Words fail me so I'll leave it to others. Just a selection...........
'This has got to be one of the worst movies I've seen, and I've seen a lot of bad ones.'
'Quite possibly the oddest childrens film ever comes Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny. Not since Blood Freak has the silver screen met with such ineptitude. A film so mind bogglingly awful it must be seen to be believed.'
'SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY is one of the most primitive and virtually incoherent films ever made for kids. Shot silent and overdubbed, the film comes across at times like little more than an elaborate home movie.'
'There are some hilarious close-ups of the Ice Cream Bunny doing a constipated jig to a kazoo rendition of "Jingle Bells". As an Ice Cream Bunny, though, he stinks; there is not one single scoop of ice cream in the entire film!'
'This piece of Kidsploitation is infernal myth-bashing at its worst, a joyless, retarded torture test that must be seen to be believed. As such, we love the little devil, for all the wrong reasons, and SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY boasts a big cult following, possibly larger than that for SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS. This is no mean feat.'
'Of course, none of this is a surprise if you know that the "film" was conceived and shot with no budget over a weekend at the Pirate's World amusement park in Florida, and was produced by nudie cutie master Barry Mahon. And perhaps it was written by the children. Who can say for sure. But one thing is clear: the film's sole purpose was to make a quick buck in the lucrative kiddie matinee market. If only the parents knew exactly what they were forcing their kids to suffer through when they dumped them at the theater, perhaps a few broken spirits could have been avoided.'
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The internet is awash with reviews of this long forgotten abomination........you'll struggle to find anything complimentary said about it!
Poor Santa Claus. This live-action feature finds his sleigh stuck in the sand on a Florida beach only days before Christmas Eve. He psychically summons prepubescent aid from a nearby subdivision. In order to extricate Santa's sleigh, the local children bring many different animals (presumably the sheep was someone's house pet), but nothing works, and the kids are afraid they won't get any gifts this year. To boost their spirits, Santa tells them the story of Thumbelina, and the setting dissolves into a "fantasy within a fantasy". Thumbelina is a beautiful but very tiny girl, "not much larger than a clothes pin". She becomes lost in the forest during the winter and finds refuge in the underground home of Mrs. Mole. A neighbor mole, Mr. Digger, falls in love and wants to marry Thumbelina, but she's having none of it. When warm weather returns, she runs back into the forest and deserts the two kindly creatures who saved her life, crushing their spirits forever ... the end. As Santa is finishing his story and yes, that is its intended conclusion he and the children hear the wail of a siren. The "Ice Cream Bunny" has arrived in his antique fire engine to save the day!
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Saving grace is it's a reasonable quality VHS transfer. Not my rip......usual thanks to the originator
Enjoy!