Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure

Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure is a 2005, straight-to-video, animated film. It is based on the 2002 version of the classic board game, Candy Land, by Hasbro. Co-production was also between Hasbro and SD Entertainment.

Plot
Everyone in a land where many things are made of candy is preparing for a ceremony known as The Sweet Celebration. Each of its inhabitants has something to bring and contribute to get it going. A gingerbread boy named Jib has a special kind of frosting made especially for him to give and a fairy princess named Princess Lolly has a scepter that she is tasked to use at the special event. However, a villain named Lord Licorice wants to steal away the scepter so he can take over Candy Land, become the new ruler, and bring drabness to it. He has his licorice minions steal it for him. Jib, Princess Lolly, a clown-like lumberjack named Mr. Mint, and a shape-shifting gummy named Jolly work together to put a stop to Lord Licorice's plans.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The art overall is great and the animation in this is among the better ones to ever be featured in a direct-to-video presentation.
 * 2) Like any, other movie, the writing, at the heart of it, just makes it even more worth it. It does very well at taking something as simple and mundane as a board game and make a complex adaptation out of it. The results make it all work out supremely. It's one of those animated movies that breaks the stereotypes of reinterpretations of games and toys being nothing more than just extended commercials.
 * 3) There are many great characters that are, no doubt, likable, distinctive, and memorable.
 * 4) The character designs look great and they're just as true to their 2002 board game counterparts, even though there were earlier designs of them in the games.
 * 5) Wonderfully written musical numbers that may outdo the background music.
 * 6) The voices are well-performed and sound spectacular.
 * 7) The dialogue interactions are well-written as well.
 * 8) The fourth musical number about not giving up so quickly or easily and always finding a solution to the problem has a brilliantly positive message.
 * 9) The scenes and backgrounds of everything that's made of candy and other sweets is just absolutely resplendent to see.
 * 10) This and the board games that inspired it probably took inspiration from the Disney/Silly Symphonies short, "The Cookie Carnival" and the Fleischer brothers' Color Classics short, "Somewhere in Dreamland". Even though the concept may be cliche, the theme is still a fantastically imaginative one and is just as fine in its own right.
 * 11) A sing-along soundtrack CD came out of this.
 * 12) The bonus features on the DVD contained a game with the characters in CG.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) Mr. Mint is mostly okay, but he has the flaws of immaturity, irresponsibility, and not being able to take some things seriously enough.

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