Review of Hooves of Fire

"Hooves of Fire" is a half-hour animated special for television that won quite a share of awards, such as BAFTA television award and also a prestigious honor at the Berlin Film Festival. I will not go into detail about the voice actors in here as you can check the list for yourself, but this is a pretty impressive lineup, especially in the American version. Maybe that one is already the superior one as the British original was not a great watch. There are many occasions when the film so obviously tries to be funny, but comes short completely. Yes there are a couple funny scenes and this is certainly not a complete failure, but it is not a good watch either I think. I myself did not like the animation style, but this is just personal preference of course. Finally, in terms of the story, this felt like a pretty weak version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to me. They obviously wanted to give it a more modern approach, but I cannot say that I liked what I saw. Not recommended, not even during the holidays. Thumbs down and I really hope the two sequels will be better.