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Yes, it's a holiday movie about the Santa Claus family. Yes, it's animated. Yes, it's got a sweet, sentimental plot....
And it's a shockingly *AWESOME* movie!
Seriously. You must catch this film. It's brilliantly written, incredibly smart and über-clever verbally and visually--and I mean both adult and kid smart--G-rated though it is, you will not feel like you are stuck in a kid's movie. It's also more action packed than most action films, non-stop energy start to finish.
And it's got some amazing actors behind the voices.
Two things I especially liked about this film: first, most such holiday movies go for pure nostalgia--a battle between modern times and times of old, with the message always being: "Horse-and-buggy days were better." This movie looks like it's going that way, then twists it all upside down. It puts value on the old, but the writers are writing in the now, and they're not about to fall into that "it'd all be so much better if we went back to simpler times" cliché.
Second, the animators did their job. Most of these films do a half-assed job when it comes to imagining the experience of flying in Santa's sled--meaning the movie has a few scenes of looking down on the world from the sled and all these close-ups of some kid saying, "wow" and going all wide-eyed to get across how "magical" and fun it might be. This film aims to prove that it would be magical and fun. It seats the viewer in the sled, then takes that sled everywhere it can think to take it to give us the full on, mythical experience. Playing on the old Superman quote: you will believe reindeer can fly
Excellent!
This is a great ride! Whether you've kids to take to this movie or not, go see it. You won't be sorry.
And it's a shockingly *AWESOME* movie!
Seriously. You must catch this film. It's brilliantly written, incredibly smart and über-clever verbally and visually--and I mean both adult and kid smart--G-rated though it is, you will not feel like you are stuck in a kid's movie. It's also more action packed than most action films, non-stop energy start to finish. And it's got some amazing actors behind the voices.
Two things I especially liked about this film: first, most such holiday movies go for pure nostalgia--a battle between modern times and times of old, with the message always being: "Horse-and-buggy days were better." This movie looks like it's going that way, then twists it all upside down. It puts value on the old, but the writers are writing in the now, and they're not about to fall into that "it'd all be so much better if we went back to simpler times" cliché.
Second, the animators did their job. Most of these films do a half-assed job when it comes to imagining the experience of flying in Santa's sled--meaning the movie has a few scenes of looking down on the world from the sled and all these close-ups of some kid saying, "wow" and going all wide-eyed to get across how "magical" and fun it might be. This film aims to prove that it would be magical and fun. It seats the viewer in the sled, then takes that sled everywhere it can think to take it to give us the full on, mythical experience. Playing on the old Superman quote: you will believe reindeer can fly
Excellent!This is a great ride! Whether you've kids to take to this movie or not, go see it. You won't be sorry.
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