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Sunday, 22 December 2024

Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind (2007)


What better way to liven up a stale franchise than to add aliens? Robbie and Donner are on the verge of marriage when he discovers a Nargathron crystal and a message warning him of an extraterrestrial plot that signals the end of the world (or something like that; the plot is kind of incomprehensible). I hate docking animation for lack of vision, but at this point it's diminishing returns.

2 telepathy devices out of 5

Note: Apparently this was an entirely computer-generated special, but it does a good job at mimicking the previous stop-motion designs.

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