Tiny Toon Adventures (TV Series) It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special (1992) User Reviews

A simple forward Holiday special.

[emasterslake · 8/10 · 19 May 2007]

Like all great shows,Tiny Toons has it's own little Christmas special. And it's a down right parody to "It's a Wonderful Life".

After trying to manage the performance of the Christmas acts for the prime time special. Buster feels as if he's not cut out to direct a holiday special, and can't keep the acts together. Which were secretly sabotage by Montana Max(who was outraged that he can't get a part).

So Buster leaves and decides to end it all by jumping out of the picture. Right until another rabbit(who resembles Jimmy Stewart) came falling out of the sky. And prevented Buster from sacrificing himself. The rabbit is his Guardian Toon Angel who was sent to help him out. Buster thinks all his friends would be better off if he was never in Tiny Toons.

And for that the Stewart Rabbit granted his wish. And Buster finds himself in alternate reality. It takes awhile for him to except the fact that he now never existed. And will discover that his friends really do need him around.

Despite it being only half an hour. This holiday special does manage to feature the usual gags, jokes, and celebrity cameos all fitted into one. I like how they parodied "It's a Wonderful Life" throughout the whole story. Not to mention Bob Hope and Cher appearing as the guest celebrities for the prime time special that Buster was trying to make. It has more than 3 funny parts, which I give credit to in making this watchable from time to time.

That and this marks as the series finale for the Tiny Toons series. But a couple more specials were made after wards. If it ever gets a DVD release buy it, if you like Tiny Toons.

A Funny Holiday Tradition

[StreepFan126 · 10/10 · 8 November 2002]

This Christmas special has the Tiny Toons doing their own version of Its A Wonderful Life. While, Buster is trying to get the holiday special underway, he writes out Monty's part thinking he won't show up. When Monty finally does show up, he is mad at being written out. He then causes havoc on the special, making Buster look bad, and then bribes the network execs to put him in charge. Buster, no feeling worthless decides to throw himself out of cartoons. That's when his guardian angel shows up!

Incredible

[strhoads5-1 · 10/10 · 8 October 2003]

Wonderful tv special! One of my fav Tiny Toon and all christmas specials. But where's the Tiny Toons movie? Tiny Toons-How I spent my summer? Or Tiny Toons Music Videos tape? I can't find them here so I can review them. I love that movie seen in the movie! That's still the funniest scene from any movie!

Wonderful indeed

[TheLittleSongbird · 10/10 · 20 September 2021]

It is hard to not expect a lot from watching "It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special". While there are episodes that are a lot weaker than others, at its best 'Tiny Toon Adventures' as a show is absolutely fantastic and a personal favourite. My love for Christmas is also well known already by now and it is always worthwhile seeing one of my favourite films 'It's a Wonderful Life' parodied. The story does not sound original but the show often excelled when it came to parodies and some of the best episodes are parodies.

And "It's A Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special" definitely excels on this front. It is what 'Tiny Toon Adventures' and the holiday is all about and a wonderful example of why animation is one of my favourite mediums. Parodying 'It's a Wonderful Life' or having a story taking inspiration from it may not be an innovative premise, but the execution feels fresh and has all the fun and charm of the best 'Tiny Toon Adventures' episodes. What a way to end the show.

The animation is colourful and crisp, delivering beautifully in the typically wacky facial expressions and reactions. Music is always important for me to talk about when it comes to anything, being a musician, and the incidental music has a lot of lush character cleverly done. The theme tune is still infectiously catchy, one of my favourites of any animated show of the 90s.

Writing is pretty much spot on, some of the best, funniest and cleverest of the later episodes when the episodes quality varied more. The humour is insanely funny and very smart, with sharply timed gags (physical and verbal), that the episode is never in short supply of, and even wittier dialogue. There is enough for children to understand and laugh at, no this is not humour that is going to go completely over their heads. There is plenty for adults too, with the story being more familiar to older viewers as well as references.

But there is also a lot of heart here. Everything with Buster has the risk of being mean-spirited and it was close to going that way with the treatment of Max, but once you see how he is characterised throughout the story with the guardian angel (indeed reminiscent of James Stewart) it is easy to feel empathy for him. There is some feel good charm and the latter portions have poignancy.

Every character featured shine in their own way. Montana Max is an absolute riot in a way that he hasn't been for goodness knows how long and Buster's writing has a lot of meat to it. The voice acting is never less than excellent, everybody is without complaint.

Concluding, wonderful. 10/10.

Amazing Special

[sarahthebaldifan · 10/10 · 28 February 2021]

I like this episode and my favorite part is how Montana Max is extremely hunky on the TV in his business looniversity. Made my jaw drop, and my heart was beating so fast, and I was sweating. I needed some ice to cool my self down lol, but, cool episode! I enjoyed it.