This one I barely remember any details about. I believe it was a special or a movie, not a regular series. It was live action. It seems that a girl has a grandmother who is dying (I think). Somehow, the girl ends up in a fantasy world that I believe is populated by mostly muppet looking creatures. This world has many caves. It is ruled by some kind of wicked Queen type woman. The woman stays young forever by eating some kind of glowing berries on a tree (?) that she keeps in a heavily guarded jar. She takes everyone’s youth away somehow. In the end, the girl defeats her by stealing the berries, causing the queen to grow very old and die. I suppose the girl then rescues her aging relative or whoever it is she’s saving. Does anyone have any ideas what movie this was?
They were youngberries.
You can soften mirrors(thus allowing you to enter Huggaland or whatever by walking through the mirror) by hugging.
Searching has only brought up links to the toys, cartoons and some deeply disturbing essays and fetish sites.
But, you’re definitely talking about the live action Huggabunch movie.
You can soften mirrors by hugging?
Wow, I’m sick of it already.
You can also turn the horrid Hairy Behemoth into a cute wuvable ellyfant by hugging.
All this treacle clashes horribly with the death of the queen. The youngberry tree is protected by a crystal cage. The cage lifts and stays up only when the crystal key is in the lock. Our heroine accidentally drops the key inside the perimeter of the cage. The queen struggles to reach it. But, the descending cage pins her arm to the floor. We’re treated to close ups as she ages decades in the space of seconds. All the while she moans “My youngberries. My youngberries” like the junkie she so obviously is.
OTOH
The film did have one redeeming feature. We learn that you don’t need youngberries to help grandma. If somebody you love is getting old, the answer isn’t magic berries and it isn’t shipping them off to a warehouse for seniors. The solution is to spend more time with them, give them more hugs, and tell them you love them.
The film makes it obvious that the evil queen was wrong in trying to fix things with berries.
A secondary message is that mom and dad are just as wrong in trying to fix things by moving grandma to an oldfolks’ home.
Ah Huggabunch. I had Huggabunch stickers when I was a wee child. Stuck them on the inside of the lid of my toybox and they’re still there.
THANK YOU!!! My lost youth has been restored! (no pun intended.)
So there was a Huggabunch cartoon? Interesting, I must search for that and the movie. Oh and all the above mentioned things (the mirrors, the crystal cage, etc) refreshed my memory. That was a cool movie (well, to a young child back then. I don’t know if I’d think it was so cool if I first saw it now.)
I’m deeply troubled that other people have seen this movie. It’s so freakin weird in retrospect, but I used to ask my mom to rent it for me from the video store ALL the time. Gahh…