Please please please check out Cooper's Christmas. It's such an underrated hilarious film that needs someone like you to bring it to the limelight! Please Nostalgia Critic!
Actually I find it funny that the father receiving that “major award” was made into a huge musical production because that’s really how the father saw the situation.
I think that Matthew Broderick was Amazing, also I remember During the Pandemic and Christmas would be Difficult to Celebrate, My Husband Adam, our Five Children, our 3-year-old son named Ben, our 5-year-old Daughter named Ruth, our 7-year-old son named James, our 9-year-old Identical Twin Son and Daughter named Joshua and Miriam, and I would watch This Movie, and during the next few hours, we would gather in the Living Room, Adam and I would be sitting on the couch, Ben, Ruth, James, Joshua, and Miriam, would be sitting on the floor, we would each have a bowl of Hot Popcorn with Hot Butter, and Salt, we would watch This in spellbound Silence.
I finally figured out why this special really doesn’t work. In the original, Jean Shepherd said childish things like the soap poisoning bit and the hierarchy of dares with a real seriousness and gravitas. He spoke as an adult with the tone of someone who still believed all these things, even though logically you know he doesn’t. He takes his younger self seriously because that was what was real at the time. This is how he saw the events he went through. Broderick says these lines like he’s trying too hard to sound childlike, like he’s reciting a story to little kids and talking down to them in the process. He sounds like an adult making fun of his younger self, rather than an adult taking himself back to a past headspace and living in it, which is what Shepherd did.
I'd argue that it sounds like Broderick had three days to learn the script and is still reading off cue cards. Like he's not even registering the words.
@@smol-one He could have just watched the original film and followed along with Jean Shepherd when rehearsing, but I guess like most performers in stupid remakes, they want to do it "their OWN way", because they re "actors."
@@StefanSaba they were! This guy, Sean Hayes, and Will Sasso were actually really, really good! They should've set the movie in the 30s, 40s, or 50s, sort of Tim Burton-Batman style, where the movie is set in the 1980s/1990s, but looks kinda like the 1940s. That would have been the best for that film. The 2012 pop culture references really date that movie.
Eh, that's debatable - when we read novels out loud in English class, the students did it with such little emotion that the teacher literally said he could get the same results from a text-to-speech program. The reason the author was able to get so much emotion out of it was because... well, it's his own goddamn story, based on his own childhood, so *no duh* he feels passionately about it.
When you realize the SpongeBob did a much better and much more entertaining Broadway Musical, despite the fact that most thought it would suck, is very sad!
London Jackson but... I actually saw the REAL musical for A Christmas Story... I’m 90% sure that the songs from the live show are actually from the musical, and yes the musical was GOOD
9:15 The reason he talks about the bullies like they're people is because they were. The book a Christmas Story is based on is a collection of memoirs from the author's childhood. They just modified the stories to all happen around Christmas and a few minor alterations. Scott Farcus was a real person, but he was Todie Greens sidekick, not the lead bully. They made Scott the leader for the movie because he had the more intimidating name.
Fun fact about Farkus' name too, it's a variation of "farcas", which is "wolf" in Hungarian, and this is why the wolf's theme from Peter and the Wolf plays when he's onscreen.
I gotta admit, I've rewinded the part when nc compliments his skills, cause he is actually carrying the other characters in terms of singing and dancing.
The problem with this special was Fox. Everything Fox added was garbage. The original Broadway production actually did a spectacular job at converting the original into a musical that was respectful and truthful to the original. Fox just shoved in a load of filler to pad the run time and cast a bunch of big names who couldn't even sing or act the material properly. Everyone involved in the original Broadway show was passionate about making sure at its heart it stayed the little family story everyone loved. Peter Billingsley (The original movie Ralphie) himself was one of the original producers of the play, as well as a good friend of mine who directed me in this musical when I did it. The most important thing to the production is a good actor playing Jean Shepherd. He is the heart and soul off the production. Broderick was probably the biggest of many reasons this live-show didn't work.
Am I the only one who feels like the guy who plays Ralphie’s father in this deserves legitimate praise. He’s the only one who seems like he’s trying. He can sing, dance and make the strange dialogue this live special has sound natural. Give that man praise!
One of many problems I see with Christmas Story Live, in particular, is how the Old Man is portrayed. He's too jolly. He's supposed to be tough and grouchy, but with a heart of gold. That's why his character is so relatable, because most people have a father like that. Chris Diamantopolous is really good actor, having done perfect imitations of Robin Williams and Moe Howard, so he could've done a good version of Darren McGavin here.
@@ExplorerDS6789 well in the context of the new Ducktales series Jim is still voicing Negaduck but in that series Negaduck is Jim Star the ego driven out of work actor who used to play Darkwing on TV who went crazy when he found out they were making a Darkwing Duck reboot movie without him. Meanwhile Chris voices Drake Mallard but in the context of the show he was an up and coming actor who got the role of Darkwing in the movie but after the movie was canned due to Jim attacking the set he was inspired to become Darkwing in real life
Never thought I'd comment this. But thank you Doug for including Carrot in this video. This was the crossover i didn't think i needed but am glad i received.
@@dontcallmechris8677 Carrot is the rabbit girl from One Piece, whose picture shows up when Critic says we bizarrely have enough sexy rabbits. She's the one in the tank top with "RABBIT" printed on it.
@@ElFreakinCid ironically she's the adorable one of the collection....... Because that judy hopps is suggestive as fuck and I can't make eye contact with it
Wow even though it’s an understandable reason the scene still makes me confused,they could have just have a scene where it actually sticks to the plot while they set up a scene
what they should've done with the spelling test thing is cut to broadrick sitting outside his house talking about all of the punishments he's had over he years. then when the car pulls up he could talk about how this was the most terrifying of them all because he didn't know what would happen. THEN it continues like normal. and for the girl, they could do something similar where he talks about learning not to lie or something. but that would mean the special would actually be kinda good, and that's obviously not what they were going for here.
21:22 My brain actually started tuning this terrible song out and replacing it with "Cheer Up, Charlie" from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Thank you, brain.
Chris Diamantopoulous really is the lone highlight of this lackluster effort, the guy is one of the most talented underrated actors out there and he's great as the Old Man. Anybody who can not only do this but also put together a great Mickey Mouse and Moe from The Three Stooges deserves WAY more attention than he gets.
Recently watched it this Christmas. It’s surprisingly pretty decent and doesn’t just feel like a cash grab. I guess Peter Billingsley had actual creativity and heart to put into it or something. I’d actually love to hear Doug’s thoughts.
What classic will Fox ruin next? Casablanca LIVE Citizen Kane LIVE The Godfather LIVE Gone with the Wind LIVE Singing in the Rain LIVE (from jaunty tunes to updated Hip-Hop)
that's would be the true meaning of christmas a little boy parents killed in front of him then have santa fly over going ho ho ho merry christmas what a wonderful day so much christmas cheer make it happen fox
@@robert23456789 But,seeing as this is a DC and a Batman story at that,the twist would be,that Santa claus turns out to be the guy who shot batmans parents in the alley. infact it turns out that batman was a really nasty child that year,so santa feelt he did not deserve his parents anymore so he took em away.
And then Batman would want to kill Santa because this guy is way too powerful and if there is just a one percent chance that he might turn evil, we have to take it as an absolute certainty.
ITS CHRISTMAAAAAAAS TIME, and what better way to celebrate is to return to the world of Leg lamps, Bunny pajamas , and bb guns that will shoot your eye out.
THANKS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REVIEWING THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly, I betting Doug 2 is the one responsible to the noises outside the studio. Probably didn't get the message that they are not destroying the universe this holiday season.
Nah, then he would've remember that moment when Maya starts singing and wouldn't send himself back to correct himself thus creating a paradox of parallel critics.
My dad just got a shirt that says "8 crazy nights" on it for Hanukkah and I can't stop thinking about the movie with that term after the review and it took everything in me to not cringe from film memories
15:21 Amahl and the Night Visitors is my personal Christmas tradition, thank you for shedding light on this wonderful opera. Also for anyone who doesn't know about this opera I highly recommend it. It's about an hour long and it's available on youtube. There's one in color made decades later and it's just as good.
I mean it’s a sucky stage show, I doubt he was trying his hardest. Also it’s hard to be as expressive in a live show as it is in a voice room where you can move and do whatever the fuck you want. The good thing about having the narrator unseen in the movie is that if we saw his facial expressions and movements on screen he’d look silly, but just hearing it sounds fine.
26:28 Believe me, you should. It's not nearly as bloated or tacky as this, yet has the same rousing show tunes underpinning it - oh, and *THE ACTORS CAN ACTUALLY SING THIS TIME.* My family and I saw it in Boston last year. We all adored it and it even got me into watching the original in full. It's a great show and definitely worth your attention should it ever go back to Chicago.
Me and my dad watched this and we both had the same problem with it. It loses all realism (music aside) that embodied the original so well. My dad was born in the '40s, he remembers his parents being the same way when he was a kid. Stern, though they loved him, and the term "wait 'til your father gets home" was meant to make kids straighten out and act right or they were getting an ass whipping (yes yes yes, studies and spanks are bad but this was the '40s we're talking about). The kids (especially Ralphie, being an eldest child), made him remember his childhood, from standing up to bullies without fear of persecution for standing up for yourself, or fantasies that far exaggerate anything mimicking reality, to disappointments that made you sigh and say 'son of a bitch,' without your parents around or you were getting the aforementioned ass whipping. In this, it rips you from the nostalgia - and tries to modernize it to make it 'cool'. But it was fine, perfect, just the way it was, because it was so real. I still laugh at the original father - because he reminds me of my own, some big authoritative 'hardass', but at the end of the day - you knew he loved his kids (seriously watch when Ralphie opens up that BB Gun and tell me the dad doesn't light up with him). What made the original great was that those who lived in those times remember it fondly, and those who didn't get a peak at it from a child's point of view (Yes I know the world wasn't perfect in the 40s, but from a child's view it's just charming).
And it makes sense that Ralphie would think so fondly of THIS particular Christmas, because it was the one of 1940, the year before we entered World War II.
I really liked how the original dad stood up for Ralphie in him not wearing the bunny suit. "You look like a deraged rabbit" first time this year watching it, that line was so funny 😁🤣
I utilize The Christmas Story as a weapon. Every year I show it to my wife and by the next year she's forgotten about it because of the bland name. "Oh, you've never seen The Christmas Story? It's a great movie! Come on, we'll watch it together." This is why I've been married 14 years now.
@Adrijana Radosevic Woah woah, hold on a minute there, kid. I never said I did this to get her to sleep with me. I do this because it's funny. Who in the world said this was about sex?
Guntherson220 the werid thing with Matthew Broderick is he was going to Walter White on breaking bad is either him or John Cusack and is amc idea Bryon cranston was vince gilliam First choice but amc was like No and talk about walter White should be John Cusack or Matthew Broderick
@@HexManiacQuinn It's one of the Nostalgia Critic's older running gags along with "ELEPHANT!" and "CHUCK NORRIS!". Doug stopped using them after rebooting the show, focusing more on visuals than simple jokes. I kinda miss those old memes, but the old reviews are all on this channel.
@@Stardevoir Yeah but it's such a cliché. If you want nerd cred you pick "Infinity" (1996) and if you want hipster cred you pick "The Freshman" (1990) 👍
You know, I made a comment earlier this year about how the Critic has a Halloween jacket but not one for Christmas (despite loving Christmas so much), and whaddaya know...
I actually live by Warren G. Harding Elementary in Hammond Indiana and got pictures of myself with my tongue stuck to their flag pole (I brought a thermos of coffee to free myself though)
25:02, I agree. It changes a joke that hasn't really aged well, it's musical, yet it's done in a very simple and charming way. Despite everything wrong with this show, this is actually done about as well as it could be done.
@@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94 Yeah I have to admit while it be horrible it be case where we have complete interest on it (like watching a train crash but nevertheless)
As someone who has 80% of their family living in Anchorage and dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake, thank you Doug for directing attention to it. And thank you to anyone who donates, no matter how small you think it may be I can guarantee you, it helps.
This just proves even more that small town low budget plays are better, like I was just in a Christmas story the musical but he didn't even get paid but still did an amazing job and really payed justice to the original Jean Shepard. Also I don't no why but the songs especially you'll shoot your eye out just look and sound wrong like she's just putting emphasis in the wrong spots.
I think you under sold Jean Shepard a little. He was more than just the author giving acting a shot. He had a radio show and was definitely a professional. Brodrick still sucks though! Lol
Agreed. When the critic talked about the original having great actors, great writing and great directing, he left out the GREAT NARRATOR! Jean Shepard is by far the best thing about the original movie.
@@FlameOnTheBeat but its a little different and is connected to the x men and its also called the gifted even though they don't add storm, Cyclops, jean etc so they added new mutants that we never seen
@@Destine064 Yeah, they're like the X-Men's C-Team, and they're fighting enemies not shown in the movies, like The Purifiers. No Sentinels, though, I don't think they have the bidget for giant flying purple robots.
You should find recordings of his old radio show. It's absolute brilliance! Basically the narrator from A Christmas Story telling even more silly tales about his life!
@@motor4X4kombat So the alternative is that Doug Walker was forced to type 'sexy furry bunnies' into google... Option A and Option B are equally brilliant in my eyes.
Matthew Broderick falls into the same category s Jeff Goldblum, they are the awkward nerds (except Goldblum is the awkwardly charming nerd, while Broderick is the awkwardly awkward nerd). Maybe it's just because that was the hero archetype of my childhood, but it never bothered me. Or maybe it's because I am an awkward nerd myself. It kinda hit peak cringe with Napoleon Dynamite and we never looked back.
Actually, Broderick's best roles are not the awkward nerd. In War Games, Ferris Bueller, LadyHawke, etc. he's actually a bit of cocky asshole but had a charm that made you love the guy.
@@brianjacobson297 I mean I love the personality and charisma Maya brought to it, she clearly put in her all. But let's be real, it was Amy carrying the music.
What's funny and ironic is Maya Rudolph's mom was a professional singer (Minnie Ripperton) that had a #1 hit. Apparently that musical talent did not translate well into her daughter.
I love ya, Critic, but, I never knew this was a thing, and, I kinda hate that you informed me that this was a thing. I don't think I can handle the level of cringe that even a review of this thing would give me. I respectfully have to nope out of this. Still, merry Christmas!
The fact that they did this is hilarious. It's like that comically exaggerated version of Scrooge they were putting on within the movie Scrooged. What once was clear parody is now shrugged-off reality.
Broadway is a stage show on a stage set with stage conventions. Audience have a pretty big willing suspension of disbelief when approaching those, entirely related to understanding the limits of the medium and they're especially notable because Broadway shows tend to push the medium to its limits. You can have actors exit the set and have a different background lower and then walk back on and the audience believes that they're now in a different location, for example. Broadway also has months of rehearsals to prepare and then those months pay off with selling tickets for daily or even twice daily shows for months on end. Not only do casts perfect it in rehearsal, but it becomes a well-oiled machine over time due to sheer number of actual performances. Live specials like these, though, use some stage conventions but mostly try to make a live performance look like a normal movie, meaning the sets are realistic and intricate and the actors have to move set to set, with multiple cameras and cuts and different locations, and the cast performs it once meaning they don't have those months and months of rehearsal and then daily performance to absolutely perfect it. The actors also tend to be movie and television actors, not Broadway actors, so they have a different level of comfort with live performance.
I worked on this production and I can tell you, this is nothing like doing a Broadway production. We were all constantly on the move (cameras, actors, rigs, backdrops) all on an acre of WB backlot. So, people don't like the production. That's fine, but give consideration to the amount of effort put in by the hundreds of people involved in pulling off such an ambitious endeavor.
@@MegaKaitouKID1412 Actually, Christmas Story Live DID have months of rehearsals. I read the kid actors actually had their own tutors so they wouldn't fall behind on their education when they weren't rehearsing.
I honestly find the NC episode hard to watch. Not because I didn't see A Christmas Story Live, but because his love for the original movie and hatred for this is too much for me to enjoy. I did see A Christmas Story musical on stage a few years ago and it's fine. I'd say the same for this one if I see it, but this NC review isn't too funny or enjoyable, except for his reaction to Ralphie's close-up.
My dad and I were not crazy impressed with ‘Sound of Music Live’ but liked Carrie Underwood as Maria and the wonderful Audra McDonald as Mother Superior. I watched ‘Peter Pan Live’ but who was in charge of the audio department was a wretched failure as you could never hear the songs (particularly Christopher Walken’s solos) and the speaking lines got muddled constantly. I skipped every one after that because they’re boring
CHRISTMAS SEASON IS HERE!! What Christmas movie should NC review?
Check out the new Commercial episode here - ua-cam.com/video/AGOhCxkPSog/v-deo.html
Please please please check out Cooper's Christmas. It's such an underrated hilarious film that needs someone like you to bring it to the limelight! Please Nostalgia Critic!
I’d recommend Deck The Halls or Jingle All The Way 2!!!!
Ritchie Riches Christmas Wish.
I soooo wanted you to review this, because it is an abomination!!!
Olive the other reindeer
Actually I find it funny that the father receiving that “major award” was made into a huge musical production because that’s really how the father saw the situation.
I think that Matthew Broderick was Amazing, also I remember During the Pandemic and Christmas would be Difficult to Celebrate, My Husband Adam, our Five Children, our 3-year-old son named Ben, our 5-year-old Daughter named Ruth, our 7-year-old son named James, our 9-year-old Identical Twin Son and Daughter named Joshua and Miriam, and I would watch This Movie, and during the next few hours, we would gather in the Living Room, Adam and I would be sitting on the couch, Ben, Ruth, James, Joshua, and Miriam, would be sitting on the floor, we would each have a bowl of Hot Popcorn with Hot Butter, and Salt, we would watch This in spellbound Silence.
@@CarolePowell-q2z r/thathappened
I finally figured out why this special really doesn’t work. In the original, Jean Shepherd said childish things like the soap poisoning bit and the hierarchy of dares with a real seriousness and gravitas. He spoke as an adult with the tone of someone who still believed all these things, even though logically you know he doesn’t. He takes his younger self seriously because that was what was real at the time. This is how he saw the events he went through. Broderick says these lines like he’s trying too hard to sound childlike, like he’s reciting a story to little kids and talking down to them in the process. He sounds like an adult making fun of his younger self, rather than an adult taking himself back to a past headspace and living in it, which is what Shepherd did.
That and Jean actually put effort into talking
When Jean died, A Christmas Story died with him. They should have left the franchise there.
I'd argue that it sounds like Broderick had three days to learn the script and is still reading off cue cards. Like he's not even registering the words.
@@smol-one He could have just watched the original film and followed along with Jean Shepherd when rehearsing, but I guess like most performers in stupid remakes, they want to do it "their OWN way", because they re "actors."
I been debating with myself which is worse, this or the god awful 2012 sequel. If I had to choose it would be this .
The guy playing the dad is trying _really_ hard to make this work, you have to admire him.
Knowing he’s voiced Mickey Mouse in the new Mickey shorts and Darkwing Duck in the Ducktales reboot, I can get why now.
He seems like he could loose his shit at any moment.
He’s also in Hannibal as one of the killers of the week lol
He also played Moe in the Three Stooges movie, which the performers of the three were the best part of that movie lol
@@StefanSaba they were! This guy, Sean Hayes, and Will Sasso were actually really, really good! They should've set the movie in the 30s, 40s, or 50s, sort of Tim Burton-Batman style, where the movie is set in the 1980s/1990s, but looks kinda like the 1940s. That would have been the best for that film. The 2012 pop culture references really date that movie.
The thing about the author is that he's not acting. He's reading a book outloud. You put emotions into it naturally
Yea but with acting you’re supposed to put emotion in regardless
@@maggiewayland5770 Yeah but the other guy isn’t
And he's still better then Matthew
@@maggiewayland5770 I guess somebody forgot to tell Broderick that. I have respect for him as an actor, but he was miscast here.
Eh, that's debatable - when we read novels out loud in English class, the students did it with such little emotion that the teacher literally said he could get the same results from a text-to-speech program. The reason the author was able to get so much emotion out of it was because... well, it's his own goddamn story, based on his own childhood, so *no duh* he feels passionately about it.
Nostalgia Critic's unabashed hatred for Matthew Broderick makes me laugh every time
And comparing him to Jean Shepherd is just icing on the cake
I mean he ruined Godzilla
It's good he's not in The Lion King remake.
climbinguphill fun fact he was going to be Walter White
He's really good in The Producers.
When you realize the SpongeBob did a much better and much more entertaining Broadway Musical, despite the fact that most thought it would suck, is very sad!
Yup
Can't agree more
@@londonjackson8986 between that and lights camera pants, I can see where you're coming from.
YES!
London Jackson but... I actually saw the REAL musical for A Christmas Story... I’m 90% sure that the songs from the live show are actually from the musical, and yes the musical was GOOD
9:15 The reason he talks about the bullies like they're people is because they were. The book a Christmas Story is based on is a collection of memoirs from the author's childhood. They just modified the stories to all happen around Christmas and a few minor alterations. Scott Farcus was a real person, but he was Todie Greens sidekick, not the lead bully. They made Scott the leader for the movie because he had the more intimidating name.
even MORE reason why the author speaks with such conviction, but Brodrick phones it in
@@Mariokemon "Matthew, did you learn your lines?" "I swear that I did".
Fun fact about Farkus' name too, it's a variation of "farcas", which is "wolf" in Hungarian, and this is why the wolf's theme from Peter and the Wolf plays when he's onscreen.
So were there actually Asians singing "Fa ra ra ra ra?"
@respectedsalmon9390 Nope. It was the Easter ham that got swiped by the bumpus hounds.
Seemed like the only actor trying in this show was the dad. Best improv, singing, dancing, and general funny delivery out of all the other performers.
I gotta admit, I've rewinded the part when nc compliments his skills, cause he is actually carrying the other characters in terms of singing and dancing.
Maya Rudolph didn't give a shit about it. She was clearly there for the paycheck.
@@davidstone281 I heard she had just recovered from something when she did this so that might be why she gives zero fucks
Yeah and Anna Gastier was no slouch either.
The problem with this special was Fox. Everything Fox added was garbage. The original Broadway production actually did a spectacular job at converting the original into a musical that was respectful and truthful to the original. Fox just shoved in a load of filler to pad the run time and cast a bunch of big names who couldn't even sing or act the material properly. Everyone involved in the original Broadway show was passionate about making sure at its heart it stayed the little family story everyone loved. Peter Billingsley (The original movie Ralphie) himself was one of the original producers of the play, as well as a good friend of mine who directed me in this musical when I did it. The most important thing to the production is a good actor playing Jean Shepherd. He is the heart and soul off the production. Broderick was probably the biggest of many reasons this live-show didn't work.
Exactly! The Broadway play had more personality to it. This looks like an Old navy commercial. =/
@@dayzshasings8146 welp at least Jesus Christ Superstar Live! Was better...
@@pedrocanas470 Disney is only buying FX of the Fox TV properties. The Network is remaining with Fox.
I was in the show last year and we’re doing it again this year. I may be biased but I think we were better.
Somehow, I blindly believe that. :P
4:00 Nostalgia Critic actually had to search up "sexy bunnies" to get these pictures.
Think about that...
The sacrifices one does for the sake of entertainment.
He's on some kind of watch list now.
@Raye Reviews what do you think i am, a sicco?
Or, he just had to look up the word "bunnies" on the Internet.
And he left off the Bullet Club Bunny Girl, which is the hottest one lol
Am I the only one who feels like the guy who plays Ralphie’s father in this deserves legitimate praise. He’s the only one who seems like he’s trying. He can sing, dance and make the strange dialogue this live special has sound natural. Give that man praise!
One of many problems I see with Christmas Story Live, in particular, is how the Old Man is portrayed. He's too jolly. He's supposed to be tough and grouchy, but with a heart of gold. That's why his character is so relatable, because most people have a father like that. Chris Diamantopolous is really good actor, having done perfect imitations of Robin Williams and Moe Howard, so he could've done a good version of Darren McGavin here.
Isn’t he the new voice of Darkwing Duck
@@mrcritical6751 You mean it ISN'T Jim Cummings? How the hell did that happen?
@@ExplorerDS6789 well in the context of the new Ducktales series Jim is still voicing Negaduck but in that series Negaduck is Jim Star the ego driven out of work actor who used to play Darkwing on TV who went crazy when he found out they were making a Darkwing Duck reboot movie without him. Meanwhile Chris voices Drake Mallard but in the context of the show he was an up and coming actor who got the role of Darkwing in the movie but after the movie was canned due to Jim attacking the set he was inspired to become Darkwing in real life
That’s why the outburst about the lamp is totally out of character and doesn’t make sense, the dad in this one is too nice.
He’s also Mickey Mouse in the new Mickey Mouse shorts
Never thought I'd comment this. But thank you Doug for including Carrot in this video. This was the crossover i didn't think i needed but am glad i received.
Hey there, Tekking! Never expected to see *you* here!
What is carrot, I need help
@@dontcallmechris8677 Carrot is the rabbit girl from One Piece, whose picture shows up when Critic says we bizarrely have enough sexy rabbits. She's the one in the tank top with "RABBIT" printed on it.
@@ElFreakinCid ironically she's the adorable one of the collection....... Because that judy hopps is suggestive as fuck and I can't make eye contact with it
@@dontcallmechris8677 Carrot is an anthro rabbit girl from the anime 'One Piece.'
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Huh...Doug referenced Carrot from One Piece as a hot bunny girl...I'm honestly proud of him
One Piece is FINALLY sticking into the mainstream again!
Eliyafeth Soto heck yeah
We are too exposed to dragon ball z gt and super! They had their time now it’s time for the new generation of action manga!
Tilt King yeah!! Does critic wantch one piece for the story or the “plot”?
Doug, our Savant, please reference more anime! A few more JoJo memes from Rob and we can really nail this thing!
@@tiltking9645 I'm surprised his brother has yet to place a jojo reference in any script somewhere.
"Under the sink! Under the SIIINK!"
great work as always 😂
MightyGazelle I was thinking "wait you mean they DIDN'T make a song out of that?"
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*The scene about the girl learning to type was put in to fill time while they set up for the next scene*
Wow even though it’s an understandable reason the scene still makes me confused,they could have just have a scene where it actually sticks to the plot while they set up a scene
Oh right that would mean the musical would have actually been a little good.
@@areyouderock I kinda liked the Hanukkah song though. At least it gave Anna Gastier a singing number unlike her one cameo scene from _Gepetto._
@@rogue7723 yeah, her singing sounded good.
what they should've done with the spelling test thing is cut to broadrick sitting outside his house talking about all of the punishments he's had over he years. then when the car pulls up he could talk about how this was the most terrifying of them all because he didn't know what would happen. THEN it continues like normal. and for the girl, they could do something similar where he talks about learning not to lie or something. but that would mean the special would actually be kinda good, and that's obviously not what they were going for here.
5:58 "He looks like Harry Potter turning into Gollum!"
I'm crying in laughter at this. It's so funny when it's so true!
"Eight crazy nights" OH GOD, ADAM SANDLER FLASHBACKS!
TECHNICAL FOUL 🎶
Same
daemonsparta mentioning that movie is a technical foul!
And that is one of his BETTER films!
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer i perfer Eight crazy Nights to shit live show u know whut they rename it to Shitmas Story Live
I bet if Doug ever watches "Peter Pan Live!", he'll still love Christopher Walken as Captain Hook.
That casting made sense unlike Broderick in this mess
"He had only one place he could hide that hook".
Omg I can see that!
For some reason I keep thinking of Christopher Robin from Winnie The Pooh anytime I hear Christopher Walken
@@jareththegoblinking3191 check out "Barinie the Poo" it has Chrisopher Walken as Christopher Robin
Can we just give the dad actor credit for his improv
I thought he was Benedict Cumberbatch 😂
A real professional for sure
He didnt really do anything with the "improv". He had a golden opportunity to improv a funny line, but didnt.
The problem with Christmas Story Live is it tries to make the original too kid-friendly
No the problem is hip hop dancing in the 1940s. Pure Madness
Kathy Spencer that too
No cursing either.
"Be sure...to
...drink...your....Ovaltine.
Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? SON OF A BITCH."
@@CatLives9 Also, Schwartz's mom smacking the shit outta him
And not advertising it as a musical did hurt the special.
Love the Christmas jacket, Doug!
same
🎄 + 🧥 = nostalgia critic
Lets just hope they dont make a "A Christmas Story 2 Live"
DanielTheIdiot don’t give them any ideas.
I... I hate that that image is going to be in my head now.
DanielTheIdiot NER! THEY CAN HEAR YOU!
Couldn't be any worse than the movie
PowerGlove79 I'm sure they can find a way
25:14
A Christmas Story live: *"What were you expecting?"*
*Awkward Pause*
Me: *"I-I... don't know-"*
That's My Opinion 25:13
That scene was legitimately hilarious.
"Dang it, that means I have to say I laughed once in this!"
Not this.
21:22 My brain actually started tuning this terrible song out and replacing it with "Cheer Up, Charlie" from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Thank you, brain.
that's a good brain mine just gets more annoyed
Yes!!! I'm not the only one!!!
Huh, me too surprisingly
Mine went to moments in the woods
So you swapped a terrible song with another terrible song?
Chris Diamantopoulous really is the lone highlight of this lackluster effort, the guy is one of the most talented underrated actors out there and he's great as the Old Man. Anybody who can not only do this but also put together a great Mickey Mouse and Moe from The Three Stooges deserves WAY more attention than he gets.
I love him as Mickey so much. He made the character a lot more interesting in the new shorts.
YOUR REVIEWING A CHRISTMAS STORY? OH YOU SON OF A - wait the live version? ABORT ABORT
Connor notyerbidness *_TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING_*
Fall back fall back !!!!!!!
So that's what all the screaming was about at the beginning of the video
*you're
You new here? He loves Christmas Story for some reason
Broderick sounds like when it’s your turn to read a passage in school
I am still shock amc want him to be Walter White
I really question if he was the best guy for the job. They really couldn’t get anyone else?
Ironically, the recently released “A Christmas Story Christmas” starring the original actor who played Ralphie is pretty solid!
Recently watched it this Christmas. It’s surprisingly pretty decent and doesn’t just feel like a cash grab. I guess Peter Billingsley had actual creativity and heart to put into it or something. I’d actually love to hear Doug’s thoughts.
@@samuelbarber6177well he has a story credit
Coming Soon: Tom and Jerry and A Christmas Story
I still haven't come to terms with the fact that I live in a world where this is a completely legitimate possibility.
Since they're owned by the same company it could happen
Don't give WB ideas!
I wouldn’t be surprised if that actually happened
DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!!!!!
Summarize this musical in 4 words:
BIG-LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT!
The ancient meme returns
When the mom started screaming Ralphie in the car, I honestly thought of Winnifred Sanderson yelling for her Book in Hocus Pocus.
Oh, good. That wasn't just me.
@@msthecommentator2863 Angels Sing The Musical
Holy smokes, you're right. 😄
I genuinely hoped Doug would put that clip next....
"BOOOOOOOOOKKKKKK! Come home or make thyself known!"
What classic will Fox ruin next?
Casablanca LIVE
Citizen Kane LIVE
The Godfather LIVE
Gone with the Wind LIVE
Singing in the Rain LIVE (from jaunty tunes to updated Hip-Hop)
Actually it's Disney's problem now
Mwahaha. It's inevitable. Production studios big and small are running on fumes so it's only a matter of time they recycle one of the above.
Goodfellas LIVE
How about...
Lord of The Rings Live
Star Wars Live
Pirates of the Caribbean Live
Harry Potter Live
It's like Fox is becoming more unoriginal.
A Christmas Story was already awful this is better.
Fox would probably make a Home Alone Special that starts with Batman's parents getting shot in an alley .....
that's would be the true meaning of christmas a little boy parents killed in front of him then have santa fly over going ho ho ho merry christmas what a wonderful day so much christmas cheer make it happen fox
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@robert23456789
But,seeing as this is a DC and a Batman story at that,the twist would be,that Santa claus turns out to be the guy who shot batmans parents in the alley. infact it turns out that batman was a really nasty child that year,so santa feelt he did not deserve his parents anymore so he took em away.
DONT GIVE FOX ANY IDEAS!!
And then Batman would want to kill Santa because this guy is way too powerful and if there is just a one percent chance that he might turn evil, we have to take it as an absolute certainty.
ITS CHRISTMAAAAAAAS TIME, and what better way to celebrate is to return to the world of Leg lamps, Bunny pajamas , and bb guns that will shoot your eye out.
THANKS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REVIEWING THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And don't forget that memorable "Tripple Dig Dare" moment.
@@thegameboy1785 *dog
Doug's kitty is cute
Happy Holidays!
The violence and chaos had nothing to do with his intro. It's Chicago.
dude, you remember transformes dark of the moon?
Chicago has dinosaurs now?
@@tristanhartup4936 I wouldn't be surprised... It's 2020
Just the Dauntless massacring the Abnegation.
The movie actually took place in Northern Indiana, about an hour away from Chicago
DOUG 2 HAS ESCAPED!?!?
FIND HIM QUICKLY!
Honestly, I betting Doug 2 is the one responsible to the noises outside the studio. Probably didn't get the message that they are not destroying the universe this holiday season.
We must find him before he hurts himself.....
The start of the Nostalgia Critic Cinematic universe, perhaps?
Doug 2 is Chester A Bum.
I'm sorry, but that Maya Rudolph joke should have been edited in earlier in the video, would have worked twice.
I thought the same thing
Looper joke, right.
Exactly what I thought when it came up.
Nah, then he would've remember that moment when Maya starts singing and wouldn't send himself back to correct himself thus creating a paradox of parallel critics.
@@vasvas8914 or it could have been a "Ah, so that's what that was about. Better make sure I do that now." moment.
19:09 “Eight Crazy Nights”
They really went there
Brione it’s not referencing the movie
My dad just got a shirt that says "8 crazy nights" on it for Hanukkah and I can't stop thinking about the movie with that term after the review and it took everything in me to not cringe from film memories
I recently saw a TV channel showing "Eight Crazy Nights" as part of their holiday movie marathon like it should be a part of the holiday classics.
Bring in Whitey and his screechy voice!
18:12 that actually sounds like Nostalgia Critic lol
That sounded like actual Nostalgia Critic for a minute! Take it away!
15:21 Amahl and the Night Visitors is my personal Christmas tradition, thank you for shedding light on this wonderful opera.
Also for anyone who doesn't know about this opera I highly recommend it. It's about an hour long and it's available on youtube. There's one in color made decades later and it's just as good.
My mom and I love Amahl and the Night Visitors. It's a favorite Christmas tradition to go see that Opra almost every year.
Man. It's hard to believe this narrator did the voice of Simba.
And I thought he was good as Leopold Bloom in The Producers. Did Nostalgia Critic do an Old vs. New about that?
@@louisduarte8763 I don't think so but that would be a good one.
@@dylansmith5206 Yeah. The just barely live action remake.
I was about to comment that was Jonathon Taylor Thomas but you mean adult Simba, right?
I mean it’s a sucky stage show, I doubt he was trying his hardest. Also it’s hard to be as expressive in a live show as it is in a voice room where you can move and do whatever the fuck you want. The good thing about having the narrator unseen in the movie is that if we saw his facial expressions and movements on screen he’d look silly, but just hearing it sounds fine.
Critic, it's about time we've had the "Olive, The Other Reindeer" review.
Oh my god, thats actually real
I just looked it up. I didn't recognize the title, but recognize the movie. I thought it was some weird dream I had as a kid
I remember it. It was awful.
What's wrong with Olive?
I can't actually remember, I just remember really disliking it.
26:28 Believe me, you should. It's not nearly as bloated or tacky as this, yet has the same rousing show tunes underpinning it - oh, and *THE ACTORS CAN ACTUALLY SING THIS TIME.*
My family and I saw it in Boston last year. We all adored it and it even got me into watching the original in full. It's a great show and definitely worth your attention should it ever go back to Chicago.
Me and my dad watched this and we both had the same problem with it. It loses all realism (music aside) that embodied the original so well. My dad was born in the '40s, he remembers his parents being the same way when he was a kid. Stern, though they loved him, and the term "wait 'til your father gets home" was meant to make kids straighten out and act right or they were getting an ass whipping (yes yes yes, studies and spanks are bad but this was the '40s we're talking about). The kids (especially Ralphie, being an eldest child), made him remember his childhood, from standing up to bullies without fear of persecution for standing up for yourself, or fantasies that far exaggerate anything mimicking reality, to disappointments that made you sigh and say 'son of a bitch,' without your parents around or you were getting the aforementioned ass whipping. In this, it rips you from the nostalgia - and tries to modernize it to make it 'cool'. But it was fine, perfect, just the way it was, because it was so real. I still laugh at the original father - because he reminds me of my own, some big authoritative 'hardass', but at the end of the day - you knew he loved his kids (seriously watch when Ralphie opens up that BB Gun and tell me the dad doesn't light up with him). What made the original great was that those who lived in those times remember it fondly, and those who didn't get a peak at it from a child's point of view (Yes I know the world wasn't perfect in the 40s, but from a child's view it's just charming).
And it makes sense that Ralphie would think so fondly of THIS particular Christmas, because it was the one of 1940, the year before we entered World War II.
When a day in infamy would forever echo, the sounds of war, distrust and begotten loss. The calm before the storm if you will.
I'm also pretty sure people did not hip hop dance as well 🤔
I really liked how the original dad stood up for Ralphie in him not wearing the bunny suit. "You look like a deraged rabbit" first time this year watching it, that line was so funny 😁🤣
After watching this live special, you may WANT to shoot your eye out.
I want to shoot my brains out after watching this.
I got six bullets, who's joining me in a trip to hell?
After hearing the mother's off-key singing, I think my ears are a higher priority.
They’re busy with certain things right now
It wouldn’t be enough. You could still hear the singing.
I utilize The Christmas Story as a weapon. Every year I show it to my wife and by the next year she's forgotten about it because of the bland name. "Oh, you've never seen The Christmas Story? It's a great movie! Come on, we'll watch it together." This is why I've been married 14 years now.
Wages of Sinn keep it up.
@Adrijana Radosevic Woah woah, hold on a minute there, kid. I never said I did this to get her to sleep with me. I do this because it's funny. Who in the world said this was about sex?
*A Christmas Story
It honestly took me a minute to remember Broderick was in fact in Lion King when he brought it up.
Guntherson220 the werid thing with Matthew Broderick is he was going to Walter White on breaking bad is either him or John Cusack and is amc idea
Bryon cranston was vince gilliam First choice but amc was like No and talk about walter White should be John Cusack or Matthew Broderick
Did you forget About Ferris Bueller?
@@liampatrick3110 Who could forget about Ferris Bueller?
I don't think this thing could've had more Big-Lipped Alligator Moments if they had replaced the entire cast with big-lipped alligators!
I forgot what that term meant
@@TheRealNormanBates Thank you - I only hopped on this channel in the past 3-4 years or so and couldn't find the review where this term originated.
I think it was the ferngully one, I had no idea what it was but stumbled on the review the other day.
@@HexManiacQuinn It's one of the Nostalgia Critic's older running gags along with "ELEPHANT!" and "CHUCK NORRIS!". Doug stopped using them after rebooting the show, focusing more on visuals than simple jokes. I kinda miss those old memes, but the old reviews are all on this channel.
Matthew Broderick: "That's a lot of Christmas."
He was good in that one thing
Lion King was his only good redeemable movie
@@waddupjd I liked The Cable Guy, where his bland personality actually plays well with Jim Carrey's character.
Personally, Ferris Bueller and WarGames were the two movies with him in it that were good in my opinion
@@Stardevoir Yeah but it's such a cliché. If you want nerd cred you pick "Infinity" (1996) and if you want hipster cred you pick "The Freshman" (1990) 👍
You know, I made a comment earlier this year about how the Critic has a Halloween jacket but not one for Christmas (despite loving Christmas so much), and whaddaya know...
He must of saw your comment.
Hey now, respect to Shepherd. He was a professional talker. That he could out-talk an actor isn't odd at all.
*_Legend has it that the kid who licked the pole was still stuck to this day..._*
I actually live by Warren G. Harding Elementary in Hammond Indiana and got pictures of myself with my tongue stuck to their flag pole (I brought a thermos of coffee to free myself though)
Believe it or not, he’s a porn star. Have fun on IMDB folks.
Whoops nevermind, forgot this was live action.
@@Mothman1992 I used to live in a house that was across Warren G. Harding Elementary.
1:13 - Oh, don't worry, that's just the sound of everybody evacuating tumblr.
Yep.
Flack Jacket all the rule 34 artists have to evacuate, even the one who make the worst fetishes.
@@thebaronanative8289 So the dinosaurs are the artists with the *really weird* fetishes?
What people HAVENT had a dinosaur fetish?
@@jareththegoblinking3191 I got a BIG one
25:02, I agree. It changes a joke that hasn't really aged well, it's musical, yet it's done in a very simple and charming way. Despite everything wrong with this show, this is actually done about as well as it could be done.
18:24 To be fair “A Market For A Miracle” is the best song in the show. Ironic how a song about Hanukkah is the best song in A Christmas Story.
I want to see the Star Wars holiday special performed live.
I think that would kill George Lucas.
Haha XD
Are you really giving Disney more weapons?
With guest star carrie fishers corpse puppeted.
Now your just asking for WWIII but I guess I could laugh myself to the end
4:01 Somebody call Playboy and let them know some of their sexy rabbits have escaped.
Too bad Hugh Hefner won't take them. God rest him.
If it’s by FOX then that means we’ll get Family Guy Live.
EliAndButch YT or the Simpsons live
Not gonna lie tho that does sound interesting
@@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94 Yeah I have to admit while it be horrible it be case where we have complete interest on it (like watching a train crash but nevertheless)
6:51 Oh my God is that child actor who play as Ralphie is scary as hell, his about to eat my soul!
It's like that scene from Faceoff with Nicolas Cage orgasming over touching that girl's ass.
Set him on fire!
@@dan_evilrobot my son said that kid he wanted to become a bully just to bully that kid 😆
That kid is creepy. It's like Simon from the chipmunks came to life!
Holy fuck, I can't unsee that now!
Imagine him in the sene were Simon attacks the bullies
Tank The Rewind not as creepy as montizon!
@@GhazMazMSM Chipceased!
Oml 🤣
As someone who has 80% of their family living in Anchorage and dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake, thank you Doug for directing attention to it. And thank you to anyone who donates, no matter how small you think it may be I can guarantee you, it helps.
"If you're like me then you're my clone" That bit absolutely killed me XD
The new kitty is still very adorable.
well it could be worse, I think the Nostalgia Critic should review Jingle All the Way 2 next!
Wait what?!
@Kristopher Shafer does it have Sinbad?
galesonic No, but it has Larry the Cable Guy!
Richard Canipe there’s a second?
Just looked it up ......wow....WWE actor huh
🤦♂️
4:00 Come on Doug, admit it. You like bunny girls. 🐰
geardog24 Well, he actually had to search for those images...
Wrong kind of bunny girls
I know I do 😁
He always struck me as a cat person
Carrot is best bunny girl
The narrator is the author of the book? That’s neat.
Maya Rudolph has a lot in common with Pierce Brosnan...two very likeable stars who should NEVER, EVER SING!
I’m confused...maya rudolph has sung before. Quite well too. What on earth happened?
wanna really blow yer mind? look up who Maya Rudolph's mother was.
@@urbanpreppie05 She has a voice for soul or jazz, if she is given the right material she can do it.
Last Guy Minn AMEN
Last Guy Minn You think THAT’S bad? You should hear Maya in “Big Mouth” on Netflix (e.g. “I Love My Body”)!
If I had a nickel for every time I liked this live special, I'd be in debt.
So, 1 cent?
Robby S but wait... that’s too much... no one LIKES this
Well, you aren't counting the people in Antarctica.
Do you want your Nickelback?
@@Giratina1999 no no I have enough fun shoving a cactus between my ears
Why was Brodrick even on screen? It should have been a voice over with Bryan Cranston
"The BB gun is not the danger I AM the danger."
Ralphie: Say my name
Scott Farkus: Ralphie
Ralphie: You're Goddamn Right!!
SwordOfTheRaven fun fact brodrick was going to be Walter white
"A kid with a red rider BB gun shoots his eye out and you think that of me? No! I am the one who fires!"
Theater wise it would have made more sence to have him backstage narrating,probably would have been very difficult tho.
This just proves even more that small town low budget plays are better, like I was just in a Christmas story the musical but he didn't even get paid but still did an amazing job and really payed justice to the original Jean Shepard. Also I don't no why but the songs especially you'll shoot your eye out just look and sound wrong like she's just putting emphasis in the wrong spots.
By the Power of the Holidays
I HAVE CHRISTMAS!!!
Liberalator: I'll get you chris-man and censor the power of christmas once and for all!
going the Whole She-Ra route eh
@@buraki7 THE PIZZA HE-MAN
YOU MUST EAT IT
AAAAAAAAH
And I say Chri I I stmas
16:41
"..I said the word."
That just about sums up Broderick's acting right there.
I think the teacher just killed the girl. The teacher is under investigation.
8:15 “There’s a profound Zen riddle in there somewhere, but I was distracted by another shitty song.” had me fuckin dying.
I think you under sold Jean Shepard a little. He was more than just the author giving acting a shot. He had a radio show and was definitely a professional. Brodrick still sucks though! Lol
Why couldn't we have had French Stewart for BOTH inspector gadget movies?!?
I've come to the conclusion Broderick is under mind control and his wonky acting really are his cries for help to be saved from it.
Wasn't Broderick a robot?
Agreed. When the critic talked about the original having great actors, great writing and great directing, he left out the GREAT NARRATOR! Jean Shepard is by far the best thing about the original movie.
He's also the voice of the Father in the current version of Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress at Disney World.
Is anyone else surprised that Fox never made a X-Men live show?
They did
@@FlameOnTheBeat but its a little different and is connected to the x men and its also called the gifted even though they don't add storm, Cyclops, jean etc so they added new mutants that we never seen
@@Destine064 Yeah, they're like the X-Men's C-Team, and they're fighting enemies not shown in the movies, like The Purifiers. No Sentinels, though, I don't think they have the bidget for giant flying purple robots.
There are two: The Gifted on FOX and LEGI(X)N on FX.
YOU SONS OF...
*SONS OF BITCHES F O X*
(BTW, is this A Christmas Story, or A Very Ferris Bueller Christmas?)
Both
@@DeathGodRiku Chika chikaaaaaahhhhhh.
MB was good in Ferris Bueller.
At least it's better than Inspector Ferris Gadget
@@louisduarte8763 huh?
Mad props for mentioning Amahl and the Night Visitors. That is one of my mom's favorites, watch it all the time.
I didn’t know the author narrated the original. I always thought it was Adam West
He also makes a cameo. He's the old man at the mall who tells Ralphie and Randy to go all the way to the back of the line.
You should find recordings of his old radio show. It's absolute brilliance! Basically the narrator from A Christmas Story telling even more silly tales about his life!
Grayson Christian I thought that was him too
LOL A Dark Christmas (k)Night ;P
Sarah McMann oh good I was thinking maybe I was the only one.
3:59 DOUG IS AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF ONE PIECE! DOUG! ONE PIECE! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
@@motor4X4kombat So the alternative is that Doug Walker was forced to type 'sexy furry bunnies' into google...
Option A and Option B are equally brilliant in my eyes.
Don’t get me wrong
Bebe Rexha is a beautiful woman
But it doesn’t match with A Christmas Story
I thought that was her. She's probably the best part of this special.... For me at least.
I thought that was Megan Trainor...
I think the idea is that Bebe and friends were gonna watch the movie so theyre technically not connected to A Christmas Story
Sant and his reinbe--deer
Reinbeer
He WAS drunk.
My family TRIED to sit through this, the lamp song made us give up.
I feel you. Me and my family gave up watching it when the BB Gun song played.
*LÄMP*
PorkyTheKing same we thought it looked good when we heard of it and slowly ripped out our ear drums
We fast-forwarded through ALL the musical numbers and it STILL sucked.
Mandy H it's soooo bad there is nothing good about it
Matthew Broderick falls into the same category s Jeff Goldblum, they are the awkward nerds (except Goldblum is the awkwardly charming nerd, while Broderick is the awkwardly awkward nerd). Maybe it's just because that was the hero archetype of my childhood, but it never bothered me. Or maybe it's because I am an awkward nerd myself. It kinda hit peak cringe with Napoleon Dynamite and we never looked back.
Actually, Broderick's best roles are not the awkward nerd. In War Games, Ferris Bueller, LadyHawke, etc. he's actually a bit of cocky asshole but had a charm that made you love the guy.
I wouldn't say Goldblums bad. Hell he's one of my favorite parts in whatever Wes Anderson movie he's in.
@AkuTenshiiZero
Well said
AkuTenshiiZero he was going to be Walter White
Its like Son Of The Mask: a Christmas Special
@LunarWolf I think that was a joke.
Wait they actually did that? What a world we live in.
A FAMILY Christmas Special.
DON'T give them any ideas...
@LunarWolf why the hell u ask that? Of course they fucking did not make that!
Disney saw Maya Rudolph in this and thought: Hey, why don’t we cast her in our musical sequel to Enchanted?
"Badder" was the best thing about Disenchanted.
@@brianjacobson297 I mean I love the personality and charisma Maya brought to it, she clearly put in her all. But let's be real, it was Amy carrying the music.
What's funny and ironic is Maya Rudolph's mom was a professional singer (Minnie Ripperton) that had a #1 hit. Apparently that musical talent did not translate well into her daughter.
I love ya, Critic, but, I never knew this was a thing, and, I kinda hate that you informed me that this was a thing. I don't think I can handle the level of cringe that even a review of this thing would give me. I respectfully have to nope out of this. Still, merry Christmas!
r/thanksihateit
69 likes, I like it
Why do I have a feeling Fox would turn Charlie and the chocolate factory into a Live Musical?
It would be good
There is A musical.
I meant one that would air on TV.
Oh.
Well there already is an onstage version....
This is exactly what they were spoofing in “Scrooged”.
jgfear Scrooged did it better, and you could totally see her nipple.
I can't wait till they remake The Night The Reindeer Died.
The fact that they did this is hilarious. It's like that comically exaggerated version of Scrooge they were putting on within the movie Scrooged. What once was clear parody is now shrugged-off reality.
To be fair, there's also a joke in there about there being eleven sports channels.
There are fourteen Sky Sports channels.
Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd on the same day. Yes please
I hate the excuse that "it's live doing it in one take is hard give them credit" uh HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF BROADWAY?!
Broadway is a stage show on a stage set with stage conventions. Audience have a pretty big willing suspension of disbelief when approaching those, entirely related to understanding the limits of the medium and they're especially notable because Broadway shows tend to push the medium to its limits. You can have actors exit the set and have a different background lower and then walk back on and the audience believes that they're now in a different location, for example. Broadway also has months of rehearsals to prepare and then those months pay off with selling tickets for daily or even twice daily shows for months on end. Not only do casts perfect it in rehearsal, but it becomes a well-oiled machine over time due to sheer number of actual performances. Live specials like these, though, use some stage conventions but mostly try to make a live performance look like a normal movie, meaning the sets are realistic and intricate and the actors have to move set to set, with multiple cameras and cuts and different locations, and the cast performs it once meaning they don't have those months and months of rehearsal and then daily performance to absolutely perfect it. The actors also tend to be movie and television actors, not Broadway actors, so they have a different level of comfort with live performance.
This comment is so fucking idiotic. Doing a well-flowing live performance is impressive anyway, Broadway or otherwise?
MegaKaitouKID1412 well maybe they shouldn’t hire regular actors....
I worked on this production and I can tell you, this is nothing like doing a Broadway production. We were all constantly on the move (cameras, actors, rigs, backdrops) all on an acre of WB backlot. So, people don't like the production. That's fine, but give consideration to the amount of effort put in by the hundreds of people involved in pulling off such an ambitious endeavor.
@@MegaKaitouKID1412 Actually, Christmas Story Live DID have months of rehearsals. I read the kid actors actually had their own tutors so they wouldn't fall behind on their education when they weren't rehearsing.
Either Nostalgia Critic or his Editor is questionably aware of Sexy Rabbits
Or his brother Rob
Rob is aware of Carrot from One piece and we have to live with the knowledge that he...... Might have done things while thinking about her.
Malcolm is a furry and in the sonic first viewing Doug himself implies he is a furry as well :P
@@varti546 I watch his Space Jam review, if doesn't feel like it.
@@jeremiahhester6408 maybe that was a long time ago before he became a fury.
I didn’t know the original was narrated by the author.
Acts circles around the “actor”
The movie was so bad it made this episode of nostalgia critic hard to watch.
The insult is aimed at the movie, not nostalgia critic.
Agree
Steten Ussing I feel the same for HOP.
Steten Ussing problem is that, there was a musical that this is based off, no it’s not based on the MOVIE, it was actually the MUSICAL
True
I honestly find the NC episode hard to watch. Not because I didn't see A Christmas Story Live, but because his love for the original movie and hatred for this is too much for me to enjoy. I did see A Christmas Story musical on stage a few years ago and it's fine. I'd say the same for this one if I see it, but this NC review isn't too funny or enjoyable, except for his reaction to Ralphie's close-up.
Disturbed by Maya’s singing in this special. I swear this woman can sing!
wishuwazmeh121 I think she was sick when this was filmed
She can actually sing but I think she did only high notes granted I only saw her do high notes singing back on SNL
It's twice as bad knowing her mother was Minnie Riperton.
Can she, really??
@@HD-fd7tn Walken was infamously ill in the Peter Pan live too, what the hell!?
04:02 OMG It's Carrot! Carrot for straw hat! One Piece fans rejoice lol
OH PRAISE SHE!
I personally hate watching live shows because of just how cringey they are.
My dad and I were not crazy impressed with ‘Sound of Music Live’ but liked Carrie Underwood as Maria and the wonderful Audra McDonald as Mother Superior. I watched ‘Peter Pan Live’ but who was in charge of the audio department was a wretched failure as you could never hear the songs (particularly Christopher Walken’s solos) and the speaking lines got muddled constantly. I skipped every one after that because they’re boring
@@LucyLioness100 Hairspray was pretty good from what I remember.
Same