Truly Dreadful Film

I wanted to but couldn't!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This is supposedly a story in which a GROWN MAN tells a story about his youth. Yet, you see things like personal computers, e-mails, faxes, etc, which are items used in the late 20th Century and early 21st. So when is this guy supposed to be telling this story - in 2020. Gee, I wonder how advanced we are then. How about telling us that.Also, there are several legal issues which also make no sense. In the courtroom scene, the story falls into the usual pratfalls of surprise evidence, which is inadmissible in any real court of law in this country. Also, Grandma would have to be missing at least seven years in most states before to be declared officially dead.Congratulations Elmo Shropshire. You are now officially a SELLOUT.

Now here's a cartoon that the whole family can watch, and nobody has to watch or listen for anything that little kids ought not hear. This is just a fun little cartoon that I think can really put the Christmas spirit into people. Here you have the Spankenheimer family, a nice family who have their own little business, and they care about making the customers happy as opposed to Cousin Mel's plans for just making money and lots of it. The genuine holiday spirit consisting of loving and caring and family really works Cousin Mel's nerves, but of all the family, the worst to her is Grandma because she refuses to sell out her honest business for money. Cousin Mel decides to ruin Grandma by adding an extra ingredient to Grandma's (already) "Killer Fruitcake" (as is explained in song, and a hilarious one at that). Grandma takes the fruitcake with her when she leaves home on Christmas Eve and is involved with a hit-and-run with Santa Claus, and the sole witness to this incident is Jake Spankenheimer, the grandson. Jake can't get anyone to believe him, and he must find Grandma before Cousin Mel sells the store to Austin Bucks, who wants to turn it into a run-of-the-mill business. With nowhere left to turn, Jake sends a request to the North Pole for help in finding Grandma, and hilarity and adventure ensues from there in the race to get Grandma back home and stop Cousin Mel's fiendish plans. A highly recommended Christmas film for the whole family.

i am somewhat of a Christmas-nut; i have quite a collection of VHS and DVD movies and cartoons that celebrate the season. most of them are classics that we all know and love. (A Christmas Story, Miracle on 34th, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, etc...) this is no classic. it's fairly flat in its delivery, and doesn't even offer the slightest nod to the real-life roots of Christmas (Christian or otherwise). i bought it from an online store for 1.95 with free shipping, and couldn't resist adding it to my Holiday movie collection for such a low, low price. i don't regret it.while the acting is kinda unbalanced and the voice work could use some help (some of the voices match the characters nicely, others are jarring, like Grandpa), it's still a fun movie. kids will definitely enjoy it much more than adults, but that should be obvious from the get-go. the songs are dopey, but the presentation is so silly and the art is so colorful that the movie gets away with a lot (at least, it did with me).i think this movie is best suited to running in the background while you're decorating the tree or having the family over for a holiday get-together. don't expect anything more.PS: in case you're wondering, the guy who voices Austin Bucks also does TONS of video game voice acting. i recognize him most as Liquid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid series. that alone is kinda fun.

Horrid...Truly horrid. The movie revolves around some kid who, by then SHOULD HAVE outgrown Santa. His personality is completely one-dimensional and his catchphrase is "yeeeeeasssssssss!!!". his family isn't much better. Granny has an irritating voice and at least is mildly entertaining (but not much). The evil salesman and his ugly sidekick are both as cookie-cutter as you can get. Santa's nothing new, and grandpa looks like some ripoff of the Disney Gepetto. With that out of the way, I'll go on about the story.Once again, Christmas is just some big spend-fest. Religion isn't mentioned ONCE. I grew up in a Christain family and went to a Christain school, and I can tell you, I do NOT like ChristiansBut I still respect them. You know why? Because they're just living the way that they see as right. Christmas is not about giving. It's not about getting. It's about the birth of Jesus and that is the way it is. Giving is just a tradition that commemorates the 3 gifts presented on that holy day. Santa thinks he can cancel a holiday just because some people don't acknowledge him. When he's found to be real, you'd think people would've been more surprised. So Christmas is portrayed as "Santa Day", celebrating some guy that doesn't exist.The songs are bad. Too bad to talk even more about. And the acting is even worse. I don't even know how they got a few pros to do this chunk of crap. The story is just completely unoriginal and the jokes...That was the ONE THING that got unjust treatment. Had the jokes been in a different movie, they would've been pretty good. The animation...If you can call it that, looks like it wasn't even drawn by hand. The character's chins wouldn't move when speaking, the tongues looked terrible, it wasn't inbetweened. They didn't even get good artists! I could do better...And that's no exaggeration. I mean it. I'm 14 an I could draw AT LEAST 10 times better.Really. Stay away from this, at all costs.