Noel

Love birds is Noel, the angel.... wait, this is a review blog, not a music blog. Anyway, Noel.

Noel is an ornament built by a glass maker with a secret ingredient to everyone and even himself; a tear of happiness unintentionally by the glass maker. He was packaged with other ornaments including an Ice maiden, as they were bought along with a tree, lights, and tinsel by a family. Well that was a simple story at 10 and half minutes. Wait, there’s more?

As time moved on while all the Christmas decoration are forgotten in the attic, it reached to December to used once more on a new tree. Rinse and repeat throughout the years until Noel noticed the children are as big as the adults were.

More years went on, all the kids grown lives on their own, as the parents gave up on Christmas. The ornaments were left abandoned as part of the house. Things can do up for the film, but not for me.

This was written by Romeo Muller, the writer for most of the Rankin Bass. Though I swear the train is Chugs from The Easter Bunny Coming To Town. Both this film and the next film to review first aired on NBC. Seriously, NBC, why do you keep discarding mostly silver shorts and shows? Your current shows are worthless. Only It’s A Wonderful Life and How the Grinch Stole Christmas is the only films you have of worth. OK, Noel wouldn’t be one to reaired than the other film, but still. The animation was done by Pacific Animation Corporation, Rankin Bass’ go to for Thundercats and Silverhawk. The designs are overall neat. This was part of the Muller-Stratford Production trilogy, though it started with Peppermint Rose.

The first half gives a good feeling of Christmas. The rest of the film is very depressing and “realistic”, which I don’t need at need at this time or any time. I thought I was going to hate Noel the ornament, but in comparing to the entire nuisance I dealt with daily, he’s not that bad, much. I like more of the Ice Maiden ornament more, but it was more on the voice and design, which is all she can be. Charleston “I want that bear!” Heston is a nice narrator. I don’t want to bet he was warming to narrate to the big screen about a demigod.  While Noel is a decent and unique film, I can’t recommend this to anyone who has depression. Now if you’re wondering “Shouldn’t a film that gives emotion reaction always be worth it to be good?” Normally, yes, but on Christmas, the tear jerking moments usually happen at the 3^rd act such as The Snowman, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, or Christmas Carols. Now there’s rare exception when an opening warms up the emotion, but that’s very rare. How strange, a film that can do right at the right time of day, but feels wrong at the wrong time. This is one of the Christmas films I don’t intend to revisit much. Best watch Noel when you’re as happy as Noel, or you’re better off watching the next film to review.