Not a super Christmas movie but entertaining enough. Nick looses a young reindeer (Buddy) while trying to teach it to fly. Nick's sled won't fly with only seven reindeer. So what happened to Donner, Blitzen, and the rest? Rudolph where are you? It gets tranquilized by an a-hole hunter and he places it in a small zoo because he is hot for the zoo keeper. So Nick shows up and tries to teach the reindeer to fly. He has to take a room at the boarding house where the zoo keeper is, gee what a poser. There is the high light of the movie is the young precocious boy, Hector. He is of course advanced beyond his years. He is the first to find out the truth about Nick and helps him out. In a twist though the whole Santa thing is based on an ancient spell cast on a miserly man that has come down through the ages. Passed on from father to son, ad infinitum. So they rescue Buddy, Nick asks Sandy (the zoo keeper) to come with him to the north pole where she will be under the same spell. She declines because of the animals at the zoo so he goes. Then he shows up at her house and guess what? She decides to go with him after all. An okay movie but(?).