You know when your brain processes forgotten memories of past Christmas movies you haven't seen in a long time and you’re absolutely shocked to find out that you've seen this movie at a very young age? Well, everyone this was one of these times where mind blown almost the same way the atomic bomb blew up in Oppenheimer. Babes in Toyland staring young Drew Barrymore and very young John Wick aka Keanu Reeves, long before he killed people with a pencil. No, matter how strange and cheaply made this movie was and don't worry well get into this movie in a little bit, there's nothing compared to the fact that Santa Clause or the Toymaster is played my Mr. Miyagi aka Pat Morita, I guess it shows that we all have a version of what Santa Clause looks like.
Like, the Wizard of Oz, an 11-year-old girl (Drew Barrymore) is transported to Toyland, a mystical kingdom threatened by an old and creepy Harvey Weinstein.
I remember seeing this movie in like, maybe the second or third grade of Elementary School. And really at the time I didn't think much of this movie, it was like every typical Christmas movie that our teachers would have us watch before Christmas break commenced. Now having watched the movie I was shocked but also confused as well as feeling appalled because they're a creepy middle aged man flirting with a teenager, as well as wanting to marry one when we go to Toyland, and I don't know if our teachers were shocked that they're allowing their students including me in watching this movie or they didn't care moreover didn't think they get we kids would get the context. Apparently this film cost five million dollars to make, for which I refused to believe this film cost five million dollars, because if you look at this film, when we get to Toyland all of the characters look like their wearing nothing but bear, mouse, duck costumes as well as frog costumes and they all look like they got them at you dollar store used old costumes from Disneyland and Disney World, though granted they shot in Germany during the eighties when the Berlin Wall was still up and they had to purchase some land to build the town, but I refuse to believe they spend five million dollars on this movie because everything else besides the town and sets are just awful in terms of costumes. They're is so many questions on how this film was able to get made as well as how NBC allowed this film to be possible, I mean sure they're able to cast some recognizable actors like Eileen Brennan long before she was the love interest to Peter Faulk in movies like Murder, By Death and the Cheap Detective as well as Pat Morita who plays Santa or Toymaster either way I'm told that Santa is in the movie and it's set on Christmas Eve, either way it's very confusing to look at the Toymaster/Santa and my 38 year old brain is thinking "I didn't know Santa is of Asian descent or Asian/American". And look if your casting Mr. Miyagi to play Toymaster/Santa in your movie, couldn't you at least have a moment where he teaches Drew Barrymore how to fight as well as using the technique wax on, wax off and sure we're making the movie worse but this film was already turning worst when your costumes look like they came out of Disneyland and Disney World. While watching this movie I begin to ask why are they a ton of Mother Goose characters? And why does this movie remind me of the Wizard of Oz? Well having dug up some information, I got a full understanding on what Babes in Toyland is about, this was a stage opera that woven all the characters from a Mother Goose nursery rhymes and yes the whole premise is about saving Christmas and the play and opera? where all contrived after the success of the Stage production to the Wizard of Oz around the early 1900's, and look the bottom line is whoever created this opera or stage production stole the same premise of The Wizard of Oz and I'm surprised there was no lawsuit's filed about copying same story premises, I mean Akira Kurosawa was smart enough to sue Sergio Leone so during the sixties. Look the more I talk about this movie the more I begin to think about sending myself to an insane Asylum, this film is one of the most confusing Christmas movies I've ever seen and I would put this in the Black Dahlia of unsolvable movies in terms of how the hell this movie got made, from the costumes to the main antagonist wanting to molest the damsel in distress, this film is almost baffling than the Star Wars: Holiday Special. So, if you’re looking for a movie that is so, confusingly bad as well as wanting to relive bad Christmas movies, your elementary school teachers would let you watch before your Christmas break begins. Then, TV Babes in Toyland is the movie for you AND it's on Tubi so, have a great time watching things even, I wouldn't let my kids watch.
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