This would have been better if it was about Noel becoming friends with the other ornaments and getting them into the Christmas spirit. It would have made more sense than the story we got.
That's what I was thinking. As is, his happiness is just severe contrast to everyone else being sad or relatively neutral, and then he gets magically re-incarnated and is SUPER happy. It would've been better if he was just optimistic and made the other ornaments not worry about being put away or not being annoyed by their job of hanging on trees or something.
This has a pretty dark message when you step back from the weirdness of it. All the unhappy ornaments end up dead, or the ornament-equivalent, while Noel gets to live on because he "has happiness". Except Noel didn't gain happiness on his own, it was gifted to him... so all those ornaments were hopeless and doomed from the start. That's a terrible Christmas surprise! It would have been slightly more interesting if the bitchy ornament learned how to be happy and was able to live too, or at least a better message. But hey, I don't write movies for children, so what do I know?
Aren't we all doom from the start to die anyway? that's like the point of the special, ornaments break, kids move out, tree dies but happiness of the holiday season endure
Honestly? A Mormon probably made this. They believe a set number of people have souls and they're the only ones who get God's gifts when they die and the apocalypse happens if they believe in the faith. Compare with Noel being given the gift of happiness at his creation, being loud and proud of his happiness, and being curious about Jesus. Everyone else who was cynical and rude to Noel gets trashed. They're a metaphor for sinners, those who reject "happiness" aka faith, just obstacles for Noel to overcome and retain his faith and then they're sent to hell. I don't think any character arcs were coming from the other ornaments. That's my guess though.
Often feels like the smallest little things can kill us or ruin our bodies for the rest of our lifes so thats why they make the characters in fiction be able to survive things you cant survive in the real world because you cant have any cool action if its realistic.
True, but look at some of the crazy shit people actually HAVE survived. There are people who've been shot in the head and lived, and one guy even got sorta-decapitated and still survived.
This was by far one of the best yet. This one outdid DINGO in horrific things being described in an inappropriately "cute" fashion. The bulb watches his mentor get dragged off and hears his grizzly execution, before he himself and the rest of his comrades are locked away for months in darkness. By the time they're unpackaged again his mind is already broken, and he's given into the grimmest form of Stockholm Syndrome. And then he meets a new tree, and the whole cycle happens all over again, with Bernard, Anthony, Gregory, etc. And after watching god knows how many trees get dragged off to their medieval deaths, while declaring tearful farewells or screaming at the ornaments to save them or too despaired to speak, the ornaments are all locked away again and left for dead for decades. Then they're found again, and immediately all executed on the spot for being old and ugly, except the bulb, who is saved on a whim by the wife thinking he was vaguely okay looking. And then, when Noel has finally regained happiness, his expressions of joy cause his own demise, as he accidentally spins himself to a shattering death. But it's okay because he became a happy spirit at the end. Was this story a collaborative effort from Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen while they were both blazed off their asses?
@@reptile1687 yeah it was they wouldn't have a wood chipper in their home would they? Most people I e seen just put their old Christmas trees out for the bin men to collect. Not sure if they did that back then but I'm pretty sure they did
You know what's sad? This isn't the scariest-looking Christmas movie about a talking bulb. Ever seen "The littlest light on the Christmas tree?" It's a pretty generic Christmas story but the animation is like video Brinquedo got salmonella and spewed liquid horror out of every orifice while screaming Christmas carols like a demon from hell.
It seems christmas ornament old man is the opposite of beauty and the beast old man, as getting wet from his tears causes thing to come alive opposed to becoming completely useless
OR.....this old man somehow found out what happened to all the bulbs he created, and couldn't handle the guilt and existential horror...so he despaired, and grew to hate anything getting wet. He throws wet things away because he can't bear to watch one of his tear-creations go through decades of horror again.
All ornaments are alive? Well crap, it's probably not good that I have Cthulhu, Snape and Darth Vader on my tree. Well, time to go down a bottle of happiness.
Damn, I've got Megatron, Soundwave, Doc Ock, Venom, Green Goblin, and all sorts of other villains up there. eh, I've got Ben 10 up there, he'd probably just Alien X the life out of all of 'em.
OmegaValwin and the suprising part is that Noel was almost always cheerful. no matter how many friends he made over the centuries die, he never let any of it keep him down for long. that bulb was unbreakable!! ... metaphorically, i mean... and literally too i guess, since he's now the Metaphysical embodiment of happiness and has no physical body *to* break, but you get the point!
Suggestions: I have a Crab Pingas. I have a Half Penis. I have a Bad Venus. I have a Glad Genius. I have a Rad Cletus. And probably most obvious of all... I have a Crappyness.
Wabuu: most of the Christmas tree ornaments are soooooooooooooooo stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid * Wabuu's watching Noel * Wabuu: actually, most of them are likeable, because they hate Noel. He's more annoying than Wuschel.
The irony of it all? The movie’s story is actually sad AF for a Christmas movie. Funny story about this movie too. I saw it just ONCE when I was 5 years old, and starting 5 years ago I’ve been trying militantly to come across it again. Found it thanks to you lol.
Again with the casual deaths, haha, it just boggles my mind how they're so recurring across these animated films. Never ever heard of this one and I can see why it fell into obscurity. Perfect for this show tho.
So to sum up this Christmas special, in the words of Patrick Star: Everyone died. The End. Also, I'm surprised that death of Noel (or the entire movie), ever made it to a top 10 saddest childhood moments list.
TBF, this movie is often considered by Muller's peers and family to be the best of his work but unlike Rudolph and Frosty it never really got the same notoriety as it came out much later than those two specials, both of which are of this date the two longest running Christmas specials to air on TV with Rudolph beating out even Charlie Brown and the Grinch for how long they've been aired in continuation. And once you think about it, Noel got himself killed by acting like an idiot. The hell? Wouldn't it have been a bit more....I don't know, meaningful if one of the kids had gotten Noel cracked because they loved it so much? I mean, it would have at least established how much they loved the oriniment instead of having Noel simply bust because it was flailing around and REPEATING THE SAME FIVE LINES over and over again. I'm starting to see why this is one of the Muller stories that doesn't get replayed. It may have a deeper meaning to the story (if you can say that) but the presentation compared to Rudolph and Frosty is just really shallow. Noel, despite being TOUTED as a character of purity, has no character. You could argue that Frosty was a bit of an air-head (hur, SNOW-head) being he came to life but in the DAY he came to life he had an adventure and was willing to PROTECT Karren by going into the greenhouse where he KNEW he would melt just to keep her warm. And in Santa Clause is coming to town, we get a heartfelt tale of how Chris Kringle became Santa, from his time as a boy to the time he fell in love and so on. I guess this is why I'll always like Muller's earlier work, even the ones that were not Christmas stories, because there was more thought put into them and the characters. I think the biggest issue with Noel is the fact that while an idea is there, that happiness can persist even through hard times, those messages are given through by a character who is so fucking annoying and flat. Noel really DOES nothing and you'd think that through the years, it would try to show some hope to the other ornaments when they're in storage or show some more interaction between the humans but it's NOEL ON TREE, NOEL IN BOX, NOEL IN TREE, NOEL IN BOX! I HAVE A HAPPINESS! Sorry, call me cranky but.....I don't get anything out of this. I mean, I GET what was trying to do but there were no heartstrings tugged and all that. Just me groaning at the same lines and laughing when NOEL KNOCKS HIMSELF OFF THE TREE and THE END. C'mon now.
Also, can I just say that the ornaments calling everything they don't know a "X thing" is really obnoxious? Half of this special was either Noel repeating his mantra and the characters saying whatever they don't know is a "____ thing". I don't really understand the point of adding on the extra "thing" the end of every... Well, thing :P. Then again, I also don't understand why Noel needs to introduce himself in the same way to everything.
Just Another Poppet Yeah, how did the morons who made this not realize how f*cking REPETITIVE it got? Heck, they know how annoying it is, given how they write the other ornaments as irritated, so why did they do it?
I like how the little kids chose the least interesting looking ornament to declare their love for and kiss. Force people to follow his beliefs? Erm...what would those be again?
Is it just me, or does this kinda seem like a recreation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Fir-Tree", but focusing on an ornament instead of a tree and with a tacked-on happy ending. It seems just as depressing, but much less clever. And I can't tell if this is better or worse than how the old cartoon series did it.
Day Man the "emotional" parts were the worst. Any time his voice was raised, it was awful. He's better off being wooden... Which is his default, thankfully.
Much to my shock... I recall watching this as a kid on Polish TV, although I'm pretty sure the name of the movie and title character in that case was "Bombi", cause these type of round Christmas Ornaments are called "Bombki" over there. Kind of weird that a cartoon that I only saw once is stuck in my memory, and from watching your review, I remember the whole thing! No big stuff forgotten!!!! I don't recall it being great or anything, so it's not this shocked me, but it's certainly way worse than I imagined! Thanks for sharing Phelous :D
Mathieu Leader so Noel-Bombi-whatever is a "Smile Bomb?" ... damn it, now i got a Yu Yu Hakusho song stuck in my head, that ain't going away anytime soon...
Stand: noel Stand user: Noel Destructive Power: E Speed: B (in sheer talking power alone. otherwise it's E) Range: D Durability: A-D Developmental potential: E Basically it's hey ya but with weaker parameters. the only problem is that hey ya didn't become grating by reminding you that it was a happiness every 10 damn minutes. So really it's Hey Ya but worse.
I forget what it was called, but there is a Christmas special about a girl and boy doll. The girl gets loved by a kid, but the boy gets taken by villains and spends the movie half-dead from hate.
No offense to the Critic, but I think it's great that Phelous can make such entertaining videos without the use of an elaborate stage/props and special effects. It speaks volumes about his skill as a writer and comedian.
On top of that, Phelous totally can bang out good SFX when he wants to. I kinda miss Phelous' silly B-plots because of that. Maybe if we all go to the north pole and change our wishes to Santa, we can get a new Mortal Komedy! ...oh wait, we can't. Santa's dead again.
Nothing screams Christmas joy louder than the inevitability of death and decay, huh? On a side note: Thanks for all the new videos upload Phelous, they really help to brighten my holiday mood. Hope you're not pushing yourself too hard to make these!
The bit from 17:05 on almost seems perfect for dubbing over Solaris' dialogue from "All Star Superman." "I will eat your Sun and replace it in the sky. Your people will pray to me or die in the cold dark."
This film feels like it was just meant to be a double feature with The Littlelest Light on the Christmas Tree as both are Christmas films about horrifying Christmas Tree ornaments!
and them children all over the world will break their christmas balls expecting a glowing happiness to fly off before their parents ground them until the new year.
+daffers234 The one at the end (the tree that Phelous's editing didn't let speak) had a female voice, if I remember it right. Guess they realized they hadn't filled out their quota for female actors yet.
So we got Phelous to riff on something Mr Enter reviewed a long time ago and next week we're getting what the Nostalgia Critic reviewed some time ago, which coincidentally happens to be the wonderfulness that is the Christmas Tree Can't wait to see Mayor Old Man's Discount Brother That Pays With Sacks Of Money
Funny thing is, we had some old ornaments that were faded and not quite as pretty as new. I made them into an art project where I covered them in cut up magazine pages, paint on some glaze and added some glitter, painted a couple in acrylics. Did I stop a happiness from being released?
This movie got shockingly real. Seriously, the TOY STORY movies weren't this up-front in their portrayal of mortality, and that was pretty much their main point. A good director could have sent a great message with the movie like this, about how nothing lasts forever, but we need to cherish the time we have. Again, see Toy Story. The acknowledgement of mortality isn't something you see often in kid's movies. This has potential, but...God.
I can appreciate a Christmas special about the horrors and the existential dread of being a living Christmas ornament (as weird as it sounds.) But this movie doesn't really seem to have any point to it. Noel is happy at the beginning, then at the end he's REALLY HAPPY as a weird ghost thing. There's no real arc. And it also has this weird half-way in, half-way out Christian theme that the special doesn't actually commit to, which muddles whatever message they were going for.
I think one big problem with it is the constant assertion of "happiness" and how that really doesn't match with the existential attitude, especially since in the end the message seems to be "Everything gets sad and dies, unless you're special!" (Which does start sounding like Christian rhetoric, but, like you said, the Christian theme is too half-assed for the film as a whole to be explicitly about believing in the magic of Jesus or whatever).
This is one of the strangest movies you've ever reviewed, a cartoon where a talking Christmas tree ornament is some kind of religious metaphor. The fact it was written by the same guy who wrote actual classic Christmas movies makes it even stranger.
Was the writer of this thing going through something? The story of this bulb is that a pure and innocent childlike being watched as everything and everyone he loves is taken away and destroyed around him, leaving him alone and heartbroken. *"gee, I wonder why this special didn't catch on!"*
Oh Lordy. I can see the angle they were trying for, a story about how happiness, hope, and old memories can live on despite people changing and moving on with their lives, about the universality of happiness and love, etc, but there were just so many utterly demented decisions made during the writing. What the hell were they smoking while writing this?
14:10: ...Did this film just imply that the kid literally kissed Noel's behind? Please tell me that was an unintentional animation error on the film's part.
This definitely seems like a horrible allegory for the 'Creator' bringing you to life through his love and how you can only be freed from your mortal coils through the swift axe of death and the acknowledgment of Jesus... I love Christmas!
Yeah, I don't know. I know Heston did some narrations/intros to cheap Christian-themed cartoons at the end of his life, but I can't tell if this is one of those.
I can see the Christianity allegory, but that doesn't explain why Noel keeps yammering on and on about having a happiness. If we're to extend it, that means everyone has this happiness within them anyway. Most of the characters don't outwardly show it though.
On the plus side, according to Hans Christian Anderson, whom this movie seems desperate to be like, the tree turned into smoke and was free from being trapped inside weighed down by crap.
I like Phelous more than Channel Awesome. He seems to be more entertaining and he does his best and funniest to be a fun critic. He was great in those 3 silly movies for Channel Awesome.
You're asking whether the most notorious sociopath in mockbuster history would win against a Dickensian protagonist? Wabu would deliver a tragic death to Noel, and then quip that ornaments are shooooo shtuuuuupid.
+redloiyu654jay And then Wabuu would laugh about his ornament murder, because he only feigns caring about his horrible actions if there's someone around capable of punishing him for them.
The Random El Duderino now that I think about it Noel is like if zamasu was insanely happy about everything instead of hating everyone, he even became ephemeral at the end
10:49 Unable to die, though he wished for it, Noel lay for all eternity in the attic. Eventually, Noel stopped thinking. Also, do the non cried-in ornaments not have souls? Soulless, immobile objects incapable of feeling happiness that are somehow still aware. Good God, this film is dark.
Also I love how the glass blower is blowing through what is called a punty which is completely solid and not used for the actual blowing part of glassblowing.
I like the Phelousthing on CZcamsthing that I can watch with my smartphonething and I play a drinking gamething: Take a sipthing when Noelthing says "I have a happiness." Phelousthing's videothings - that's where my happinessthing comes from.
I don't know why I'm watching this in August, especially as I'm not really into Christmas, but I guess it's just hilarious seeing these get ripped into.
Remember kids, even Christmases are but fleeting glimpses of joy amid the ravaging march of time and death as all you are and love is lost and forgotten. Merry Christmas!
I can at least appreciate the fact that this story isn't just pure saccharine and is willing to have a fair amount of sadness and tragedy to it. Not enough of these try to balance out the light and darkness even following an obvious example like Christmas Carol. It's *definitely* not the Brave Little Toaster of animated xmas movies, though.
This review is a guilty pleasure of mine; not because this review is bad, but because this movie is full on a cheeseball. It's a comfort food in knowing you'll never have to be faced with a savory jello aspic.
ACTUALLY Noel would have instantly blown up when the tear fell in him while still in the cooling process… my Dad blows glass.
I thought a tear would have simply fizzled off on the exterior rather than somehow climb *inside* it.
Even tears of HAPPINESS?
"I have a happiness" is such an awkward way to word that.
Noel has the best words, and is going to build a wall
"I have a ha-penis!"
Dunes8 Noël has obviously has been taking lessons from the LOLcats.
Dunes8 I have a hap-PINGAS
"Yeah, I'm working my way back to you, babe, and the HA-PENIS that died!" - "Working My Way Back To You" by The Four Seasons
So Noel never experienced the thing called laziness where the tree is kept up till July?
It's kind of amazing how those ornaments went through an entire family's history without breaking. I mean, seriously, they didn't lose ONE?
It's a Christmas miracle!
We have ornaments on our tree that are 3-4 generations old
Christopher Spaulding Yeah, but you likely have lost a few along the way, right? This set went through without a single loss.
Ben_ToaofFire Yeah we lost a handful to the years. Mostly to dog tails and packaging failures (crushed boxes).
Christopher Spaulding That was pretty much what I was talking about.
"I'm Noel, and I have....no...i AM HAPPINESS!" *queue evil laughter and thunder*
Duskull Kid Everyone who doesn't follow me will suffer eternal sadness. Hahahahahahahaaaaa!!
Now bring me kids to kiss me.
Must be Samhain's secret twin.
I *AM* HAPPINESS!
To quote Caboose from Red vs Blue: "I will eat your UNHAPPINESS!"
The Light Yagami of happyness. God Complex and all lol.
ALL SHALL BE HAPPY AND DESPAIR!
"How terribly Middle Class."
Ok, give this movie credit for a new insult that should be used in more everyday occurrences.
I do love how the other ornaments are as annoyed by Noel as we are.
Noel did calm down a bit in his old age.
What the hell is wrong with you?! 3:24
@@bundleization um what?
I love how Miss Freezenda and the other ornaments are just channeling the audience's collective sentiment towards Noel.
Freezenda is so sassy and snobbish. I like her.
So remember worry don't be happy
Crazy
This would have been better if it was about Noel becoming friends with the other ornaments and getting them into the Christmas spirit. It would have made more sense than the story we got.
That's what I was thinking. As is, his happiness is just severe contrast to everyone else being sad or relatively neutral, and then he gets magically re-incarnated and is SUPER happy. It would've been better if he was just optimistic and made the other ornaments not worry about being put away or not being annoyed by their job of hanging on trees or something.
@@mastermarkus5307 We know that works, that's basically Toy Story 3, kinda.
That's where I *thought* they were going with it.
But nope. They all died as miserably as they were born.
Kiddie Christmas storytelling 101.
TheNumberQuelve And Noel didn't care. Noel is selfish
Yeah, who the hell wrote this nonsense?
This has a pretty dark message when you step back from the weirdness of it. All the unhappy ornaments end up dead, or the ornament-equivalent, while Noel gets to live on because he "has happiness". Except Noel didn't gain happiness on his own, it was gifted to him... so all those ornaments were hopeless and doomed from the start. That's a terrible Christmas surprise!
It would have been slightly more interesting if the bitchy ornament learned how to be happy and was able to live too, or at least a better message. But hey, I don't write movies for children, so what do I know?
Aren't we all doom from the start to die anyway? that's like the point of the special, ornaments break, kids move out, tree dies but happiness of the holiday season endure
Dead on!
Clover Schilling Oh wow you're right
Oddly a fitting allegory for religion.
Honestly? A Mormon probably made this. They believe a set number of people have souls and they're the only ones who get God's gifts when they die and the apocalypse happens if they believe in the faith. Compare with Noel being given the gift of happiness at his creation, being loud and proud of his happiness, and being curious about Jesus. Everyone else who was cynical and rude to Noel gets trashed. They're a metaphor for sinners, those who reject "happiness" aka faith, just obstacles for Noel to overcome and retain his faith and then they're sent to hell. I don't think any character arcs were coming from the other ornaments.
That's my guess though.
Moral of the story: everyone you know and love will die eventually and nothing lasts forever.
Damn that's really depressing for a Christmas movie!
They could've gotten that across in a less horrifying manner though....
Also, merry f-ing christmas..
Except some weird happiness energy that lives in a Christmas ornament then bursts out and starts a religion.
That's all I got from this movie...
+TheGuardianKnux No wonder that movie never got a re-release ...
Not to mention he'd have a terrifying life considering how fragile those ornaments are.
Its not like humans have it much better
MilesDaFoo616 We're actually pretty durable, especially considering our ability to heal injuries.
Often feels like the smallest little things can kill us or ruin our bodies for the rest of our lifes so thats why they make the characters in fiction be able to survive things you cant survive in the real world because you cant have any cool action if its realistic.
True, but look at some of the crazy shit people actually HAVE survived. There are people who've been shot in the head and lived, and one guy even got sorta-decapitated and still survived.
CyberLance26 there was this guy who woke up one morning with strong headache. he went to the doctor and found out he was shot in the head
This was by far one of the best yet. This one outdid DINGO in horrific things being described in an inappropriately "cute" fashion.
The bulb watches his mentor get dragged off and hears his grizzly execution, before he himself and the rest of his comrades are locked away for months in darkness. By the time they're unpackaged again his mind is already broken, and he's given into the grimmest form of Stockholm Syndrome. And then he meets a new tree, and the whole cycle happens all over again, with Bernard, Anthony, Gregory, etc. And after watching god knows how many trees get dragged off to their medieval deaths, while declaring tearful farewells or screaming at the ornaments to save them or too despaired to speak, the ornaments are all locked away again and left for dead for decades. Then they're found again, and immediately all executed on the spot for being old and ugly, except the bulb, who is saved on a whim by the wife thinking he was vaguely okay looking. And then, when Noel has finally regained happiness, his expressions of joy cause his own demise, as he accidentally spins himself to a shattering death. But it's okay because he became a happy spirit at the end.
Was this story a collaborative effort from Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen while they were both blazed off their asses?
Lizzy Chrome This is some Brothers Grimm level of horrifying stories.
Hans Christian Andersen would make sure people know that the other ornaments specifically have no souls.
This indeed feels like something Dickens would write
i think the woodchipper noise was added by phelous
@@reptile1687 yeah it was they wouldn't have a wood chipper in their home would they? Most people I e seen just put their old Christmas trees out for the bin men to collect. Not sure if they did that back then but I'm pretty sure they did
You know what's sad? This isn't the scariest-looking Christmas movie about a talking bulb. Ever seen "The littlest light on the Christmas tree?" It's a pretty generic Christmas story but the animation is like video Brinquedo got salmonella and spewed liquid horror out of every orifice while screaming Christmas carols like a demon from hell.
I've seen that! Only once though. The part at the end where the LIGHT BULB STARTED SINGING really freaked me out for some reason.
Don’t worry guys, he did and it was horrifying
@@Predator20357
"Horrifying?" Were I a weaker man, that thing would've given me nightmares.
So um which is worse: Noel or the littlest light on the Christmas tree?
@@gracekim25Littlest Light,, for sure. Noel was just annoying, that... THING was actually creepy.
It seems christmas ornament old man is the opposite of beauty and the beast old man, as getting wet from his tears causes thing to come alive opposed to becoming completely useless
EEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIHHHH!
Would you consider Noel anything but useless?
my tears got covered in baubles! they are useless now!
OR.....this old man somehow found out what happened to all the bulbs he created, and couldn't handle the guilt and existential horror...so he despaired, and grew to hate anything getting wet. He throws wet things away because he can't bear to watch one of his tear-creations go through decades of horror again.
Noel was the last special Romeo Muller did, and he died 26 days after this special aired.
Wow that's tragic.
He put a tear in a Christmas ornament? That ornament's completely useless now...
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Nice Old Man's reference X) This character is so funny when Phelous make him talk.
He always was.
All ornaments are alive? Well crap, it's probably not good that I have Cthulhu, Snape and Darth Vader on my tree.
Well, time to go down a bottle of happiness.
i have a Goldberg dressed as Santa. i don't know how to feel.
Damn, I've got Megatron, Soundwave, Doc Ock, Venom, Green Goblin, and all sorts of other villains up there.
eh, I've got Ben 10 up there, he'd probably just Alien X the life out of all of 'em.
Isn't Snape actually a good guy in the end?
@@autobotstarscream765 No, he's an incel who literally joined the Wizard Nazis because the girl he liked turned him down.
@@TheBonkleFox where do you get those they sound cool?
Jesus that was kinda dark Noel is creepy
OmegaValwin and the suprising part is that Noel was almost always cheerful. no matter how many friends he made over the centuries die, he never let any of it keep him down for long. that bulb was unbreakable!! ... metaphorically, i mean... and literally too i guess, since he's now the Metaphysical embodiment of happiness and has no physical body *to* break, but you get the point!
He needs to watch "The Littlest Christmas Light"
@@coffeemugentertainment3811 That's a thing?
It's just a death montage and then terror. That's the whole movie. Horrifying.
We need more casual deaths in cartoons. Jekyll & Hyde and Noel knows what's up.
Needs a comic relief cat though
Tareltonlives And Old Man
Just ask Captain Tackleton.
I got yer casual deaths RIGHT HERE! *BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!*
Watch Regular Show
I'm almost tempted to make a YTP out of Noel. "I have a happiness" sounds way too similar to.... something else.
You and me both are tempting to do the same thing, brother.
"They are called PENIS things."
....IS ALWAYS SO MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE!
AT Productions xD
Suggestions:
I have a Crab Pingas.
I have a Half Penis.
I have a Bad Venus.
I have a Glad Genius.
I have a Rad Cletus.
And probably most obvious of all...
I have a Crappyness.
Will Robotnik be in it?
*All your friends are dead*
I'M NOEL AND I HAVE A HAPPINESS
MERRY CHRISTMAS
NO I AM HAPPINESS
"Then came a thing called...too much happiness." *splat*
That gave me such a good laugh! 😆
oh no! that ornament is wet from a tear! it's completely ruined!
HHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
It's completely useless now!
the old man is wet from crying too, but i'm pretty sure he's super dead so he really is completely useless now
+dragonlover7196 Only on the inside. Only on the inside.
You mean 'useless now'.
Noel: "I am Noel, and I have a―"
Old Man: "Ooh, a delicious Christmas ball!" *Swallows Noel*
Noel: "Oh well, I still have a happiness!"
Wabuu: most of the Christmas tree ornaments are soooooooooooooooo stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid
* Wabuu's watching Noel *
Wabuu: actually, most of them are likeable, because they hate Noel. He's more annoying than Wuschel.
The entire Noel movie but every I have a happiness is replaced with we are number one
This comment has aged extremely well
Stephen Brown lol
+Stephen Brown
Would CZcams even allow someone to make a video that long?
Nah, edit it to say he has a penis.
Stephen Brown no.
The irony of it all? The movie’s story is actually sad AF for a Christmas movie.
Funny story about this movie too. I saw it just ONCE when I was 5 years old, and starting 5 years ago I’ve been trying militantly to come across it again. Found it thanks to you lol.
12:15 I disagree; she's the perfect age to become a Magical Girl.
Did someone say *c o n t r a c t* ???
"I don't have a full soul yet... WHY DON'T YOU GIVE ME YOURS." Classic!
Again with the casual deaths, haha, it just boggles my mind how they're so recurring across these animated films.
Never ever heard of this one and I can see why it fell into obscurity. Perfect for this show tho.
Kids gotta learn at some point.
@@dubuyajay9964 yeah but it’s a bit weird in this kinda movie when the main character is incredibly annoying
....It's a story about a manchild aging to death and becoming a ghost. Spending his life watching all of his loved ones slowly dying before him.
that actually makes the story sound like a good premise
Sounds like my life
I’m pretty sure he’s meant to be a child judging by his voice
Angel ornament: "Finally, a vacation!"
Me: "You work ONE MONTH A YEAR, lady!"
I recognize Brutus' voice. That's the Kingpin for Spider-Man TAS.
the best kingpin
Yep, that's Roscoe Lee Browne.
Jeff Jacobson
a class act
Ha! I knew he sounded familiar!
THANK YOU! It was bothering me that I couldn't pinpoint that voice.
So to sum up this Christmas special, in the words of Patrick Star: Everyone died. The End.
Also, I'm surprised that death of Noel (or the entire movie), ever made it to a top 10 saddest childhood moments list.
"AND EVERYONE *DIED* except for the train, THE END."
TBF, this movie is often considered by Muller's peers and family to be the best of his work but unlike Rudolph and Frosty it never really got the same notoriety as it came out much later than those two specials, both of which are of this date the two longest running Christmas specials to air on TV with Rudolph beating out even Charlie Brown and the Grinch for how long they've been aired in continuation.
And once you think about it, Noel got himself killed by acting like an idiot. The hell? Wouldn't it have been a bit more....I don't know, meaningful if one of the kids had gotten Noel cracked because they loved it so much? I mean, it would have at least established how much they loved the oriniment instead of having Noel simply bust because it was flailing around and REPEATING THE SAME FIVE LINES over and over again.
I'm starting to see why this is one of the Muller stories that doesn't get replayed. It may have a deeper meaning to the story (if you can say that) but the presentation compared to Rudolph and Frosty is just really shallow. Noel, despite being TOUTED as a character of purity, has no character. You could argue that Frosty was a bit of an air-head (hur, SNOW-head) being he came to life but in the DAY he came to life he had an adventure and was willing to PROTECT Karren by going into the greenhouse where he KNEW he would melt just to keep her warm. And in Santa Clause is coming to town, we get a heartfelt tale of how Chris Kringle became Santa, from his time as a boy to the time he fell in love and so on.
I guess this is why I'll always like Muller's earlier work, even the ones that were not Christmas stories, because there was more thought put into them and the characters. I think the biggest issue with Noel is the fact that while an idea is there, that happiness can persist even through hard times, those messages are given through by a character who is so fucking annoying and flat. Noel really DOES nothing and you'd think that through the years, it would try to show some hope to the other ornaments when they're in storage or show some more interaction between the humans but it's NOEL ON TREE, NOEL IN BOX, NOEL IN TREE, NOEL IN BOX! I HAVE A HAPPINESS!
Sorry, call me cranky but.....I don't get anything out of this. I mean, I GET what was trying to do but there were no heartstrings tugged and all that. Just me groaning at the same lines and laughing when NOEL KNOCKS HIMSELF OFF THE TREE and THE END. C'mon now.
Wow. This special was sad. The trees die year after year and the other ornaments get thrown in the trash. Merry Christmas, kids!
Also, can I just say that the ornaments calling everything they don't know a "X thing" is really obnoxious? Half of this special was either Noel repeating his mantra and the characters saying whatever they don't know is a "____ thing". I don't really understand the point of adding on the extra "thing" the end of every... Well, thing :P. Then again, I also don't understand why Noel needs to introduce himself in the same way to everything.
Just Another Poppet Yeah, how did the morons who made this not realize how f*cking REPETITIVE it got? Heck, they know how annoying it is, given how they write the other ornaments as irritated, so why did they do it?
Was about to comment on that. It's flipping annoying.
You deserve a 👍-thing from me
Yeeeeeah! He's reviewing The Christmas Tree. Maybe Old Man and Old Mayor will fight to the death!
***** 0.0
***** That would explain a lot
I like how the little kids chose the least interesting looking ornament to declare their love for and kiss.
Force people to follow his beliefs? Erm...what would those be again?
Is it just me, or does this kinda seem like a recreation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Fir-Tree", but focusing on an ornament instead of a tree and with a tacked-on happy ending. It seems just as depressing, but much less clever. And I can't tell if this is better or worse than how the old cartoon series did it.
I did find the ending of Noel to be a bit disturbing.... not going to lie on that one
Noel's ghost haunts the world to this day...
The wood chipper sound is priceless man lmao
Anyone who has a happiness won't have one after watching this special
12:09 So Elsa gets Ice powers, and Anna gets...
*sigh*
...Heart.
😆
You laugh at the power of Heart, but Mati will be the one smiling you're being torn apart by tigers
@redloiyu654jay
*Leave that show be.*
That little girl was actually a huge narcissist, she was kissing her own reflection, not Noel.
Mr. Enter introduced me to this as an "Admirable Animation"... AH WELL WHO CARES, LET'S SEE PHELOUS RIFFING THE SHIT OUT OF IT!
Gotta love that xD
DeepEye1994 I don't want to make fun of a man who puts passion into his work... but I'm also a terrible person.
+DeepEye1994 Same.
man mr. enter I remember when I used to watch him. I cringe everytime.
Day Man the "emotional" parts were the worst. Any time his voice was raised, it was awful. He's better off being wooden... Which is his default, thankfully.
Much to my shock... I recall watching this as a kid on Polish TV, although I'm pretty sure the name of the movie and title character in that case was "Bombi", cause these type of round Christmas Ornaments are called "Bombki" over there.
Kind of weird that a cartoon that I only saw once is stuck in my memory, and from watching your review, I remember the whole thing! No big stuff forgotten!!!! I don't recall it being great or anything, so it's not this shocked me, but it's certainly way worse than I imagined!
Thanks for sharing Phelous :D
Now I'm reminded of Animaniacs.
"Bombi's mom is... WAAAAAAAAH!"
bombi explodes
I'm rather surprised that such an obscure film would've been dubbed by... really, anyone from anywhere.
Mathieu Leader so Noel-Bombi-whatever is a "Smile Bomb?"
... damn it, now i got a Yu Yu Hakusho song stuck in my head, that ain't going away anytime soon...
Robbie Norris
hahaha
12:40 Noel, unable to die, eventually stopped thinking.
Stand: noel
Stand user: Noel
Destructive Power: E
Speed: B (in sheer talking power alone. otherwise it's E)
Range: D
Durability: A-D
Developmental potential: E
Basically it's hey ya but with weaker parameters. the only problem is that hey ya didn't become grating by reminding you that it was a happiness every 10 damn minutes. So really it's Hey Ya but worse.
Holy shit, this wasn't a fever dream from my childhood?!
Can we turn this into a drinking game and take a sip every time Noel says “I’m Noel, and I have a happiness”?
Years before Sausage Party this was here to teach everyone how horrifying the world would be if inanimate objects were sentient beings
I forget what it was called, but there is a Christmas special about a girl and boy doll. The girl gets loved by a kid, but the boy gets taken by villains and spends the movie half-dead from hate.
7 years late but it's called The Adventures of Candy Claus.
What a depressing film...
It's basically a story about how your soul is immortal, and if you don't accept Jesus, you will die.
Squidwards Toenail but Noel has a hap-PENIS so at least Noel isn’t a woman
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I think that Phelous's review of the Christmas Tree will be better than Doug's. Phelous is always better than Doug though.
"Phelous is always better than Doug". Not the his work, but as a human in general.
No offense to the Critic, but I think it's great that Phelous can make such entertaining videos without the use of an elaborate stage/props and special effects. It speaks volumes about his skill as a writer and comedian.
And without a pointlessly tacked on cast and forced social justice jokes to carry his sorry butt.
On top of that, Phelous totally can bang out good SFX when he wants to. I kinda miss Phelous' silly B-plots because of that. Maybe if we all go to the north pole and change our wishes to Santa, we can get a new Mortal Komedy! ...oh wait, we can't. Santa's dead again.
+satireknight found the SJW
So was Noel the only ornament with a soul? Does that mean that the ornaments that were thrown away forsaken to oblivion?!
Nothing screams Christmas joy louder than the inevitability of death and decay, huh?
On a side note: Thanks for all the new videos upload Phelous, they really help to brighten my holiday mood. Hope you're not pushing yourself too hard to make these!
The bit from 17:05 on almost seems perfect for dubbing over Solaris' dialogue from "All Star Superman."
"I will eat your Sun and replace it in the sky. Your people will pray to me or die in the cold dark."
6:46 *I don’t have a full soul yet* *demonic voice*
*WHY DONT YOU GIVE ME YOURS😈*
🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
This film feels like it was just meant to be a double feature with The Littlelest Light on the Christmas Tree as both are Christmas films about horrifying Christmas Tree ornaments!
and them children all over the world will break their christmas balls expecting a glowing happiness to fly off before their parents ground them until the new year.
OMG I remember seeing this animated holiday special years ago!
Jesus Christ, I think I'm never getting a Christmas tree again unless it's fake. Those poor Christmas trees holy shit!
I was wondering why they were all male.
Good question....
Funny thing is pine trees are technically both male and female (each tree has female and male cones for reproduction).
+daffers234
The one at the end (the tree that Phelous's editing didn't let speak) had a female voice, if I remember it right. Guess they realized they hadn't filled out their quota for female actors yet.
So we got Phelous to riff on something Mr Enter reviewed a long time ago
and next week we're getting what the Nostalgia Critic reviewed some time ago, which coincidentally happens to be the wonderfulness that is the Christmas Tree
Can't wait to see Mayor Old Man's Discount Brother That Pays With Sacks Of Money
Next time on Death Battle!
It would be over in five seconds: Old Man would just eat MOMDB.
Wait, when did Mr. Enter review this movie?
"Suck it, cuz!!!!"
"ThAT COUsin of miNE is REALly one HECK of a guUUUyY! heh-heh-heh-heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-"
Phelous did not disappoint on that one.
Funny thing is, we had some old ornaments that were faded and not quite as pretty as new. I made them into an art project where I covered them in cut up magazine pages, paint on some glaze and added some glitter, painted a couple in acrylics. Did I stop a happiness from being released?
Yes, you did. And I think I'm speaking for all of us, when I say: thank you very much. You saved us from an abomination
This movie got shockingly real. Seriously, the TOY STORY movies weren't this up-front in their portrayal of mortality, and that was pretty much their main point. A good director could have sent a great message with the movie like this, about how nothing lasts forever, but we need to cherish the time we have. Again, see Toy Story. The acknowledgement of mortality isn't something you see often in kid's movies. This has potential, but...God.
I can appreciate a Christmas special about the horrors and the existential dread of being a living Christmas ornament (as weird as it sounds.) But this movie doesn't really seem to have any point to it. Noel is happy at the beginning, then at the end he's REALLY HAPPY as a weird ghost thing. There's no real arc.
And it also has this weird half-way in, half-way out Christian theme that the special doesn't actually commit to, which muddles whatever message they were going for.
I think one big problem with it is the constant assertion of "happiness" and how that really doesn't match with the existential attitude, especially since in the end the message seems to be "Everything gets sad and dies, unless you're special!" (Which does start sounding like Christian rhetoric, but, like you said, the Christian theme is too half-assed for the film as a whole to be explicitly about believing in the magic of Jesus or whatever).
@@mastermarkus5307 it was more of just there and that's it, so what was the point?
If you made a drinking game out of every time Noel alone says "Happiness" you'd probably die of alcohol poisoning.
It feels like maaaaagicthing
This is both the most cynical yet the most asinine Christmas movie that I've ever seen
I agree. Even Krampus wasn't this dark and that movie was rated PG 13.
This is one of the strangest movies you've ever reviewed, a cartoon where a talking Christmas tree ornament is some kind of religious metaphor. The fact it was written by the same guy who wrote actual classic Christmas movies makes it even stranger.
Was the writer of this thing going through something? The story of this bulb is that a pure and innocent childlike being watched as everything and everyone he loves is taken away and destroyed around him, leaving him alone and heartbroken. *"gee, I wonder why this special didn't catch on!"*
I am just happy there weren't any Dingo Christmas movies... to my knowledge.
Bad news foooooooor yooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuu:
Lustige Weihnachten: Max' wundersames Geschenk, one of their early, storyboard movies
I think this is the first movie you’ve covered that I legit felt emotions for. All those dead things who never get any kind of justice or reason.
Phelous I really like your Christmas hat
You know for a movie about a sentient talking christmas bulb it can rather disturbing.
Oh Lordy. I can see the angle they were trying for, a story about how happiness, hope, and old memories can live on despite people changing and moving on with their lives, about the universality of happiness and love, etc, but there were just so many utterly demented decisions made during the writing. What the hell were they smoking while writing this?
After a few dozens bottles of bacardi, the ideas felt like maaaaagic(thing)
MY NAME-THING'S NOEL-THING, AND I HAVE A HAPPINESS-THING!
14:10: ...Did this film just imply that the kid literally kissed Noel's behind?
Please tell me that was an unintentional animation error on the film's part.
This made me sad at some points. Wow. Dark for a movie about a Christmas ornament.
This definitely seems like a horrible allegory for the 'Creator' bringing you to life through his love and how you can only be freed from your mortal coils through the swift axe of death and the acknowledgment of Jesus... I love Christmas!
I was wondering if that was the point, or if I'm thinking about it too much and it's not actually trying to be that preachy and just shoved in Jesus.
Yeah, I don't know. I know Heston did some narrations/intros to cheap Christian-themed cartoons at the end of his life, but I can't tell if this is one of those.
If that is the case, then I guess the other Christmas decorations went to hell because they had no happiness/soul.
I can see the Christianity allegory, but that doesn't explain why Noel keeps yammering on and on about having a happiness. If we're to extend it, that means everyone has this happiness within them anyway. Most of the characters don't outwardly show it though.
@@SamtheBravesFan The Joy in his heart maybe? I dunno.
I really didn't expect this movie to have the main character die.
I honestly kinda liked Miss Freezenda...
@jbiehlable She is like Angelique from "Beauty and The Beast the enchanted christmas"
@@ClaudetteVioletta This movie was actually better than that piece of crap tho
@@sussybaka119 can't deny it tho
@jbiehlable I wouldn't mind seeing fan art of her
My name is Jonathan, and I have a suicidal mentality.
redloiyu654jay in time
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this!
I'm sorry to hear that. That sucks.
Hope you're doing okay, buddy.
I hope you're alright.
On the plus side, according to Hans Christian Anderson, whom this movie seems desperate to be like, the tree turned into smoke and was free from being trapped inside weighed down by crap.
I like Phelous more than Channel Awesome. He seems to be more entertaining and he does his best and funniest to be a fun critic. He was great in those 3 silly movies for Channel Awesome.
On the bright side, the animation isn't that bad, and the character designs are good. Y'know, by straight-to-VHS standards.
Good?
So... In a battle between Wabuu and Noel, who would win?
You're asking whether the most notorious sociopath in mockbuster history would win against a Dickensian protagonist? Wabu would deliver a tragic death to Noel, and then quip that ornaments are shooooo shtuuuuupid.
+redloiyu654jay And then Wabuu would laugh about his ornament murder, because he only feigns caring about his horrible actions if there's someone around capable of punishing him for them.
Depends on if Noel is in his Ascended Form yet or not.
BULB MURDERER! BULB MURDERER!
Wabuu would win because Noel is sooo Stuuuupeeeed!
I grew up reading the Little Golden Book version of this. I remember that I always cried when it got to the part where Noel fell and broke.
My sister and I watched it on tv. We also cried when he broke. 😢
That Super Saiyan God joke was pretty clever.
I'm just sayin'.
geddit?
Nappa: I GET IT!
Tareltonlives
Shut it, Nappa.
The Random El Duderino now that I think about it Noel is like if zamasu was insanely happy about everything instead of hating everyone, he even became ephemeral at the end
You are an average comedian, but you May be a brilliant scientist.
Can't wait for the sequel when Noel learns about the thing called ultra instinct
10:49 Unable to die, though he wished for it, Noel lay for all eternity in the attic. Eventually, Noel stopped thinking.
Also, do the non cried-in ornaments not have souls? Soulless, immobile objects incapable of feeling happiness that are somehow still aware. Good God, this film is dark.
Aaaand then the family called the Ghostbusters to catch the crazy red ghostface that was flying around screaming "I HAVE A HAPPINESS!" :D
"It became a terrible day called...January 2nd."
That's my birthday and I can confirm it is pretty terrible...
Also I love how the glass blower is blowing through what is called a punty which is completely solid and not used for the actual blowing part of glassblowing.
Also according to all laws of glass blowing noel should have exploded the minute that tear hit him.
I was hoping someone knowledgeable would comment!
I like the Phelousthing on CZcamsthing that I can watch with my smartphonething and I play a drinking gamething: Take a sipthing when Noelthing says "I have a happiness." Phelousthing's videothings - that's where my happinessthing comes from.
I don't know why I'm watching this in August, especially as I'm not really into Christmas, but I guess it's just hilarious seeing these get ripped into.
Confession: as a kid, this was one of my favorite Christmas specials... (this review was hilarious, though).
Remember kids, even Christmases are but fleeting glimpses of joy amid the ravaging march of time and death as all you are and love is lost and forgotten. Merry Christmas!
I can at least appreciate the fact that this story isn't just pure saccharine and is willing to have a fair amount of sadness and tragedy to it. Not enough of these try to balance out the light and darkness even following an obvious example like Christmas Carol.
It's *definitely* not the Brave Little Toaster of animated xmas movies, though.
Hey, If tears can raise the dead, I'm convinced they can give a Christmas bulb sentience, and ascension to godhood.
This review is a guilty pleasure of mine; not because this review is bad, but because this movie is full on a cheeseball. It's a comfort food in knowing you'll never have to be faced with a savory jello aspic.
The Brave Little Toaster: Christmas Edition
Selkra Souza Where's the ornaments going into a car compactor?