i hated myself for liking this commercial brain rot. what is it they say when you like junk like this? a guilty pleasure or something? if that's the case then this movie must be a cardinal sin. i mean any movie that has a film credit like "Diedrich Bader as Comet" is bound to destroy brain cells.
i guess i'm just a pushover for Christmas and Disney or Santa buddies or something. i guess it was kind of cute, i guess. i mostly thought it was funny. what's up with those musical numbers? were they kidding? they were so unabashedly corny it made my head kinda spin. the whole musical number with the little girls dancing around the Christmas tree in holiday dresses was like an extended commercial for 'Target' stores or 'Old Navy'.
in fact this movie turned the Christmas season into a 90 minute commercial. i don't know what it was hawking exactly, Christmas, Disney, dog food? who knows? but it definitely felt like it was selling something.
the whole thing was so facile it was kind of eerie. where the film's brains were supposed to be, there was commercial marketing executive mentality. where it's heart should be, there is broad-based mass audience appeal. where it's message is, there is a convoluted rehash of commercial Christmas shows from media past. it also lifted every Christmas cliché in film. everything seemed taken right out of movies like 'Home Alone:Lost in New York', 'Annie',and even the whole scene with the little girl and Santa Paws in the furnace seemed like it was taken from another recent Disney flick 'Toy Story 3'. there really wasn't much originality here.
'Cory in the House' star Madison Pettis, looked totally uncomfortable here too. she looked as if she was embarrassed to be playing such a babyish role and would like to move on. i know she was supposed to be the oldest of the little girls, but the other girls were like five and six years old and she's like what? twelve or thirteen? embarrassing for any tween to be seen in the company of babies.
oh well. for some insane reason i enjoyed this anyway. i used to believe i was a very discriminating movie watcher. after liking this i don't trust myself anymore. i obviously am too easy to please or too open minded toward this kind of junk my brains fell out. maybe like most baby boomers, i'm used to a lot of my commercial holiday entertainment being brain rot. i'm the kind of person who sits around watching Christmas specials about mice who save Christmas or talking toys. insane. and how sad for a man of 49 years old. i should have my head examined some more.
any person over the age of six who actually likes this, and i don't care if you're a parent, if you're an adult and you like this you need couch therapy for regressive behavior. or at least be sent back to pre-school.
all i can say is, babies might like this. i liked it. i hate to think what that says.
i guess i'm just a pushover for Christmas and Disney or Santa buddies or something. i guess it was kind of cute, i guess. i mostly thought it was funny. what's up with those musical numbers? were they kidding? they were so unabashedly corny it made my head kinda spin. the whole musical number with the little girls dancing around the Christmas tree in holiday dresses was like an extended commercial for 'Target' stores or 'Old Navy'.
in fact this movie turned the Christmas season into a 90 minute commercial. i don't know what it was hawking exactly, Christmas, Disney, dog food? who knows? but it definitely felt like it was selling something.
the whole thing was so facile it was kind of eerie. where the film's brains were supposed to be, there was commercial marketing executive mentality. where it's heart should be, there is broad-based mass audience appeal. where it's message is, there is a convoluted rehash of commercial Christmas shows from media past. it also lifted every Christmas cliché in film. everything seemed taken right out of movies like 'Home Alone:Lost in New York', 'Annie',and even the whole scene with the little girl and Santa Paws in the furnace seemed like it was taken from another recent Disney flick 'Toy Story 3'. there really wasn't much originality here.
'Cory in the House' star Madison Pettis, looked totally uncomfortable here too. she looked as if she was embarrassed to be playing such a babyish role and would like to move on. i know she was supposed to be the oldest of the little girls, but the other girls were like five and six years old and she's like what? twelve or thirteen? embarrassing for any tween to be seen in the company of babies.
oh well. for some insane reason i enjoyed this anyway. i used to believe i was a very discriminating movie watcher. after liking this i don't trust myself anymore. i obviously am too easy to please or too open minded toward this kind of junk my brains fell out. maybe like most baby boomers, i'm used to a lot of my commercial holiday entertainment being brain rot. i'm the kind of person who sits around watching Christmas specials about mice who save Christmas or talking toys. insane. and how sad for a man of 49 years old. i should have my head examined some more.
any person over the age of six who actually likes this, and i don't care if you're a parent, if you're an adult and you like this you need couch therapy for regressive behavior. or at least be sent back to pre-school.
all i can say is, babies might like this. i liked it. i hate to think what that says.