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''Babes in Toyland'' is a 1997 American animated musical film based on the original story. The film stars Joseph Ashton, James Belushi, Lacey Chabert, Raphael Sbarge, Cathy Cavadini, Bronson Pinchot, Christopher Plummer and Charles Nelson Reilly. ==Plot== It's three days before Christmas, as the conductor aboard the Toyland Express, Humpty Dumpty (Charles Nelson Reilly), meets two children, Jack and Jill (Joseph Ashton and Lacey Chabert), who are on their way to Toyland, to stay with their uncle since they are orphans. After meeting Tom Piper (Raphael Sbarge) on the way to Toyland who was sent to retrieve and deliver Santa Clause's toy-order list that the toy factory will build for him to receive and deliver before Christmas Eve Night. Tom's hot air balloon was shot down over the Goblin Forest, suggesting someone wished to keep him from reach Toyland with Santa's list (no list, no toys made; no toys made, no Christmas). Jack and Jill soon arrive in Toyland and meet many of its inhabitants (most or all are characters from Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes or other popular fairy tales) including Mary Lamb (Cathy Cavadini), who runs the toy factory which belonged to her late father. Jill final tells Humpty who their uncle is, the evil Barnaby Crookedman (Christopher Plummer),who initially refuse to let them in but after a sum of money is given for him to properly raise them, he excepts. Barnaby despises toys and keeps Jack and Jill in the attic, as well as confiscating Jill's stuffed animal toy, Woofy, and not feeding them supper. The next day he goes to the factory to buy from Mary Lamb with the money he received to take care of Jack and Jill, then plans to shut down the toy factory (possibly dismantle it), and talks to Mary about how Tom died being eaten by goblins, revealing but not admitting he earlier shot down Tom's hot air balloon as he was flying over the Goblin Forest in an attempt to get him eaten by goblins and keep the list from being delivered (and is quite shocked to see him alive), Mary refuses his offer and Barnaby says he will be back with a ultimatum. Jack and Jill sneak out of Barnaby's house and go to the Toy Factory, which had received a big order from Santa Claus requesting a thousand giant toy soldiers. Just as Jack and Jill offer to help, Barnaby takes them back to the attic of his house and threatens to send them to the Goblin Forest if they go near the toy factory again, then to make sure they can't ruin his plans he locks them in. Shortly after a musical number Barnaby and a trio of singing candles sing(which revealed that Barnaby never received a toy from Santa Claus and because of that he has made it his goal in life to ruin Christmas for everyone else), he hires two crooks/pirates named Gonzargo (the brawn)and Rodrigo (the brains) (James Belushi and Bronson Pinchot) to sabotage the toy factory. As Jack and Jill sneak out the attic by repelling down bed sheets and go to the toy factory again, where Gonzargo and Rodrigo, disguised as sheep, drop a monkey wrench into one of the machines, Jack manages to remove it before the machine can explode. Jack and Jill immediately suspect Gonzargo and Rodrigo, though believing them to be sheep, and chase after them, resulting in Rodrigo and Gonzargo being knocked into a well by a ram and Jack and Jill, respectively, get knocked down by an empty pail and fall down the hill ''again.'' Barnaby catches Jack and Jill and orders Gonzargo and Rodrigo, who expose the children's interference with the sabotage, to take them to the Goblin Forest. After another musical number, they meet the evil Goblin King (Lindsay Schnebly) who eats Jill's toy Woofy and then tries eat Gonzargo and Rodrigo, after they refuse to show him the way to Toyland (which he and his army will burn and then eat the inhabitants). Mr. Dumpty informs Tom and Mary, who go to the forest to rescue them. As the goblins are weak against light, they use a flashlight to fight them off and escape. Barnaby knocks Mr. Dumpty over a bridge, smashing him(while giving a mockery saying of the nursery rhyme which bears the egg's name) for the key to the factory and tries to enter it (to destroy the toys within), but is stopped by Tom and Mary, who have Jack, Jill, Gonzargo, and Rodrigo with them, and is forced to retreat. As Tom and Mary finish the Toy Factory's order and fall in love, Barnaby leads the goblins to Toyland at dusk (making a deal with the Goblin King that in exchange for delivering Toyland into the goblins hands, that he will order his army to destroy the factory), where they invade, setting fire to the buildings and roasting Gonzargo and Rodrigo on a spit and chasing other inhabitants attempting to eat them. After the Goblin King orders the destruction of the factory and with the fire spreading, Tom activates the toy soldiers (via trumpet) along with other toys, who soundly defeat the goblins with their numerous features and put out the fire, saving all of Toyland (including Gonzargo and Rodrigo). As Barnaby insults the Goblin King, who then tries to eat him, Jack and Jill take refuge on the Clock Tower (which can rise and descend), Barnaby and the Goblin King also end up on the Clock Tower. Barnaby first tries save himself by offering up Jack and Jill instead, but it doesn't work and the Goblin King and Barnaby struggle leading to them falling off the Clock Tower. Barnaby survives by landing on top of the Goblin King who took the whole impact (and is believed to be dead), but as the Goblin King rises to devour Barnaby, Jack and Jill shine a flashlight on him, while all the toy soldiers do the same, liquefying the Goblin King into a puddle of black goo (killing him). Barnaby calls him a "pathetic ogre", and the other goblins (after initially being driven away by the toy soldiers) confront and chase him out of Toyland (though whether they finally catch him and eat him is unclear), followed by the soldiers to make sure that they have all left. The gang later find Humpty, smashed under a bridge, Tom then states that he'll fix him. Finally Christmas arrives; Tom has repaired Mr. Dumpty by re-enforcing his brittle body with a metal shell. Santa arrives, and with his magic dust transforms all the giant toy soldiers into small toy soldiers. He then notices Barnaby's cat, Scat, who is now homeless since Barnaby's disappearance; he picks her up and pets her. Jill asks for Scat, and just as she gets her, Santa continues on his journey saying farewell to all of Toyland with a "Merry Christmas". In the end, Jack and Jill become the adopted children of Tom and Mary. And Humpty Dumpty sits on the crescent moon flying into the sky singing a verse from the Toyland song as Santa Claus flies off to deliver the presents to the children all over the world. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Babes in Toyland (1997 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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