Nostalgia Critic: Babes in Toyland

[@never4212]

OK, this movie's beyond silly, but the actors do seem to be genuinely trying to embrace the camp. :)

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

funny thing is...compared to the better version of Babes in Toyland, I like the villain's outfit, it was quite well-elaborated, with the featers that made him look lik a vulture or a raven. A nice touch.

[@hackman669]

MrKlausbaudelaire That's the only redeemable feature in this garage based film.

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

hackman669 pretty much, the villain's outfit. Although hthe Disney version went for the traditional tophat and thin mustache, which was never gets old ^^

[@jekblom123]

Hands down March of the Wooden Soldiers with Laurel and Hardy kicks this movie's ass.

[@MagpieDynamics]

I remember seeing that. It was weird. Entertaining, but really weird.

[@Caldella]

I was just thinking that. Even their effects and wooden soldiers were done better. Way better.

[@mrs.awesome5371]

BOOOO YAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kiarastardust]

I played one of the toy soldiers in the musical version of this.

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

Well she was a nine year old reading cookbooks and wanting a blender for Christmas so.... Oh and Toyland looks more like a furry convention than anything else. :)

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

***** That sounds about right. She wanted it to make margaritas. :)

[@hackman669]

Chris McWilliams This film was made when parents still taught their kids useful skills like cooking, hard work, job skills and basic morality. Then the 1990s happened. Clinton went public with his addiction of women, the gay movement got out of hand, the radio stations started to support gangster rap and anything evil, kids became obsessed with video games and many parents stopped caring.

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

hackman669 So wanting the same rights as everyone else is 'out of hand'? Wow, surprised I can hear you all the way from the 1950's.

[@hackman669]

Chris McWilliams I did not mean any disrespect. I meant to say that the movement was pushed out of perspective. Remember during the late 1990s with the OJ Simpson trial? The trial became a media frenzy and was featured overkill. They even cancelled children's programing to show the trial! How does a murder trial of a defamed athlete have to do with children and wasting countless hours on a guy that only a hard core sports fan cares about? In the same context the gay liberation movement was pushed into everything. You couldn't even watch a tv movie without some politician or even a religious nut putting his, and it was almost always a guy, two cents in.

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

hackman669 I do agree the OJ trial coverage was ridiculous however I guess people were watching and it got the ratings they want. As for the rest I'm still a little fuzzy on where you're coming from exactly.

[@jamesmccarthy962]

Keanu Reeves has a lot more emotion here. He occasionally breaks monotone and even smiles

[@TKize777]

I like when he goes berserk and guns down all the toys and the bowling ball guys

[@frostbite6477]

georgie porgie is a guy in a nursery rhyme. "georgie porgie, pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry, when the boys came out to play, georgie porgie ran away." yeah i would stay away from someone with that name...

[@frostbite6477]

Lone Wanderer Holy shit that's awesome!!!

[@azbrowne]

That nursery rhyme is a sub conscious message saying not to be your promiscuous man.

[@TheRealJames76]

Alex-Zander Browne No, it was based on the Thanksgiving Pilgrims' king's friend, George, who was also known as "Georgie Porgie".

[@shaolin4959]

Laurel Norman andrew dice clay

[@TheRealJames76]

shaolin fingerjab Who?

[@boopityboopboop]

at least young keanu reeves was adorbs

[@necasperaterent29386]

Gotta admit... Seeing a title like "Babes in Toyland", I would expect a different movie...

[@hackman669]

***** I solely blame Clinton for this.

[@hackman669]

***** I solely blame Clinton for this.

[@SavaanahTrick]

Not gonna lie when I saw this as a little kid....I wanted to ride in those cars -.-;

[@hackman669]

SavaanahTrick Oh no it's retro Disney all over again!

[@pkmnmasteralexa101]

...I'm from Cincinnati Ohio, and I'm pretty sure we don't break out into song like tha- wait... yes we do! :D

[@Justanotherblackman]

Actually.... you are so wrong! you see I'm from Cincinnati and I know for a fact if you start singing songs like that from out of nowhere you get shot murdered raped. also that smoke that supposed turn you evil anybody from Cincinnati inhaling that smoke with automatically turn into a monster from a Kaiju movie.

[@TDProductions182]

As bad as this movie is, I can't help but feel charmed by it.

[@asifmetal666]

Ur charmed by Drew Barrymore definitely

[@DeadhunterThe]

I love Christmas too, but I could really do without the heavy traffic, crowds, noise, and long lines in stores. The only thing resembling a downside to the holiday. But other that that, I LOVE it! I especially like the Salvation Army outside stores with their bells and kettles taking in donations for the poor, and the United States Marines collecting money and presents for Toys For Tots. I love seeing that commercial of the little girl talking to a Marine who's standing still not making a move or a facial gesture. She's asking him if he is Santa Claus and telling him that she has a wishlist for Christmas. Then the Marine opens his gloved hand a bit offering to take the slip of paper the list is written out on and she hands it to him. I LOVE that commercial! It makes me want to cry.

[@vineethonkan]

Love the Critic's take on the Asian Santa with the Chinese food names for the reindeer...lol

[@well-dressed-bird]

Oh he's gonna get canceled for that one in 2021. Lol

[@JennieRose8]

I have no idea why- but you played the "Go-go Powerwheels" along with the Keanu Reeves-in-a-giant-toy-car-scene, I busted out laughing. Hilarious. Thank you.

[@TheChaosDragoness]

Oh my gods, I remember my music teacher showing this to us when I was in 4th grade...The only thing that made it bearable was my crush at the time sitting next to me and joking about it with me xD

[@primes1937]

*Critic opens a present and finds a box inside* "IT'S A BOX!" I laughed because this is actually a running joke in my house around Christmas, birthdays, or other holidays involving presents. We hide the actual present inside a box, wrap the box, and when they open it, we all say "It's a box!"

[@BGfootballfan]

babes in toyland sounds like a porno

[@hackman669]

BGfootballfan Babe used to mean young child, like in Spanish Ninjas means little kid.

[@TomboTime]

I am thoroughly entertained by the fact that Theodore "Ted" Logan is in a movie called "BABES in Toyland". When you hear that title and then hear Keanu Reeves is in it, you kind of think of it as a completely different movie.

[@theAngryscotman]

TomboTime "All the cookies are gone? That's totally bogus!"

[@amandaegeskovhald8222]

I'm sure that actor felt like a real man when he drove around in the pink flower car. Too funny xD

[@Ixapter]

18:22 = That's EXACTLY what it needed. :)

[@patgogan7324]

That shot of reeves in the little pink car ...this man is John Wick now

[@Pagemaster22193]

And ironically America's sweetheart. Who knew all he had to do was star in a movie where a killed a bunch of people for killing his puppy? Actually that makes sense.

[@emilypatterson7988]

That 'car chase scene' reminds me so much of the final round of Takeshi's Castle. Tell me I'm not alone on this!

[@Usernamesdontmatter1]

8:48 Man....Count Orlok sure let himself go.....poor guy even threw out his back.

[@Tuvok_Shakur]

I watched this movie a lot as a child lol that mario kart music made me laugh my ass off

[@MrAwsomeness360]

Wow, Humpty Dumpty wanted to get out this movie pretty badly, so he decided to kill himself. I don't blame him, I'd kill myself too if I had to be in this stinker.

[@Fritic87]

The Keanu´s reaction is just.... well... RAD!!!!!

[@tonyboccia3599]

I saw the play version of this, and Jack was framed for killing one of the three little pigs

[@hackman669]

tony boccia What a great shot! Fry up the BBQ and let's have some bacon!

[@therojowo]

+tony boccia That's what happened in the 1934 Film.

[@teallineart8805]

Weird. I suddenly imagine critic as scrooge

[@Lurvy1963]

After seeing this, I prefer the original Babes In Toyland that starred Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy back in 1934. At least their Toyland looked like a town out of children's old nursery rhymes and fairy tales. The sets in this one have no imagination. I liked the villainous Barnaby character back then as well. A crooked man living in a crooked house......not a bowling ball! I preferred his army of Boogymen over rancid Christmas tree monsters. They came close to demolishing Toyland if it weren't for Laurel and Hardy bringing an entire army of 6 ft wooden soldiers to life to combat Barnaby and the Boogymen. Want to watch Babes In Toyland? I recommend that version over this stale 1986 one.

[@Lurvy1963]

Jack Nightshade Frost True. But it was also known as Babes In Toyland.

[@kiarastardust]

I played one of those wooden soldiers in the musical.

[@jayblade2000]

That 'I dream of Jenie" joke was priceless

[@sskwerth]

I remember watching this movie when I was 7. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that it scared the shit off me... Then I remember I was 7, almost everything scared me then.

[@TheAndrewj96]

"Here. Have a raspberry ripple." "Wow, look at all the powdered sugar!" "...That's not powdered sugar." LOL

[@MrKilljoy000001]

This movie is horribly insulting Cincinnati when it's like any other city.

[@sonic76994]

Or Empowering...

[@BlumenCT]

have you been to ohio

[@sonic76994]

nope i dont have the money or time...

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

When they fall down those trap doors I keep thinking about this clip from Kim Possible where Duff Kiligan escapes thru a trap door and Ron just stands there and says "Suddenly the world is full of holes that people just whoosh away in."

[@azbrowne]

Indeed.

[@HinataChick38]

He's the guy that made those Christmas movies everyone has seen like, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, The Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the Snowman, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Jack Frost, and a lot of others.

[@Ultrabalor]

10:14-18. "No seriously honey, we're in France! *smack* Ow!"

[@stagpie6449]

I had no idea they made a live action Animal Crossing film

[@KubatheChangeling]

+Stagpie Talks Nice. X3

[@yourmother7052]

This might actually make a good Animal Crossing game, weirdly enough.

[@freneticgamer4174]

The moment with Humpty Dumpty had me choking with laughter. Priceless joke and moment.

[@docdave15]

to me that place looked more like one of those 1800s villages. You know where everyone is like "We don't have none of those fancy technology that ya'll have."

[@AGM-TRAINS]

The original one in 1934 with Laurel and Hardy was really good and today a lot of people forget about it. I think it goes by “March of the wooden soldiers” now but still a classic

[@leeiif]

it's so hard to cry with no eyes.

[@InconspicuousBot]

The irony of your Paris joke is that there is a Paris, TN, so the picture of the barn was pretty accurate.

[@mrsnowman5721]

for as Godawful as this movie is it has neat set design did you know the movie was actually filmed in Bavaria Studios, Germany

[@saxyrep1]

This flick was an obvious attempt from Disney to make Wizard of Oz of the 80's.

[@MrZerothejedi]

No jokes about the yanking and janking of that driving wheel? None?

[@PhoenixHealing]

What really drove me crazy about the Disney Babes in Toyland was that one scene where the good guy and bad guy are shrunk by that toy machine or whatever and start fighting. They are fighting while the heroine, full-sized heroine sits in a corner cowering. She's f-ing the size of a skyscraper compared to them but because it's the 60's she should be useless no matter if she could pick the bad guy up and hurl him across the room. Gad!

[@therojowo]

My favorite version is the 1934 version. The one with Laurel and Hardy.

[@dutchmcgee101]

YAY. thanks talkingtaco27, i really appreciate your hardwork with this in uploading it.

[@johnnymccraze]

This movie wouldn't be so bad if Toyland didn't seem so dusty and grimy. Cincinnati was cleaner than that place! CINCINNATI, PEOPLE!

[@interceptthis4141]

They use to make us watch this in music class when I was in elementary school

[@Magicg-oo4vz]

Now egg roll now fried rice musho with ham on wonton on dumpling on muko Gai pan. Best thing ever.

[@JimmySteller]

3:40-3:42 Not going to lie, that's actually one of Keanu's shining attempts at being funny. And I don't even know if he was trying to be funny.

[@DonJuansDaddy]

This is a rip off of Wizard of Oz. A girl, feeling like a child in her own world, encounters the evil character (lady on the bike, toy store owner). She gets knocked out. Goes to imaginary world. Toy Maker/Wizard does absolutely nothing.

[@MrWhitman]

I'm surprised that Georgie Porgie didn't have pudding pie, then kissed the girl, and made her cry.

[@brb1006]

Are you kidding me!? He's the guy who created classic Christmas special's like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman!

[@KangaKucha]

When I finshed watched this and saw the karts I was already thinking this is like the game I played that latter I was happy to see get featured ;) Anyone else think the same?

[@johnnakhadray6414]

A box as a gift? Must for The Angry Video Game Nerd he sure loves his boxes.

[@lucienlachance2476]

Hurricane Canuck. 😂😂😂 that was the most amazing joke ever

[@dzhellek]

Singing about Cincinnati in a Suzuki Samurai. So super swell!!

[@Guigley]

3:52 He's right. That is definitely a Keanu moment.

[@HORRIOR1]

1:19 Anyone else hear that "Babes in Toilet" the first time they heard that part?

[@thedragon133]

18:22 Oh god, the NOSTALGIA!

[@matthewbrodnitz1047]

22:57 Am I the only one who found the "Santa Crause" joke explicitly racist? I'm sure a few million people in the world depict Santa Claus as Asian. I don't care what ethnicity he's depicted as because he's not real.

[@itlooksdelicious7388]

Shut the fuck up lmfao

[@johnalogue9832]

Because white people from Cincinnati being the main characters implies Asian Santa. It's a matter of context.

[@Montork]

its so weird its been five years since occupy wallstreet.. and since nostagia critic was fun.

[@themultiversalist5564]

The Toymaster: “I’m going to let you in on a little secret, children. Actually a very big secret. A secret I have never shared with anyone before.” “What secret?” The Toymaster reaches down to his pants. Nostalgia Critic: “Oh my god, no!” The Toymaster brings something up. Nostalgia Critic: “Oh.” Gad, I almost died at this moment.

[@ukhistorian]

Watch it, Doug. I liked Boxes when I was a kid. I pretended to drive a car.

[@Quintega]

I did not remember what this was called yet I used to love it as a toddler

[@PeterHowe228]

I have one question, if the toy soldiers can't come out as long as one person in the building doesn't believe in them, wouldn't it have saved valuable time to just ask Drew Barrymore's character to leave?

[@BwayDreamer1128]

has anybody else been having problems getting on Nostalgia Critic's website lately? I've been trying to go onto his page for the past few days and keep getting this "502 Gateway Error" page. Is anybody else having this issue or is it just my computer?

[@TLSoulDude]

Everything before 0:06 I jumped when his head exploded...NOT a joke.

[@docdave15]

Has anybody else noticed that this version of Babes in Toyland is basically a ripoff of The Wizard of Oz (the 1939 movie to be more precise)? Think about it, this is about a girl who gets transported to a "magical" world after an accident in a storm, meets people that look like people she knows in the real world and by the end has a better appreciation of the life she has. (Well in an extremely contrived way) Also, I'm from Cincinnati, we don't sing that song.

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

Thank God Keanu redeemed himself with John Wick.

[@srbarkerchan]

"No seriously, honey. We're in France. *punch* Ow!

[@VashWolfwood1]

He forgot the scene with the jar that was labeled "Cocaine"! lol XD

[@CapnJigglypuff]

I was totally pumped for the Ghost of Christmas Phelous too...

[@TheInkPitOx]

I don't get it

[@saizerboy]

2 guys went on a paris barn and thought that they were in France.

[@NintendOtaku96]

Even though Phelous has reviewed it already, I'd kind of like to see Critic review Jack Frost, the killer snowman one.

[@Bettersucksaul]

Hey I live in Cincinnati, OH. CINCINASTY REPRESENT!!!

[@Justanotherblackman]

If you live in Cincinnati you know damn well that this is not nowhere near how people act around here.

[@GrubStLodger]

CS Lewis transported some of the children to Narnia by the medium of massive train crash.

[@danieltreshner4955]

Am I the only one that thinks that the Toymaster should've said "Where there is darkness, there is always a light"? Rather than "There's some good in him"

[@nintendo917]

The gateway error is gone now, the site's fine now

[@MforMovesets]

That song at the end sounds like it was done by Seth Mc Farlane.

[@Killgore114]

Is it strange that I knew of this film first, liked it and then saw the Disney version? My perspective changed after watching the Disney one anyway.

[@MrsSunshineinabag]

Good I've seen local kids shows with better production values.

[@ukhistorian]

I got excited when he played the Mario Kart music.

[@LuriTV]

11:30 Cookie Clicker proofed you wrong!

[@classicrocker13able]

I would like to know the marching song the Nostalgia Critic was spoofing when the toy soldiers attacked.

[@TheCantbelieveit]

There's Bill and Ted' Excellent Kwanzaa. LOL!

[@bryannacassidy1806]

The boss in this movie is creepy.

[@hitmanwolf]

Mr. Anderson surely had better talent at trying to act like a human being back in the day. xD

[@GriffinPilgrim]

Small credit for they soldier's salute matching his uniform despite it being an American film. Very small credit.

[@Random_Booby]

Am I the only one that would have found it funny if it turned out her family was watching the Karate Kid while she was passed out?

[@petercharleskrug]

@helljumpr5150 I'm assuming he's refering to the live-action Jim Carry movie. He did put the Grinch song (from the old animated movie) on his list of top 11 favorite villain songs.

[@kirbynat493]

the Ghost of Christmas Future should show up again! that was HILARIOUS. i think he did in the Scooby Doo review.

[@12yellowcab]

barnaby and the nosferatu brothers sounds like a show from the 30's

[@spongebobrandomer]

WELL YES

[@LeoandLamb]

7:03 Georgie Porgie?! Huh, so this was his life before he lost weight, moved to Fabeltown and became a pimp?

[@caleblintern9480]

+LeoandLamb LOL wolf among us reference.

[@mchangalot]

There is one thing that bothers me about not just nostalgia critic but people in general. I don't enjoy the holidays. I don't. I don't have to go into detail because my reasons are my own. But i have to point out that because of that i see these holiday movies are very different for me. They have a meaning for me that just equate to other people. I also have to point out that a lot of people also don't like this time of year. So here it is. I have problem with people who enjoy things that i don't. Weird right? However all i really want is someone to point this out. There are people who inately don't enjoy these things. So instead of doing things like this, show us the true greatness of humanity and why things are great this time of year. Just do it. I know it's not hard. But come on, we just need more of it.

[@robguerra4058]

Humpty Dumpty is in like 90% of the shots that are outside.