The GLO Friends Save Christmas (1985)
Blanche, the Wicked Witch of the North Pole, is jealous of Santa Claus. She imprisons him and his reindeer in an icy cage on a raging river, so they can't deliver their presents on Christmas Eve. Her timid sidekick, Moose the unimaginatively-named moose, tries to stop her, but she zaps him far away with her magic. The Glo Friends find out what she's done, and they set out to try and save Santa. They rescue Moose from a tree along the way, and Blanche tries to imprison them in ice flowers. But her schemes fail, as they reach Santa anyway, and face her in a final showdown to rescue him.
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This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
Ah, the 80s. An age when producers of children's programmes frequently overestimated the appeal of saccharine protagonists and let the antagonists run away with the resulting mess.In this case, the protagonists are the stock character of Father Christmas and a line of insect-themed night-light toys. I remember the toys as well, and they were pretty naff and a bit creepy. Unsurprising, considering the rather restricted territory, that all the available effort seems to have gone into the design of a couple of original characters. I can't imagine anyone over the age of 5 is going to care about the protagonists at all. In fact, you'll likely want to skip their parts.The primary antagonist is Blanche, the Wicked Witch of the North Pole. It's very easy to assume this would be another stock witch character with green skin and a tall hat, but Blanche actually has been given a really cool design. She seems to have some Inuit- inspired features to her costume and it looks realistically like what someone who lives in a cold climate would wear. She also has a dead fox scarf of the sort wealthy old ladies are often depicted wearing, only in this case it's a living arctic fox that talks. It doesn't have a name and it doesn't do a great deal, other than argue with her in a falsetto death metal voice, but quite a clever touch. Blanche is shown as competent, powerful, and ambitious, so although the story fails the Bechdel test miserably, it's nice to see a strong female villain.The other fresh character is the eponymous Moose. Moose has a design that's really very appealing and cute, with daft dewy eyes and a soft-looking nose. He starts off apparently being Blanche's henchman and seems to be a bit of a social pariah who wants to feel accepted, but he turns against her instead of going along with her doing things he considers wrong. That's not a bad character arc at all for a kids' programme, and the ending suggests he makes some friends after all.In summary there are some strong and original aspects to this little animation, but only very young children are likely to have any appreciation of the characters who are supposed to be the heroes.
This movie is terrible. The villain is the lamest I've ever seen, the glow friends are barely in this movie and the songs in this special are awful. it just shows how lazy the people were who made this so called "Christmas movie" if you want to watch this movie go ahead but you might be disappointed in the end. And if your kid wants to see this movie don't let them see it!!!