Product Details

• Actors: Juan Chioran, George S. Irving, Mickey Rooney, Catherine Disher
• Directors: Dave Barton Thomas
• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: October 6, 2009
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001NPDO90
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,510 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "A Miser Brothers' Christmas (Deluxe Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing modern take on a classic, December 12, 2009

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GardenGuy42 "Man Who Knits" (FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Miser Brothers' Christmas (Deluxe Edition) (DVD)

I will give this 2 stars for nice stop-motion animation and colorful sets. They tried but they had a lousy story to work with. I realize that Rankin-Bass is history now but the "modern" take on these characters and the "new" story is just wrong on so many levels.

Mrs. Claus has none of the charm of the Shirley Booth character in the original "The Year Without a Santa Claus" and she looks like she is about 50 years older than Santa and she can't sing. Santa also lacks the charm of the original although still voiced by Mickey Rooney. The new elves, while admirably diverse, are charmless too and lacking lovability, especially the head elf who sounds like an accountant instead of one of Santa's jolly helpers. How modernly droll (not).

The Miser Brothers are OK but the new "improved" CEO version of Mother Nature and the huge-chinned North Wind? What on Earth? A useless peripheral character with zero interest as a villain.

The music is the worst I've heard on one of these, sounding like someone's teenager wrote it in the garage on their WalMart guitar in about 2 days. You won't be singing these songs again and again nor hearing them covered by any recording artist on a Christmas album. The original Misers song is the only highlight musically.

Too bad -- I really wanted to like this. A poor effort at capturing the magic of the old Christmas stop motion specials clearly made to make money and not delight children and adults alike.

21 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars far from a classic, December 20, 2009

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Sierra6588 (U.S.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Miser Brothers' Christmas (Deluxe Edition) (DVD)

As adults who grew up watching the classic animations "the year without a santa claus" and "rudolph the red-nosed reindeer," we really wanted to like this, but it just doesn't compare to the old classics of yesteryear. maybe it's because we watched the old shows for years, and maybe that holds a bit of nostalgia because of our childhood, but this pale rip off of the rankin-bass animations of the 60's is really off the mark. it has none of the charm or fun of the originals, not does it have any of the memorable characters or music. it LOOKS really great, and the style of animation is very true to the old shows, but the writing is just dreadful.
the only good part is the re-hashing of the old song between the Miser bros.from the first "year without..." someone obviously spent a great deal of effort to recreate the look and style of the genre, and the animation IS well done, and it has moments of cuteness, but, for anyone who loved the original, and is over 5 years old, this show is really LAME!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny!, December 8, 2009

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Janet Boyer "Author, Blogger, Radio Host" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Miser Brothers' Christmas (Deluxe Edition) (DVD)

I bought this for my 11-year old and he LOVES it! In fact, he's already watched it three times.

Because I'm a fan of the old-school Rankin/Bass stop-motion cartoons, including The Year Without a Santa Claus, I thought the Miser Brothers' Christmas would be a nice addition to our holiday collection (especially since the Heat Miser song has been a staple with me for decades!)

Even my husband liked this 44-minute DVD. In a nutshell, Mother Nature has a family reunion with her "children", including The Tides, Earthquake, North Wind and the Miser Brothers (Heat Miser and Snow Miser).

The narcissistic lavender-hued North Wind poses an unusual question during the meeting: if something happened to Santa Claus, who would deliver the presents to the good children? Since the North Pole falls under the domain of the North Wind, it's determined that he would be in charge.

Enter evil plan to destroy Santa and take over Christmas!

Will the Heat Miser and Snow Miser be able to put aside their differences to help Santa? And what happens when Santa throws out his back right before Christmas? Who sabotaged Santa's sleigh...and can elf Tinsel, chief engineer, remedy the situation?

The animation is fantastic in this DVD (yes, it appears to be stop-motion!) The hair of the Heat Miser is especially cool, as is the slick icy mane of the Snow Miser.

If you enjoyed the Miser Brothers in The Year Without a Santa Claus, I think you and your children will like A Miser Brothers' Christmas. I know we did!

-- Janet Boyer, author of Back in Time Tarot