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The Yummy Gummy Search for Santa is a 2012 American animated Christmas comedy film produced by Gummybear International and distributed by Lionsgate Home Entertainment based on the Gummibär series, preceded by the upcoming second film The Gummibär Movie: Operation Cotton Candy. It was directed by Bernie Denk and Jürgen Korduletsch, and was produced by Christian Schneider. The music score was largely composed and produced by Maci Schneider, who has also performed the singing voice of Gummibär.

The film is centered on the main protagonist Gummibär, a green gummy bear who is accompanied by his friends Kala, a female cat, Harry, a male chamaleon, and Vampiro, a Dracula-esque vampire bat, who are excited to celebrate Christmas. However, in a sudden moment, Santa Claus has been reported as missing during Christmas Eve, leading them to embark to North Pole on a search to find Santa as soon as possible in order to deliver the presents. The film also features the main antagonist Allen, a green alien from outer space who has kidnapped Santa and accepts Gummy's challenge for a dance duel to see who keeps Santa. The film also features sequences of Gummibär songs, both previously released and new songs that were specifically written for the film.

The film was released as direct-to-video on DVD on October 2012 in the United Kingdom, before being later exported to the United States on November 6, 2012. Subsequently, the full film would be officially uploaded on YouTube on November 29, 2014, now available for digital downloading and on-demand in streaming media services. The DVD release includes six animated music videos of Gummibär after the credits. The film was translated over 7 different languages across the world, including German, Hungarian, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Malayalam and Brazilian Portuguese.

Plot[]

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The film opens with a scene of the Gummy Bear Worldwide logo next to a reindeer roaring like a lion, referencing to the famous opening logo of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Afterwards, an angle of the house of Gummy and his friends is shown while the main title of the film appears, and then a narrating voice begins to recount the events of the night before Christmas, where everything is calm in the house, creating a magical atmosphere. However, the next moment, Santa Claus is shown to have trouble getting into the fireplace due to being overweight, while the other reindeer make fun of his weight from overeating. Eventually, Santa ends up being able to get in after a reindeer has stuck the chimney with his foot.

Credits[]

Cast[]

Role English voice actor
Gummy Sonja Ball (dialogue only)
Maci Schneider (songs only)
Kala Holly Gautier-Frankel
Harry Bruce Dinsmore
Vampiro Rick Jones
Allen Mike Paterson
Santa Walter Massey
Narrator Terrence Scammell
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Ronny Thor Bishopric, Pier Kohl
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Newscaster Pier Kohl
Head Elf Michael Rudder

Production[]

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  • Directed by: Bernie Denk, Jürgen Korduletsch
  • Produced by: Christian P. Schneider, Jürgen Korduletsch
  • Executive Producer: Michel Zgarka
  • Associate Producers: Christian A. Schneider, Matt Rosen, Vijay Amritraj
  • Storyline: Robert David Stevenson, Jürgen Korduletsch
  • Screenplay by: Robert David Stevenson, Leo St. Pierre
  • Original score composed, performed and produced by: Christian A. Schneider
  • Recorded At: Technicolor Creative Services
  • Additional Production: Tonekind Studios
  • Published by: Ed Gummibär, Rennefeld Music
  • Editor: Kelly Kincaid
  • Production Design & Art Direction: Valery Mihalkov
  • Character Design: Pete Dodd, Erika Riha
  • Voice Director: Rick Jones
  • Pre-Production: Cinegroupe Production Services
  • Executive Producer: Jacques Pettigrew
  • Line Producer: Andrew Makarewicz
  • Layout & Staging Artists: Jean Banville, Nicolas Fourcroy, Philippe Ouellet, Nicolas Pinet, Karine Jette, Joliane Lincourt, Emmanuel Pelletier, Michel Bergeron
  • Storyboard: Alexei Kazakov, Karine Charlebois
  • Voice Casting: Rona Zunenshine
  • Technical Direction 3D: Ghislain Roy-Veilleux
  • Production Manager: Nacira Ouamalich
  • Production Accountant: Nicolas Kanellopoulos
  • Legal Counsel: Mark Wener
  • Team Game-Ever Studios & Studio Manager: Zoltán Schmidt
  • Project Manager: Zoltán Magas
  • Storyboards & Character Graphics: Erika Riha
  • Layouts: Gyöngvér Némethi
  • 3D Artists: Dániel Domokos, Zoltán Magas, Tamás Rádli, Lászlo Farkas, Balázs Pápay
  • Rigging: Ervin Kaszap, Edina Harangozo, Zoltán Magas
  • Creative Head: Pankaj Khandpur
  • Animation Directors: Suhael Merchant, Shrirang Sathey
  • Technical Leads:
    • Asset Supervisor: Ravikumar Datla
    • Technical Supervisor: Subramanian M
  • Production:
    • Animation Producer: Mark Tarbox
    • Line Producer: Nimish Shah
    • Production Assistants: Kanchan Kavathe, Sahil Khurana
  • Programmer: Suresh S
  • Matte Painting: Mikeet Mukund Parkhe
  • Asset Team:
    • Modeling Team Lead: Prabu K
    • Modeling Artists: Hemant L Dangare, Madhav Kumar, Sandeep Ghatak, Abdul Salam
    • Texutring Team Lead: Syam Kumar V
    • Texturing Artists: Mam C Bhpal, Nayan Vajratkar, Vjay Kumar Rangu, Sanjay Shivram Nagulkar
    • Rigging Team Lead: Anil Kumar Singh
    • Rigging Artists: Suraj Kamble, Siva Sanmugam, Gaurav Arora
    • Background Team Lead: Suresh Bhandary
  • Animation Team:
    • Animation Department Supervisor: Rajesh V
    • Animation Leads: Deepak Ganguli, Paritosh Khumawat, Bhavesh Chawda
    • Animators: Afroz A Zulfiaz, Shaji Thomas, Sharad Komane, Hari Kumar Nair, Pramod Garud, Milind Salaskar, Manish Panchal, Piyush Mittal, Shraddha Bhavalkar, Rajashree Sammaddar, Uday Mumberekar, Sandeep S Hiray, Bala Saheb Shankar, Sanjeev S Garath, Hemal Desai, Tharun J, Phunu Das, Rajesh Parmar, Bonet Dabre, Shatabdi Dey, Chetan Panchal, Aniket Marathe, Santosh Talgaonkar, Sameer Mohammad

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Music[]

The film's music includes predominantly pre-existing Gummibär songs in several scene sequences, especially for featuring its most best known song I Am A Gummy Bear. It also features some other Gummibär songs from previously released albums, such as You Know It's Christmas, Nuki Nuki, and Dancin' Dancin'. However, there were several original compositions that were made specifically for the film. Some of these film scores would later be included in further Gummibär album releases, like Lucky Star and Singa Ringa Christmas, with some touch-ups such as more extended or altered versions.

The score film was composed, performed and produced by Maci Schneider. A soundtrack album of the film was never released.

Reception[]

The film has received very negative ratings, both critically and audiences because of its remarkably stretched storyline and very low-budget production, such as the animation and visuals, voice acting and the lack of character development, making it less entertaining and eye-catching but instead a film with a very predictable and cliché plot. It has also been criticized as a terrible attempt to translate a popular internet sensation character into a feature film, which some people find unnecessary.

The designs of the characters and their personalities have been criticized by some viewers for being uncomfortable, especially by Gummy and Kala for their obnoxious appearance and constant obscene jokes, which would be considered as excessive for an animated film designed especially for a younger audience.

Trivia[]

  • This film marks as the official debut of Kala, Harry and Vampiro after being absent from the cancelled animated television series of Gummibär. Since this film, these characters would later start to appear often in other Gummibär-related material, becoming part of the main cast.
  • Maci Schneider’s high-pitched autotuned Gummibär voice is not used for Gummy’s dialogue. Instead, the character was voiced by Sonja Ball, replicating the voice of a chubby American kid despite him being depicted as an adult. However, the autotuned voice can be still heard in the song sequences.
  • A second theatrical animated Gummibär film titled Gummy Bear 3D: The Movie was planned to start production on 2014, featuring the American actor John Travolta as the main voice actor of Gummibär. However, it would eventually be announced as cancelled, as it was never produced and two of the studios involved in the film would close after misleading the public with the budget.
  • Even though the film was generally released direct-to-video, it would get a theatrical release in Greece, in large part due to the immense popularity of the character in the country.
  • The film has been officially released in the Malayalam language, but it's known to be currently lost.

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