BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
filippaberry84
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Jerrie
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
darkghost3400
This movie is extremely cliché in all: not only the overused Christmas tropes but also Jake and his family. The animation style is very flawed. The drawing style is okay and well colored, but the animation lacks fluidity in many parts. The songs were laughable in the bad way, because they are just shoehorned and they don't contribute to the plot at all. And no, they are nor beautiful and there aren't good lyrics to compensate their gratuitous status.The plot is badly done, because they miss many things. In example, the time isn't enough to declare someone disappeared and Jake puts the people to taste a rotten fruitcake to prove Santa's innocence. There are many badly decided moments on this film. The Santa's idea also is poorly thought. Putting Grandma in his house? It would be far smarter to send her to a hospital. That way, all of Cousin Mel's gambit wouldn't happen. That is super idiotic and shows how weak is the storyline.Among the characters, no one is likable, relatable or interesting. At best, you can remember Cousin Mel and Grandma for being extremely attractive. Characters are too unbelievable, cliché and uninteresting to be memorable.The voice acting in general is decent, but Grandma's voice is beyond awful. She seems to have eaten helium and her voice is unbearable.This film is bad, but it can be kind of entertaining and you can laugh of the bad things of the film. It is watchable, at least.
dj3980
This movie is really bad, but really funny because of it. Yes the plot is rather stupid but most Christmas films are not exactly plausible or in this case, "clausible". HA HA. The songs are also lame, but still funny. They also seem to have added extra ones that branch of ideas from the original. The jokes are not that hard to get, there isn't really any violence or foul language...just fine for the kids. The animations are fine, doesn't have to be CGI to be considered good. Don't know why this movie is being trashed so badly, it's not by far the worst holiday one out there. We look forward to seeing this every year and hope they keep airing it. If you haven't watched it out yet, definitely look for a copy on Amazon or YouTube.
TheLittleSongbird
Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas specials but I really disliked this one. This did have the ingredients for it to be at least charming, but so much let it down that my head was throbbing from hitting the wall countless times. The animation is very shoddy especially in the character designs, while the music is mostly awful. The incidental music is okay, but the songs were what irked me. Not only are the melodies forgettable and the lyrics trite, some of them don't fit with the story at all. The story is a great idea but badly told, and not helped by the poor pacing and terrible dialogue. Very few of the characters are likable either, and the voice acting ranges to decent to sub-par. So all in all, this was really quite bad, at least for me. 1/10 Bethany Cox
yng_tr
Never I have seen a movie so terrible that i've gone insane. It was a HUGE waste of time seeing this crappy film. There are a lot of things i hate about this movie: The songs is so terrible (yet a little bit catchy) i hit my head on the wall(especially from the song 'Grandpa is gonna sue the pants out of Santa' which i hit 10 Times *shrugs*), the character design, and that evil, greedy, and Bitchy cousin Mel.I cannot stand her for one second, she has got to be one of the most bitchiest person i've seen. Even though i kinda like her southern voice. The only bright-side is that Austin Bucks is played by the person who is the voice of Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid.I would not recommended to people to watch for the holidays as it was a HUGE disgrace for x-mas.
