So here we are then, Tuesday Night is Film Night has gone all festive and all are films from now until the New Year will be Christmas themed. We kick off our festive film fun, with a movie from 2006;
The Year Without a Santa Claus
John Goodman stars as the big man in the Santa suit, in this 2006 made for TV film. The basic premise behind the film, is that Santa has become disenchanted with the modern, spiritless Christmas. The North Pole has become commercialised and Santa decides to take a year out!
Will Christmas be cancelled?
Can Santa be persuaded to return?
Will we make it to the end of the film?
Does anybody care?
Well of course! Jingle and Jangle, two of Santa's Elves take it upon themselves to fly down to South Town and find Iggy Thistlewhite (the son of South Towns' Mayor), who has put together a Christmas Fayre to put the spirit back into his community. He'll be able to restore Santa's faith in Christmas, won't he?
OK, it's your bog standard Christmas TV movie, the basic premise is there; a moralistic story aiming to restore the true meaning of Christmas. It's not a bad film, there are however some ludicrous elements, which will have you looking at each other, thinking; "is this for real"?
It's wholesome harmless fun, but it could have been a lot better.
One highlight for me was Carol Kane as Mother Nature, a similar character to the one she played in Scrooged (she was the fairy styled Ghost of Christmas Present).
Hopefully the Christmas movies will improve in the coming weeks, but we are trying to watch some of the ones we haven't seen before, maybe we should throw in a couple of classic films too, just to build up the quality.
Watch this space.
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