Rudolph's Shiny New Year.

 

                                        Rudolph's Shiny New Year.

I loved this movie cause they went threw the years past and then to the 

present and the story is amazing and the animation is spot on with the 

Rankin/Bass movies. They follow the baby new year that is afraid of 

people making fun of his huge ears and yes people laugh but they laugh 

cause it brings them joy not to make fun. This is another classic movie 

every one should see. So, with that, lets get to the story shall we:

Just after delivering Christmas presents from around the world the 

events depicted in the last scenes of Rudolph the Red-Nosed 

Reindeer, Santa Claus receives a letter from his friend Father 

Time asking for help to find Happy the Baby New Year before midnight 

"the 12th bong" on New Year's Eve or else it will be December 31 

forever. Santa sends Rudolph out to find him due to the snowstorm 

currently happening outside.

An evil giant vulture named Eon the Terrible is supposed to live for 

exactly one Eon after which he will turn into ice and snow and 

disintegrate. As this particular Eon will end January 1 of the New Year, 

he plans to kidnap Happy to keep the year from ending and stop time, 

thus preventing his predestined death.

General Ticker a military clock and the great Quarter-Past-Five, or Quart 

for short a camel with a clock in his hump, bring Rudolph to Father 

Time's castle beyond the Sands of Time. Father Time speculates that 

Happy, who ran away due to his big ears being laughed at when they 

were first seen by Nanny Nine O'Clock, is hiding out in the 

"Archipelago of Last Years" where the Old Years retire and rule over an 

island styled to resemble the year over which they ruled. When Rudolph 

is attacked by Eon on the ocean while en route to the Archipelagos, he is 

saved by Big Ben a sperm whale with a clock attached to his tail who 

transports Rudolph across the ocean.

Upon arrival in the Archipelagos, Rudolph first travels to the island 

belonging to a caveman named O.M. short for One Million B.C.. O.M. 

inhabits an island anachronistically inhabited with friendly dinosaurs and 

other prehistoric creatures. As Rudolph and his friends search for Happy 

who left after his hat accidentally fell off saving a 

baby Pterodactylus and revealing his big ears, causing the dinosaurs to 

laugh, they repeatedly encounter Eon.

After other off-screen visits to the islands of 4000 B.C., 1492, 1893, 

and 1965 have been completed without success, Rudolph and O.M. head 

for the island of 1023 pronounced "10-2-3", belonging to a 

Scottish knight with a long beard named Sir 1023 whose island is filled 

with medieval trappings along with several fairy tale and Mother 

Goose characters. Meanwhile, Happy manages to befriend the Three 

Bears, but becomes saddened when he removes his hat and exposing his 

big ears to them, causing him to leave again despite Baby Bear begging 

him not to go.

The group then travels to the island of 1776, which reflects Colonial 

America and is ruled over by "Sev" AKA 1776 who resembles Benjamin 

Franklin. Following Happy's seeming rejection on the Island of 1776 

following the daily parade, Eon kidnaps him and takes him to his lair on 

the Island of No-Name which is said to be located "due north of 

the North Pole".

The group now leaves the Archipelego in pursuit. Catching up to Eon, 

they attempt to rescue Happy. However, Eon upon being awakened by 

the sound of O.M. tumbling thwarts them by sending an avalanche down 

on the group and trapping them inside giant snowballs. Managing to melt 

his way free using his nose, Rudolph climbs up to Eon's nest where he 

finds Happy, who refuses to leave. Rudolph shows Happy his nose and 

tells him his own story of being bullied because of his nonconformity 

before asking Happy to let him see his ears. Happy does so, and Rudolph, 

like everyone else before him, laughs at the sight. Happy once again gets 

upset, but Rudolph explains that the sight of Happy's ears had made him 

feel so wonderful that he had to laugh out loud, just like it had done with 

everyone else. With this declaration, Happy shouts out with joy, but 

causes Eon to awaken. Rudolph quickly tells Happy to take off his hat 

and leave it off for good. At the sight of Happy's large ears, Eon bursts 

into uncontrollable laughter which sends him tumbling down the side of 

the mountain and into the three remaining snowballs, freeing O.M., 

1023, and Sev. Rudolph realizes that Eon is now so full of warmth and 

happiness that it would be impossible for him to turn to ice and snow.

With Santa's help, they return to Father Time's castle with Happy just in 

time for the beginning of the new year before the 12th bong, which is 

designated "19-Wonderful". After the celebration, everyone wishes 

Happy a happy new year. Rudolph proclaims to the viewers that "it may 

be shiny, too."