some other strong cold medication.

The Thumbelina adaptation contains examples of:

  • Crowning Music of Awesome: Perhaps the only thing about this whole movie that comes close to being described as awesome (or even tolerable) is the Happily Ever After song, at least compared with everything else.
  • Informed Attractiveness: Thumbelina is implied to be absolutely perfect in all but size, but the actress playing her is average-looking at best, with vacant eyes and large eyebrows. At least she wasn't wearing a bra...
  • Padding: The whole segment to SatICB.
    • Or is it the other way around, as "Thumbelina" takes up most of the film? Or have we actually stumbled upon a film that is entirely padding?!
    • And even in that, the witch's endless song still stands out.
  • Special Effect Failure: Oh boy, where to begin?
    • The costumes of the various animals.
    • The set designs, which look more like blown up versions of grade school dioramas. Which, to fair, is what they're supposed to be.
    • One scene in particular has Thumbelina looking at a scratchy, faded rear projection of her mother as she talks to Thumbelina, intending to be a shot from Thumbelina's perspective. Instead, it comes off as both this trope and Nightmare Fuel.
    • When Thumbelina and Mr. Bird are shown flying, the sky is just a plain white background (with obvious shadows on the walls), with a fan offscreen blowing gently in front of them to further simulate the "effect" of flying.

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