Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (live-action)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is an American Christmas musical fantasy film directed by Jon Favrea, produced by Universal Studios and written by GuitarGod96. Based on the Johnny Marks song of the same name and inspired by the 1964 Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated television special, the film is a live-action/CGI film that tells the story of Rudolph, a young reindeer who was born with a glowing red nose who becomes outcasted by all the other reindeer. He meets Hermey, and elf who wants to be a dentist, and the two out to find a better place for them.

Plot
Sam the Snowman welcomes the viewers to Christmastown at the North Pole and introduces Santa and Mrs. Claus who live in a castle located north of the Christmas Tree Forest. Mrs. Claus fusses over Santa as she wants him to fatten up by Christmas Eve. Sam then recalls the year Christmas was almost cancelled due to a snowstorm and tells the story of how a very special reindeer saved the day.

Donner, Santa's lead reindeer, and his wife have given birth to their new baby fawn, Rudolph. Upon admiring him, they are surprised to see that Rudolph has been born with a glowing red nose. When Santa arrives, he warns Donner that Rudolph will not make the sleigh team because of his nose. Donner then decides to hide the nose by covering it with mud to allow Rudolph to fit in with all the other reindeer.

Over Rudolph's first year of life, Donner trains him in the basics of being a reindeer, including hiding from the Abominable Snow Monster of the North. Rudolph enters the reindeer games, competing against his fellow fawns and befriends a young buck named Fireball. During flight practice, Rudolph meets a doe named Clarice who tells him he is cute, and kisses him, which causes an elated Rudolph to fly higher and faster than everyone else. However, while celebrating with Fireball, Rudolph's nose cover pops off, and Fireball and the others react with fear, then scorn and finally rejection as Rudolph is kicked out of the Reindeer Games by the coach Comet. Walking away, Rudolph walks with Clarice, who supports him, until her father firmly tells her to never have any more contact with a red-nosed reindeer. Rudolph tried to apologize to his father, but Donner just turned away from him. Mrs. Donner tries to cheer up Rudolph by telling him that he's special and people say and do mean things because they're just afraid. Rudolph decides to run away.

Then, Rudolph meets up with Hermey, an elf who ran away from Santa's workshop because he wanted to be a dentist instead of making toys, and they decide to run away together. The pair then meet a prospector named Yukon Cornelius, who has fruitlessly searched his whole life for silver and gold. After escaping the snow monster on an ice floe, the trio crash land on the Island of Misfit Toys where unloved or unwanted toys live with their ruler, a winged lion named King Moonracer. The king allows the group to stay one night on the island in exchange for returning to Christmastown to ask Santa to find homes for the unwanted toys. However, Rudolph leaves the island in the middle of the night on his own, fearing that his nose, which attracts the snow monster, will endanger his friends.

Time goes by and Rudolph grows into adulthood; he tries and fails to find a place to settle where he will be accepted despite his nose, and eventually decides to return home. There, he finds that his parents and Clarice have been out looking for him for months; he sets out once again to find them, only to discover that the snow monster has captured them. Rudolph tries to save Clarice and his parents from being eaten, but the monster hits him in the head with a stalactite, dazing him. Hermey and Yukon return to Christmastown and go to save Rudolph. Hermey, posing as a pig, lures the monster out of his cave and Yukon drops rocks on his head to knock him out. Hermey then pulls out all the monster's teeth; the monster regains consciousness and attempts to attack the group again before discovering this. Yukon drives the toothless (and now terrified) monster back, only to end up tackling it over a cliff with all his pack dogs. Mourning Yukon's presumed death, Rudolph reconciles with his father, and the gang return home. After hearing the group's story, everyone apologizes to Rudolph and Hermey for their mistreatment, and Santa welcomes them back to Christmastown, promising that he will find homes for the Misfit Toys; in addition, Hermey opens his own dentist's office, and Clarice's father apologizes for being so hard on Rudolph. Yukon then returns with a reformed snow monster (Yukon notes that they bounce) and demonstrates the beast's ability to trim a Christmas tree. While everybody's celebrating, Santa interrupts, grimly informing everyone that because of the storm, he is forced to cancel the Christmas trip. Santa is soon distracted by Rudolph's red nose and realizes that its light could cut through the storm. He asks Rudolph to lead the sleigh and Rudolph agrees. The team then flies off to the island, pick up the toys and takes them to their new homes.

When Rudolph returned to the North pole, everyone rejoiced including Clarice who gave Rudolph another kiss. The film ends with everyone in the town having a party in honor of Rudolph saving Christmas.

Cast
Justin Timberlake as Rudolph Scarlett Johansson as Clarice Warwick Davis as Hermey the Elf
 * Jacob Tremblay as young Rudolph
 * Jackie Evancho as young Clarice

John Goodman as Santa Claus

Roseanne Barr as Mrs. Claus

Jeff Bridges as Yukon Cornelius

Jack Black as Sam the Snowman

Peter Dinklage as The Head Elf

Idris Elba as King Moonracer

Hugh Jackman as Donner

Maya Rudolph as Mrs. Donner

Jim Rash as Charlie-in-the-box (voice)

Elsie Fisher as Dolly (voice)

Jeff Garlin as Spotted Elephant (voice)

Songs

 * There's Always Tomorrow
 * We're a Couple of Misfits
 * Silver and Gold
 * The Most Wonderful Day of the Year
 * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer