Product Description

All your favorite characters from the All Dogs Go To Heaven children's series are back in this captivating canine retelling of a Christmas classic the whole family will love! It'sshaping up to be a wonderful Christmas for all the precious pooches at the Flea Bite Cafe. There's shining packages, sparkling decorations, and even a hefty donation fund for Timmy, a lovable little pup who's in need of an operation. But the festivities and good will don't mean anything to Carface,a big bully of a bulldog. Carface doesn't like Christmas. In fact, he even hates it. And together with his bad dog buddies, he's come up with a plan to ruin itfor everybody! But that's when Charlie and Itchy step in andwith a little divine interventiondevise a brilliant plan of their own to save Christmas and transform Carface from a holiday humbug to a bonafide Yuletide hero!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18123 in DVD
• Brand: TCFHE/MGM
• Released on: 1998-11-17
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 73 minutes

Amazon.com
Another straight-to-video sequel of a so-so animated film. The original 1989 All Dogs Go to Heaven was hardly inspired but contained expert Don Bluth animation and the amusing voices of Burt Reynolds and his gang. Now Steven Weber voices the animated mutt Charlie who is still palling around with the same gang through three movies and an animated series. Here the arch villain, Carface (Ernest Borgnine), gets the traditional Dickens treatment of being visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. The opening number, "When I Hear a Christmas Carol," is a good start, but soon TV-ish animation and the low humor wears one down. Kids who like the earlier Dog efforts won't be disappointed, but the entire series can never be defined as great entertainment. The saving grace is the foolproof Christmas Carol visitations. --Doug Thomas

Customer Reviews

I love The Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The movie is a very good christmas movie,
and deserves a 5. I wish they made more movies like this.
The movie is about carface a greety dog who steels this little puppy's money for his broken leg. Then Charlie, itchy, and sasha
make a plan to show carface what will happen to him in the past and in the future. It's a christmas carol movie, in a dog version. See the movie. It's very entertaining.

Reminiscent of Batman and Robin and The Wizard of Oz
This is one of the best animated versions of "A Christmas Carol" available, in my opinion, but not because of its fidelity to the novel by Charles Dickens. Although it borrows enough elements from the Dickens classic to be recognizable as a version of that popular Christmas story, it also has elements more reminiscent of an episode of "Batman and Robin," or "The Wizard of Oz." The plots and sub-plots are complex, and the characters well developed. The graphics are better than those in most animated versions, too. I would recommend this version to people unfamiliar with "A Christmas Carol" as a family-oriented Christmas movie that stands on its own merits, as well as to people, like me, who collect as many different versions of "A Christmas Carol" as they can!

Overall the All Dogs series is a very good series
Overall the DVD was good and very much appropriate for young children. However, after a couple of weeks it had fallen to the back of his preference list. We've not watched it in over a year now. I guess this isn't so different from any other DVD we have.

I would recommend this for young children. It does have quite a few concepts that are not appropriate, but are presented in a way that is way over the heads of children adn does have a few scenes that very concervative parents may term violent.